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Show MEXICO MS A i And Vies With the Amorirais at El Taso in Toi-jg Hoiior to President Presi-dent Harrirou,' AT THE IOIHT NEAREST MEXICO The Artillery of Our Sister Republic Fired a Salute in Honor of Cur Chief Er.-xutive. 4 F.L Pa(, Tex., April 21. The presidential presi-dential party arrived here at 10 o'clock this oiornmir. T hu reception was a perfect per-fect ovation, tins Americans and th! Mexican representatives of 1'iesident Iia. vieinii with escii oiber iu their ellorts to honor I'ri sideiit Harrison. Tim city is elaborately decorated with the Aiiicricui and Mexican colors, and troops of both countries were drawn up at tiie suction to receive the ilialiu-guish::d ilialiu-guish::d visitors. When the piety aiiithted from the train a salute of twenty-one guns was fired. Governor Curillo. of Chihuahua, and stall', nnd Cetierul Kanel with a battery bat-tery of artillery and a military band participated in the reception as repre- sentamesol rresuieut uiaz 01 Aie.xico who was unable to be pre-mit. The chief inairiNtrute was received by a coinniittee and escorted to his carriage, car-riage, an open barouche drawn by four horses. Seated witii him were tiover-nor tiover-nor Carillo, (leueral Kantjel, of Mexico, and General McCook. Other inembers of the party occupied carriages with prominent local and Me.xicau ollicials. The procession formed including United States and Mexican t roups, grand army posts, confederate veterans, the the department, civic organizations and colored citizens. The distinguished visitor were escorted to the court house where formal addresses were made. When the'" procession reached tho nearest point to Mexico the artillery of that country tired a salute in honor of President Harrison. After a visit of two hours here the presidenttal party left tor Tucson, Arizona. |