The state herald., 1914-07-31
HUER7A QUITS MEXICO
LEAVES FATHERLANp AS PLOTS
TO KILL ARE MATCHED.
Mexican Dictator Expresses Great Ad.
miration for American People
as He Sails for Jamaica.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

western Newspaper Union News service.
Puerto Mex-Victorian Huerta
left Mexican soil Monday night, prob
ably never to return. After open signs
Of mutiny had led to the arrest OF
three officers attempting to incite the
soldiers to assasinate him, the ex-dic'
.ator listened to the fearful entreaties
of his wife and friends and capitu.
ated, boarded the German cruiser
Dresden and sailed for Jamaica.
The three men arrested were discov-
cred in the private car of Gen. Juan
Fernandez, which was coupled directly
behind the car occupied by Huerta.
they were attempting to arouse the
soldiers of the Zaragoza brigade and
Zen, Blanquet's Twenty-ninth. SO that
hey would mutiny and assassinate
Huerta.
The plotters we're a lieutenant, a
sergeant and citizen who Is n rebel
sympathizer. They were Immediately
arrested and lodged in the carcel.
Huerta was advised to have them
shot Immediately, but he only laughed
and refused to give the order. He said:
My life already has been threatened
so many times that | refuse to be in
terested any more"
Without the slightest furore and
with no touch of the dramatic except
the presence along the water front OF
half hundred barefoot soldiers of the
Twenty.ninth regiment and the cara
goza brigade. Huerta left the country
whose destiny he has done so much
to shape.
1t was the irony of fate that the last
view of his native land that came to
him was the picture of the United
States warship Tacoma representing
the power of the hostile nation that
forced him to abdicate his dictator
ship.
With Huerta went his wife and
daughters. Elena, Eva and Celia. In
the party were also General and Sc
nora Blanquet and their daughter Es-
peranza.
Among those who took refuge on
the British cruiser Bristol were Col.
and Sonora George Huerta and their
four children; Mai. Victor Huerta and
his wife: Gen. Luis Fuentes and his
wife. who was Eliza Huerta: Francis
co Gill aud his wife. who was Eliza
Huerta. and the following generals
with their families: Juan Hernandez,
former governor of Puebla; Augustine
Breton. Liborio Fuentes. Arturo Alya-
radejo, Jesus Rincon, Fernando Gil
and Ramon Corona.
"The United States Is certainly the
the most powerful nation on this side
Of the Atlantic and perhaps the most
powerful in the world. and her people
are entitled TO the admiration OF all. -
said Huerta. mo one knows better
than | that there may be wide differ
ences between the people and the gov.
ernment"
As to the immediate future OF his
country, General Huerta was evasive,
but he did say that peace was not
quite at hand.
when real peace will come.' he
commented. 1T is difficult to say,
There must be crisis in all diseases,
physical ms wen as sociological. Natu'
rally, there is due a crisis here. II
may come In one month. two months
three months: but II Will come"
But will that mean interyention?'
was asked.
The officers. the laborlng men and
all others looked at him more serious
ly. but with no loss OF time Huerta
shot back. emphatlcally. mo; never,'