Bisbee daily review., 1920-04-15
CARRANzA FACES CIVIL WAR W I H GALES MEN AND YAQU| IN D|AN N ]
State Leaders Rapidly Gain Recruits and Fortify All
 Menaced Passes
OBREGON ESCAPES
 FROM MEXICO CITY
Alvarado Brings His Wealth To Cause of Seceders and
 Rallies Forces

AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, April
 14.-Troops of the new republic of
 Sonora have had their first battle
 with carranza soldiers on the
 Sonora-Sinaloa boundary, accord
 ing to a report received here late
 today, apparently verifying an
 earlier report from NosaIes. Mili-
 tary authorities said the battle
 meant war between the Carranza
 government and the seeding
 state. No details of the battle
 were received here. .-4@Sorora army officers, acting on
 order from General CarTes, com
 mander-in-chief, are terrifying the
 SinaIoa-Sonora frontier and also
 the mountain passes leading from
 Chihuahua. Carranza troops al-
 ready are enroute from Casas
 Grandes toward Agua Prieta, it
 was said.
 Gales is said to have dispatched a large force to Blanco Pass, through which the Carranza soldiers must come in marching toward Agua Prieta the first division of Sonora troops said it would be impossible for Car ranza soldiers to break through Blanco Pass. To reach Agua Prieta, the Car ranza soldiers must march overland POO miles through a mountainous and desert country.
 All saloons were ordered closed in the state today by General Gales. He ordered renewed efforts in recruit ing soldiers. Four thousand recruits than 60 hours, it was announced at military headquarters here.
 All officials of the republic here now believe a civil war must settle the doctrine of states rights between Sonora and the central government of Mexico.
 The question of states rights caused Sonora to secede when state authori ties declared President Carranza had no right to send troops into Sonora against the wishes of the state.
 Sonora, before seeding, said send ing of troops into the state would mean civil war.
 Claim 25,ooo Men.
 After the secession last Saturday steps were taken to repel any Car ranza invasion. Yaqui Indians, who have made peace with the Sonora authorities and between 4000 and 5000 Indians will be mobilized against Car ranza( it was said here today. The military leaders claimed an army oi more than 25,OO0 men would be en rolled within a week.
 Is Rich State.
 When Sonora seeded Carranza lost one of his greatest revenue producers the ricn agricultural and mining dis trict of the state and adjacent terri tory paying a large percent of the Mexican federal revenue. Through Sonora ports of entry more custom house fees were collected than all the boundary points between the United States and Mexico.
 Sonora, SinalOa, and other western Mexican states, it was pointed out have not suffered proportionately tC other parts of Mexico in the long years of revolution and banditry in that country, and for that reason Sonora is declared in better shape to wage wal against the Carranza government thar any other section.
 The day before the state seeded il seized and started the operation oi the Southern Pacific de Mexico, ar American owned railroad, to break 2 strike of the employees of the line which had completely disrupted ser
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