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Show OEIIS ARREST OP BANDIT GANG Citizens of Oklahoma Denounce De-nounce Correll Murder by Mexican Outlaws. ADA, Okla., July 13. Over two thousand persons of Pontotoc county attended a. demonstration today in protest pro-test against the murder or! John W. Correll, tho maltreatment of Mrs. Correll Cor-rell and abuse of their 16-year-old son by a band of Mexicans on the Correll farm at Colonia, Mexico. A resolution-was resolution-was adopted declaring it to bo the desire de-sire of Pontotoc county citizens that the Mexican government pay Mrs. Correll Cor-rell for damages to property and the murder of her husband; and that the murderers be apprehended. JUAREZ, Mex., July 13. Colonel Jose Gonzales Escobar, commander of the garrison of Juarez, is promoted "for gallantry" to the rank of brigadier briga-dier general in orders received here today. to-day. Colonel Escobar took a leading I part in the defense of Juarez against Villa June 14 and 15 last, ana was 1 wounded June 15. His promotion dates from that day. 1 General Escobar is in an El Paso hospital. PARIS, July 13. (By the Associated Press.) Intervention by the United ! States in Mexico would tend rather to 1 complicate the situation than to ame-i ame-i liorate it, according to a statement 1 made today by Francisco Leon de La Barra, former provisional president of Mexico, in referring to dispatches received re-ceived in Paris to the effect that American intervention in the southern republic was possible. |