Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-12
WORRY Is NOT
 LACKING; MAY BEQUICkTURN
Mexico City Situation Has 0mi- nous LOOk-AmeriCan Off, cialS' Life Is Threatened
 at Brazilian Elm baSSy.
SiIliman Case and Light House Incident Strain the Situation
 -Mediators Take Grounds
 Against Huerta's Contentious.

WASHINGTON, May l1.-While peace negotiations marked the time pending the formal sittings of the mediators, to begin Monday on Can adian soil the mediators and officials Of the State Department were occu- pied with several serious phases ot 4e Mexican situation.
 Bryan speu two nOurs at the Ar genuna legation in conference with the South American envoys, discus ing the continued detention of Vice Consul Silliman at Salullo by the fed erals, the reported seizure of Lobos Island with the lighthouse by Amer jeans and the case of five South Americans under arrest at Vera Cruz for firing upon American sailors and marines.
 Bryan said the government was de- rmined that Silliman be immediately released He informed the mediatOrs that Mayo had cabled the Mexican keeper of the deserted Lobos Island lighthouse that the destroyer tender Dixie was maintaining it for the benefit of navigation"
 Justice Lamar of the Supreme Court and Frederick Lehman, former solicitor general, were chosen by the president of .le American representa- uves at the mediation conference.
 In administration circles, it is con tended that the seizure of Lobos Is- land was not an act Of aggression against Huerta, but merely a step 70 protect oil shipping against possible disaster by closing of the lighthouse. Huertas appoiutees to confer with the mediators are preparing to leave Vera Cruz for Canada. They are Augustine Rodriguez, Emilio Rabasa, Luis Elguero. The mediators express satisfaction in the selection of the advisors for both governments.
 Appeal had been made to Bryan by the mediators in behalf of Huerta, because of the reported seizure of Lobos Island, off Tampico, an act which Huerta's agent maintained was aggressive and in violation of the armisuce. This government main taina that Huerta violated the armis- uce in ordering light houses closed on the Pacific Coast 10 the peril of shipping
 From Tampico came rumblings of a battle, while reports of Huerte' 's rength waning in Mexico City and that Of Zapata was about to attack the capital from the south, served to arouse the diplomatic agents of foreign nations. lest their people in Mexico City might be in danger
 State Department officials were in. dignant when 1t became known that the Mexicans had refused to release siliman. Late dispatches are ac cepted as indicating that the Mexican war minister's assurances to the French charge last week that neither Suiman nor any members of the om bassy or staff, and no American in salfllo, was in danger was intended only to deceive the state Department as to the real state of affairs in SaltiliO
 Tho Brazilian minister notified the State Department that he would only surrender D'Anun in case he wal overpowered by the mob. Anupathy Q the attache is due to the fact thai he is the only American official Jeff in the capital.
 So far as known. no measures have been taken to fortify the capital. Al Guadalupe. a strategic point on th' Mexican railway entering the city there are no signs of Qualifications The federals, however are taking steps to provision Puebla, about mid way to Vera Cruz.
 Rumor has been current in the can itaI that in case viua drives the fed erals out Huerta is planning to make a stand at Puebla. which has mihtar advantages for defense.
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