Evening star., 1914-05-14
SEEK ASSURANCE
S|LL|MAN IS SAFE
State Department Officials
Say Patience Has Ceased to
Be a Diplomatic Virtue.
SOME AUTHORIZED AGENT
MUST SEE CONSUL ALIVE
Spanish Ambassador and Lawyer
Seek Information Regarding Ex-
PEELED Subjects of Spain.

State Department officials admit to-
day that patience has ceased to be
diplomatic virtue in the case of Deputy
and Vice Consul John Silliman. and that
direct, definite and positive assurance
must be Forthcoming at once with re-
gard to his safety If Huerta expects to
continue peace negotiations with the
United States.
Scant confidence Is placed in the as
surances given that Silliman is being
safely conducted to Mexico City from
Saltillo, where he has been under ar
rest of the Mexican federal commander.
When some duly authorized agent OF
the United States sees Silliman and
learns personally from him that he is
free and has not suffered at the hands
of the federals then and only then
will the State Department officials be-
lieve it.
Nothing has been heard officially in Sill
liman's case since the Brazilian minister
reported that orders for his release had
been telegraphed by the Mexican authori-
ties at Mexico City to the proper offi-
cial at Saltillo. Lack of DEFINITE m
formation In this case is attributed bE
Huerta representatives to the interrupted
transportation and telegraph facilities be
tween Saltillo and the Mexican capital.
Spain May Ask Reparation.
Senior Riano, the Spanish ambassador.
| in company with a Spanish lawyer,
today called on the officials of the state
IDepartment to obtain data upon the
cases of some 500 Spanish citizens re-
Gently deported from Torreon.
No definite action has been taken as
vet to obtain indemnity for the loss
of property, but a careful investigation
hA mai n ~
bassador has asked for the co-opera
ton Of the State Department in pro-
curing details of the cases 1t Is un-
derstood that reparation will be de-
manded by Spain.
| Consular advices were summarized IN
| this statement:
Prom Brownsville Consul Hanna re-
norts that good order and quiet condi-
tions prevail in Monterey; and no mt
nation of other than good treatment IS
furnished by persons arriving from
| country towns and districts. and marked
| respect is being shown by the authori-
ties to Americans The same situation
is reported by Consul Hostetter regard
ling the Hermosillo district. He also in
forms the State Department that the
Hermosillo copper people are perfectly
safe, adding that they have never had
any trouble and are among those who
have refused to leave Mexico
Expression of Thanks From Refugees
The Navy Department today received a
letter of thanks from refugees taken
aboard the Dixie at Tampico. The note
expressed gratitude for the kind and
generous consideration" extended by Off
cers and crew of the ship to the Ameri-
| cans who fed from the threatened terri
tory.
| Reports to the State Department an
nounced that the following Americans
had arrived in Vera Cruz from Mexico
! CITY: Dora \. Abercromble. San Fran
cisco; Arthur Constantine, correspondent
Boston Journal; c. S. Baldwin. Jamaica
mort. \. V: B. F. Cauch wife and two
, children, Adel. Iowa; Ambrose L. Dyer
Hudson, Wis: Newell J. Elliott, Glendora
Cal; Mr.. and Mrs. J. q. Evans. foungs
I Hydes. Cal; Alfred Gordon. from Oriza
{ ba: William F. Hare, from Ell Ore; Mr.
, and Mrs Percy Holme and three chill
dren Syracuse. n. y: George Kennedy
i port, Conn; William Mckay, from sal
tillo: MYRTLE Mayer. from Mexico City
DR.. j. Franklin Moore, from Saltillo
James Norton. wife and child. New Or
: leans: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Powers
t Toledo Ohio; Herbert F. Saunders, wifi
o and three children. Galveston: Thoma
I Foster Of Guadalupe. Lillian E. Trecel
t Of Washington state: Burton Troxell. Ia
burg, Laredo. Tex; Robert NJ. Wallace
and family, San Antonio; Otto H
Withoff Ell Paso: Fritz Wagner. employ
Pathe Freres New York Refugees ar
riving at Vera Cruz whose addresse
were not given included Malcolm Calves
r Alfred NJ Gold, Mrs. George O. Turne
and child and Mrs. William Woodruff
Consul Canada requested the Stat'
lDepartment to advise Mrs Alfred
: Cooper, whose address was not given
n that the British consul at Vera Cru:
: Twas investigating her husband
whereabouts.
q Missionaries Leave Mexico.
= Word has been received by the mis-
sion board Of the Seventh day Adventis
> denomination at its headquarters il
= Takoma Park that its missionarie
lin Mexico have left that country an,