The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-04
Turn Attention to Establish.
meat Of Civil Government
HOLD ALL IMPORTANT TOWNS
Except Two Along the Border
Of Texas.
Scene of Operations VIII Be
Transferred Toward Capital.


isolated bands or confiscation Of prop
efty by the rebels may continue, the
days OF fighting in northern Mexico
are numbered. SO far as the present
opinions expressed by rebel leaders to-
day. General Francisco Villas asser-
ton that there is not much more to
fight for in the north because OF the
army. which caused them to evacuate
SO important a city as Chihuahua, has
spread among the rebels.
What most Immediately concerns
the socailed constitutionalist party
now Is the elaboration of its civil gov
ernment. This embraces q more sys-
tematized customs to be enforced
along the border. The rebels hold all
the important border towns except
Neuvo Laredo and Piedras Negras,
opposite Eagle Pass. Texas. There
remain9 also to be put in force q uni
form currency system, for now rebel
and federal currency are in conflict,
one kind being acceptable in one place
postage stamps already are in use.
Many governors and state officials are
to be selected.
For all practical purposes. within .
ment will be in operation in the
northern half Of the country which
will be entirely deatched and inde-
pendent Of that at Mexico City. Tho
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reason why Villa has asked General
Carranza to meet him at Chihuahua.
Sylvester Terrazas, q Newspaper edi-
tor In Chihuahua, who Is not related
to the wealthy Terrazas family. has
been selected for governor Of the
state. Villa expects to leave to Car
rama. the task Of establishing civil
government, devoting himself to the
military campaign southwark towards
Huerta VIII Not Quit.
The City Of Mexico, Dec. 4-The
| enunciation Of yIashingtor's policy ap-
pears not to alarm President Huerta,
especially since he long ago abandoned
hope Of anything but opposition from
| the United States. He said:
/ Il have no Intention Of yielding.
| Should this fighting in Mexico continue
for years shall continue to do my
part in 1t, II am still alive"
| General Huerta declared that the
country was self supporting and that
forced loans, IL made necessary, would
enable him to resist indefinitely. SO
| long as he was able to obtain Ameri-
can oil he did not regard the shutting
of of native oil from the railways az
vital.
Left for Dead-Cfawls Away.
Mexico City, Dec. 4.-Col. Exiquio
BarbOsa, a federal officer left for dead
with bullet through his chest, after
facing a firing squad Of rebels at Tor
reon, arrived in the capital today. He
| was captured by General Francisco
Villa, when the federal troops COM
manded by General Felipe Alvires
| were wiped out, just before the evacu-
| alton of TOrreon. Colonel Barbosa In
the only one to escape death Of the
nineteen officers then taken, all the
| rest having been shot down. Barbosa
recovered consciousness and while his
executioners were feasting' he crawled
away from the spot and reached .
mining camp where doctor dressed
his wounds.
Americans Ordered Released.
| Washington, Dec. 4.-Immediate
release of w. s. Windham, an Ameri.
can, and a companion named Dunn.
held for ransom near Mazatlan, has
been ordered by Governor Felipe Riv-
eros. commander-in-chief of the con-
stitutionalist forces in Sinaloa, ac-
cording to today's dispatches to the
state department. Windham former.
ly was cashier Of bank in Pasadena.
Cal. and is now superintendent Of q
! ranch.
Today's dispatches say both Monte
rey and Tampico are threatened by
rebels. Nearly all the Americana.
many foreigners and hundreds Of
! Mexicans have fed from Monterey to
/ Texas.