Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1910 — OIAZORDERSCHIEF TO STOP RIOTING [ARTICLE]

OIAZORDERSCHIEF TO STOP RIOTING

Report of American Child Being Stoned toDeath, Is Denied. MINOR CLASHES STILL OCCURS Texas Officials Regard Burning of Murderer as a Closed Incident— Mexico Officials Adopt Strenuous Peace Plans; El Paso, Tex., Nov. 11. —Declaring that Americans would be secure in the Mexican capital, or any other place in Mexico if soldiers could give them security. President Diaz of Mexico, has ordered his nephew, Felix Diaz, chief of police of Mexico, to double his guards and patrol every street of the nation’s capital with men enough to put down any disturbance. Wires received here declare that everything is quiet in the Mexican capital, save that once in a while a stone is thrown at an American or his residence or place of business. President Diaz has issued orders that Diaro Del Hogar would be confiscated if it published any further inflammatory articles, and Ei Imparcial cautions the people to be quiet and tells them that the republic of Mexico has no better friend than the United States. It further sets out that the United States is bo more responsible for the burning of Antonio Roderiguez at Rock Springs last week than the Mexican government is responsible for the kidnapping and holding for ransom of a American girl in Mexico a few- days prior to the lynching.

There were a number of minor clashes in the streets of the City of Mexico but most of thejn were in alleys and out of the way places, few occurring downtown, where the police and military were vigilant. It is reported that an American child was stoned to death in Mexico City, but this is denied by Mexican officials. Texas officials, according to Henry Phelps, acting adjutant general, will make no investigation of the burning of- Roderiguez at Rock Springs. The coroner entered officially on his docket the verdict that “Deceased came to his death at the hands of unknown men,” and the grand jury of Valvoide county refuses to investigate. The Mexican declared, when apprehended, that he killed Mrs. Lem Henderson because she “talked back” to him when he rode up to her house and asked her for something to eat. She was alone and was afraid of him. A mob caught the Mexican and burned him at the stake following the murder of the woman. It is this that aroused the Mexicans.