The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-12
According to Report Given Out
by Federal General.
LAST NEWS FROM FLETCHER
Was Sent at 4 O'clock Thurs
day Afternoon.
Said Federal GunbOat Was
Shelling Rebel Position.

forces attacking Tampico were re-
pulsed and driven away from that city
with heavy losses, according to Gen.
era1 Gustayc Mas, military COM
mander here, who says that federal
troops under General joaquin Mas
A. arrived to the relief Of Tampico
yesterday.
washingtJl, Dec. 12.-Wireless ais
patches from Rear Adm1ral figtcne5
At Tampico, on board the United
States steam.r Tacoma, sent at p. m.
Yesterday, say the federal gunDoat
Bravo was then shelltng the c0nst1tu-
tionalists position; that there was no
change in the relative position pa Q. S...ae tne
steamer Wheeling was in the river:
close to the fighting. The federal
garrison was estimated at S,ooo Whne
the constitutionalists claimed about
5000.
ed that $50 refugees were on the
American gunboats, $50 on the Brit
ish steamer LOgician, $50 on the Aron
Prinzessin Cccilie. German vessel,
and 500 in the buildings ashore in the
neutral zone. The cruiser Ralelgn mas
been ordered from San Francisco to
Mazatlan on the Pacific side.
Still Waiting at Ojinaga.
Presidio, Texas, Dec. 1.-THE stu
alton at Ojinaga, Mexico, where the
federal troops have concentrated. to-
day was one O. waiting in anticipation
of a rebel attack. Rebel bands were
reported to be increasing in number
outside the village but were believed
to be waiting for reinforcements,
which General Francisco Villa has
sent from Chihuahua. The federals
probably will be under siege but will
have the advantage Of being able to
take provisions and clothing from the
United States side.
Oiinaga has suddenly attained a
population from almost nothing to six
or seven thousand. The federal SOL
diers and ci1ilian refugees who have
not crossed the. river are crowded into
a few adobe houses. General Salvador
Many temporary stores have been
erected in Preside to meet the great
demand for provisions. All the goods
have to be hauled from Maria, Texas,
the nearest railroad station.
Mormon Losses SO, ,OOO, 900.
Los Angeles, Dec. 12.-Revolution in
Mexico has cost Mormon colonists
from the United States more than $10,-
000, 900. This was the statement cred
tied today to President Joseph Smith
Of the Mormon church, who Is here on
his return visit tosthe refugees in Arr
zona and Southern California.
The church head also said he favored
a plan for the exiled colonists to set
tie where they now are instead OF re-
turning to Mexico when conditions per-
mitted.
1.-The flower of our colonies was in
Mexico" President Smith said. ''Our
people had labored there for quarter
Of a century and achieved wonderful
results. They were forced to give up
and churches all to the value Of more
than s10.000,0 900 were given up"
Tampico Still Safe.
Mexi1o City, Dec. 1.-THE Mexican
seaport 'sof Tampico was still in the
hands of the federal troops at late
hour last night. The manager of the
federal telegraph reported early today
that the telegraph line from Tampico
to San Luis Potosi had been reopened
after having been interrupted since the
beginning Of the fighting. The federal
war minister, General Aureliane Blan-
quet. appears to regard Tampico as
safe.
Buying Arms i'm Kansas City.
Kansas City, Dec. 1.-THE Mexican
laborers of Kansas City are buying re-
volvers in large numbers. The police
say with each revolver from a hundred
to four hundred rounds of ammunition
is purchased. These supplies, the po-
lice believe. are being 'smuggled across
the border. Every pawnbroker In
Kansas City, 1t is asserted. has sold
high power revolvers to Mexican la
borers. The mail order houses, sport
ing goods stores and second hand stores
are selling large numbers of the weap-
ons. Detectives say they seldom fail
to find Mexicans in their daily visits
to the pawnshops and invariably the
Mexicans are buying revolvers.
Two Mexicans arrested recently had
$1,000 in Mexican money in their pos
session and 5000 in gold. They were re-
leased, but it has since occurred to the
police that perhaps the men were
agents of the revolutionists. The fact
that Mexicans are seldom armed when
they are arrested. leads to the belief
that the arms are shipped out of Kan
sas City.
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