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Show MM CHANGES ME II iMICABIT Mexican Ruler Gets Rid of General Mondragon, a Supporter Sup-porter of Felix Diaz. BLANQUET WINS POST United States Troops to Maintain Main-tain More Strict Guard Along Border. MEXICO CITY, June 13. A general shakcup in the cabinet, of President Huerta occurred hero today. General Manuel Mondragon resigned ns minister minis-ter of war and was succeeded by General Gen-eral Aurelinno Blanquet, former military mili-tary commander of the federal district. .Jorge 'Vera "Estanol relinquished the post, of minister of public instruction; Manuel Garza Aldape, minister of ag-ricnlturo. ag-ricnlturo. taking his place. Several other cabinet ministors changed places. Dr. Aurcliano Urrutia, hend of the national school of medicine, has been appointed minister of tho interior, a post long vacant. General Mondragon was in charge of tho Din?, forces during the ten days battle which culminated in the overthrow over-throw of Madoro. General Blanquet was in charge of the campaign in the state of Mexico during tho last of Ma-dero's Ma-dero's term. His political affiliations were doubtful when ho came to the capital and until he effected tho arrest of President Madero and Vice President Pino Snares. Reason for Changes. Tho-reason jjiven for the changes in the cabinet, is that they aro the result re-sult of an ngreemcnt following the overthrow of Madero that a compromise compro-mise cabinet should be named upon the fixing of a date for tho presidential olection and that President Huerta now considered himself at liberty to reform his ministry. President Huerta is currently reported report-ed to have been dissatisfied with Gon-eral Gon-eral Mondragon 'r political activities, which are allogcd to have detracted from his usefulness as the head of the war department. Mondragon is regarded re-garded as tho chief mainstay of General Gen-eral Felix Diaz in the presidential campaign. cam-paign. General Garcia Cuellnr, governor of the federal district, has been made militarj- commnndor of the district. The cabinet is now made up as follows: fol-lows: Foroign minister Francisco do la, Barra. War minister Goneral Aurcliano Blanquet. Finance minister Torobio Esquivel. Ministor of the interior Dr. Aure-liano Aure-liano Urrutia. Minister of .justice "Rodolfo Tieyos. Minister of public instruction Manuel Man-uel Garza Aldape. Minister of communications Davis de la Fuonte. Minister of fomento Alberto Bobles Gil. Strict Guard on Border. NOG ALES, Ariz., Juno 13. Stricter guard will be kept on the border near Sasabo, Sonora, sixty milos west of here, where tho state troops wero surprised sur-prised b' an attack from tho Arizona sido last Wednesday. Two troops of United States cavalry aro on their way to patrol the section. They must make a two days' rido from Nogalcs. Testimony has been taken at La Osa, near Sasabe by Sheriff Nelson, Coroner Comstock and County Attorney Attor-ney Ililiugcr, who aro investigating a fight which occurred Tuesday between Mexican, residents of the Arizona side and Sonora state troops who had crossed into the United States. Two Mexican farmers wero killed and two wounded in combating the invasion from Mexico, the testimony shows. Dr. C. W. Kelly, called to attend tho wounded declared that ammunition in automobile loads is beinir smug-tried over the international line from Arizona Arizo-na into Sonora. Officials of Sasabe, a port of entry for cattle, had complained of an attack at-tack Wednesday night from tho Arizona Arizo-na side of the lino by an unidentified party. The attackers were driven off only after two of the Sonora state troopers guarding tho Mexican town had been killed. The investigation at La Osa, however, shows that the insurgent in-surgent state troops havo been crossing cross-ing repeatedly into Arizona without regard for the international line. Outrage on American. WASHINGTON, ."June 13. The state department was advised today of tho arrival j'esterday in Tampico of a numbor of Americans forced to leave the San Dieguito colony. John Cunningham, Cun-ningham, an American living In Con-cepcion, Con-cepcion, San Luis Potosi, is Toported to have been brutally assaulted by rebels, reb-els, who took away most of his belongings belong-ings and dostroj'ed what could not be moved. Will Fight Huerta. EAGLE PASS, Tex., Juno 13. Constitutionalist Con-stitutionalist headquarters at Piedras Negras received official advices from Govornor Castillo Brito of the state of Campocho that he had takon tho field with 1000 men against Provisional President Huerta. |