Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-06-01
REBELS ISSUE
FIAT MONEY
That Is Last Straw That
Will Break Orozco Rev.
olution in Mexico
AMERICANS FLEE CHIHUAHUA
Business Is Demoralized and
Foreigners Are Now in
Peril.

ICTu.
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/ Ell Paso, Texas, June 1.-Americans
and other foreign residents are leav-
ing Chihuahua and the rebel zone in
Northern Mexico as rapidly as train
service will permit. The warning
from Washington several weeks ago
for Americans to remove themselves
/ from zones of disturbances is be.
lieved to have been reiterated within
, the last three days through Marion
Letcher American consul at Chihua-
hua.
Passengers who arrived on the spe-
cial train from Chihuahua late last
nlght-the only one that has been run
IN three days-were agreed in their
assertions today that even in the
long period of isolation which chi.
huahua suffered during the Madero
revolution, no such ,perilous condi-
tons or demoralized business pros
poets had existed for foreigners as
are today spreading alarm through
Mexico
No overt act has been commit; ed to
Indicate that the rebel officials would
no. be able to restrain the popnlace
in anti-foreign outbreaks, but the
tone of the proclamation issued by
rebel chiefs indicating that they
might not be able to curb the passion
OF the people, has served to alarm
the foreign colony into wholesale
flight, Most of the American fami-
lies have already left.
The issuance of fiat money by the
rebel government has come as the
last straw in the city of Chihuahua.
Good Money for Bad.
El Paso, Texas, June 1.-Merchants
fear they will be called upon to ey.
change good currency for the rebel
script created to fill the financial
emergency of the rebel campaign. The
principal reason for the grievances
which the rebels have against the
United States is the strict border pa.
troll preventing the smuggling of am.
munition. A thousand rounds of am
munition brings sS5 in the rebel zone
IL brought across the boundary intact.
To Stop Traffic in Arms.
While the border patrol is rigidly
blocking the traffic in ammunition,
there are said to be unprotected points
on the barren plains of New Mexico
and Arizona where arms are brought
into Mexico. To this end it is declared
that Colonel E. Z. Steever of the
Fourth United States Cavalry will de-
part soon on tour of inspection.
Many Rebel sympathizers.
Rebel sympathizers along the border
are more numerous than is generally
realized according to advices. Aqua
frleta, the port of entry opposite
Douglas, Arizona. now is held by the
federal government which has been
sending its arms and ammunition
there for the supply of it's troops in
northern Mexico, but the number Of
rebel sympathizers in Aqua Prieta is
so considerable that the federal gov. !
ernment has decided TO stop Ship
ments until further assured of the
loyalty of the garrison. /
GaribaIdi Commands Along Border.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, the grandson of
the Italian liberator, who is command
ed by President Madero to direct troop
movement close to the border, has de.
parted for Douglas, Arizona, to get
in touch with his officers in the state
Of Sonora. Garibaldi declared a group
Of men have been endeavoring to in.
veigle him into a violation of the
American neutrality laws by sending
him several men for recruiting pur.
poses. He said a movement was on
.oot to oust him from his command be.
cause he is foreigner by birth, but
hat the group behind it was small
in Sonora. He denied that
,e had sent his resignation to Presi-
lent Madero, asserting that he would
'emain in charge of the portion of the
ederal troops close to the American
border.
Buford Docked.
San Francisco, Calf, June Back
rom her relief trip to the west Mex.
co coast, the army transport Buford
locked here today and landed the 16J
'efugees. A committee of citizens was
1t the wharf to see after the strang.
,rs.
West Coast in Rebels Hands.
w. S. Hunt, manager of a plantation
II 10000 acres in the Culiacan valley
md one of the refugees, says that
Western Mexico now belongs to the
'ebels. They hold everything from
he California boundary to Guatemala,
except the garrisons at Guaymas, Maz-
ltlan, Acapulco, Salina Cruz and Man.
.anilla. With seventeen Americans,
Hunt repulsed the rebel forces at the
Culiacan ranch for many days. The
,lace is now the site of a rebel camp
If 300 men. News was brought on the
3uford that Socialist colony of 172
,ersons at Las Mochis in Sinaloa is
'till resisting the insurgents.
Chihuahua Legislature.
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