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Show i REBEL STATES SE- I CEDE FROM MEXICO f, if r '' Hcrmisillo Named, Capitat City, i Carranza Made President J Half Million Loan Secured 1 ' Washington. Ocfr 5. The t Mexican revolutionists, it is an- nounced, have proclaimed their '-( independence oi the provisional government with Hermosillo as the state capital and Carranza as president. The new government govern-ment has already secured a loan of $500,000 by a 60 per cent lien on the customs of the state of Sonora. The loan was arranged by ', Francisco Escudero, who is to be the secretary of the treasury of the new cabinet, and who has lately been in Washington. The fiscal agent of the new provisional government said to the International News Service , . tonight: "This loan was easy because -we showed to the syndicate that we not only absolutely control the senate of Sonora, but that Lwe were collecting the customs from all the custom houses. Jn addition to that soucre of revenue, rev-enue, there is the internl taxation taxa-tion in this province, and a sim-(, sim-(, ar collection of taxe asin.Dur-P": asin.Dur-P": an go, Chiahuahua, Zacotecas, IIP- Coahuila and various outlying. gL territories in which there is no jPr evidence of a Huerta force. ?, ' Loans to us are perfectly satis- Jt, ' factory and will be easily made .f in the future. '"' "There will be an early formal ?-.,"' announcement of the members H of President Carranza's cabinet, $ and the war will proceed until $L we change our capital to the f ' City of Mexico." The state department officials - understand that the Carranza lap' government will use its loan for J t tne PurPse o gradually build- Ey inS UP a navy. It is first pro- m . t posed to buy an armed steamer fy from some foreign nation, not jp the United States, so as not to h x excite the animosity of Presi-W' Presi-W' dent Wilson. This vessel, with m-' others, will be used to clear the fc Pacific coast of whatever navy W' Huerta has, and open the cus- !!& tom nouses all along that coast iju,, for the benefit of the Carranza $? treasury. . It is admitted at the statu de- ' partment that "it is customary , but not necessary for an- insur rectionary party demanding recognition to be able to show I that it is in possession of sea ports. They think that Carranza Car-ranza is putting his claim for recognition beyond question by the possession of a navy and sea ports through which he can get all the arms and ammunition he needs from foreign sources. Laredo, TexaB, Oct. 7. Private Priv-ate advices received here today say Torreon was captured at 3 ,x o'clock this morning by consti tutionalists under Genetel Vi- llano. These advices contained no details. - Washingtonn, Oct. 7.Dis- ! patches, from tho fighting zone in northern Mexico to consti-tutionalist consti-tutionalist officials here declare Pacho Villa and his large force escaped from Santa Rosalia before be-fore the federals under General Castro arrived there and moved southward, destroying the railroad. rail-road. Eariler reports said Villa and his command had been crushed. |