Arizona republican., 1912-05-04
Condition of Absolute An archy Exists in States of Sinaloa and
 Sonora
MANY RAILROAD
 BRIDGES BURNED
Force of Rowing Bandits Looted Culiacan Then Engaged in Gen
 eral Pillage

The Republican has been able to secure from a perfectly reliable and authoritative source comprehen- sive and circumstantial statement re- garding affairs as they now exist in Mexico, and particularly in the states of Sinaloa and Sonora This state ment reveals much that has been withheld from the press correspond ents in that distracted section. and they show a condition of affairs aI- most indescribably bad. In large parts of Sindloa and in all the state of Sonora. according to The Repub- llcans informant. state of absO- lute anarchy prevails. and which the government is absolutely power less to control. There is not and has not been in recent times any thing like it anywhere else in the world" is the declaration of the man from whom these facts were obtained Here in substance is the state ment:
 "The entire state of Sinaloa is disaffected. In the northeastern part of that state a band of 14OO Yaqui Indians are on the war path. plum dering wherever there is an oppor- tunity burning railroad bridges. and shooting at trains The Southern Pacific is now maintaining regular passenger service between Nogales and San Bias, d distance of 800 miles. Over this part of the line it is run ming trains. all of which, however, are guarded by armored pilot trains Below San Bias. for a distance of 800 miles more to the end of the line. no trains are operated. On this part of the line about forty bridges have ] been burned, some of them three or four times after they had been re- placed by the company.
 In Culiacan. town of 10000 or ] ?. 900 people. and in the surrounding country the anarchistic condition is complete There is absolutely not a semblance of government. Culiacan 1 has been footed from end to end. All 1 the private as well as the public ] buildings have been plundered and what could not be carried away has been destroyed Prior to last Sun I day the town was occupied by d l force of 5000 rebels; but these have i now broken up into several bands of 1 300 or 800 each, which are robbing and plundering wherever their fancy , dictates. No respect is shown any
 flag or nationality--not even to the Mexicans. These bands had seven 1 leaders for a time. but one of them has since been killed.
 1 whenever these outlaws attack a town they divide it into sections and 4n section assigned to it And they
 never fail to do good job.
 These bands are under all sorts of flags. Some profess allegiance to Zapata and some to various other i persons But the truth is they reh der allegiance to nobody and to nothing but their desire for plunder- 'I+ has been demonstrated that the 1 Madero government is aosoluteiN unable to cope with this condition The greater part of Maderos army has been recruited from the Jalls and nenitentiaries and the president has almost as much cause to rear
 his own soldiers as his aVo"eo
 enemies"
 l MEXICO CITY. May 3.-A sensa ton has been CduSSu DS
 portation from Mexico of A 4. ahC
 Joseph Rather, Russian subjects aho
 president and manager, reSpectiNel!
 of the TampicO News company, by th' application of the famous artlcle ."
 providing banishment for pernlclou'
 foreigners Rather Is accused O.
 trafficking in arms with the Zapatls tas. who it is said, have been cap
 tured in some instances with arm!
 bearing the marks of the Tampic'
 company.
 l The men were taken without cour process and their families and assocl
 ates were ignorant for twenty -fou
 hours of their whereabouts Boti
 were called to police headquarter under pretext of business transac
 ton and as soon as they arrived the.
 were arrested. Yesterday the prison CTS were placed aboard the German steamer Corcovada News of the de
 portation leaked out only after tn
 ship had sailed. The wife of A. Rather is an American.
 FL PASO, May >.-The followin telegram. dated today at Escalon an signed by General Emilio P. Camps
 of the rebel forces, has been receive at Juarez;
 "Complete triumph on the part C s our valiant companions in engage = rnent with federal forces. We hay
 enjoyed a victory over the federals Il The triumph" is believed to refe
 to some outpost skirmish. as tn
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