Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-06-25
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HANGS THICK OVER
MEXICO SITUATION

4uHa,es N, v. aaaA assa=mt u a never
h,erc confident thar I am SedaN az the
ultimate aeees ST ~Meatatssnss said
Or. Hemuts s. Mach, essnistes sssW Afs
neaeina. when he arrived here to-day,
after a conference IN Waertnst.a WIN
President Wilson ans SeeeetaeS HeNea,
Minister Naos predicted that neaes
tiations would he continued az .east an
other tive weeks
Niagara Falls. Ont, June sgs~-Iee
Mexican delegation here received stc.s
egrsna today from the eaesal OF TIER
government at Ell Pase, Tex, that Gen
eral Villa had issued a statement, al
dressed 60 the American eeentc, say,
Ing THAI he had proclaimed Sencr
Angeles as provisional president OF
Mexico"
The consul added chat according to
intercepted private messages at Juarcs.
reports of an an,ieable adjustments OF
the differences between Carransa and
Villa were not true. He also said WORD
quietly sending a force Of 1000 men in
to the state of Sonora. with tho inten-
ton Of deposing Governor Maytorena'
with whom C%arranza was reported to
have had differences.
Saitilio. Mex. June % fvia Laredo.
Tex, June 2O).-General FELIPE Anse-
les. acting secretary of war of the con-
stitutionalist cabinet. was deposed from
that position. today. by order of Gener-
al Carranza. for disobedience of orders.
No further details OF the cation has
reached here beyond a statement that
Angeles had received certain orders
from c%arranza and had failed TO carry
them out.
General Angeles is general of artil-
lery in Villas army and a strong Villa
partisan. His removal from tho cab
met reduces him to the rank of aener-
al. He is a graduate Of Chapultepec
military academy and has played a
prominent part in g, an gannpa!sns.
Manuel Chao, former governor of Chi
huahua, who was replaced by General
Villa, had been executed on Villas or
ders.
81 Paso. Tex. June 22.-!Arturo Elias,
tive e days acc 90e he h ns1e ta ia.a t %;tS s sss.
era! persons who said they had seen
in Torreon several days previously a
manifesto issued by Villa p~rocIaiming
General Angeles provisional president
of Mexico. Elias declined to give the
anne of his i~nformants, saying they
had left 81 Paso. He said that they
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That villa had proclaimed anybody
for provisional president, was denied
BY all constitutionaIist agents here.
General Angeles was reported as lead
ing the advance of Villas army
against Zacatecas.
OUTCOME OF MEDIATION +
SOON TO BE DETERMINED
Niagara Falls, Ont, June 24.-Just
ono month 200 to1oyy III. +J,.A a a.
Mexican mediation conferences was
held. Probably the last will occur to-
day. The prediction could not be made
with positiveness because Of possible
developments in Mexico City and
Washington about which the mediators
lacked definite information.
Minister Naon, of Argentine, who was
expected here about 2 p. m. from Wash
ington, where he conferred with Presi-
dent Wilson n Secretary Bryan and
Luis Cabrera, n of the constitutions
alists, may be bringing some new plan.
This was not considered probable, how
ever, as the American delegates seemed
anxious yesterday to spread the news
that their statement to the public was
final, and that a constitutionalist must
be selected for provisional president. 1t
was not believed here anything DR..
Naon could say to the Washington gov
eminent or to. the constitutionalists'
oSSlllS Woolo Sll1iitoS ~ dSISIl llIldIlOH
of either to reject any plan to install
q neutral"
Huerta May Retire.
The possible developments in Mexico
City which particularly interested the
mediation colony related to the report
that Pedro Lascurain, ranking member
of Medaro's cabinet, had yielded to per-
suasion n would again become min
lister of foreign relations.
IF trlle. if cOl,ld mean On1v that
Huerta was prepared to quit without
regard to the outcome of mediation.
Many who have followed closely the
trend of events in Mexico City felt
that with the executive authority sur
rendered to a prominent Mexican who
admittedly would assume control only
until some way out was found, the po-
sition Of the United States would be
far less embarrassing. 1t was said
that the United States probably ever
could insure an orderly entrance of the
constituticna.ist army into Mexico
City and protection for those who had
opposed its progress. if Huerta were
out Of the way.
Principals to the mediation con
ference will go into the session late to-
day feeling that there is no chance OF
an agreement and doubling if a way
can be found to prolong the negotia-
tons. If the three plans are formally
submitted. the Mexicans will reject the
American plan. The mediators will then
ask both delegations if they feel there
Is any possibility for a change of opin-
ion. If deadlock We're confessed. the
proceedings automatically would end
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POLITICIANS HAMPER HIM,
DECLARES GENERAL VILLA
Torreon. Mex, by military wires to
Ell Paso, Tex, June 20.-rhe last of the