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Show Tug Captures Schooner. ON BOARD U. S. S. CALIFORNIA, MAZATLAX, Mexico, May 31 fvia wireless wire-less to San Diego, June 1 ). The constitutionalist consti-tutionalist tug Hercules, emboldened by its successes under cover of darkness last night, when provision barges were captured, cap-tured, entered Maza tla n harbor in broad daylight today and captured the schooner Gariha kli, which had a cargo of sugar for tiie United States company of Los Mochis. As soon as the Herculps and her prize were clear of the American fleet in the harbor, the federal batteries opened fire with their hea vy artillery, some of the shells falling close to tbe tug and the captive cap-tive schooner. The Spa nish consul at Maza t Ian sent to the commander-in-chipf of the American Ameri-can fleet today a formal expression of his thanks for the assistance that bad been given Spanish subjects desiring to leave the west coast of Mexico. |