Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-09-16
Possibility Rebel Commander May
Be in United States.
CITY OF 0JINAGA IS TAKEN
Federals Drive Rebels From Place
After Severe Fighting.
REPORT TO GENERAL STEINER
Major Gneral Wood Orders Army
Officers to Hold Younger Oroxco III
If Captured I'm American
Territory.

WASHINGTON, Sept 15.-Major Gen
eral Leonard Wood, chief Of staff Of the
army, tonight ordered Brigadier General
Steever Of the Mexican frontier to hold
Pascual Orozco, jr, the rebel leader for
the United States Department of Justice
II he was captured in American territory.
General steever advised Genesal Wood
he had unofficial reports Of the capture
OF Orozco and his father by Captain
Thomas F. Mitchell OF the border patrol
near Maria. Tex. ,..
Ell PASo, Sept. 15.-Ojinaga, the Mex-
can border town opposite Presfdio, Tex,
was taken away by federal troops after
brisk fighting at daybreak, according to
e. 2. Steever. commanding the Depart
ment Of Texas.
General Steever also received report
from army officers at Preside. Tex,
opposite Ojinaga, Mexico, that Colonel
Pascual Orozco, ST., fater of the rebel
leader, was captured yesterday and is
held by United States troops at Presidio,
together with Colonel P. G. orozco.
Whether General Pascual Orozco, jr.,
the rebel commander-in-chief, was fight
ing at Ojinaga or escaped over the inter
national line into the United States is
not known.
Federal forces numbering $780, under
command of Colonel Manuel Landa en-
ttered ojinaga proper, driving the rebels
before them.
Mexican Captain In Fear.
MEXICO CITY, Sent. 15.-Despite the
precautions taken by the police, the
situation here tonight is tense in view
of the anniversary celebration tomorrow
night Of Mexican independence. Though
the Zapatistas, who threatened to enter
the capital tomorrow, are far away, it Is
feared that partisans will start riots.
That the plot to oceups and sack >fhe
capital on September 15 the anniversary
of Mexico's independence, has been more
widespread than at first imagined is be-
lieved to be indicated by reports received
here by the government that similar plans
were on foot against Puebla, Monterey
and Saltillo.
Barred from the Chamber of Deputies
by order Of President Madero because
of the noisy demonstration in which he
and his political adherents were hissed
and derided and the name of Diaz was
frantically cheered, hundreds of residents
marched through the streets tonight
shouting disapproval of the new executive
and vivas for their exiled ruler.
Mounted police were ready to disperse
the mob and the entrances to the cham
ber where the deputies were in executive
session were heavily guarded.
The situation Is almost identical with
that Immediately preceding the fall OF
Diaz, with the exception that shifts have
been made in the cast Of charactefs.
American Killed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. l5.--Edward Hay
moor, an American, is believed to have
been killed yesterday by Mexican rebels
near Morelos. He was member of
Mormon colony. The finding of remnants
of his property and his clothing was re-
ported today by Mormons arriving at
Nogales.
MobtlixatfoM F0recasted.
Ell PASO. Tex, Sept. 15.-The estab-
lishment of general army post in Ell
Paso, as announced today by the War
department, is considere9 by army man
here as significant Of q general mobiliza-
ton on the border.
Army officers here fear q scarcity Of pro-
visions for men and horses in the event
of duty in Mexico. for since the Madero
revolution agriculture has been stagnant
In northern Mexico.