East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-04-02
REGIME OF HUERTA IS VIEWED
WITH HORROR BY THE MEX|CANS

stories, secretly given to the writer,
are interesting as indicating the hor-
ror with which the average citizen of
Mexico City views Huerta's doings.
The story of the assassination of
Serapio Rendon, however, Is known
to be true. He was a graduate of
Cornell university in the United States
and a member of the house of depu-
ties, opposed to Huerta. One even
ing in August, 1913, he was a dinner
guest at the mansion of an American
society woman. During the dinner
said, II know that / will drop
from sight some day. / fully expect
it." At IL o'clock he started for
home, but was seized on the way. The
next day a rurale offered for sale
to DIR. Emilio Cardenas, in the village
of Tlanepantla. pair of spectacles in
a case which bore Rendon's initials.
DR.. Cardenas, it happened, was
friend of Rendon. He purchased the
spectacles and the case and question
ed the rurale. 'They belong to a
man killed last night" said the ru-
rale. 1--WE were ordered to shoot
him, but he tried to fight and so we
gave him 90 bullets Where Rem
don was buried is not known: his
family does not dare to ask informa-
tion.
The story of the assassination of
Belisario Dominguez surpassed belief
of the man who doesn't know Mexi-
co. Dominguez, senator had open
ly opposed Huerta. Mexicans here
believe the story that Dominguez,
who was forced to go to hospital for
a slight illness was under the influ-
ence of chloroform for "a minor op-
Grafton when word came to the pro-
prietor of the hospital, DR.. Urrutia,
who was then Huerta's right hand
man. that Dominguez should be exe-
cuted. The unconscious man, it is
said, was taken into a vacant lot in
the dead of night, and shot. DOM
inguez was wealthy and talented.
Rafael Villacorta and Alfonso Es-
calona, two newspaper reporters who
sympathized with Madero. met their
death in a corn field in the suburbs
of Mexico City. Huerta, 1t is said,
when he first became dictator sought
the whereabouts of various Madero
senator's. He tried to locate Bories
Mangel, leading Maderista. and dis
covered that the two newspapermen
be arrested and ordered to tell
where Mangel might be found. Es.
calona refused and was summarily
sentenced to be shot. Villacorta, 1t
is said. gave the facts on promise of
being released. On June 2S Fran
cisco Charvez, the chief of police,
sent the two men. in the care of
guards to a suburban town. On the
way their guards said to them
Were going to let you go. You
run into that corn field and we'll say
YOU got away from u.s.
The young fellows, both delighted.
jumped from the automobile in
which they were riding and, waving
their hands in "goodbyes." dashed
for the cornfield, They had not gone
100 feet before their guards shot them
both dead. In official parlance. they
had been given the "ley de fuga," or
"law of flight"
In the grim San Juan de Ulua pris-
on at Vera Cruz there now lies Mrs
Guadalupe guile de Saldano, with a
new born baby girl. Her crime is
that she is the cousin to Adolfe Drive,
rebel. One evening last January,
the police entered the Saldano home
during the dinner hour and took SAL
dano and his wife off to the peniten-
tiary. An hour later she was taken
to the train for Vera Cruz. Her des-
tination was Quintana Roo. district
which Is Mexico's Siberia. Women
who go there are fed to the lust of
convict soldiers; Quintana Roo Is a
name of horror to the men ana wo-