El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-07

sect for ms was gone. That class was
aware Of the discrimination In 1aVor
! of Madero and against Orozco and it
was considered as threat on the part
| of the limited States to take hand
in it for the purpose of aiding ma
| derO. Salazar said that the American
! government was with Madero TO nSht
/ the Liberals. He also said that as
/ far as the Liberals were concerned,
/ there would be no protection for for
eign interests and that if they wanted
| protection, to look to Madero or the
| American government for 1t. FROM
the time of the proclamation the
| treatment of American citizens was
| changed"
QUESTION: DO you know of the
| neutrality laws being suspended to al
law arms and ammunition to be taken
| cross the borders"
Answer: "Only through the news
papers. I think that such concession
was recently made to Cananea
/ Question: Who owns CananeaZ-
Answer: 1 believe the Standard
] Oil and the Ryan and Phelps-Dodge
! interests are deeply concerned
! L know of no voluntary cOntrlbu-
/ tons to either revolution. think 1t
/ is a well known rumor that a portion
/ of the money is contributed by the
| Cientifico party composed OF Terrazas.
/ the Creels and many wealthy. Mexi-
cans of Chihuahua and elsewhere.
! They were former followers of Diaz
] and they have no apparent strength
They are out of harmony with the Ma
| dere government and are in collusion
| with the OrOzocO revolution 1 am
| able to say that from rumors that the
| reTolutionists attempted to protect
| the properties Of these people which
! the Maderista revolutionists had
| looted"
Question: DO you know of any
American property that has been ex-
empt from attack or has been favored
by the revoluuonists?'
Answer: mo"
Question: where is the American
Smelling company?
Answer: In Chihuahua"
Question: was it permitted to con-
tinue in business%
Answer: 81 know very little about
it, neither do 1 know whether or not
its force has been armed"
They have been running the business
but have been short of fuel They
have taken great deal of fuel through
here.
''Our properties are being destroyed
all the time. The last report 1 had
was that 1000 rebels are camped on the
ranch"
Question-"How many states are in
rebellion There are Is states in revo-
luton and $4,000 men under arms
Zapata in the south and Orozco in the
north. Chihuahua is now under partial
control of the federals. There has been
no change in their attitude toward the
Americans.
No Honest OGicers-
IAN official said that could not find
two honest officers. He referred to
Casas Grandes. He was a volunteer
officer, and a federal official / was
a prisoner and fined $500 for protecting
trusted They could find no law to
cover the case have since heard
threats made to others that they would
eXact the fine of 10000 pesos. That
L.
has gone into the pockets of the lead
ers of the revolution. They have taken
1000 IN the country through which
they passed. It is known that they
have not kept up the pay of the men.
I'VE have had regular receipts for
our taxes, for the fine, and cattle
killed and merchandise taken. The
receipt for the fine gave the details of
event Of the success of the revolution"
First Company Rafded.
Geo. A Laird, manager of the Can
delaria company, of San Pedro, Chih.,-
''Our officials are the same as the
Corralitos company, Harry Payne
Whitney, Dudley Winthrop estate are
Interested The capitalization is $1,000.
O0O Ours was the first company raid
ed by the Maderistas. They made de-
mands upon our company for arms
and ammunition. This was the Madero
revolution. We had 1000 employees and
volunteers, and two went.
mo demands were made for money
for protection except the taxes
evaded the state taxes and paid the
federal taxes to Mexico City. The
rebels have looted the store of goods
and dynamite, horses, mules, saddles
and anything they wanted, Were TAX
en- They looted the camp last Thurs
day with 500 federal soldiers four
miles away. No demands were made
upon me for money.
''The motives of the revolutions were
to get away with Diaz and then Ma
dero. That desire is general through
Chihuahua
There has been a decided change
toward Americans, due to the fact
that they know the American govern
ment will do nothing and individuals /
cannot"
question: Were the changed con-
ditions toward Americans coincident |
with the passing of the law prohibit |
ing importation of the arms?"
Eyes, It has hurt the Americans in \
the eyes of the Maderistas and OrOz- |
cositos.
Cananea Allowed Ammunition.
1.-THE American Smelling company has |
suffered less than others, but not be- /
cause of faveFitism- Cananea has not |
been molested. From newspaper re- /
ports, [ believe that they have been /
allowed to take in ammunition. Mr.. |
Houghton has made request to have |
his men to go through Columbus or /
Hachita armed.
CAS- far as I know, no special favors
have been granted to any companies |
in Mexico. I know that the Madero
was allowed to take in arms
and ammunition.
Il think that the revolution is much /
stronger than the Madero government
will admit and stronger than the Amer
can government cares to admit.
Life has not been threatened but
hey have said they would kill some /
to bring on Intervention. Americans
we're told by Salazar to. get out He |
made 5. eeches at Casas Grandes 10
his effect He said at San Pedro that