Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1913 — MEXICAN SITUATION REMAINS UNCHANGED [ARTICLE]

MEXICAN SITUATION REMAINS UNCHANGED

Government Continues Plan of Concentration and 10,000 Troops 2 Are to Be in The Mexican situation seems to have changed but little by reason of the killing of Madero and Saurez. In the United States the act is considered just what might have been expected from the traitorous Huerta but officially the explanation of Huerta to the effect that the men “were killed while trying to escape” has been accepted. Ambassador Wilson has wired to the state department that in the absence of other information the story of the provisional president is accepted at the embassy. It will not be surprising if Huerta orders the lives of those taken who were in charge of Madero and Saurez, just as a bluff, although it is generally believed ’that he caused them to do the killing. Ambassador Wilson urges that the people of the United States withhold judgment and avoid getting unduly excited. < It is said that in Mexico City the Mexicans simply shrug their shoulders when the matter of the dual murders is discussed. They are afraid to say what they think. The United States continues to concentrate troops at and near Galveston, Texas, and the 23rd regiment left Fort Benjamin Harrison, near Indianapolis, this Tuesday morning. The other regiments of the 4th brigade, being the 26th at Forts Wayne and Bradley and the 27th at Fort Sheridan, will leave some time today. The sixth brigade, composed of the 11th, 18th and 22nd, stationed at Fort D. A. Russell, Fort McKenzie and Fort Bliss was also ordered. The quartermaster and a few men were left at the posts as a guard. The families of the officers also remained behind. i Some complications along the border caused Governor Colquitt, of Texas, to send four companies of national guard to Brownsville, and fearing that they might injudiciously cross the border, U. S. troops were sent there to restrain them. It was reported at Loredo, Texas, that threats had been made against the U. S. consul at Nuevo Laredo. Consul Garrett, stationed there, had caused the arrest of a number of persons who are alleged to have been conducting a hold-up game. A Mexican saloonkeeper named Parra is said to have threatened to kill him. At Sauz, near Jaurez, 95 volunteers were executed Monday because they had expressed Anger at the killing of Madero.