Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-26
REBELS RETIRE
INTO LOWER
CALF.
GOVERNOR GOMEZ TAKES COM
MAND OF FEDERAL TROOPS
NO TROUBLE AT THE IMPERIAL
VALLEY INTAKE. ==GUAYMAS RE.
PORTS A BATTLE.
TO HELP AMERICANS
GET OUT OF PARRAl

Los Angeles, Calf, Aug. 26-Colonel
W. II. Holabird, receiver of the Cali
fornia Development company, who
has charge OF the Imperial valley irri-
cation system, left today to watch the
situation which developed yesterday
with a fight between Mexican federals
and insurrectos at Sharps Heading the
| intake of the system south of the in
ternatonal line.
| All of the sources of water supply
for the irrigation system lie in the
! Mexican territory of Lower California.
During the last insurrection in Lower
California the ranchers of Imperial
valley urged the United States gov
ernment to send troops to Sharps
Heading to protect the water supply.
CaleXico, Calf, Aug Ex-Governor
Gomez of Lower California, arrived at
Mexicali. Just across the international
line today and took charge of the sit
uation. The federal garrison of about
$50 men continued preparations to
fight the insurrectos, who. after their
attack on the irrigation canal guard
lat Sharps Heading yesterday, retired
to Black Butte, strategeticy point at
the head of navigation on Volcano
lake.
j. G. Allison, chief engineer of the
California development company re-
ported to Receiver Holabrd at Los An
geles today that he had been assured
there was no danger to the big irriga-
tion system of the Imperial valley.
Allison and his men were not molested
in any way by either side.
A Mexican close to the insurrectos
was authority for the statement that /
the present revolution in Lower Cali |
fGrnia is confined exclusively to Mexi- |
cans, there being no Americans in |
volved, as was the case in the revolu- /
tion of 1911. when Mexican socialists |
and American Industrial Workers of .
the World invaded the territory with
modern Utopia
Activities in Sonora.
HermosiIlo, Sonora, Mex. Aug. 90
Although federal gunboats and land
of shells at the positions of the invest
ing constitutional forces Sunday and
yesterday the rebel losses, according
to a telegram received today by Gov
ernor Maytorena from General Obre-
gon, numbered ten killed and twenty
wounded
Obregon has retired to Tres Ii
tos, six kilometers north of Empalme,
leaving a small force at Batamota and
hoping to draw the federals from their
stronghold to a position whence their
retreat to Guaymas might be more
EASILY cut off
Colonel Felipe Dussart reported to
Maytorena today that the constitutions
llists of Sinaloa had driven the feder
lis from all important points in the
state excepting Culiacan, the capital,
md MaZatlan, the seaport city.
To Rescue Americans.
Ell Paso Texas, Aug. 26.-To aid
americans in getting out of Parral, U
Iexico, E. c. Bryan special messen-
,er of the state department and ].
4ong, son OF Consular Agent J. I. Long
# Parral left Ell Paso today.
They will enter Mexico at Maria,
nd go to Parral by automobile.
yehicles to be used in getting the
mericans out are being sent to Parra,
rom Chihuahua by request of the :,
tate department. g g
Bryan also carries code messages =
rom the state department to Consular q
gent Long. =,
To Investigate Killings. g
Ell Paso, Texas, Aug. 26.-American T.
onsul Thomas D. Edwards, has been r,
lstructed by the state department at O,
to investigate the report +,
d killing of five Americans at or near h,
hihuahua during July.
J. A. Holcombe, a native of Missis w
ppi, is said to have been among the tc
zen killed. No report of the killings n,
as been received in FL Paso. ot
American Under Arrest. Ii;
Douglas, Ariz.. Aug 26-Stewart
unit the American rancher arrested p(
' Sonora constitutionalists at From ,Ie
ras, was still in detention today. tn
unit was arrested on the order of pr
overnor Maytorena as an enemy to ia
e state because he purchased some
ock of an interdicted cattleman. &C
Will Be Heard September 2. tn
Los Angeles, Cal. Aug. pa writ ia
habeas corpus. returnahle Septem tn
r 2, was issued today by Judge in
ellborn of the United States dist an
It court on behalf of the 215 Mexi- re
n federal officers and soldiers re- r,
ntly transferred from FL Paso to
,rt Rosecrans, San Diego. They ch
II not be required to appear when sy
e matter is argued. m;
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