Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-03-23
FEARS
REBEL ATTACK
Small Federal Garrison Is
Preparing Feverishly for
Siege
.LOOKOUTs POSTED ON CHURCH
Sandbass Are Piled Along Edges
of FIat-Roofed Adobe
Houses.


If the flat-roofed adobe houses to be
1sed in case of attack, special atten-
ion being given the municipal build
ngs on the Plaza, which now afford /
ample protection against anything ex-
cept artillery fire Lookouts posted !
on tops of the old mission constantly |
watch the mountains to the south and !
west for signs of the approach of in |
surrectos. 1t is reported that bands |
OF insurrectos have been seen and !
great uneasiness is felt in town, which |
is defended by only $50 artillerymen
and $50 cavalry.
Diaz Must Step Down.
New Orleans, La, March 23.-
President Diaz must step down be.
fore peace will come to Mexico" This
is the declaration of Captain Sher-
borne J. Hopkins, of Washington, at
torney for Madero and the insurec-
tionists, who sailed from New Orleans
yesterday for Guatemala City to con-
concernining that government. Cap
tain Hopkins emphatically denied the
report that American interests are
financing the Mexican revolution.
'The Madero family alone is furnish
ing the money for the revolution" said
he. Hundreds of thousands of dol
lars have been expended by Gustav
Madero and his brother Francisco /.
Madero, already, and they stand ready
to impoverish themselves to bring
about the fall of the Diaz ring in Mex
leo. They were wise enough to trans
fer their immense fortune to foreign
corporations before they embarked in
the revolution. There is no question
OF the disruption of the Mexican gov
ernment. DiaZ' boasted army could
hardly cope with the Central Ameri-
can force. He has not 10000 men that
he can depend upon. The army is
honeycombed with sedition and there
is no such thing as volunteer force
which he can call People do not like
Limantour any more than Diaz, and it
will be impossible for the minister of
finance to bring about results.
Rebels Threaten Chihuahua.
Chihuahua, Mex, March 10, via San
Antonio, Tex.-At the village of Ojo
de Languana, hundred kilometers
north of here, there were twelve hun
dred insurrectos last night. Francisco
|. Madero was with them. He has a
slight wound in the hand. Of the
Americans formerly with the outfit,
only seven remain. The others have
| been killed, are wounded or have de.
serted. General Rabago is entrench.
ed between this city anG the instr.
rectos. He is expected to remain on
the defensive with his force of six
| hundred. The insurrectos have been
threatening to attack the town.
Three Americans Executed,
San Antonio, Texas, March 23.-
John Hamilton Dignowity, well known
here as Ham" Dignowi,.v ana three
other Americans have been shot tc
death under orders Of Mexican
court martial for parti 81 ,at;oa in thu
insurrection, according to dispatch
received today by members of the Dig
nowity family. Ham" was 80 year!
of age, and engaged in the cattle ant
mining business in the state of Chi
huahua.
Many Americans With Rebels.
! San Antonio, Texas, March 23.-H
M. Burns, a mining man of northern
Mexico, arrived here today. He dc
: ciared that the closing of the mine
had thrown many Americans out @
work and more than $50 having n
other way of living, are now with tn
insurrectos. Burns also said tha
propably SO American adventurers ar
with the insurrectos.
Grim Famine Threatens.
Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mex, March 23.-
| There is considerable suffering in thi
/. state because of lack of food, supple
= in some instances having been entir
e ly cut off. No farms are being plan
+ ed and famine conditions threaten, a
t many farmers are going to war.
il report is current that Governor Red
8 will soon resign.
el Federal Colonel Jails Wives.
Douglas, Ariz., March pa citize
resident of Cumpas arrived in Dou
e las today and reports that Sacrament
4 Montana deserted Chapias's feder
Z command at Cumpas yesterday, takir
4 so soldiers and that other federal sc
e diers are deserting to join him in Il
4 hills near town.
e He said Chapias is jailing the wiv'
e of deserters. He saw little childrt
x clamoring at the jail door for fot
!, and their mothers.
x A band is said to be gathering alol
q the border now. One hundred arm
- men under "Red" Lopez are gather
=. IN the mountains on the Mexican 81
= collecting horses and preparing for ,
+" tlon IN Sonora. In the band are
Americans, the balance are Sonc
y Mexicans.
) United States Marshal Overlook a
= the attorney general of Arizona VIC
) here yesterday to investigate the
S legged breach of neutrality Mond