The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1916-07-27
, IUDAD JUAREZ, the scene OF
the recent important events in
4 connection with the trouble

! A COUUeCllOu WIFI the lTOuElt
with Mexico, is situated on the
right bank of the Rio Grande direct
| ly opposite FL Paso, Tex, and 1928
miles north of Mexico City. The
very name of the city of Juarez sug-
gests noteworthy events In the history
Of the southern republic, and the con-
| ferences which have been held there
recently by the representatives Of the
military forces of both the American
and Mexican governments add another
interesting chapter to the community's
annals, says the National Geographic
society bulletin.
For more than 200 years Juarez was
known as FL PasO del Norte (the pass
Of the North), and it was not until
! 1885 that the city was renamed in hon
or of one of MeXico's greatest states
men and patriots, Benito JuareZ, who
established his capital here during the
! troublous times when Napoleon III of
! France was abetting the Inflated Max
milan in his effort to found an en-
pire in the western hemisphere.
Juarez, n full-blooded Zapotec Indf-
an, born in an obscure village near
! Oaxaca, succeeded to the presidency
If Mexico when Comonfort, weary of
! the internal strife, "quit the job" and
vent TO the United States, leaving af-
! fairs in the hands of his chief justice.
! Immediately Juarez was embroiled in
| ,ivil war by the assumption of the eX-
ecutive office by Zuloaga. 1t was
while trying to displace his rival that
| he Indian patriot endeavOred to bor-
low money from the United States
md, as q part of the bargain, he
agreed to a treaty the terms of which
| brought forth q storm of protest from
! England and France. BY this treaty,
which was never ratified, the United
! States was to have q perpetual and un-
restricted passage across both the
lsthmus Of Tehuantepec and the north
srn states of Mexico, and the right to
employ American troops to enforce
these rights as well as to protect,
American citizens against levies and
oans.
A short time later Juarez precipi-
ated an international crisis by his de-
.ision to suspend for two years the
payment of interest on the national
iebt. England, Spain and France sent
ieets to Vera Cruz to force payment,
out England and Spain soon withdrew,
while France, her soldiers once on
Mexican soil, decided to press her
claims, and gradually Napoleon's
scheme for q western empire began to
assume definite form. His scheme
sventuated in the abortive attempt to
establish Archduke Macmillan of Aus
.ria on the throne of the Montezumas.
II was during the famous defense of
The city of Puebla against the invad-
ing French army that young Mexi-
.an soldier, who was TO become the
most conspicuous figure in the history
Of modern Mexico, distinguished him
self by his bravery and his exception
n powers of leadership. This young
hero was Porfirio Diaz, now known to
fame as "tho strong man Of Mexico"
II was in the center of the interna-
tlonal bridge which connects Juarez
and Eel Paso that President Taft and
President Diaz Che who had been
Juarez's military right HANDY met In
1910, upon the occasion Of the CEN
tensry celebration Of Mexican indie
pendence.
The traveller who passes through FL
Paso on his way to Juarez may choose
any of four times by which to set his
watch-Central, Mountain, Pacific and
Mexican. Mountain time is an hour
slower than Central while Pacific is
an hour slower and Mexican Is "a
minutes faster than Mountain.
Famed for Its Bull Fights.
On account of its bull fights and cock
fights, Juarez has losg been a city of
feast-day pilgrimage for Americans in
search of new sensation. The Span
Iards, who became addicted to the bull
fight habit In the twelfth century, dur.
ing the occupation of the Iberian pen.
Ursula by the Moors, introduced this
sport into Mexico shortly after their
overthrow of the Aztecs. The fights
in Juarez are not so deliberately staged
as those in Mexico City, for native
bulls are used customarily, and these
have not the ferocity of the animals
imported by the capital from Andal
usia at cost, frequently, of $1,0o(
(Mexican) each.
On important bull-hght days th'
population Of Juarez tops the 10.00t
mark, while there is a relative TEN
porary decrease In the size of the fifti