Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-11-21
HUERTA MISSING Il ,|
FROM CAPITAL
Mexico's Dictator Believed to
Have Fled Republic.
y. S. HOLDS NOTE FOR HIM
President Wilson Suddenly Delays An
nouncement Of His Policy and Do
clares Situation ls More
Hopeful.

Mexico City. Nov. 14.--While 1t Il
impossible to find anybody who actual
iy cav Huerta leave this city, every-
thing seems to indicate that the pro
visional president did make bis de-
parture.
One thing is positive. Huerta sent
seven trunks to Vera Cruz several
days ago. Another fact is significant
-four staterooms have been engaged
for a prominent official of the Mexi-
can government on board the steamer
Fuerst Bismarck, which sails from
Vera Cruz on Saturday. An effort Is
being made to locate Huerta, but he is
not at the palace nor at his horne nor
at any Of his usual haunts.
A priest is authority for the state
ment that it was well known by the
church that Huerta would leave.
Wilson Holds War Message.
Washington, Nov. 14.-Secret dis
patches to the state department from
DR.. William Bayard Hale, special en-
yoy to General Carranza, constitution
alist leader, and from John Lind and
Charge d'Affaires O,Shaughnessy, who
are dealing with Huerta, are locked up
In President Wilson's desk with
special message he had prepared to
give to the public
After White House statement had
been made early in the day that
special announcement on the Mexican
situation was to be sent out, the presi-
dent said:
There are elements in this case
which cannot at present discuss, but
which make it look to me very much
more favora ble"
1t is understood that the White
House has been informed Huerta is
about to yield to pressure and to
eliminate himself as the stormy pet
rel'' i. Mexican affairs
How this elimination is to come
about was not explained. The White
House and the state department are
reticent on the subject. Those best ac-
quainted with the Mexican situation
believe that Doctor Hale has secured
from General Carranza a pledge to
agree to an armistice while some
prominent Mexican yet unidentified
with either or any political faction in
that country can be presented to the
people for election as president, and
that reports from Lind and O'Shaugh-
messy carry hope that H, erta may ac-
cept the agreement
Dispatches received at the state de-
partment announce the success of the
revolutionists in Mexico in capturing
the port of Altata, Lower California
Consul Alger at Mazatlan reported
that the water supply of Mazatlan, on
the west coast of Mexico, had been
cut about three miles out Of the city.
The revolutionists are operating in
that section with the purpose OF CAP
turing Mazatlan.
The value to the revolutionists of
getting seaport towns is to control
harbors through which they may be
able to secure arms and ammunition.
Shouli they succeed In capturing
Mazatlan, which Is port Of entry,
they would be free to take in withog,s
secrecy munitions of war.
Vera Cruz, Nov. 14-John Lind,
President Wilson's personal envoy to
Mexico, Is being guarded from assas-
sination.
This was revealed during the day on
his arrival here when the Vera Cruz
police threw a. Gordon of rurales about
him and his quarters in the American
consulate.
Mr.. Lind's removal from the hotel
to the consulate is said to have been
requested by the chief of police, who
heard that q plot against the envoy's
life had been Matched.
The greatest fear Of the Americans
here is that the Inter-Oceanic railway
the only line of communication be-
tween here and Mexico City. win be
cut. thereby cutting on the escape OF
Americans who now are In Mexico
City. Troops are guarding the line
now.
The United States scout cruiser
Chester arrived here from Phiiadel
phia- More than 100 American tefu
gees from Mexico City also reached
here