The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-05
|AR[ BUSY GR[AS|NG UP
| GOVERNMENT SOFT PEDAL
army and much time will be lost In
procuring their appearance. II they
are procured at ALL General Carranza

procuring their appearance, tney
are procured at all. General Caranza
also ordered the commission by tele-
graph to investigate the disappear
ance OF Gustave Bauch, American.
whether this will follow or precede
the Benton case is not known. In eith-a
er event the same difficulty will be
encountered In procuring witnesses.
The seventy or more minor officials
OF the civil branch OF this Carranza
provisional government who arrived
in Ell Paso last night, together with
a carload Of governmental records,
will establish themselves today in the
Juarez customs house.
Carranza and his cabinet, with an
escort Of 1000 men under General
Obregon will leave Nogales, Sonora,
some time today for Naco or Cananea,
whence they will come ov5rlan6 to
Juarez.
No effort has been made by Colonel
Fidel Avila, jefe de las armas in
! Juarez, to send a force after the fed
eral filibusters 200 strong under the
| Quevedo Brothers and Jose Orozco
who are reported to have captured
Casas Grandez, an important strategic
point. On the way to Casa Grandez,
i the filibusters burned seventy-two
bridges between Barreal, sixty miles
south OF Juarez, and Casas Grandsz,
thus cutting off the possibility of pur-
suit by rail. The destruction OF
i Cumbre tunnel prevents General
Villa from sending troops from Chr
/ huahua.
/ Big Guns Arrive.
4 CHIHUAHUA. Mex. March az
i General Francisco Villa declared to-
4 day that he had been advised OF the
receipt at Juarez OF important ship,
4 ments for which he had been waiting
and he believed he would be ready
4 to start for Torreon tomorrow or Sat
I llurday ut the latest. Long awaited bds
i guns have arrived and will be tried q
4 txfget ana range nntiink prsctice this
q afternoon.
Peace Conference Mystery.
.l[By United Press correspondent
MEXICO CITY, March 5.-Diplo
mats and foreigners here today were
puzzled about mysterious officia
, statement regarding peace confer
ence at the Hague.
.The Mexican government has ac
cepted the Invitation OF the presiden
, OF thu United States to reach al
4 agreement in order to arrange th.
preliminaries for the meeting of
, peace conference next year at tn
! Hague" was the text Of forma
( statement issued by the foreign office
4 Nelson O'Shaughnessy, Am srical
g charge d'affaires refused to commen
4 on the statement. The Huerta official
y declined to discuss the matter or t
8 amplify ths situation.
J. Refugees Of high degree poured II
/ to Mexico City today by every tral
from Guadalajara, terrified by tn
l. rebel attack on Tesistan. The tow
e is very near to Guadalajara, which
J the most fashionable winter resort i
n Mexico. Word that rebels attacke
l. Tesistan last night created a nsa
e panic among the aristocratic vac;
j. toners at Guadalajara and they fie
1t to the capital.
. indians XIII American.
: LOS ANGELES, Calf, March o
Yaqui Indians have raided seyer'
American ranches in the Yaqui Va
le ley, Sonora Mexico, killing one Ame
NJ ican and firing several ranch bull
Il ings, according to word received t
n, day by U. S. Senator Perkins reques
in ing him to interest thu state depar
r. ment and the California COMPRESSION
IL delegation in the matter.
b.
so Expecting the stork.
,e TUnited Press Leased Wire Service
ID NEW YORK, March 5.---A visit fro
es the stork is being expected by Z
10 ,nd N6ro Richard Derby here, it W;