Arizona republican., 1912-05-12

HfSSS at I:Z5 q. fn WltH Ien. t1utFld the fact a big battle with the rebels will begin at day break. We have our men in position and the ar tillery is well placed declared Huer- ta over the wire. We are forcing the enemy back and soon will be in con nection"
 Huerta said he was five miles south of Conejos and that shots are being ex- with the rebels who have been sighted by scouts.
 (Bulletin)
 REBEL HEADQUARTERS, near Conejos (ten p. m) Five thousand rebels troops advanced southward from here tonight skrmishing as they pro ceeded. They will probably encounter the main body of federal forces at day break.
 MEXICO CITY, May 11.--A dispatch received here tonight from Escalon said the forces of Federal Gen. Sangi- nes, which have been in Ojinaga were now advancing upon Chihuahua, after having won a victory at COyame.
 MEXICO CITY. May 1.-The last reWs received by Madero from Gen eral Huerta. aside from Associated Press dispatches, was a telegraphic communication direct from the field at $ o'clock last night. At that time Huerta had sighted the enemy four miles distant and had sent his ar tillery to attack in the vicinity of Conejos Gen. Trucy Aubert, he said. had retired from Cuatro Cienegas and was pursuing the rebels toward Sierra Mojada Aubert expected to join Huer- ta today or tomorrow.
 SAN ANTONIO, May 11-Emilio Vasquez Gomez arrived here from Juarez late tonight.
 Gomez. in a statement tonight. said rather than disrupt the revolution, he had decided to leave Juarez and came straight to this city.
 Felix Gutierrez. rebel governor of Chihuahua, Gomez declared. used his influence to prevent Orozco from rec ognizing him as the titular head of the instruction as provisional pres
 dent. Gutierrez, Gomez declared was not a Vasquisitas, but a Nader ista Gomez and his friends profess to have no fear of any action being taken by the United States author ities because of the part he played in the revolution
 FL PASO, May 11.-Mexican Con sul LlOrente had the Mexican secret service men watching a rooming house here all day and night in an en- deaVor to locate Emilio VasdueZ Go meg, who. one of them declared he saw enter yesterday. At midnight Llorente was informed Gomez had arrived in San Antonio.
 WASHINGON, May 1.-The value of paper currency is beginning to- be affected by the revolution in Mexico. Fl Paso bankers according to state department advices. have announced the maximum they will pay for Mex jean pesos is 4S cents Formerly 49 cents was paid. The recent battle near Saragossa Rancho has been con- firmed as a federal victory
 JUAREZ, May 11.-Gen Pascual Orozco farmer and soldier of meager education, holds the balance of pow CT in the Mexican revolution tonight Though Orozco with 1000 men is face to face with a federal force that is slowly driving him back towards the border, developments of the day chiefly the abdication of Emilio Vas quez Gomez of the provisional presi- dency and his flight into the United States, indicate the financial inter ests that are behind MeXico's pres ent disturbances must continue to court Orozco's favor Reliable infor- nation here is to the effect that group of men. who were once strong with Diaz, have been financing the Orozco movement through Gonzalo Enrile. at Chihuahua, but that an- other group has sprung up who are now seeking to oust Enrile and place control in Orozco's hands. It is be- lieved Gomez will return here after Col Orozco, father of the general, re- turns from a visit to Sonora.
 Not content with exercising a rig orous censorship over all press dis patches, Orozco today refused to al- low correspondents to proceed south of Escalon, the rebel base. Some where below COnejos, or between there and Peronal, twenty-six miles south of Escalon, a battle ragged to- day under hot sun that spread