The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-02

MEXICO CITY, Dec. 2.-Admlral 81
Christopher Craddock, British navf
commander on the Mexican east coas
paid a short perfunctory visit to Pres
ident Huerta today.
All is quiet in the Mexican capita
today, however, the situation is be
coming tense and it is expected
crisis will be reached before the wee
end 1t is believed here that tn
Huerta regime is crumbling and tha
his advisors will recommend effectiv
action within few days.
Manuel Madero, relative of the lat
president, arrested recently on ;
charge of sedition and sent to tht
fortress at Vera Cruz, was brough
back for trial today. His wife asked
Nelson O'Shaughnessy to investigate
the case today.
Villa Only a Bandit.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-There are two
names now figuring in the Mexican
troubles both of which were prominent
in the final triumphs Of Francisco l.
Madero, Jr., who wrested the rule OF
Mexico from Porforio Diaz. The men
referred to are Francisco Villa, the
bandit chieftain of Chihuahua, who
captured the abode city of Juarez and
is now moving toward Chihuahua City.
and Judge Carbajal, who was the per-
sonal representative of Porforia Diaz
in the parleys with Madero that fol-
lowed the fall of Juarez and its design
alton by Madero as the provisional
capital of Mexico.
Judge Carbajal is a Mexican of the
highest type, member of one of the
oldest of the Castillian families, a man
of great refinement and tact, one of the
leading lawyers of his country and
man of great wealth. He is about 5
feet 10 inches tall very slender, of fair
complexion, with black hair and black
eyes, and as rule dresses in deep
black. He is very reserved and creates
the impression of great shyness on new
acquaintances. He is a rapid talker, a
rapid walker, and very nervous.
Villa Another Type.
On the other hand, Villa, the latest
of the so-called Generals to capture
Juarez, is as uncouth and unprepos-
sessing in appearance as any man in
Mexico. He was a bandit before the
Madero revolution, and it was said
that score of indictments for muir
der and theft were outstanding against |
him when Madero persuaded him to
come into the rebel ranks against
Diaz on the promise of immunity from
and a large sum OF money
in the event of the triumph of the rev.
olution. That was, in the opinion OF
thousands in Chihuahua and on the
Texas border, the worst days work
that Francisco Madero ever did, for
from the moment that Villa Joined
Madero's forces until this present time
the Chihuahua outlaw has been con-
on the warpath one day with
he government, the next with rebels,
and now and then conducting depre-
lations for his own personal gain.
Madero had been the master OF Juar-
Y less than week when Villa threat
,ned to revolt against him unless {
certain amount of money, said to have
)een $4,000 in American gold, was |
The money was paid |
md Villa was quieted for the time Is
,eing, but a few months later he was I
gain on the warpath and this time /
gainst Madero Next he was heard \
t as a supporter of the government, [
rst that of Madero and then that of E
Iuerta, and lastly again a rebel lead b
r, and as the dispatches from Ell Ii
'aso told recently, the captor OF I
uarez. +,
Blusterer and Coward. E
clustering, illiterate, staggering, O
ncouth, and at the bottom OF all, "
)wardly, describes "Pancho" Villa, the B
andit who now calls himself gen G
ral" That he is at heart an arrant r
oward was proved during the pro- S
ress of the negotiations between f.
ldge Carbajal and Madero There K
as a young italian in the foreign r
,ntingent of Madero's army and Villa 6
rmed strong dislike for him. One n
orning he announced that at o'clock
lat afternoon he would cross the D
order and go to the Hotel Sheldon in
Paso and shoot the Italian.
Villa crossed the Rio Grande and as
!, had promised proceeded to the ho-
|. With couple of pistols, and
oking every inch the bad man" he -
ided himself on being, he staggered J"
to the hotel and took up position TO
ar the centre of the lobby. The OF
allan came in surrounded by Of ge