Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1914-05-07
HUER7A, HIS BACK
TO Wall, may END
ALL WITH BULLET
Iron Will Of Dictator, Keyed
Up With Liquor, Is Holding
Him Firm, But His Steel
Nerve Is Shattered.
HOLDS SUBJECTS IN FEAR
Abdication or Suicide Only Way
Out Sleeps in Automobile
Wonderful Power Has
Carried Him Through.
HOLDS SUBJECTS in FEAR

New York. May T.--Thc first con-
ference of the South American diplo-
mats and representatives of the Huerta
and United States governments will
take place at Niagara Falls. ont. Can.
May is. That is II days hence Will
the Huerta government last until then?
1t is generally doubted.
The Mexico City correspondent of the
New York Herald telegraphs via Gail
weston as follows:
1.-The iron and steel nerves of General
Iiuerta have been shattered. The man
whose hand WAS never before known to
tremble is now almost a nervous wreck.
The strain under which he has lived for
10 days has transformed him into
mere wreck OF his former self.
For 81 week General Huerta has not
slept in his bed. All night he rides
his automobile. frequently drinking
heavily of strongest brandy to steady
himself. And when from complete eX-
haustion he dozes. the tired chauffeur
stops the automobile. and it remains
motionless until Huerta awakes with "A
start and orders the chauffeur to move
on.
''One night the man who calls himself
president of Mexico rode through the
forest of t'hapnltepec from dark until
daylight. When he would doZe the
automobile would stop under those
aged and gnarled cypress trees and
luerta would sleep
Liquor Keeps Him UP.
General Huerta is keeping himself
st taken away from him now he would
die. That is the report given out by
men closest to him
He realizes that he is hopelessly lost
that the only thing left to him is
either suicide or flight. He is dying
hard. but he is dying, and is now in the
last thrOes of his death struggle
meanwhile. he is to the men who
surround him like wild hycna backed
UP against the wall and surrounded by
foes. No one dares oppose him nor
reason with him. He distrusts every
one. even his son. Jorge. He knows
that the capital is sloneycombed with
treason: that every one OF the mad
wolves whose pack he has led is ready
to spring at his throat
THE flower of his army has been
sent against t'arrxnza and Villa in the
north. In the capital he is practically
unprotected and only his most wonder
ful power to command keeps him where
he is. Men who hate him receive his
orders and obey through fear. They are
afraid to attempt to shoot him or to
stat him. His very look compels
ohediance.
Everyone believes that his power can
SOIis-nut A!ucH longer. Every one
knows that he is now tottering to his
fall
".rhis morning no one knows when or
how that fall will come--if a bullet
from his automatic revolver shall crush
through his brain or II he will
Abdicate.'
In Fear Of zapatas.
In Washington diplomatic circles re-
ports have been received, stating that
fear of an attack on Mexico City by
General Zapata's forces causes consid-
cradle alarm. Huerta's hold on his SOL
diers. dispatches state. is weakening
and possibility Of opposition to the Ia
pata force. 1t is said. is decreasing
Admiral Howard reported today from
the west coast Of Mexico. that '.rela-
tions with the Mexican authorities are
more cordial than would be expected
under the conditions" All ships OF the
American fleet. he said "had been or
dered to avoid hostile acts and leopard
izing lives"
A. late dispatch from General Fun
ston stated that food is not getting into
Vera Cruz from the interior of Mexico
but that ii is being brought from shore
villages and towns from the north and
from Tear on the south.
MExicANs TEAR UP RAILS;
PLAN DEFENSE OF CAPITAL