The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-07-28
= IUDAD JUAREZ, the scene of
the recent important events in
connection with the trouble

the recent important events IN
connection with the trouble
with Mexico, is situated on the
right bank of the Rio Grande, direct
ly opposite FL Paso, Tex, and 1,223
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 us FL Paso del Norte (the pass
Of the North), and it was not until
1885 that the city was renamed in hon
DR. 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
Imilian in his effort to found an en-
pire in the western hemisphere.
Juarez, q full-blooded Zapotec Indi-
IN, born In an obscure village near
Daxaca, succeeded to the presidency
IF Mexico when Comonfort, weary of
the internal strife, quit the job" and
went to the United States, leaving af-
airs in the hands of his chief justice.
Immediately Juarez was embroiled in
.ivil war by the assumption of the ex-
scutive Office by Zuloaga. 1t was
while trying TO displace his rival that
he Indian patriot endeavored to bor-
tow money from the United States
md, as a part of the bargain, he
agreed to a treaty the terms of which
brought forth a storm of protest from
England and France. BY this treaty,
which was never ratified, the United
States was to have perpetual and un-
restricted passage across both the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the north
srn states of Mexico, and the right to
employ American troops to enforce
:hese rights as well as to protect
American citizens against leyies and
Oans.
Start of Maximilian's Attempt.
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,
)ut England and Spain soon withdrew,
while France, her soldiers once on
Mexican soil, decided to press her
claims, and gradually Napoleon's
scheme for a western empire began TO
assume definite form. His scheme
eventuated in the abortive attempt to
establish Archduke Macmillan of Aus
ria on the throne of the Montezumas.
1t was during the famous defense of
he city of Puebla against the invad-
Ing French army that young Next
can soldier, who was to become the
most conspicuous figure in the history
Df modern Mexico, distinguished him.
self by his bravery and his exception
al powers of leadership. This young
hero was Porfirio Diaz now known to
fame as "the strong man of Mexico"
1t was in the center of the interna-
tional bridge which connects Juarez
and Eel Paso that President Taft and
President Diaz Che who had been
Juarez's military right hand) met In
1910. upon the occasion of the CEN
tenary celebration of Mexican indie
pendence.
The traveller who passes through FL
Peso 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 Genital, 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 long been city of
reast-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 q cost, frequently, of $1,000
(Mexican) each.
On important bull-fght days the
population of Juorez tops the 10000
mark, while there Is relative tenn
porary decrease In the slse of the fifth