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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1914
Page
5
Argentina Brazil and Chile offer to mediate to resolve the Mexican crisis and possibly push for Huerta's elimination. The United States accepts the mediation offer while warning that aggression could derail peace efforts. President Wilson convenes key lawmakers to discuss the development amid hopes for restraint and a possible American withdrawal from Mexico.
Secretary of the Navy PBaniers stated on Wednesday that Mexican operations have tested the navy in organization and preparedness, yielding useful results even if other outcomes remain uncertain.
Washington reports that the Spanish embassy and consulates will look after the interests of the Mexican embassy and its consulates across the United States.
Washington Secretary of War Garrison announced Saturday that he had issued no orders for further troop movements and that army officers should use their own discretion to protect international bridges on the border.
Mexican mediation plans broaden to include northern and southern conflict alongside the Huerta dispute. General Carranza accepts the mediation principle, joining South American envoys and the United States in seeking an armistice and halted hostilities pending talks. The armistice would cover all factions and American forces with safeguards for Americans. Secretary Bryan was informed by telegram of Carranza's acceptance.
In Chihuahua Mexico a Carranza issued statement says foreigners’ property in territory held by constitutionalists will not be confiscated in the future and none has been seized previously except Spaniards. It adds that seizures under misapprehension were corrected and restitution made promptly.
The American exodus from Tampico concluded around April 29 after about sixty refugees left on the tank steamer Canfield bound for Vera Cruz. Official tallies show 2,270 refugees have been moved to American ports since the program began.
Movement of American refugees from Mexico continues steadily with encouraging reports to Washington. Admiral Badger reports all American refugees are out of the Tampico district as the exodus proceeds.
The California state railroad commission releases findings from a six month investigation into Pullman Car Company rules and practices. It orders corrective actions to be completed within thirty days across its California service.
London reports growing belief in parliamentary circles that a renewed conference between the two great parties may soon resume after a failed effort last autumn, edging toward a compromise on Ireland home rule.
Washington reports an assault by government forces in Puerto Plata Dominican Republic. The Santo Domingo government says it can dominate the situation.
The senate library committee on Wednesday favorably reported a bill for the erection in Washington of a memorial to John Ericsson builder of the Monitor.
Mediators will hear the proposed terms from Huerta and the United States and consider suggestions from Carranza Zapata and Villa. A truce aiming to maintain the status quo will be sought, with Huerta potentially abdicating to a self chosen delegation while U S forces stay until after an election.
New York report states John D. Rockefeller Jr. refused President Wilson’s emissary Congressman Foster mediation in the Colorado mine strike. Rockefeller indicated Standard Oil would reopen mines if order is restored, while offering to have his son confer with a president designated mediator. Federal troops may be sent to end the civil conflict.
Vera Cruz residents enjoy freedom of the city after 7 30 oclock Tuesday for the first time since American forces landed. Rear Admiral Fletcher issued a proclamation ending bluejackets patrols and Mexicans returned to the Alameda and other centers showing renewed interest in the foreign colony.
Mexico City General Aurelianno Blanquet announced that General Jose Mariano Mier sent a telegram claiming the Pacific port of Manzanillo had been bombarded by an American warship.
Los Angeles aviator Charles C Roy Stone fell from 800 feet at Domineant Junction Tuesday and died en route to hospital. He sustained severe injuries during the descent and could not be saved.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt travels through Brazil and encounters a previously unknown tribe named the Pauhates. The tribesmen are described as unclothed and primitive in this account from the expedition passage.
In a five hour battle at Walsenburg and Forbes Colorado, militiamen and mine guards repel strikers. A hospital corps officer Major P P Lester was killed while tending wounded. At Forbes camp most mine structures burned. Attacks began about 3 a m and ended around 10 a m with strikers retreating toward Trinidad and Berwind.
President Wilson asks leaders of Kentucky and Alabama Mine Operators' associations to Washington for a conference to mediate the Colorado coal mine strike. They intend to appoint a third party and travel to the strike area to pursue a settlement.
The state chemist reports that strychnine was found in the stomach of A. J. Thomas who died at Willard on April 8 and in the pig that died after eating refuse from the Grandpre table, tied to Thomag H breakfast last time.
Rescue crews recovered wreckage off Minnesota Point Duluth confirming the Benjamin Noble sank in a Lake Superior storm with twenty or more aboard and a large cargo of railroad iron. Search efforts fail to locate the main wreckage and survivors.
In Pittsburg Kansas the district convention of the United Mine Workers warns that unless President Wilson orders an immediate investigation of the Trinidad Colorado strike district a national general strike of mine workers will be urged.
Maury J. Diggs former state architect stood trial in San Francisco Wednesday charged with assault in a case accusing him and two others of attacking Miss Ida Pearring on New Year’s Eve.
President Wilson decides to send federal troops to Colorado to quell rioting in the coal fields. Governor Ammons requests aid as state militia fail to control clashes between mine guards and striking miners. Troops from Fort Leavenworth and Fort D. A. Russell will move to Trinidad and Canon City to maintain order until the state resumes enforcement.
In Ogden Utah Frank Carsis a 35 year old Greek was stabbed in the neck by Peter Dementre a 36 year old Greek laborer after a friendly scuffle. The fatal stabbing marks a violent turn from a minor dispute to a murder case.
Portland authorities recovered four bodies from the charred remains of a block of old frame houses on the east side after an early Tuesday fire. Several residents are still unaccounted for as investigators search the debris.
Denver dispatch reports thirty Colorado National Guard members departed Wednesday night to assist peers in a confrontation with strikers following the death of Major P. P. Lester on the Walsenburg battlefield.
Buenos Ayres newspapers praise President Wilson for accepting good offices from Argentina Brazil and Chile to settle the Mexican trouble, viewing the move as a hopeful mediation effort.
The halibut fishing schooner Montana of Seattle was born in Redoubt bay near Sitka Alaska last Sunday. The crew of fifteen men barely escaped with their lives.
Three million rounds of cartridges consigned to rebels were halted in transit from the east. American cartridge manufacturers have agreed not to fill orders from south of the Rio Grande for the present.
In Vera Cruz era reports, circulars are being handed out in Mexico City calling the populace to destroy the American business houses named on the handbills. The item notes widespread distribution and the targeting of these firms.
A roundup of legal and regional actions includes John Banta's discharge after assault charges in Reno, Louis Penilli cleared for aiding a suspect, and Timber theft suit in Boise involving Panhandle Lumber. Reno earthquake effects and state moves on militia, local prison reforms, and civil cases populate the region.
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