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Show UHCLE SAM TAKES I PROTECTION MEASURES President Taft has taken measures to rotect the life and property of American Ameri-can citizens in Mexico. He is deter-jned deter-jned that Americans shall not be entered en-tered by either the forces of Diaz or General Madero. The olfieers of both sides have been warned that no more fighting is to be done near the border One of the events which help-,.r help-,.r to bring on this demand from the (Jnit-'d States was the firing upjn Ame;.jcan citizenB in Douglas, Arizona, wbo were peaceful citizens carrying on tbeir business. The following: is the ,ni nf the attack and the urotest made to the United States: Two of the wounded in the battle died at the R'd Cross hospital and two amputations of limbs, necessitated by bullet wounds, were performed last week. Other deaths are expected, as many of the wounded are in a serious condition. i Amon those killed in the fierce rebel j onslaught was Julian Garcia, chief Mexican customs officer in Auga Prieta and acting coinmissario in the absence of Laborio Vasques. In Auga Prieta eleven dead have been placed in a temporary morgue and there are nearly as many in the morgues on TU.. .1 ... i-u 1.'.- : CnlS Mas m line. Aug ueaui list la npidly increasing from the finding of todies of federals or insurrectos in out-of-the-way places. Most of the firing was from behind sheltered places and the searchers are no.v an 1 then coming across the body of a soldier who fell unnoticed in the h?at of battle. Americans in Dojlas are especially angered over the face that American citizens who hippen;! to be at the Nacoziri railroa 1 station in Agua Prieta Pri-eta when the rebel train arrived yesterday yes-terday were not given an opportunity to escape the line of fire. They were aught in a corner by the suddenness of the attack, wmce was begin imme-di.itely imme-di.itely with the pojr.n cut of the rebel trojpers fron the coaches. Tne Americins sjjjrm shelter arjunl the statio.i hojse and in a nearo ditch, rioisung a wnite nag a:id cilhn? out that they were Am -ricm3 and mn-com- i batants; but the Mexican garrison in j Aua Prieta fl inked tnese piskions. and. closing in, deliberately poured in a deadily lire on the A nerican's. It was at this pjint thac A. R. Dixon was shot. Only the galling tire with which the rebels raked the fe lerals at this locality, lo-cality, kill ng miny and causing the o:hers to flee, prevented the shooting of many m ire Americtns. Tne station house, which is American property, was riddled by the federal bullets. Francisco Izabel Iriante, the Mexican Mexi-can consul in D mjlas, was called some days ago to the office of freign relations rela-tions in Mexico City and his successor, Jose Lozanoy Castro, formerly vice consul at Los Angeles, has arrived and taken charge. Tne Dou-rla-i cha nber of mines, on behalf of tha American citizens in Dojrlas. telegrajul tie follo-vin dispatch to President Tat'c: "During an engagement Friday betwepn thp fa lu.rjlj .j n l inonrrDc.u in Asjua Prieta, Mexico., one mile from Douglas, two Anericans were killed and eleven woanded, including some children, while atte iding to their business busi-ness here in Douglas. Tnousands of bullets fell in our city, passing throug l residences and endangering life and Droperty. Is there no way by which Americans can be protected in the peaceful pursuit of their affairs? Expect Ex-pect more fituin? on trie line at any time. Combatants yesterday fought within ten feet of the American boundary." bound-ary." The federal force at .Agua Prieta, which defended the town, consisted of 104 men. When the rebel train fro:;i Nacozari arrived ut Cabullona. where "Red" Lopez left his horses under guard, he arrested the telegraph op erator and gave orders that the line shjuld not be cut, as he wished to use it himself to keep in communication from Agua Prieta with his horses and guard. While under arrest, the telegraph operator op-erator surreptitously got his hand on the telegraph key, and flashed the following fol-lowing message: "Rebels coming in on train." I Tne federals in Agua Prieta thus had j twenty minutes' notice of the arrival of the train, and they opened fire on the coaches before the rebels had got out I at the station. I ITnon tha mnn'mt- rt u: -..v. .v,! ul inei-ue Pres. Taft issued the demand that no more fighinir was to take place on the border, and according to the telegram both the insurrectos and Diaz forces are willing to obey. The U. S. Cavalry crossed the line an I took two hundred prisoners at the citv of Douglas. These are being held j until proper times comes for releasing them. |