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Show I CHIHUAHUA IS I AGAIN RAIDED I BY THEREBELS 1 Salazar, Inveterate and Blood- BJ thirsty Enemy of Mormon 1 Colonists, in Command of the Bandit Band. HI FOREMAN KILLED HI ON HEARST'S RANCH I I Americans Forced to Abandon Their Homes and Personal I Property to Escape With i Their Lives. 1 Special to The Tribune. j I i L PASO, Tex... Oct. 7. j 1 Chihuahua is again rebel rid- P j den in spite of the fact that there arc fodernl troops at Pearson, Casas Grandes and .luarcx Geminez. Salazar, most hated of all the rebel commanders, has been driven back from Souora, and is now leading the campaign of the rebels in the state of Chihuahua. His doctrine is the one of "Mexico for Mexicans" and the partitiou of all the Mormou lands and property in Cbibuahuu. What was done in Sonora is now expected ex-pected hero at his hands. Mormons Withdraw. l Th retirement of Salazar has lI caused the withdrawal of all Mor-II Mor-II mons from the colonies, and no further 1 effort iri!l be made even to look after 1 the cattle and crops. The rebels are rowinjr more bold every day. Today l they attacked the federal outposts at old Casas Grandes and drove them 1 into the town. They have lakeu La I Aficcncion, and it. if reported hero J that they had killed .Tohn Hoycs, the 1 foreman" of the Hearst ranch, neat J General ffabaf-o, commanding the 1 federal cavalry at Crn-us Grander, has 1 requested 200 additional troops from I .Juarez, which have been Pent on two special tTains. Tho federal cavalry I is to follow the rebels .in their cam- Pl'Rn an(l ar making no real effort I to drive them from the country. Many Outrages. The rebels continue to harass the few Mormou boys who have been unable un-able to leave the colonies. They have told tbeso Mormons that they had no rights in Mexico; that the property in the Mormon colonics belonged to the Mexicans by right, and that they could not be permitted to drive out their own cattle. Mormons returning from Utah report I that tho cold -weather there and the i scarcity of homes for tho refugees E make it inadvi sable for any more ! refugees to go there this winter. I GENERAL SALAZAR LEADS THE REBELS EL PASO, Texas. Oct. 7. Inez Salazar has re-entered Mexico and is leading the rebels in the Casas Grandes ; district, according to lottors shown today to-day by rebel representatives hero. General SalazaT first wrote from Los Angeles. Cal., then from a point on i I ho border near Douglas Ariz., and later from a ranch in the state of ( bihuahua, Mexico. It is explained that since tho failuro of tho enmpaign in Sonora. resulting in tho arrest, in the United States of nearlj all the rebol chiefs who had broken with Orozco and entered the wrftorn border state, Salazar decided to return to the Orozco fold. For this reasou he visited Los Angelas, and nftor denouncing de-nouncing the party of Vnsques Gomez, which it is said had nlliod itself with tho Majjonistas, or so called Socialist, ho returned to Mexico as an Orozco ! revolutionist. ' That Salazar will recognize the j scattered rebels who have flocked i j lo.ade-rless from Sonora into Chihuahua, f! 's tho hope of tho revolutionary junta B9' here. f; Salnzar is said to have more than 600 men under him in tho Casas I Grandes district. j TJ. S. Troops Active. WASHINGTON. Oct. 7. Renewed ac- tlvlty of Mexican rends on mo Texas Jj border vm reported to tho wr depart- ment by General St cover, -who said tin lmd advices that n r!bl land was nrar Sanderson. Tex. Tin ban dispatched ti troop from Port Clark to protect the Texan town. 1 General Btever reported that the rebels had defeated the federal force at Aacenclon, In norlhwoatnrii Chihuahua, and had taken the town. State depart -, ment report out of .Mexico City Mate that Escabosa. tho rebel leader who was operating in Potmta. save himself up i Saturday at Cananen alone with nttr of ;j nlB roldlera. fvcral small mbol bands urn paid to b biding In the Ajos moun- p tains. i' Reports of wanton destruction of prop- f crtv In the Mormon colony are confirmed and large number of Americans :n i, Mlchoacan arc FaJd to be In danger from j, rebel bands. Will Accept Amnesty. CANANEA. Sonora. Oct. 7. -Colonel I Escoboso. who with Hlxty men cave him self up here, paid today that General Antonio An-tonio Rojas. rebol lender In Sonora, la willing to accept amnesty If h:s poreon! J wifely and that of his men I guaran- L teed. I Forty Rebels Killed. ' MONTEREY. Mexico, Oct. 7. Three hundred rebels, omnia tided by Marcelo J, Caraveo. wero completely defeat! Saturday Sat-urday by tho fclcrals under General AureJlo Blouquct at Alto de la Hspcr-H Hspcr-H anzas, according to tho official report. W General Blanquet declares his troops kllled forty rebels nnd captured eight men nnd seventy horses. Only three federals fed-erals were killed, though many wore wounded. Th- general reports that Caraveo and his men have retreated Into Chihuahua. Dynamite Bombs Used. MEXICO CITY. Oct. 7.-Choluta was rleared of the Zapatlwta looters by thfl federal troops ear'y today. The reinforcement rein-forcement from Puehla. a short dUtance away, succeeded In driving them out after af-ter an engagement In which the casualties casual-ties probably numbered lexs than rtrty in all. Tim rebels, who are estimated to hav numbered not more, than 20ft, cnrrled away a quantity of loot. Dvr.nmlte bombs wer- used during the righting. Railway Station Sacked. MEXICO CITY. Oct. 7. Another bridge south Of Torreon has been burned by the ItiKtirgentij nnd the station at Nazarene. on the Central railroad, eighteen miles to thi ttouth, has been sacked. The International railway Is the only lln? now open. Zongollai, twenty miles south of Cordoba. Cor-doba. Is reported to have been occupied lodai by General Acuilar without resistance resist-ance Bands of rebels have been seen at PHptH Tereza on the International railway. |