Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-17
GAvIRA SURE THAT BANDIT
CHIEF is DEAD
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food shops and only very half-hearted
attempts to control them have been
made by the soldiers, who are them
selves in almost as bad a plight as the
civilians.
Arrivals from Parral report that
there are only three Americans left in
that city. These three men who have
married into Mexican families and re-
garded themselves as immune from
the prevailing hostility toward the
"gringoes."
Among the Americans who left Par
raj following the fighting between the
Mexican garrison and the American
soldiers Wednesday was a woman mis-
sionary.
ut was hopeless for me to think OF
continuing my work." she said today
THE feeling against Americans was
growing in volume every day and the
fighting on Wednesday was the climax
The people Of Parral are strongly
sympathetic with Villa whom they re-
gard as a Mexican hero who is being
prosecuted by Americans. They have
also been told the old story about Cen
eral Carranza having sold Mexico TO
the United States. There is no ques-
ton that Parral is not safe place for
Americans at present and l am afraid
that it will be long time before the
bitterness dies down on account of the
number of Mexicans who were killed
by the United States soldiers"
Hints American Revolt.
A new war of secession by which
Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Arizona, New
Mexico, Utah and California will de-
clare their independence with view
to annexing themselves to the Repub-
lie of Mexico, is the news that FL Dem
ocrata. a daily paper published in Chi
huahua City has Just announced.
Copies Of Ell Democratic, with this
exclusive piece of news spread over
its front page, have Just been brought
to Ell Paso by Americans from Chihua-
hua. The story of the great conspir-
acy is as follows:
Jose Vergara, resident Of San
Diego, Texas. known as General Yer
CARA, founded the 'junta of freedom
Documents that he issued found their
way into the editorial rooms of FL
| Democratic, revealing a master mind
From his Office in San Diego, General
Vergara spread his propaganda, gain
| ing wealth and recruits, until now the
North American republican is on the
point Of splitting in halves"
Has Scads of Dough.
In describing Vergara's method OF
working, Ell Democratic says that YER
gara's revolutionary congress gives to
the various sub-chiefs not only all the
money they need for propaganda and
the pay of recruits but check books on
various American banks, against which
they can draw at will. One of these
check books was seen and handled by
the editorial staff of Ell Democratic. II
was on the Union Bank and Trust
company of Ell Paso The last check
drawn was by Vergara in favor of him
self for $500.
The chief end of this conspiracy,
| says Ell Democratic was to free Texas,
Arizona and the rest from the.domina-
ton of North Americans who are aptly
regarded with great hatred by the pop
ulace of those states. Once independ-
ent they would form a republic and
then negotiate with Mexico ito the end
that there may thus be formed great
nation, powerful and strong"
Social Reform, Too.
There is also social reform in view,
"the liberation of the oppressed" They
are oppressed by the "tyrannical yoke
of American gold, especially the ne
groes, the native Indians, the Mexican
laboring element and in general all
other races"
General Vergara puts his grievances
in these words:
Yankee pride has reached its ut
most limits. Not content with daily
/ lynchings Of men, it now dedicates it
self to lynching a whole people, a
whole race<a whole continent II is
against this that we should struggle. y
Vergara declares as his objects, the
abolition of race hatred, the division
of the land among the proletariat and
the demolishment of jails and peniten-
tiaries. With the negroes freed other
states would be drawn into secession
! The flag of the new republic will be
red with the words: Liberty. equal
ity and independence" inscribed in the