Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-02
improvements in Regard to Power Of
Local Authorities.
IN MEXICAN JAIL
Two American Boys Captured by the
Rurales Are Starving.
ARRESTED ON AMERICAN SOIL
Evidence Gathered by Anxious Par
ents Proves Young Men Were
Taken without Authority
Rebuilding the Bridges.

CITY OF MEXICO, April 1.-The prin-
ciple OF no recollection for the president
and other executive functionaries and an
effective reformation Of the electoral laws,
were conceded in the message OF President
DiaZ TO congress today.
Reforms touching the power Of local au-
thorities, judiciary and rural estates also
were promised
After reviewing at length the progress
of the nation in the last eight months and
briefly the events leading up to the re-
bellion and It's prograss, the message con-
tlnued: Recent expressions of public opin-
ion of various questions Of governmental
policy have attracted general attention and
for this reason the executive sees fit to
make known the measures which he be-
lieved ought to be adopted and the Views
by which he will be guided in his endeav-
orS to warrant the confidence which the
country has reposed in him,
Change to Satisfy Demand.
"The change OF ministry just effected
aims, for example, at satisfying in prac-
tioe one very general aspiration, which Is
that the political personnel be renovated
! from time to time. l have not hesitated 70
part with the services of capable, loyal and
honest advisers who, for a greater or less
length of time had given me their valued
cooperation.
| MY single aim has been to set the
! precedent of not carrying on the govern
ment indefinitely with the same cabinet
however high may the merits OF the per
sons composing It be, and to show that
room should be made from time to time to
new energies in the direction OF public
affairs.
Furthermore, measures win be taken
| that will demonstrate a firm purpose to
| give heed to reasonable complaints that
are made against some Of the authorities.
especially those who are in close touch
with the people,"
Americans Suffer Hardships.
! Ell PAsO Tex, March 29.-(special Cor
respondence.) )-Locked in filthy, narrow
| cell. with a dirt floor ano compelled to
eat only the very coarsest or food, Law
| renee Converse and Edwin Blatt, the two
American lads in Jail at Jaurez. Mexico,
on charges Of sedition, have decided that
Sherman was about right about war.
The boys, both OF a venturous spirit, de-
| cided at the outbreak OF hostiities they
would like to see a real battle. II was
! with this purpose in mind that they en-
| tered the interior OF Mexico. For a time
! they were with Madero's forces, but find
! ing battles were few and far between they
! started for the American side. They OBJ
served that a party Of rurales eyed them
! curiously and so made greater haste to
put the Rio Grande between themselves
and Mexico. A short time after they had
! crossed the river and were seated on a
log eating frijoles, sixteen rurales gaIloped
up to the river on the opposite side
! Stealthily four OF their number crossed
I and seized the boys. They tied their hands
and marched them across the river at a
! ford. Here rope nooses were thrown over
their heads and frightened about their
necks. The ropes were tied to the saddles
OF rurales and this way they entered
Juarez, They were thrown In jail incom-
municado, which means they were locked
in dark cell for seventy-two hours, with
out being allowed to see anyone. At the
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