Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-07-23

Failing in this the United States gov
eminent adopted a policy that has
slowly diminished Huerta's resources.
With Huerta's retirement, the con-
stitutionalists feel that their revolu-
ton has triumphed. They turned
against him the moment he over
threw Madero, the onstitutionalists
president of Mexico, in February,
1912, and have waged their war with
unrelenting vigor ever since.
Victoriano Huerta took oath as pro-
visionaI president of Mexico on Feb.
10, 1913, the day after Francisco I.
Madero had been arrested at the ma
tional palace. Three days later Ma
derO and Jose Maria Pine Saurez, vice
president, were shot to death on a
midnight ride under guard from the
palace to the penitentiary. The man
ner of their death never has been
satisfactorily explained.
Will Give Relns to carranza.
The state department has been in
formed by Francisco CarbajaI, sue
cessor to Gen. Huerta as provisional
resident of Mexico, that he intends to
retire in favor of Gen. Carranza.
All that Senior Carbaial asks is the
proclamation of a general amnesty
and the assurance that protection viii
be given to the property of those who
have been fighting the constitutional
lists. Jose Castellat, former member
of the Mexican senate, called at the
state department tonight to present
Henri Carbajal's views which were
expressed in a general telegram re-
ceived through the Mexican embassy
which bore the date of July 10 Huer-
ia, he said, is on his way to Europe
with Banquet.
The state department both through
George Carothers at Saltillo and
Charles Douglas, legal adviser for
the constitutionaist agency in Wash
ington, has sought to have Carranza
make clear what will be his course
now that Huerta has abdicated.
The constitutionalists deny that the
state department has threatened
them with a loss of foreign recogni-
ton unless they treat with CarbajaI
as head of the defacto Mexican gov
eminent.
U. S. Is Urging Peace.
They say the only word this govern
ment has conveyed to them is that it
is DESTROYS that the factions in Mex
leo get together and peacefully settle
the questions arising from the consti-
tutionalists' triumph without further
bloodshed or loss of property.
Villas attitude toward the new
shaping of conditions continues to
give the Carranza representatives
here more genuine worry and concern
than anything CarbajaI may do. The
latter, they say, is merely a temper
airy problem of slight diplomatic i'm
portance, but they believe that Villa
is the black cloud on the horizon that
possibly protends new revolution
in Mexico.
Fighting is Over.
Monterey, Mex, July 16.-Fight-
ing by constitutionalists is over in
Mexico, if plans announced here
Thursday by Venustiano Carranza go
into effect. Gen. Carranza declared
his main object now would be to con-
duct negotiations for the constitu-
tionalists to enter Mexico City and
establish their government without
further bloodshed or damage to prop
erty.
Gen. Carranza was unable to say
whether these negotiations would be
conducted through A. B. c. mediators
or direct with the federals.
Corpse once meant a body wheth-
er living or dead. Many old writs are
eXtant in which the sheriff or his
deputy is commanded to bring the
corpse of such a man into court.
Tariff was the name of the Moorish
chieftain, Abou al Tarifa, who had a
fortress near the Straits of Gibraltar
and levied toll on ships and merchan-
disc passing through.