Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-19
CoosuIs Summoned to Border
for Conferences With Mill
tary Leaders, Concerted
Steps Contemplated.
l. S. CITIZENS BELOW
BORDER NUMBER 5000
Colony in Capital Officially
Stated to Consist Of 1900
Members; Removal Not Be-
ing Publicly Discussed.

JOURNAL SPEClSh hteetp WipeI
washington. May 1S.-While walt
,cb reopening of diplomatic discus
atars with Carranza and results of the
military campaign against OUTLAW
hands the United states government
= considering further measures fol
nrotection of American interests III
Mexico. =.
Several consuls from the interior OF
Mexico have been ordered to the Dor
dor for conferences which are eX-
nected TO result in recommendations
"a the department in the interest oil
American lives and property across
,he southern boundary. Coincident
with the gathering of the consuls, the
state department today announced
artial returns of the census or Amer
leans in Mexico, recently ordered. II
was stated officially that the American
colony at Mexico City now numbers
200 Reports from other points IN
dicate that there may now be- less
than 1000 citizens of the United States
in all Mexico.
Concerted Steps Predicted.
The consuls' references, among
themselves and with General Funston
and other military leaders, are eX-
pected to result in concerted steps
TO further safeguard Americans and
their property Whether the question
of effecting removal of Americans
still remaining in the bandit Infested
regions will be considered, was not
disclosed here officially.
Consul Letcher of Chihuahua City
will come to Washington after the
border conferences to make de-
tailed report to the state department.
No importanI military develop
ments in Mexico OF along the border
were reported. Officials here are
closely observing the campaign be-
gun by General Trevino in southern
and western Chihuahua against the
outlaws who raided the Big Bend dis
trict. Official dispatches today stated
that Colonel Sibley, in pursuit OF the
outlaws who raided Glenn Springs
and Boquillas, had a temporary base
about forty miles south of the boun-
dary. With Carranza troops reported
moving northward toward the Goa
hula border, army officers believed 1t
possible that the bandits might be
caught between the Carranza and
American forces.
htstut " lJtCuNT
The rescue of Jesse Deemer and
his negro cook, Monroe Payne. cap
tured in the Glenn Springs raid, was
officially confirmed during the day.
State department dispatches indl-
Gated that the strike of Mexican rail-
way employees was spreading. Shop
employees at Piedras Negras were re-
ported to have walked out, prevent
ing movement of trains from the south
since May IA. It also was officiah.
reported that the railroad employees
at Guadalajara struck May 16 and
mat Aguas Calientes was cut off from
railroad communication because OF
the strike.
Mexicans Report Improvement.
The Mexican embassy tonight an
hounced the receipt of dispatches
from Mexico City saying construction
mad begun on the railway line which
Will cross the states of Yucatan, CHA
pas Campeche, and Tabasco from
he Caribbean sea to the Pacific. The
adVlces also stated that the national
monetary commission shortly would
piomulgate regulations to become Ell
iecuve June |, to set forth the meth
va and basis of settlement of obli-
sauons contracted for payment III
metallic money, before the issuance
the present paper currency; that
"l,lces had been opened in the capi-
"a Where claimants to properties
seHed by the constitutionalist govern
Mlet during the recent revolution
aiay present their applications for re-
mslatement to their titles; that the
m'nng camps of Guanajuato were
napuly resuming operations and that
ttenerai Carranza had ordered the
coeslrning of harbor improvements at
s1udymas. Mazatlan, Manzanillo and
oe'n other of the Pacific coast ports
Work,
Victim Was Popular.
v. me entire Twenty third regiment
as 80 upset tonight over the death of
nsedht turman. He was one of the
ir i, popular men in the regiment. be-
a. ps crack machine gun operator.
o ali-around athlete and fine
bare idea that the sergeant could
offie.oee oeen intoxicated is secuted by
ssin ssinIefs and privates alike. 1t was
'u mat shortly before Furman left