Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1912-10-25
OFFICERS ARE EXECUTED
TWO MEMBERS or CAPTURED
cHIEFTAlN's COMPANY
ARE SHOT.
He GETS BRIEF RESPITE
COURT REMOVES HIM TEMPO
RARILY FROM JURISDICTION
OF THE ARMY.

Vera Cruz, Oct. 25.-Two of the
captured officers of the staff Of GEN
eral Felix Diaz were shot BY the fed
eraI troops at 1890 o'clock last even
ing after beng sentenced to death by
summary court-martial. The execu-
ton was carried out with absolute
secrecy. Their names were Major
zarate and Major Cuesta.
The court martial began its ses-
sions at 5 o'clock in the evening and
its judgments must be delivered and
the verdicts put into effect within II
hours from the time of meeting.
Major Fernando Zarate and Major
Julian Villas are pleading on Dehals
of Diaz. who according to military
law. is liable to imprisonment for
from three to eight years.
Public opinion against Diaz, howev-
er, is SO strong that it is thought
sentence Of death may be pronounced
on him as well as on all the officers
and government officials who joined
his cause and were captured. Ths-
troops. however. who reBelled viii,
in all likelihood. not be punished.
Felix Diaz is to be brought before
the court-martial this afternoon.
Some Of the volunteers who joined
Diaz belonged to the leading families
of the city. Those OF them who NAV
be captured will be sentenced to
short terms Of imprisonment but
many of them have escaped to the
country.
Commodore Azueta of the federal
navy, called last evening on General
Beltran, the federal commander-in-
chief, who received him coldly, tell
ing him that he did not adopt a def
mite attitude during the Diaz revolu-
ton. It is reported that the COM
modore also is to be court-martialed.
The garrison of Vera Cruz consists
of $500 men of all branches of the
service. The city is perfectly quiet
and business generally has been re-
sumed.
General Beltran, the federal COM
has been informed 5hat niaz
and the other rebel officers captured
are to be treated stricIlv according
to the military code t IS re.9,ted
that Captain Garmendia Madoreo
brought he message and If the or
1ers are carried out they mean that
Diaz and his comrades will be exc
outed. When Diaz was captured he
was barely saved from lynching by
The infuriated populace
Governor Lagos Chazaro has arriv-
ID from Jalapa and says the entire
state is quiet. except at Tuxpam,
where 200 followers Of Diaz still hold
,ut. Government troops have been
sent to fight them. Colonel Tapia.
thief Of the federal regulars, win
cave tonight for the northern part Of
he state to oppose General Higinio
Aguilar, the revolutionary leader
marching south from Puebla.
Hundreds of Arrests
Colonel Diaz, the federal officer who
oined Felix Diaz with his troops, has
lot been captured. Hundreds of per-
ons have been arrested today. The
ederal, state and municipal employ
IS are being reinstated. 1t has been
proved that the Nineteenth
infantry regiment inside the city had
rranged to join General Beltran DUR
ng the fight Therefore most Of the
fficers of the regiment have been set
t liberty. The small arms and am
aunition distributed by Diaz among
he inhabitants are being searched for
y the police
a Short Respite.