The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-08-18
WOMEN ARE
BLAMED FOR
CONSPIRACY
Mexican Officials Claim They
Are First to Pray and
10 Fight
KEEP EYE ON BORDER
Further Possible Incursions
Are Looked Out F0r-Con-
trOversy at Deadlock
KEEP EYE ON BORDER

Mexico City, Aug. lS.--R)-The
Mexican government still is hard ut
work trying to run down and take
into custody all such persons as it
believes were connected with the al-
legged plan for revolt last Sunday.
Also. it is keeping q careful eve upon
the American border for possible
revolutionar yincursions into the
northern states of the republic.
Meantime. the religious controversy
continued deadlocked.
1t is reported that General Lopez
de Lara, former governor Of Camau.
lipas, and follower Of Adolfo de La
Huerta, former provisional presi-
dent. and who recently has been liv-
ing in San Antonio, Texas, crossed
the frontier into Tamaulipas and was
captured and executed by federal
troops. There have been numerous
rumors in the capital that revolution
lists have come into Mexico, or intend
to do 50, from Texas, New Mexico,
and Arizona.
Funds Raised In California
The foreign office says it has
received information that religious
elements" in California contributed
toward General Enrique Estrada's
projected revolution. It asserts that
special agents reported to the gov
ernment some time ago that funds
were being collected in California to
aid Estrada. who with all of his out
fit and his war stores, was captured
by Americans near S.l Diego and
landed in jail.
According to assertions made by
the secret police, Catholic women,
whose tightening OF their purse
strings is proving a big factor in the
economic boycott called BY the
League Of Defense Of Religious Lib
erty in protest against the govern
ment's religious regulations, are not
only foremost in prayers for peace
but first in plans to fight.
Guiding Spirits
Jose MascorYo, chief Of. the secret
police, asserts that Catholic women
were leaders in the alleged plot for
uprisings last Sunday.
According to Mascorro, Sonora
Josefina NovOa and Sonora Luz +.
Pcperchez, Catholics, Of San Angel, a
suburb of, Mexico City. were the
kuuUiuk SplTItS AL tuV pAOLs
Sonora Novoa and Sonora Deper-
chez are under arrest with about 40
other persons. Altogether more than
near Mexico City, but some of them
sons are reported to have been taken
into custody in other parts of the
republic.
Mexico City. Aug. l8-(AP)-LThe
arming the agrarians throughout the
country is being rigidly carried out.
Dispatches from various points say
that the people are giving up their
arms with the greatest reluctance.
They are amazed vt the idea Of being
forced to live without weapons.
A dispatch from Santa Magdalena.
state Of C0lima, says the agrarians
fled to the mountains, carrying their
rifles with them, declaring they
would fight rather than be disarmed.
The dispatches add that the peasants
generally are preparing to resist the
order to disarm.
The Catholic spiscopate has re-
ceived letters from . Catholic declar-
ing that he had heard that Q Catho-
lic priest in Tepalicingo, state Of
Queries, was shot and killed while
saying mass in 1 private residence. A
crowd pursued and lynched the
assassin.
Dispatches from Durango, which
have not been confirmed. reported
that priest, Father Luis Bats, and
three civilians we're killed while =
group Of Catholics were attempting to
rescue them from soldiers who had
seized the priest fsr an alleged vio-
tlation Of the law.
Adwces from Colima are that one
policeman was killed and several
civilians wounded in q riot in the viii
lage Of Ixtlahuacan, state of Colima.
GENERAL LARA ALIVE
San Antonio, Tex. Aug. l8.-LR-'
General Cesar L0pes dc Lara, form
er governor 81 Tamaulipas, reported
to have been executed in Mexico, Is
alive in San Antonio. He was found
at his home here today.
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