The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-22

Train service is still irregular
throughout Mexico though the capital
is In communication with Vera Cruz.
Celebrated Washington's Birthday.
Mexico City, Feb. 22.-American resi-
dents or the Mexican capital recovered
from the anxieties of the bombardment
ana the lighting in the streets, today
joined IN the celebration of the BIRTH
day of Geo. Washington.
Many men of the colony met at the
- . embassy in the morning and
thence marched to the statute of Wash
1ngton on the plaza de dinamarca and
deposited wreaths at its base.
"A number of prominent Mexicans par
ticipated in the ceremony
Texas Will IF U. S. Won't.
Marlin, Texas, Feb. 22.-"I think the
president is all right but he does not
government does not protect the border
with troops by Monday, the state of
Texas will"
This was the declaration of Governor
Colquit, of Texas, today discussing the
situation along the Rio Grande. Il am
keeping in close touch with the situa-
ton on the Texas-Mexican border
added Governor Colquitt.
Why Troops Are Sent.
Washington, Feb. 22.-There is no
present purpose officials say of dis
patching the troops from Galveston to
Mexico. Todays order is simply one
of the steps taken to have the troops
ready Tor any emergency. In fact it
is intimated that one of the purposes
is to provide President Wilson with the
proper facilities to carry out any plan
he may have in contemplation regard
ing the Mexican situation, but the
movement, of course, does not commit
him in any way to a policy of forcible
Intervention.
Chattanooga, Feb. 22.-The eleventh
cavalry receievd orders today for pack
and wagon trains to leave on a special
train for Galveston
Mexico City, Feb. 22-Acceptance of
the new administration in Mexico is
not so general as was at first thought.
To the states of Coahuila, Sonora and
Yucatan, which from the moment of
the overthrow of Francisco Madero de-
clared they were not in accord with the
new conditions, must now be added
part of the state of Oaxaca, where the
Serrano Indians have refused to recog-
nize the government CT provisional
President Huerta. The governor of
OaXaca is SO alarmed by the dis
turbed conditions in the state capital
that he has asked for achievements
from Mexico City.
Between the federal capital and the
port of Vera Cruz also conditions are
very uncertain. Bodies of federal
troops have been sent to the cities of
Jalapa and Orizaba in the state of
Vera Cruz to maintain the balance of
power.
The Serrans Indians in Oaxaca have
gone on the war path from personal
motives. Felix DiaZ is native of that
city and the Indians declare that in
as much as he has not been made
president of the republic, if it is neces-
sary to appoint a provisional president.
Fidencio Hernandez. another native of
Oaxaca, who has had a very distin-
guished army career should be nomi-
mated. In no case say the Indians Will
they recognize General Huerta as pro-
visional president.
Sympa thizers with Francisco Madero
stopped a train on which he was be-
lieved to be fleeing from the federal
capital to the coast with the object of
rescuing the deposited president. The
news reached General Roberto Valas-
co at the city of Vera Cruz to whom
it was reported that the venture had
been successful. He thereupon loaded
a number of trains with troops and
rushed them to Orizaba to fight under
the banner of the fallen president. The
new government under ,Huerta was in
formed of the movement and force
of federal troops was sent off post
haste from the federal capital to Or
lZaDa ana on reaching LneTe
ed and disarmed the men commanded
by General Velasco.
No Decision About Madero.
What will be done with ex-Presi-
dent Madero has not yet been de-
termined.
General Porfirio Diaz, ex-president
of the republic, who has been in ex-
lie in Europe, is coming home. There
is not the slightest possibility that he
again will mix in the politics of Mex
leo, but his enforced exile is ended.
Word was received today from Paris
that within a short time General Diaz
a again will be in his private residence
in Cadena street. an interested spec
tator of the development of the new
regime.
1t was authoritatively stated today
that the arrival home of General Diaz
will be not later than April 2, the an
niverSary of the taking of Puebla by
his forces in 1867 in the war of French
This day will be cele-
brated in honor of General Diaz.
Reported POrfiro Diaz Coming Back.
The news that Porfiro Diaz was re-
turning to the land from which he was
driven by Francisco Madero was not
to believe, after the scenes
in the national palace today. It was
evident the men of the old regime were
again in the ascendancy, but with the
support of a great number of those
who attained prominence during the
Madero rule and who, disguised at the
continued warfare, were ready to sup
port anyone, even though it be the old
element.
1t was busy day for President
Huerta and the new cabinet. While /
Yesterday was the day of organization.
today was one of felicitation. Scores of
official and otherwise, |
visited the national palace to pay their
to the new president. Men
went to the palace who had not been
seen there since Porfirio Diaz went out !
of office, among them General Samuel
Garcia Cuellar, who was Diaz's chief or
staff.
Men who had been political prison |