The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-12-12
Carranza Refuses to Release
jenkins and HostiIities With
Mexico lmpend.
ARMY AND NAVY ARE READY
Governments Efforts to End Coal
Strike by Negotiation FAN. Min
ers Rejecting carfieid's Offer
Of ~ Per Cent Wage In
crease.
BY EDWARD W. plckARp.

II appears at this writing that the
breaking point with Mexico has been
reached nj fast~-or should one say
again. carranza's government, defy.
inr the United States. has fatty re-,
fused 10 release Consular Agent Jenk-
ins In response To the demand mnde
b, our state department. Since that
demand WIS In the nature az IN uiti.
tnntum. threatening unpleasant con
sequences " would seem either Wash
ingion ~ Mexico must back water. or
hastilities will result,
The Mexican foreign office said the
demand af the United States was moi
has&sd CA any i.gat foundation ar prin.
ciple ~ International law TINT the
executive department cannot under
Mexican law Intervene now IN mn affair
that IL strictly Ia the hands of state
courts hut the Imprisonment Of Ienk.
ins was r"ither arbitrary nor nniusti.
Ned, nn.i HAT he u preventing his own
freedom ~ refusing 10 give hall. Men.
iro's assertion that Jenkins. AZ n con
ssilar agent. was moi immune from mr.
rest ~ not contested In Washington,
hui Secretary Lansing hns stated thar
hts department has more information
hearing 80 this ease than hus been
snnte rnhiic, AMI presumably u Is this
Information that led IA the demand
far The release ef jenkins
Reports from Mexico thu, have eame
Through nfiiclul channels show TINT the
Mrslena~ have sione NIL possible Ia dis.
eresiii Jenkins THE eonrf M ptiehln re
fused ~ hear witnesses who wauli re-
f,ite Nh. story thnt h. was seen in
conference with members NJ the gang
TINT kidnapped him, aud according tn
the correspondents IT newspaper nf
Mexico fity. number NJ poems de-.
clnr'si the Judge and police Inspector
Ind exereiSed pressure on them 10 ties
III, against. J.nkins
u was h,iles.si IN Washington that
III. administration wautd maintain It's
fir,n stand ~ tho crisis Otherwise,
sn,d the weiltnsiest congress would
iake M the matter promptly after cnn-
venting evil fnr all the facts ~ the
ease anil proceed 90 ffnme a definite
~ns asserted IN. great majority was
in fever ~ Showdown with carransa
Who for wears has ttnutnd ths United
states aud ln lnnumerahle WAYS dis
PLAYED his open hostility Their, " No
Forgetting ar fnrsiylnF his attitude and
nrtlons during the war which the s:,v
rrl,ineta knew all the thu. AMI with
which she pmhlie Is hscnining better Ne
a,rlinusi every day
Shnul' armed Intervention Ia nee.
esSnrA me ARE IN Kta.d condition fnt
guis'k ae'tan. for the army has had
,hts FEASIBILITY IN min,l far some
n'HRihs Alons The hor,ler these for,-es
an~ n"n available iieih wings ~ the
hNiutlaas scr.ie. tnclnsing II aero
slnatlruuS ten hallonu companies ave
regiments nf Assl, artillery. tern ~ the
~ -oxtusait~ af cavalry Remaining in
fhr army "rga nlxIstlnh thrse r,'gi.
rn'nfs 81 ri,glnsers, m,s hrlgaels ~ in.
frHrrt sith fnut Within caitlnE dts
nee IL the es.ntrsi fs.lmr,meni -
peIar f,ansiert companies "uc hcid
hHiiaiissn nnd fRu telegraph hattelinns
80 tlte sisnnl senus - ~ more pa"1
trHins ahd aii tl,e additional fierce &c
sal'pis Il. sarr far IN army of that sire.
The msrins s~otn> j. rrasls for il..
.n~fZ.t".s and So - III. navy. Win
hs.i In lie pusfne a. welt ~ thu.
stlahtie. Torres could he LANDED IN
Path cmSis. II m. navy n,,sls more
iis"n iisr F~~"Ftr fore" ran ~. eHile.i III.
snt thai sn.'it,i.'S largr part "f the
s-s'rw l's'>a'nHs.l IN service during the
~sr.
.-.'>as.s~ '.-.sins on the arrest of