The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-08


dent Huerta and General Carranza ar
for peace is reported her,
today on good authority. Diplomats
here generally believed that the re
ports are true.
Carranza and General Villa have
quarrelled violently, it is understood
and Villa has even threatened to attack
Carranza's headquarters.
Followers of Carranza are under.
stood to fear Villas detection from
the Carranza organization. An early
crisis seemed inevitable and the ten
sion is extreme.
Huerta Gave Order to Fire.
NEW YORK, Dec. S.-Dr. Frank
Thatcher, formerly city chemist and
bacteriologist of Ell Paso, Tex, and an
officer in the Mexican revolutionary
army under Francisco Madero, has ar
rived at the Imperial direct from the
Mexican border. Dr. Thatcher says he
saw as much of the taking of Juarez
recently as anybody in Ell Paso,
and the accounts of witnesses"
he read on the way up put him in such
state of indignation that by the time
he got here he thought people ought to
know what there really was in the
stories of wholesale executions there.
people down our way, the thought
~ NIL, 4el~o t1.11;
that Intervention by this government
would have the effect of uniting all fac
tions in Mexico against us. There is
good evidence in Ell Paso that Huerta
had given instructions to his COM
mander at Juarez that if he found him.
self attacked by the Insurrectos he
should take a few shots at the Mills
building in Ell Paso, on the suppOsition
that this would bring about interven-
tion. One thing is certain, if the United
States ever intervenes in Mexico it
will have to fight every man, woman,
and child in the country. 1t would re-
quire three years to subdue and pacify
the country, and we could count upon
a loss of 100000 men, and l don't know
how many million dollars"
Don't Like Pictures.
DR.. Thatcher was particularly in
censed when he saw displayed on
on Broadway photograph purporting !
to picture some of those executions. |
He said it was absolutely impossible
for anybody to see from Ell Paso what
was going on in Juarez, because not
only were Gen. Villas operations
screened from residents of Ell Paso by
abode buildings, but that the place
where the revolutionists' train stop-3
ped was fully two and a half miles
from Eel Paso.
For another thing, the battle began
at q. 18 a. m. and the main fighting was
up during that time trying to see what
was going on, but though he found
as good a post of observation as was
to be had north of the river, he couldn't
see anything but the flashes of the
guns.
But / was one of the few that man
aged to get across after the first fight,
and was there when the second took
place." said DR.. Thatcher yesterday.
1T was about 7:30 O'Clock when l
the bridge. Villa was then
about to move against the 120 Federal
who had taken a position
back of the concrete grandstand at the |
race track.
Might Run Property. n
II thought he might shell the place, a
Ind this would have ruined lot of c
American property, have killed lot of e
he 800 horses stabbed there. and un- v
would have been pretty seri- a
,us for the Americans who were look +
ng after them. l sent friend to in a
erview Villa, and the latter said that d
he only way to get the Federals OH; "
vas to shell the grandstand. When ii il
vas pointed OFT what might be the Il
ther results, he decided to eEfilade
9th S des of the tracks with machine ii
uns. In the fight that eusued villa S,
sst fourteen men. Had he shelled the al
lace, as he originally intended, he d.
'cnld have go; off without the loss Of g,
n'an. if
"As for the executions that took til
lace, there We're only tour men shot. Of
me, Padilla. q colonel of volunteers, ell
,as executed as trait :. He had been al
cal ain in tn Madero re OlutiOn, and tn
hen Orozco turned npon Madero he Sc
)incd with Villa and then deserted to al
le Faderals Another. lieutenant of or
rtil cry, had ben captur "a by Villa in he
le fight at Parral He turned i-snr- &C
actu, and then went back to the Fed tn