Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-06 | Page 7 | Cantu Indignant over Press Story

CANTU INDIGNANT OVER PRESS STORY Declares He Has No Intention of Declaring De-claring Lower California Independent. SAX FKAXOTS''0. .Jan. o. A tele gram signed 'Mho governor of the northern district of Lower California, K. Cantu." whi'h " rwcivn.-l from raIcxico ton i trii t. hy the Aso'.'ifit ed j Pre-?. rie'lnre1 puhii.-hed rt-nnrts thai . Lowtir (,';ilif urnia v:i.s preparing to e rede from Mexico were "absolutely. t'h1p and groundle9. " The messiigp j said: "I fee iustly in-linnnt at tho nw j that th5 r-res of the United States hnsj been puhlishniij relative to schmf im-j put ed ti) mo d" anuexa' ion and ind'-pendnre ind'-pendnre r-f I,nwer ' n:i:'ornia. Alio- j me 1o lionety nnd inrciMy stntr tliat ! said report? ure fil'S'ilutfly faise and) groundless. T po!"inn!y protest timt j either as governor or 2? a private, riti-i 7,'jn I will never in'iore the pce-inn of any j-orti'-n of the Mexican !?oil.' The ni'-'psng' Mn'ed tii;it the sender was 'Morally uiiHr::iintcd. fvrn y in-fereiK-e,'" with J-"idd"ing .f. Stil-on, a Los Angeles broker, who announced h're last Siiiiiiiiv nijjht that he was exporting To he appoinir-d dinlmnat ic rcprnt-a-tivo in Washington'" of Governor ( 'an-tu. 'an-tu. and expressed tlie h"li''f that. Lower L'aliioniia intended to sec e. da