The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-03
MEXICAN BANDITS
ATTACK REBELS
Soldiers Were Ambushed and
Put to Flight by Gang
Hidden in the
Pass.
INDIANS AFTER THEM
Villa and carranxa Have Not Vet SCI.
tied Their Dispute by
the Mediation
Meeting.

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WASHINGTON, July S.-T am
proud, intensely proud, Of the way you
represented your country
This was the presidents salutation
to Fredk. Lehman and Justice La
mar, American commissioners to the
mediation conferences at Niagara
Falls, when they arrived at the white
house today.
The two American representatives
came unheralded. They slipped into
Secretary Tumelty's outer Office and
handed their cards to an assistant sec
retary.
eve do not desire to see the presi-
dent" they explained. 1--WE merely
called to pay our respects"
They departed as the cards were tax
en- in. Enroute to the street however,
they encountered Secretary of Agri-
culture Houston and Postmaster Cen
eral Burleson, who shook hands. The
interval was enough for President
Wilson, who burst through the door
leading from his office to the corri-
dor. There was bright smile on his
face.
lust moment, Just moment" he
shouted, and the two delegates halt
ed in their outward walk. 1t was then,
that the president. without waiting for
4 ire Z soIusion OF his private ONCE, en-
| Enthusiastically paid tribute to the work
OF the two men.
The president and the delegates were
closeted together fifteen minutes. JUS
tice Lamar and Mr.. Lehman explain
ed that they expected the mediation
conferences to be resumed SO soon as
the warning Mexican elements can get
together on plan for a provisional
government. They planned to hold
conferences with Secretary of State
Bryan, with representatives of the con-
stitutionalists and with Minister Naon
who as representative of the mediators
will arrive here tomorrow. 1t was
stated that all plans for future confer
ences will depend on developments
from time to time.
Lamar and Lehman spent an hour
with Secretary Bryan today.
Bandits XIII Rebels.
JUAREI, Mexico, July 3.-Two con-
stitutionalist forces have been am
bushed and twenty-seven soldiers
killed and ten wounded in the past
few days at Santiago Pass, near Pear
son, by sixty bandits under Manuel
Gutierrez, according to dispatches re-
ceived today at constitutionalist head
quarters.
Saturday rebel scouting party OF
twenty-eignt was attacked by the ban
dts on entering the pass and twenty
two killed. The remaining six, all
wounded, escaped to Pearson, and re-
ported the tragedy to Lieutenant Col
onel Carlos Carranza, nephew of the
.lirst chief" of the revolution and
commander OF the Pearson garrison.
Carranza sailed forth with eighty
soldiers to attack the bandits. Enter
ing the pass. his force was also sur
prised by Gutierrez whose men pour
ed terrific fire from their trenches
above. Five soldiers were killed and
four wounded.
The constitutionalists, panic strick-
en-, ignored Carranza's efforts to rally
them and fed back to Pearson, aban-
doning their leader.
Carranza's horse was shot under
him, but he managed to reach Pearson
where he disarmed and arrested the
soldiers who had fed.
Yesterday he sent special train to
Cumbre to get large force of Sonora
Yaqui Indians camped there These
will be sent against the outlaws and
ordered to annihilate them.
Mediation Conference.
Ell PASO, Texas, July 3.-General
Eduardo Hay who has been spoken of
as the next chief OF staff of General
Carranza, succeeding Gen. Jacinto
Brevlno, will represent Gen. Alvaro
obregon in the mediation conference
at San Pedro or Torreon, according to
statements by constitutionalists here
today. Hay is now with Carranza, havs
ing been called to Monterey from the
vest coast of Mexico several days
ago.
No further word has come from the
south regarding the proposed media
ton and 1t is believed the confer
ences have not begin.