Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-22
No REASON FOR
INTERVENTION
Attempt BY State Department
to Lay Ghost of Mex.
lean War Talk
U, S, SHIP TO WEST COAST
Will Get in Communication
With Americans Who Are
Cut Off.

! 'P" Special Leased Wire to New Mexican
/ Washington, D. c., April 22.-The
i State Department endeayored today
/ tO put stop TO what it regards as in
fammatory talk of the governments
purpose to intervene in Mexico, by
/ declaring that the reports of the
American consular officers in that
country reiterate that whereas there
/ is only one reason for military inter
vention there are countless strong
reasons why there should be no inter-
vention.
To Send Ship to Mexico's West Coast.
Manuel Calero, former minister of
foreign affairs, left Mexico City Fri
day night for Washington to assume
! his new post as ambassador here. Sec
!retary Knox said that while the pres-
dent had under consideration TO ques-
tion of dispatching a vessel to the
west coast of Mexico, to look into the
safety of the American residents there
il did not necessarily mean that
warship would make the trip. He said
the principal object was to get news
about these Americans who were in
"a country where great disorder pre-
vailed, with no communication with
the outside world.
Forces Inactive.
Jimenez, Chihuahua, April 22.-Reb-
el and federal scouts sighted each
other between Escalon and Conejos
Sunday, but there was no fighting. The
rebels have moved 400 additional
troops south of Rellano and their
commanders announce their intention
of taking the fight into federal terri
tory if General Huerta does not at
tack soon. Huerta is reported as mar
shaling strong force of federals with
plenty of heavy artillery. The rebel
expedition sainst Torreon de Canas
after Tho las Urbina, federal chief
failed Urbina had escaped.
FL Paso, Texas, April pa hun
dred additional liberal soldiers were
called to Juarez today from Casas
Grandes to defend the city. Reports
in Juarez are that federals are COM
I ms HUN lJlldSd, east VI Judl ca w dI-
tack the town.
| Mexican Official Surrenders.
! Washington, =. C, April 22.-Brau-
! lilo Hernandez, leading Mexican and
, formerly secretary of state of Chi
huahua, has voluntarily surrendered
/ to the department Of justice to an
/ swer an indictment at Ell Paso, Tex
as. charging him with conspiracy to
! violate President Taft's proclamation
prohibiting the expectations of muni-
! tions of war to Mexico. He is now
! en- route from Washington to Ell Paso
/ in the custody of a special agent of
the department and will arrive there
tonight or tomorrow.
Armed Americans in Sonora.
Los Angeles Calf, April 22.-The
Evening Express printed a story toe ay
based on what it claimed was uni H.
peachable authority, that Major Fred
erick w. Burnham, the former South
African scout and confidant of million
aire mining promoters of the United
States, was now encamped with 500
men fully armed and equipped on the
banks of the Yaqui river in Sonora,
Mexico, ready for any emergency.
Major Burnham's purpose, the EX-
press story stated was primarily that
of guarding the mining and other
property in Mexico owned by John
Hays Hammond, J. P Morgan, the
Guggenheims and others, in whose in
terest he made many trips into MeXi-
co. The article adds: "Burnham's
men are fully equipped and have sew
eral long range machine guns Nearly
all of his command were former men,
bers of the Rough Riders or marine
corps" Their ammunition, guns and
machine guns, it was stated, had been
smuggled across the boundary in the
vicinity of Ell Paso.