Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-12-24
MEXICO IN THROES
OF ANARCHY AND
AND VENGEANCE
Public Executions Again the
ORDER Villa Pays Trib-
ute to Madero
Public Executions still Proceeding
Villa Pays Tribute TO the Late
President Maderp.

a recent edition OF The Morning
Times at 81 Paso, Texas, indicates
that the situation in Mexico lis not
perceptibly improving and that the
era Of bloodshed has not vet had its
run.
Getierrez, says the Times, has ac-
ceded to Zapata's S demand for the pub
lie execution of certain alleged trait
|ors in front OF the na..::sasii palace.
General Palafox has a list Of SO Of
tenders whom he wants tried and
condemned to death,
1t is known, OF course, that since
the open break between Villa and
Carranza the gulf between them has
been widening instead of contracting
Reign Of Terror Likely s'
Public executions in the principal
plaza Of the city in front of the ma
tional palace and scenes recalling
the days of Robespierre IN Paris are
likely to be enatad In ths apitaI,"
declares d STAFF Correspond ii q writ
ling from the City 81. Mexico.
| A delegation of zapatistas formally
called on President Gutierrez and de-
| manded that hereafter all executions
be carried on pslblicl and the presi-
dent acceded tos this demand. accord
Ing to the staff CORE pondent's re.i
| port
General Villa, just before leaving
1 the city the departed on the l4tla1
4 was the toast tnaass sster at b ban qs,et sly:
! en- In memory Of Il he 4nartyred presf-
dent Francisco /. Madero.
| Pays Tribute 10 Madero.
General Villa said, In part:
The blacklist mark that has ever
/ stained the honor of Mexico was the
assassination of the father of the
new republic. Madero was the one
man who. at some day in the history
of all nations, rises up and saves his
country from ruin and dishonor.
He loved his people and fought
for the honor and welfare of the
Mexican race; he struck the chains
from the ankles Of his people and
hurled the cienti tifcos from their
i places and power But for Madero
the cientificos would still be kings
and the plain people Of Mexico abject
4 slaves.
Time will make Madero the great.
4 est figure In the history of Mexico.
/ wish more could be done for him,
1 but by this simple demonstration we
4 prove that we still love and appreci-
ate him. May his glorious example
4 be ever before us in our work for the
regeneration Of our beloved country
Death Penalty for Thieves.
General Villa has prescribed the
death penalty for any Of his officers
or men caught attempting to confis-
cate; property. or to occupy houses
without paying rent.
The taking Of automobiles. stealing
and other abuses which characterized
/ Carranza's brief reign are now
thing Of the past, and the inhabitants
of the capital are as safe In their
persons and property as IN the days
before revolutions were thought of
General Villa drove over the capital
and picked UP some sixty homeless
boys whom he found begging on the
Il streets or sleeping In the doorways.
4 The mex day the general had The
4 boys placed aboard special train
land sent to chihuahua. announcing
that he would pay for their mainten'
4 ance and education in order that they
4 might be brought up to become useful
sIcitizens OF the republic