Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-07
REBEL CHIEF
OPPOSES GOMEZ
Sent Threatening kilograms
to Mexican Provisional
President
is AGAINST CIVIL GOVERNMENT
Big Battle Is Expected Within
Twenty.Four Hours South
of Chihuahua.

ed by Emilio Vasquez Gomez at Juar
ez last Saturday. Orozco today on the
march southwark, telegraphed Gomez
threatening him and his associates un-
less they left Mexico.
Orozco was today 1913 miles south of
Chihuahua and but 40 miles behind
his advance guard which is expected
within the next "a hours to encounter
the big federal force and General
Huerta.
Orozco Opposes Provisional Govern
ment.
The creation of any civil govern
ment prior to the successful termina-
ton of the war has persistently been
opposed by Orozco. In his telegram
to Gomez, Orozco declares that he
would have been glad to have had
Vasquez Gomez come into the rebel
zone and work with him in the inter-
ests of the revolution but the Gomez
government in Juarez was thing he
could not cOuntenance. General OroZ-
co continued southward today.
Gomez Went Too Far.
Juarez, May Emil Vasquez Co.
mez admitted merely that he was eX
changing kilograms with Orozco today
but declined to discuss the report of
friction with the latter. The accept
ance by Pascual Orozco, Sr., father of
the rebel military chief of a position
in the Gomez cabinet, had given a
semblance of authority to the Gomez
government. Developments today in
dicated that though General Orozco
had invited Gomez across the line, he
had not expected an immediate as
sumption of civil authority by Gomez.
No "OfficiaI" Change in Situation.
Washington, D. c., May THE re-
ported activity of Colonel Arthur Will
Jams, eleventh infantry, in command
at Fort d. A. Russell, Wyoming, in
rounding up freight cars for the trans
portation of troops to the Texas bor-
der, is said at the War Department to
be due to nothing more than laud.
able desire to have the troops in read
mess to respond to any call
1t is pointed out that the troops
from Fort D. A. Russell, were nearly
a fortnight on the way from that
point to San Antonio during the mobili
Zation movement last summer, owing
entirely to lack of railway cars and ii
is believed Colonel Williams does not
intend to be placed in that position
again. The war departments orders
to this officer are similar to those Civ
en- many other post commandants
more than two months ago, namely tt
have their troops ready to meet any
emergency. 1t is declared that there
has been no change in the Mexican
) situation.
Chaos Reigns in Mexico.
San Francisco, Calf, May Com
pairing present conditions in Mexico
to those of the Philippines under Span
ish rule, passengers on the Pacific
Mail liner Peru, which arrived toda!
from ports on the west coast of Mexi
co, told tales of chaos and disorder il
the southern republic.
Charles A. Stephens, chief boardin.
officer of the port of San Francisco
who returned on the Peru from tril
to Panama, said the rebels were en-
camped within eight miles of Acapul
CO and that they had been as close a
four miles.
Murder, Torture, Robbery.
Ladrones had focked in large mum
bers, he said, to the standard of tn
rebels, and murder, torture and rob
berry were crimes of daily occurrence
Women and children ha dfled from
the villages to Acapulco for safety, HI
said, but even then there was mucI
disorder from the drunken outbreak
of rebel sympathizers. Condition
were much the same, he said, in Sal
Bias. The Peru did not touch at MAJ
allan because of rumors of serious dis
turbances.
Tear Up Railroad Tracks.
R. w. Harrison, of San Francisco
, who returned from his fathers plants
ton in Chiapas, where he said the ns
!, tives of the region, who had not rise
during the Madero revolution, were be
coming restless. In attempting
? reach the west coast, Harrison sal
he had found that fifty miles of tn
! Pan-American railway tracks had bee
4 torn up and he had been compelled
| cross the border into Guatemala befor
: he could reach the coast.
Train Robbery Common Crime.
l. w. C. Harris, Seattle mining mai
$ confirmed stories of disorder in the r.
# gion of the federal capital and sal
that the train preceding the one whic
he travelled from Mexico City to Yer
G Cruz was held up by bandits who ri'
d died the coaches with bullets and ro'
=, bed the passengers.
II Rumored Battle.
o Maria, Texas, May 7.-Telephon
, messages from Preside, Texas, r.
r. port an engagement at or near Ojin'
+. ga. Mexico, between so-called "re
Il flaggers" and Mexican Federals. N
details are available.