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Show OLD PROSPECTOR IS KIIMMEXICANS Mining Man Captured; in Danger of Being Executed as Result of Fight. DOUGLAS, Ariz., June 22. Two foreigners, for-eigners, one an American, were killed Tuesday In a fight between three refu- 1 gees attempting to reach the United i States border and thirteen Mexican sol- diers at Clenega FVta, eight miles cast j of Arizpe, Sonora. according to an offi-cial offi-cial telegram received late todav at Agua Prieta by General P. Ellas Calles, Mexican Mexi-can commander, from the presidente-municipal presidente-municipal of Arizpe. The telegram was believed by persons here to confirm earlier reports from Nacozari and Arizpe that James Park. 45 years old, an American, and A. R. Dick-sen, Dick-sen, a British subject, were the men who had been killed. The third refugee, who was taken prisoner pris-oner by the Mexicans, was identified as i Norton Hand, an American, lie is being held at Nacozari. seventy-five miles south of the border, on a charge of homicide, according to messages from : Mexican officials there. , One Mexican soldier was killed and another an-other wounded in the fighting, according to the official report to General Calles. ! The report said the commander of the ! Arizpe garrison sent a scmad of thirteen ! soldiers to stop the three foreigners, re-! re-! ported to be cutting wire fences on a j ranch near there. Believing the for-I for-I eigners were cattle thieves, the officer in command called on them to halt. They replied by opening fire with revolvers, re-volvers, kiling one and wounding another an-other soldier, It was claimed. The return fire of the Mexicans, it adds, killed one man and fatally wounded another. an-other. The third man escaped. Hand was arrested at Nacozari. Americans Amer-icans arriving here said Hand stated the soldiers fired first. C. G. Duncan, British Brit-ish vice consul for northern Sonora, and Alexander Baird, Jr.. British vice consul In Arizona, investigating the reported killing of Dickson, held a conference with General Calles at Agua Prieta today. From other sources in close touch with the Investigations of the fight it was I asserted the British representatives bad : urged that General Calles bring either Dickson or his body to the border for identification. Calles was said to have promised to do this. Hand and Parks had been on a prospecting trip. Monday Mon-day they received advices to come to the In 1 ted States, Americans reaching here said. Thev passed the mine In which Dickson -was part owner and persuaded him to ax-company them. Dickson's brother and two sisters are al present In San Francisco. Mrs. Parks and young daughter are living here. ; Relatives of Hand were said to reside in Rincon, N. M. j |