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Show PRESIDENT DE LA BARBA ISSUES ELECTION DECREE MHXtOO CTTT. Jun S. Bv offlclsl decree de-cree Issued Friday by Provisional President Presi-dent I la Barra. a aneclal presidential election was called. Electors will be chosen October 1. snd these will select the successor to Porflrlo Diss Sunday. October Octo-ber IS. Governors are Instructed to define and publMy announce, prior to June 3o. electoral elec-toral districts In their ststes snd territories, territor-ies, ustna the census of 1ln. Pe la Barra fully reallsea the responsibility respon-sibility he has aeaumed, and he doea not underestimate the dlfflcultlea to he encountered en-countered In holdlne open electlona In Mexico. It remains for 'he parties to select their candidates. At present Frsncleco I. Ms-dero, Ms-dero, Jr.. Is the only man whose name Is certain to he on the ballot. General Reves will he here soon and It (a evident hie coming haa made some oY tha Maderiataa nervoua. The general haa not aald he will not be a candidate. General Gen-eral Ryes'e friend a are not ao numerous aa they were befora ha waa sent out of tha country. That any affort will be made to prevent pre-vent him from reaching tha capital la not expected, but atorlra of piota. both In hla avnr and against him, are heard daily. Thla afternoon a newapaner published pub-lished a atory that army officers had planned to proclaim him preeldent and use their forces to place him at tha head of the nation. Joee Yvea I.I man tour expecta to leave Mexico for France June 12. T he on ly aerloua report received la that from Tapachula. near tha Guatemalan Guate-malan frontier. There anarchy Is said to prevail. Moha are reported In poaeee-lon, poaeee-lon, tha old authorises gone and none remained to replace them. The American con an late has ben used as a refuge by many frightened Chlneae. The Oil neae legation has lodged with the Mexican government a claim for two million peaos, alleging thla amount of damage waa Incurred by Chinese real-dent real-dent a at Tor re on. The Chineee representatives repre-sentatives reports shows 90S Chlneaa were killed In Torreon and fifty In tha surrounding sur-rounding country. The war depart ment haa sent orders to OeneraJ Vlllar to evacuate Chihuahua. Peaceably the revolutionary troops took poeeeaaton of Tlaxcla and- a new governor succeeded Prosnero Cshuantst- Governora of the atatea have been In-at In-at rue ted to ascertain the number of families fam-ilies whose heads fell In the revolution on either side snd to report aa aoon aa possible to Ue la Barra. The president propoeea t ha go ve mmnt aha U care for the wldowa and orphan a When Madero arrlvea here ha will be accorded only auch a reception aa la given a distinguished cltlsen. Meet! nays are being be-ing held nightly by cluhe formed to honor the "liberator of the country." Among these clubs there la one formed today whose membership Is entlrelv feminine. fem-inine. It la named the Bsra Peres de Madero club, after Madero'a wife. |