Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-16
DISAPPEARANCE OF AMERICAN
SOLDIER BECOMES QUESTION
OF DIPLOMACY.
DEMAND OF SECRETARY BRYAN
aRINcs AGREEABLE RESPONSE
Huerta Informed That Detention or
Execution Of Parks Is Considered
Hostile Act-Another Problem Arises
Over Island Of Lobos, Which May 30
Claimed BY Rebels.

Washington. May 1s.-spanish Am
bassador Riano today received a dls-
patch from the Mexican minister Oh
foreign affairs, stating that vigorous
investigation of the disappearance OF
Orderly Samuel Parks Immediately
would be made by the Heurta author
tiles. The dispatch was In reply 10 q
note sent to Mr.. Riano calling atten-
ton to the anxiety Of the United seates
government as to Parks.
siIIjman Believed Safe.
Further assurances reached the state
department today from the Brazilian
minister in Mexico City that American
Consul John r. Silliman. who has been
imprisoned at Saltillo is en- route to
Mexico City but his arrival has been
DELAYED by interrupted railroad condl-
tions. The latest report states that ne
should have reached the Mexican cap
ital early last night, or early tooay'
but that transportation operatlons
were very uncertain.
Washington Awaits Word.
State department OlAACldAs CIV aA'
today reply from the Huerta govern
ment to the urgent inquiry MADE oy
the Brazilian minister IN Mexico Cits
concerning the Whereabouts OF fafAs'
Mr. Rryan said he had received no
proof from the Brazilian envoy tnat
Parks who went thru the Mexican
I,na in his uniform, was executed, but
II is known that the minister, as well
az General Funston in Vera Cruz, has
been told repeatedly that the young
nriyate had met with summary ex-
ecutiOrl.
A New Complication.
Last nights report, corroborated to-
dav from Vera Cruz by American Con-
.ni Canada that Tuxpan. on the east
.ss,.st Of Mexico. is in the hands OF tns
eonstitutionalists. raises a question
here As to the possible occupatinn oy
the constitutionalists of Lobos island.
which lies only few miles of Tux-'
nam. The Huerta lighthouse keeper
tnrned over the lighthouse to the
American naval forces. who have kept
the Hight burning.
The state department since has ad-
iusted the matter by Offering to turn
the lighthouse back to the Huerta
keepers if they would maintain the
light.
Secretary Bryan said today that the
question of permitting the shipment OF
arms from the United States to Mex
ican ports was not before the state de-
partment for consideration.
Returning to Tampieo.
Mexican constltutionalist forces un-
der General Gonzales, now occupying
Tampico. have assured United States
Consul Miller there that Americans
and other foreigners may return to
the city, and that every consideration
will be shown them. Consul Miller re-
ports everything quiet. and that the
city has been in perfect order since its
occupation by General Gonzales.
report from American Consul Bon
new. now on his way home from San
Luis Potosi, states that so far as ne
could learn no Americans were killed
in his district before the time he left.
but that all the railroads were par
alyzed,. chiefly from lack Of fuel
Admiral Badger has reported the ar
rival today at Puerto Mexico, from
Tampico, of the Mexican gunboat
Bravo Zaragosa and the tug Tamplco.
The cruiser Tacoma and two destroy
crs are with them.