The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-08-01
ACTION DEMANDED
State Department Makes Wig
OrOuS Representations.
MEXICO'S ACT CONTEMPTUOUS

Peremptory Demands Made to Military
and Civil Authorities for Reparation
and Redress-RemovaI of Dixon &c
FL Paso Granted-GuiIty Must Be
Punished.
If another scrap of evidence were
needed to demonstrate that the Mex
can situation is sadly in need of
remedy the administration at Wash
ington has it now in the shoot
ing of Charles Dixon, United States
immigration inspector by federal sol
ders at Juarez. The Dixon shooting
was made the occasion of the most
vigorous representations yet ordered
by the department of state. Aside from
the gravity of the incident in itself,
the wantonness and reckless defiance
of the United States which inspired
the occurrence has proved to Wash
ington that the United States, its
authority and its representative are
being regarded with contempt in Mex
ico
Representation were made both to
the military authorities at Juarez,
Mex, opposite Ell Paso, Tex, and to
the responsible authorities of the
Huerta government in Mexico City.
Through consul Edwards at Juarez
and Charge d'Affaires Nelson
O'Shaughnessy, at the American en-
bassy in Mexico City, peremptory de-
mands were made for speedy repara-
ton and redress for the offence.
Want Offenders Punished.
Charde d'Affaires O'Shaughnessy
was instructed by Secretary Bryan to
call at once on the minister of war in
Mexico City and demand that all con-
cerned in the shooting of Dixon be i'm
prisoned at once. He was also di-
rected to demand that the trial Of the
offenders proceed forthwith. He in
formed the minister of war of what
the American consul at Juarez was do
ing in the case and insisted that
every facility be extended to him to
expedite the apprehension and proper
punishment of all concerned.
Secretary Bryan has not received
any reply from the embassy In Next
co City as to the response made to his
representations. 1t is confidently ex-
pected, however, that the Huerta gov
eminent will not be slow to express
its extreme regret at the occurrence
and to expedite the punishment of the
guilty parties.
Out of the tension of the last few
days has come unanimity in regard to
at least one fact in the Mexican
trouble and that is that something
must be done and done at once. Even
Secretary of State Bryan who has
been reluctant to admit the gravity of
the Mexican situation now holds this
view.
Mexicans Give Up Dixon.
FL Paso, Tex, July 2S-United
States Consul T. D. Edwards informed
the authorities in Juarez that they
must arrest the men who caused the
shooting of immigration Inspector
Charles B. Dixon. A strong demand
was also made upon the Juarez au-
thorities for the release of Dixon so
that he might be brought to Ell Paso
for medical treatment He was re-
leased at once and brought to Ell Paso
by his associates. The release was
without bond.
Arthur Walker, a negro, was at the
bottom of the arrests. He was being
investigated by United States immi-
grafton men and when he saw Dixon
in Juarez he told a number of Next
can soldiers that Dixon was there with
a bottle of chlorofOrm to chloroform
him and forcibly take him to Ell Paso.
He is said to have bought drinks for
the soldiers and then he made Grim
inal complaint with the Juarez authori-
ties against Dixon. The arrest of the
immigration man by the Mexican
troops followed.