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Show iiHiir ON AMERICAN SOIL FORMER MEXICAN PRESIDENT CHARGED WITH VIOLATING NEUTRALITY LAWS. Dtention of Former Dictator Believed to Have Frustrated an Attempt to Launch a New Revolutionary Movement in Mexico. El Paso, Texas. General Victoriano Huerta, former provisional president of Mexico, and General Pascual Orozco Or-ozco were arrested here Sunday on orders or-ders ot the United States department of justice, charging that they had violated vio-lated the neutrality laws by cor.spir-fng cor.spir-fng to send an armed expedition into Mexico. Formal charges were filed against Huerta and Orozco on Instructions from the United States district attorney attor-ney at San Antonio. The accused "were taken before George Oliver, 0 United States commissioner, and their -- bond approved and their hearing fixed for Thursday, July 1. Surety was furbished fur-bished by friends of Huerta, the former for-mer president being released on $15,-000 $15,-000 bond, and General Orozco on $7,-500 $7,-500 bond. It is believed that the United States government has frustrated, for the present, an attempt on the part of General Victoriano Huerta and his associates to launch from American territory a new revolutionary movement move-ment in Mexico. The release of the Mexican leaders caused nearly as great a stir in Mexican Mexi-can and American circles as did the news of their detention earlier in the day. Immediately there was a revival of rumors relative to the new revolutionary revolu-tionary movement, although Huerta reiterated his statement that he did not intend to attempt to enter Mexico until peace Is Testored. The general stated that he is here merely to visit his daughter a few days and greet old friends in El Paso. "I am on my way to Los Angeles An-geles and San Francisco," said the general, "to visit the Pacific coast and see the Panama-Pacific exposition. I lived in Oakland, Cal., about twenty years ago and have not visited the west coast of the United States since then, so decided to make the trip." |