Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-08-01
j. S. TAKES ACTION
HuERTA SOLDIERS ARE ARREST
ED FOR WoUNDING AMERl-
CAN OFFICIAL.
WOUNDED YANKEE RELEASED
Immigration Inspector Dixon Wounded
by Federal Troops at Juarez, Mex,
Finally Permitted to Return to e
Paso After Washington Demand.

Ell Paso. Tex, July 29.-Following
the demand made by American Consul
r. D. Edwards, the Mexican federal Of
hcials at Juarez, Mex. released
Charles b. Dixon. Jr., the United
States immigration inspector who was
shot in tha back on Saturday by Next
can federal troops at Juarez, Mex,
Mr.. Dixon was taken to a hospital at
Eel Paso. Tex.
The demand of Consul Edwards was
in vigorous language. The consul said
relative to reparat1on:
Il do not merely request the arrest
of these men, but in the name of the
United States government, which
have the honor to represent, | demand
their immediate punishment for this
crime My government will hold the
military authorities of Juarez per-
sonally responsible for failure to obey
this command
Arthur Walker, the negro who Dixon
was investigating when he was ar
rested, and the soldiers who made the
arrest were Immediately placed in
Jail, according to the report of Colonel
Castro, commanding the Juarez garri-
son, to F. w. Bershire. supervising in
spector of immigration for the United
States on the Mexican border.
Dixon was released to Mr. Berkshire
and brought to Ell Paso to hospital,
where his physicians believe he will
recover
When the Mexican soldiers had ap-
pretended Dixon they marched him
to the suburbs of the city instead OF
the military barracks or city hall
This, according to Dixon's statement,
gave rise to the suspicion that he was
going to be executed. AS a matter OF
Aelf-preservation, he declared, he took
t. flight and became the target of
may bullets.
Wounded, he was taken to the
Juarez hospital by his captors, and
there. under military guard of three
soldiers, he was kept from Saturday
afternoon until late Sunday, when he
was removed to Ell Paso.
Indignation at the Mexicans runs
high in Ell Paso, and the treatment &C.
corded Dixon has strained relations in
this city between Americans and Mex
scans as has no other incident attend
AIT upon the present revolution.
Washington, July 29.-The shooting
and serious wounding of United States
Immigration Inspector Charles B.
Dixon by Mexican federal troopers at
Juarez while Mr.. Dixon was perform
Ing his official duties has aroused the
administration TO rapid action and has
further complicated the problem Presi-
dent Wilson has before him of deter
mining what is to be the policy of the
United States toward Mexico.
There were other developments in
the last "a hours which have muddled
the already thoroughly mixed and
acute relations of the United States
toward Mexico. These developments
were:
1t was not until Sunday that the adj
ministration received an official report
on the shooting of Inspector Dixon
The state department received a re-
port from the American consul at
Juarez Thomas Edwards, and Secre-
fary of Labor Wilson received an ac-
count of the shooting of immigration
Inspector Berkshire, in charge of the
4. Paso district. Both were laid be-
fore the president, who had with MIN
the general report made to Secretary
of State Bryan by Ambassador Wilson
Both official reports corroborated
the press dispatches.
Secretary Bryan telegraphed Consul
Edwards to demand of the command
ants of the garrison at Juarez that the
officer and men connected with the
shooting be arrested at once Mr.
Edwards was instructed to further de-
mand that the men be held until their
testimony can be taken by the consul
This is an unprecedented STEP 1t is
unusual for American consuls to ex-
anime foreigners charged with the
commitment of a crime on an Ameri-
can
This testimony will be used by the
state department in carrying it's de-
mand to Huerta for the punishment at
once of the officer, half-breed negro.
and his men.
The United States government also
demanded the immediate release OF
Charles Bissell and Bernard Melon
lid, mining managers, imprisoned by
federal soldiers at chihuahua City,
and said TO be threatened with execu-
ton.