Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-08
MANUEL CALERO
DIDN'T Do It
Mexican Minister Denied He
Advised Making Ameri-
cans Hostages
DISAFFECT|ON IS WIDESPREAD
Orozoco Is Reported to Be Out
Looking for Pancho Villa
Near Chihuahua.

! (By Special Leased Wire 10 New MeXican)
! Washington, D. c., March S.-Em-
/ phatic denial has been made to Amer
i Jean Ambassador Wilson at Mexico
City by Manuel Calero, the Mexican
minister for foreign affairs for the in
terview accredited to him declaring
Americans and other foreigners would
! be held as hostages should d foreign
| force invade Mexico.
| Mexican Official Misquoted.
! Washington. d. c., March S.-Am-
! bassador Wilson in a dispatch to the
state department today said CaIero
had declared his sentiments were eX-
Gctly the opposite of those expressed
in the alleged interview. He also as
/ serted he would not let the matter rest
with a mere denial, but intended to
pursue a rigid investigation.
Mutiny Catching.
/ Further disaffection among former
NaderO followers was reported today
Miranda, a leading general in the
Madero revolution, is said to have
large force under his command near
the capital.
| Orozco Looking for Villa.
| Chihuahua Mex, March S.-(Via FL
| IPaso)-General Pasquai Orozco head
of the revolution in Mexico, sent out
FIVE hundred men today to look for
Pancho Villa and his troops 1t was
desired to ascertain the disposition of
his men rather than to bring on a fight.
OroZco believes that Villa will not
oppose him when he takes his army
out of Chihuahua for the advance
south, preparations for which are be-
ing made. He thinks that Villa will
form a junction with other federal
troops near Torreon and that they may
give battle there
There was an unimpOrtant skirmish
near Jiminez yesterday. Only a few
men were engaged and there We're no
casualties, it is reported.
Chihuahua Quiet.
Affairs in the state of chihuahua an
pear to have quieted since the revolu-
tionists toHk holG and there are aD-
proXimately 1000 rebels now report
ed in Chihuahua city. Outbursts still
continue in the states of Jalisco, Ia
catecas, OaXaca, Vera Cruz, Pueblo,
and TlaXcala. Miss s. p. Cheek, an
American, is reported safe and well in
70 do
MED that two more regiments had
. been ordered to the border
American Officer Courtmartiaed.
FL Paso, Texas, March S.-Lieuten-
ant Benjamin Field, Eighteenth in
, fantry, who crossed the American bor-
, der on a street car with a command
of soldiers on February Is, in a mis-.
taken effort to reach point on the in.
ternatonal boundary that he had been
ordered to guard, was tried by a
courtmartial of fellow officers at Fort
Bliss today, The result of the find
ing will not be made public until it is
\ EiFen ont by the war department al
1 Washington. Freight service on tht
J Mexican Central was resumed TO-DAY
between Juarez and Chihuahua, undel
, trehei supervision. A passenger trail
/ viii arrive tonight from Chihuahua.
Exodus of Foreigners Continues.
Laredo Texas, March S.-About 90
passengers from Mexico, more thai
half of them either Europeans 0
|, MeXicans, passed through here toda,
II northbound Chief Surgeon Goodman
of the National Railway lines of Men
ico, brought his family here in hi
n private car. He will return to Mex
co. The American consul general a
Mexico City, Arnold Shanklin, wa
among the passengers.
American Robbed.
y Ell Paso, Texas, March S.-Henr
r. Seggerson, customs broker, doin
Y, business in JuareZ, complained
in American Consul Edwards today the
the Mexican rebels had seized an
~ confscated $4,000 worth of -four i
IL his warehouse in Juarez and asked r
~ dress. He wired the same informatio
d and request to Governor Coluuitt {
IL Texas.
~ ~ Villa in ciudad Guerrero.
" Mexico City, Mex, March s.
N Abram Gonzales, governor of Chihu
hua, and Colonel Francisco Villa, wit
ne the remaining loyal federal force
D. the north are in Ciudad Guerrero. Ch
II huahua, according to reports receive
bt today by the minister of the interio
he Governor Gonzales, despite the sta1
OF legislatures approval of the substit
ID ton OF Felipe Gutierrez in the COVER
w orship has established the provision
er- capital there. The revolution still
TO- gaining ground in Zacatecas. Armt
OF bands are operating throughout IL
"a. state
rs This afternoon the rebels succeedt
in importing 100000 rounds of ANN
on milton, several cases of arms and
Id machine gun barrel from Ell Paso
int Juarez. The United States tempora
M lily detained the stuff last night.
,th breech block sent from Chihuahua
ur- the rebels yesterday for repairs f
'ds one of their cannon, was stolen la
re- night by Madersta agents from an
rty Paso foundry and Orozco's bigge
be cannon is ineffective
lit First Movement South.
Chihuahua, Mex, March ST
xxi first movement south by the rebe
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