Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-11-29
ANOTHER CITIZEN
 0F J. s. SLAIN BY
 CARRANzA'S MEN
w. M. Wallace, Murdered Near Tampico, Eighth Victim in
 the Tampico Fields.
ACT REGARDED AS
 1.-THE LAST STRAW"
Washington Hears Mule He Rode Shied and Overturned Machine Gun and Mexican Federals Im-
 mediately Shot Him.

Washington, Nov. 2s.-Another American murdered in Mexico, close on the Imprisonment of Consular Agent Jenkins, coupled with reports of revolution in Mexico City with Carranza in flight to Queretaro, added complexities today which seemed to force the already tense Mexican situation toward the long expected breaking point.
 There were no official pronounce ments for the guidance of public opinion as to what action, if any, the American government might be con- templating, but administration off cials, by indication, were willing to show that the government is taking a firm position, considering the even- tualities, and is prepared to deal with them, when it's course is chosen; Another of "the last straws," as one official put it, was laid on today when the official report of the mur der of w. M. Wallace, an American oil man, by a Carranza soldier, near 1amplcO. OH w euHeSQdy. The Wallace referred to is believed here to be w. M. Wallace, an en- ploye of the Gulf Refining company, familiarly known to his associates as "Jim." Wallace recently went to Tam pico after having been in Colombia for the Gulf company. He is about forty years old.
 The Mexican ambassador, Ignacio Bonilas, called on Secretary Lansing at the state department today and they not only went over the Jenkins case. but Lansing also laid before the Mexican envoy the report on the kill 1 ing of Wallace, which had just been received. Their conference was, of course, confidential, but it is believed the secretary conveyed to President Carranza's representative a message more forceful and direct than any yet transmitted in any diplomatic note.
 Swedish-American Slain. | MT. Bonillas was informed that the 1 department placed no credence in the charges on which Jenkins is. held in jail in Puebla, in which the Mexican government declines to intervene, and it is understood that MT. Lansing further outlined to the ambassador the inevitable consequences of con- tinued murders and molestations of Americans, probably more pointedly than was done in the governments officicial note of last July. About the same time, word came of the death of another American as the result of brutal treatment of bandits who held him for ransom. He was Otto Lund, of Swedish birth, a nat uralized American, who died of blood poisoning after being held for ran- som five months in the state of May arit. His captors chopped off one of his fingers and wrapped it within their written demand for ransom money, which they sent to his friends in Topic. Blood poisoning and gan gerene killed the man, while his wife, an American woman, and their child, are reported in want in Topic. 1 Many Slain. l According to state department rec ords the eight murders have been in this order:
 July 31.-R. A. Cunningham at Matamoros.
 August 28.-Adam Schafer at Pinos.
 August 3O.-H. s. McGill at Coapa.
 September 2.-A. F. Hennessy at La Colorado.
 September 21-Lieut. c. H. Con- 'nelly, (U. s. A at Bahia. Lieut.. F. B. Warehouse at Bahia. (These were the two army aviators who lost their way. were starved and finally murdered by Mexican fishermen.)
 November 14.-E. K. Lack at Mexicali, said to have been killed by a Mexican official.
 November 26.-W. M. Wallace, at Tampico.
 It is further said from the off cial records that Wallace is the seventh American killed bv Carranza soldiers in the Tampico district.
 Immediately on receipt of the state department ordered investiga. tion and further report on the de- tails.
 Investigation and report on the new phases of the Jenkins case. rais- ed in the Mexican note refusing to meet this governments demand for the consular agents immediate re. lease, already had been ordered
 The whole effect of the dav's de. velopments was to put the Mexican situation. already acknowledged bad into the worst light of probably more than year.
 | So far the situation has been handled almost entirely by the cabinet under the guidance of Secre. tary Lansing. President Wilson who hitherto has handled the Mexi. 1 -. MI q ~,