Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-01 | Page 2 | Destitute Refuges to be Sent Home

DESTITUTE REFUGES TO BE SENT HOME NEW ORIEANS, Aug. 31. The ten destitute American refugees from Mexico who arrived here yesterday will be sent to their homes tomorrow with funds sup-piled sup-piled by the state department at Washington. Wash-ington. This authorization came today to representatives of the department who had personally cared for the refugees. In a lengthy message giving the local representatives the right to draw upon the state department. It was stated that the "unfortunate delay" In giving the authorization was regretted by department depart-ment officials. Ten of the twenty-three Americans who arrived yesterday from Vera Cruz had nothing but tho clothing they wore. They asserted that they had been robbed of everything they possessed In Mexico. Until tho present revolution, they assert, they wore prosperous In Mexico. Guarantee Safety. DOUGLAS, Arir., Aug. 31. In reply to a dispatch from the state department at Washington today, which said maltreatment mal-treatment of Americans might give rlso to Intervention, state officials of Sonora stated that they would "guarantee safety to Americans and other foreigners on the border domain." Intervention, they said, would be unjust, un-just, In view of the progress made thus far by the constitutionalists in the far north.