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Show OFFICIALS ARE HIT1 IDE OEVELDPKENTS Washington Administration Is Watching Closely for News of the Niagara Falls Peace Conference. BANDITS THREATEN' LIVES OF FOREIGNERS Serious Conditions in Moun-tains Moun-tains Near Guadalajara Engage En-gage the Attention of the State Department. WASHINGTON, May 23. The Niagara Ni-agara Falls conference and its developments develop-ments received the close attention of of-'ficials of-'ficials here today. Whilo neither White house nor state department officials would discuss the progress of negotiations, negotia-tions, an evident absence of tension and a general air of hopefulness prevailed pre-vailed among officials. Secrotaty of State Bryan received long reports from the Ameiicau commissioners com-missioners at Niagara Falls and afterward after-ward "visited the White bouse and went over the reports with the president. He refused to discuss the situation in any way, scrupulously adhering to his policy not to embarrass the negotiations by public comment. Among Mr. Bryan's callers were John Lind and one of the legal advisers of the constitutionalists, with whom the question of constitutionalist representation repre-sentation at the mediation conference was discussed. There were no definite developments or .'lis subject, however, at least so far as was made public. Bandits in Mountains. While the mediation negotiations, in the words of a high official, were progressing pro-gressing smoothly, a new source of apprehension ap-prehension on the part of the foreign diplomats was found in the situation at Guadalajara, the second city in Mexico, where' large numbers of foreign refugees are reported to have gathered. Reports were received that bandits were gathering gath-ering in the mountains near the city and threatening to attack the town in case of a withdrawal of its garrison. Part of the constitutionalist army under un-der General Obregon w;as pushing forward for-ward toward the city, arousing fears for the safety of the foreigners during the hostilities. No advices reached the state department, however, to indicate any pressing danger there. Conditions at Tampico continue to improve, and while neither the state department nor the naval officers on the spot felt justilied in advising a general gen-eral rnturu of the Americans who had left Mexico during the disorders, the secretary of the aavy granted permission permis-sion to refugees now at Galveston, who claimed they were brought from Tampico Tam-pico Against their will, to return on the transport Hancock. A number of British Brit-ish oil men also have left Galveston for Tampico. Silbman m Mexico. Vice Consul John Silliman, the occasion occa-sion of such prolonged anxiety on account ac-count of his disappearance at Saltillo, remained at Mexico City today, recuperating recu-perating from the hardships of the trip from Saltillo, and expecting to depart for Vera Cruz on Monday. One of his fellow prisoners in the Saltillo jail, Dr. J. Franklin Moore, called at the state department today and told of his experiences. Mr. Moore was a practicing physician of twenty vears' standing in Saltillo. He said trauquillitv had prevailed there all through the earlier phases of the revolutionary revo-lutionary niovmient. until April 22, a telegram signed " Victoriano Huerta, " was received from the capital stating American Warships were bombarding Vera Cruz. Immediately following the signature were the words, "Hang all Americans. " presumably added by the telegraph operator. ' Messengers from the civil governor summoned all Americans in Saltillo to headquarters. The doctor excused himself him-self from the patient he was attending, with a promise to return in a few minutes. min-utes. But it was fifteen days before he was again at liberty. He was first placed in a cell three feet by seven feet, for twenty-four hours, but the following fol-lowing dav he'was admitted to a large rordn where all the American prisoners were leathered, including Vice Consul Silliman. Thev were treated fairly well, and were released only after they bad-'jnintlv signed a statement reciting that thev 'had simply been detained to insure their protection against, possible violence at the hands r-f ihe people. Silliman. however, was held after the I others left, on the charge that he was ! a spy. |