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Show SMACO CITIZENS HE STIRRIHB APPEALFOR HELP "For God's Sake Help Us," Says Telegram Addressed to Senators Ashurst and Smith of Arizona. SALAZAR AGENTS ACTIVE ON BORDER General Obregon Gives Reasons Rea-sons for Fighting Villa; Zapata Defeated at ( San Martin ACO rtz-, Dee 6. Cituens of Naeo today sent out another appeal for protection from the Mexican fire from the siege of Naco Sonora, just across the 1 ne, which has killed five and wounded forty two persons on the Arizona side during the last two months. Telegrams concluding for Ood s sake help us! were adressed to Arizona a two United States senators, Henry P Ashurst rd Marcus A. Smith, at Washington, and to United states Senators ilbert B. Fall of New Mexico and Vraham A. Smith of Mlchl I gan. Auction by the senate that will anto matlcaHy close ports on the Mexican border whenever they become the scenes of battle is asked. The messages were signed by O W Brandon as chairman of a citizens' meeting called to devise some method of securing protection from the Mexi can bullets and shells. 47 Killed and bounded -"4 Since Maytorena's "Villa forces laid siege to Nacd where General 11111, with his Carranza troops, are en trenched the beginning of October persons on the Arizona side have been struck by bullets'' from the Mexican side with regularity Of the forty even killed and wounded eighteen were Americans and twenty nine Mex cans. Fourteen of them were soldiers in the United States border patrol The federal troops ivero reinlorceJ at the beginning of the siege and the (Continued on Page Three.) io cifizis m SENATORS FOR HELP fContlnu-d from Pago One.) hrioulo commander, Colonel C. A. 1J. Hailirhl, cainn here to take command. Colonel llatlb'hl retircn today and lie is succeeded in the command by f'o-unci f'o-unci .loliii I'. liuilioylo oJ' tho Ninth United iStatt'H cavalry. Telegram to Senator. Tlu; telrrniii wont to United States Senator A:dinrst re;iiln: Having appealed to Washington in vain Jor homo relief, tin: citizens of Naco now come to you and a It you to help uh. For two months Mexican factions have been iigdit-iuiz iigdit-iuiz for powHi'sniou of Naco, Soiioia, which lias been strongly fortified by a I must im pregnable t renches surrounding Ihe town, with the international in-ternational linn as a base. M '.t i-can i-can factions have deliberated' ucd tho border town us a meant of retreat re-treat without rnnni during bow many American Lives were sacrificed" sacri-ficed" It mado no difference to tbern h lonjr as they could Ret jnunitioiiH and supplies. There is no safety in the streets day or ninht, and very little in the houses. U'c suggest you introduce a bill providing for automatically closing Mexican border ports when they become tho battleground for foreign factions, securing immediate, imme-diate, passage if possible. l'ivo have been killed and forty-two wounded, and tho end is not yet. I'or God 's sake help m-:. (Signed) O. W. BRANDON, Chairraan. Refuse: to Act. Friday Coroner E. A. Folom wired Governor George W. P. Hunt,refu3ing to longer summon jurymen to hold inquests in-quests over those killed by the Meii-can Meii-can fire because of the danger, and also asking the governor to again appeal ap-peal to the state department at Washington Wash-ington for protection. Governor Hunt replied that he was asking the government govern-ment for aid and promising that he would urgently pres tho matter. A previous appeal lor protection was made to the state department by Governor Gov-ernor Hunt. Shortly afterward a band of cowboys offered their services to the governor and pledged themselves to keep tho Mexicans out of range of the border if the federal troops were withdrawn with-drawn and they were given free rein. This offer was refused. Meantime tho siege continues, many of Maytorena's guns and men being placed to the south ia such a position tliyt their fire at Naco, Sonora, when high, is directed toward Naco, Arizona. |