The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-28
kEBtLS Ait BUSY.
Several Small Towns Fall into
Hands of Insurrectos.
Operating in the States of
Jalisco and Zacatecas.
MINING PLANT CLOSED
Three Thousand Men Are
Thrown Out of Employment.
Every Federal Official Is Killed
in One City.
MINING PLANT CLOSED

Ell Paso. March 28.-Advices received
here today are to the effect that in
surrecto plans to destroy the railroad
bridge south of San Luis Potosi and
prevent fuel oil shipments have been
discovered. This would have tied up
the Mexican National railway system
and many industrial enterprises in
Mexico, as most of Mexico's oil comes
from the Ebano fields south of San
Luis Potosi.
Rebel bands are now operating in
Jalisco and Zacatecas. having crossed
over from Durango. Several small
towns have been taken, including
Tlaltenago, where the National Bank of
Mexico, the poStOffice and the tax col
lector were robbed San Juan De Teul.
Monte Escobedo, VillaneuVa, Vile Del
Refugio, Huamusco and Jalapa are
other towns that have fallen into the
hands of insurgents.
plant at Tepic. capital of the state of
Tepic, has thrown 5000 persons out of
work and is causing riots. Many of
the men. it is feared, will join the in
SurrectOS.
Mail advices from AIamos, Sonora,
confirm the report that revolutionists
led by Loya, slaughtered every federal
official of the town of Guazaparas, near
the Sonora line in Chihuahua when they
took the town. All were placed in jail
tor alone escaped. He fell with the
others beneath the dead and crawled
out II hours later alive and made his
way barefooted to Chinipas, 40 miles
away.
Peace in Ten Days.
San Antonio, March 2s-Francisco
| I. Madero, sr., father of the insur-
| recto leader, on his arrival here to-
| day declared that peace il Mexico
was assured. probably within ten days.
Diplomatic exchanges had pro-
ceeded sufficiently, Senior Madero
| the office of vice president at present
occupied by Senior Corral whom he
called obnoxious, will be abolished. for
the time being at least. The predicted
| resignation of Corral will leave the
| functions of the office of vice presi-
! dent to the new foreign minister De La
1 Barre. Senor Madsro said. Diaz will
save his face by remaining in office for
| four or six months and then resign.
\ He will plead the WEAKNESS of his
many years. 1t will then fall to De
| La Barra to become defacto president
and to call an election.
The administration party, it is said
| will choose Iimantour the minister of
| finance, as its candidate for the high
| est office in the land.
Trying to Get Out.
| FL Paso, Tex, March 2S-Refugees
| who have been able to reach the bor-
| der report. that thousands of noncom-
| batantS in northern Mexico are Strug-
| ling to get out of the country.
| Many women and children have no
means of transportation. Others are
afraid to attempt to make a living in
a country foreign to them and still
others are restrained by the fear that
! their property will fall into the hands
| of the inSurrectos.
Seventeen families on the border
near Ell Paso today applied to customs
officials to be allowed to bring their
horses and household goods into this
| country. They pleaded that they
] were tired of fighting to preserve their
| property at the risk of their lives. AL
though business in Juarez seemingly
continues as usual many families are
moving to the American side of the
river because of persistent rumors that
Juarez eventually will be attacked by
the insurrectos.
Guerilla Warfare Abandoned.
Ell Paso, March 28.-GueriIIa war
fare has been formally abandoned by
the Mexican insurrectos, according tc
decree issued Francisco 1. Madero
and made public here today. The de-
cree organizes the entire republic O1
Mexico into seven groups of states
each group to be known as war zones
and the insurrectos in each group to
constitute a corps. Army ranks ar6
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