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Show RIOT-RIVEN MEXICO DEPENDS ON DARING RURALES, i H MOUNTAIN CONSTABULARY, FOR ORDER; H THE CAPITAL CITY SERIOUSLY ENDANGERED ,'H MEXICO CITY, June 8. Fatal riots have become the order of the day throughout Mexico. The change In government has given hundred's of bandits, terming themselves either MaderistasV or insurrectos, the opportunity op-portunity to loot houses and stores in at least a dozen cities and towns Mexico City is greatly alarmed over the uncertain conditions that have arisen The city Is said to be in great er danger of looting than at any t!mo1 since the Madero uprising began. While the federal soldiers have boon detailed to guard tho city and preserve pre-serve order, the active, daring rurales are one of the chief dependencies of the governmental authorities in. preventing pre-venting rioting. The rurales are mounted constabulary, many of the' members being former bandits, given immunity in consideration of doing police po-lice duty. Ilurales and mounted police pTJt down serious riots at Santa Julia after klljing two out of a mob of 2,500 and wounding d hundred or more. Nine street cars w.ere completely wrecked windows smashed and sides broken in. All the roads leading to this city are patrolled by heavy guards of loyal government troops. There Is said to bo less government now In Moxlco than thirty-five years ago before be-fore Diaz came into power. There Is lioting In the small towns all over the republic, the nearest at Xochlmilco, V !lH suburb of this cltv, where two men 1? H wero killed and a number wounded. Il Details from Leon. In Guanajuato, rer jJftH duce the death list in the riots slight- fH ly from the first reports, bui. the deafl lH are seventy-three, while more than a j h hundred persons are wounded as a re- J jjjH suit of several hours of fighting thai -H began at tho jail and was wagea m sm through the streets of tho business m rH section of the city. M UH |