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Show FATE IF PARKS HOT ' KIMJ F13TI Incident of Capture of Insane Soldier Reported to the War Department. VERA CRUZ, May 9. If the reported re-ported execution by Geuerul Maas 's men of Private Samuel Parks, the orderly or-derly missing siui:e Wednesday, prove true, army officers are inclined not to regard one such incident as likely to preeipuate a clash. Tbev l.i-Heve such an act wr.uM p'-ob-ably be '.hat ol -. seliordinate officer without authority and t'mi'. Gener.il Maui would be wholly iRnorant of the matter until the Mexico Pity government govern-ment asked for an explanation.. It is assumed here that the matter will be taken up by the authorities at Washington Wash-ington through the Brazilian minister at Mexico City and that the iluerta officials will make a prompt investigation. General Funston deems it inadvisable to open formal communication with General Maas and is therefore leaving the case to Washington. General Fnuston has asked that the brigade equipment left behind at Galveston Gal-veston because of lack of room tor horses and - wagons on the transports be sent forward. He is also asking that the recruits for repunents now assembled as-sembled at recruiting depots iu the United States be shipped. , The equipment includes a ina.ionty of the regimental wagon trains and horses for the signal corps. Lacking these, the signal corps and quarter masters department are hampered m , their work about the city and at the outposts. VER CRUZ, Mav 9. Seven .Americans .Ameri-cans arrived here today from Mexico Citv. Thev reported the situation quiet in the capital. Thev told of a Mexican lieutenant who came aboard the tram near Orizaba and boasted that an American spv, who had entered tne Mexican lines with two horses had been shot. It was inferred that he had reference to Ordcrlv Parks, who has been missing siirce Wednesday. The lieutenant talked much of the be-autv of the horses. . Two other American? were picked up at Orizaba and brougnt turougn iu Vera Cruz, but about fifteen others who boarded the train at Orizaba, comprising com-prising men, women and children, were takeuet'f at Cordoba. - Mexican officers searched the tram for Americans, but did not mtertere with those from the capital, who included in-cluded K. M. Von Zandt, bank.-r. tor-merlv tor-merlv of Fort Worth, Tex., when the officers found two or three railroad engineers among the rerugees. thev declared de-clared that the engineers would be too valuable if the Americans decide! to move inland from Vera Cruz and tooK them off the train. |