Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-06-06
army IS PLOTTING
Vera Cruz Hears that Mexican
Officers Plan Overthrow
of Huerta.
FEAR zAPATA MAY BE FIRST
Serious Trouble in Capital Expected
When Southern Rebels Enter
City-viIIa at SaftilIo.

Vera Cruz-The American soldiers
and the residents of Vera Cruz, native
and foreign, continue to show the
keenest interest in reports from the
capital, all of which tend to support
the theory that an effort will be made
soon to unseat President Huerta.
Men whose close relations with au-
thorities at the Mexican capital have
caused them to be,regarded as relia-
bic source of information, are con-
WINGED of the existence OF a plot en-
bracing officers of the Mexican army
as well as politicians.
The greatest tear IN the capital. ref
ugees from there say, is not that the
plot will be carried through, but that
this may not occur before the Zapata
forces enter the city and precipitate
most serious trouble.
Germans who have arrived from
Puebla report that apprehension of a
zapata victory there is even greater
than in the capital. Many foreign
owners of big stores in Puebla have
closed their doors and are leaving in
voices with the German consul.
At the City of Mexico the capture
OF Tampico by the constitutionalists
ment newspapers, but they declare
that this was accomplished with the
assistance of American marines.
Fear Outbreak in Capital.
The City of Mexico.-The situation
il the capital is considered very SER
ious and it S feareed that a rising
will Occur within a few days. The
resignation of the minister of COM
munications, Jose Maria Lozano, has
been accepted, but his successor has
not been named. The telegraph wires
to San Luis Potosi have been cut and
it is believed the federals in that
district have been defeated
At SaItiIIo's Gates.
FL Paso, Tex.-Desperate fighting
undoubtedly is in progress before
Saltillo, but the wires direct from
the front, silent, it is believed, under
the stern order of Gen. Francisco
Villa, have brought no details of the
engagements. Whether Villa has
crashed his way through the outer de-
lenses of the federal stronghold and
now is knocking on the gates of Sal
tillo itself, or whether a desperate de-
Tense of the positions north of the
town have sufficed TO check, for a
time, the rebels advance, was eagerly
discussed here by constitutionalist
officials, foreign refugees and federal
sympathizers.
To Hold Vera Cruz.
Washington, D. c., President Will
son told the American commissioners
before they left for the mediation
conference at Niagara Falls, Ontario,
that the United States government
regards the settlement of the Next
can problem in definite form as a
prerequisite to the withdrawal of the
American forces from Vera Cruz.
The President gave the American
Observation-Disclosures Lamar of the
Supreme Court of the United States,
Frederic w. Lehman, former solicit
tor general, and Diplomatic Secretary
H. Percival Dodge-no specific in
structions. He told them to place
themselves in a receptive mood and
await proposals from the three South
American mediators- But at the same
time he outlined to his representa-
tives that peace in Mexico seemed to
him to be conditioned on the elimina-
ton of the Huerta administration and
the esta blishment in its place of a
strong provisional government which
would conduct an election giving fair
treatment to all factions and parties
and guaranteeing, moreover, a solu-
ton of the agrarian problem and 9TH
| er international difficulties which have
bred revolution in the Southern repub-
! lie in the last three years.
Seized American Vessel.
San Francisco.-Grapll-c reports of
the murder of Americans, the capture
| by a Mexican transport of the Amer
| lean brig Geneva, the imprisonment
Of United States Consul Clement S.
Edwards of Acapulco and many atroc-
/ tiles on the west coast of Mexico
were brought in by the officers and
| $50 refugees on the British steamer
| Cetriana, which has Just arrived
| from Manzanillo.
A Vice-Consul Back to Mexico.
| San Diego, Cal.-Robert J. Stadden,
| American vice-consul at Manzanillo,
accompanied by his secretary, E. F.
/ Purado, received a telegram from Sec
rotary of State Bryan stating that the
| two men could proceed to Colima sea-
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