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Show J- t- EL PASO, Texas, April 3. -- Tho first passenger train from -f- Caeas Grandea since tho battle on February C, arrived this morning aUuarez It brought -f- General Samuel Garcia Cuellar, f who lost big arm and who was -f- promoted to brigadier general. Two hundred boldiers and a machine gun also arrived. f- Three hundred Boldiers are left on duty at Casas Grandes. .,. Tho train qamo1 without accident, passing on the way north three passenger pas-senger trahib bound south. The train loft Juaroz at 10 o'clock, carrying a few passengers, a carload of detained mall and a carload of baggage bag-gage and express. Juarez still is strongly guarded as a result of the bomb oxplosion there Sunday morning. Tho three wounded mon are still alive. El Paso Is rapidly filling up with refugees ref-ugees from the disaffected region in Mexico. Crops Have Been Ruined. The crops have been ruined in that section of the state, the food supply 1b exhausted and the workmen and poor people aro coming to the states to earn enough to provide their families fami-lies with food until another nlantlnir season arrives. Specials to tho Herald from Sonora and Stnaloa show considerable, insur-recto insur-recto activity In those regions. The town of Cullnacan, capital of Slnalm, Is surrounded by Insurrectos on several sev-eral sides, but tho troops In tho city are evincing no fear of an attack. Word has been sent In that the water mains aro to be out. An attempt was made to burn the, market house last Friday, but this was prevented Robbed An American. A correspondent in Guayamas reports re-ports that an American mining man named Stevens was robbed of $185 In cash and all hla supplies, by a band of Insurrectos near Fundicion, and was almost famished before he reached Navaoja. whero he could obtain food. Twenty-three men wero arrested by United States soldiers at Zaragosa ford, about 13 miles east pf El Paso, while attempting to crosB the river from Toxas to Mexico. They had a number of rifles and admitted that thoy were going to Join tho Insurrectos. Insurrec-tos. Almost all of them wero El Paso Mexicans. One, however, Is Jean Humboldt, a Frenchman, who claims to bo correspondent for the Journal des Paris. All wero locked up, ponding pond-ing a prellminary'nearing Wednesday. Madcros at El Paso. Peace negotiations did not appear to make much progress today between the insurrectos and tho Mexican federals, fed-erals, but developments came to light that promise much in the next fow days. It Is now known that Fran elbco I Madeio has not been heard from regarding the proposals of the Mexican government and until he Is heard from organizations aro Impossible. Impossi-ble. All efforts aro now bent to arrange ar-range for a meeting In this city of Francisco Madero and representatives of the Mexican government To do this permission of the United States will have first to bo secured for Ma-dero Ma-dero to come here without being ar- rentAI UU n mnrrnnl 1c nut try hi., nr- rest on a charge of violating the neutrality neu-trality laws Mexico Must Grant Save Travel. Tho next step will be to secure safe transport for Madero to El Paso from tho Mexican federal government, and It Is known that such a proposition can be made The father and brother of the insurrecto's chieftain declared that they had nothing as yet to add to what they already said Gonzales Garcia, Insurrecto secretary secre-tary of state, called several times during dur-ing the day on the Madoros and their relations appeared perfectly cordial, although Garcia declared a few days ago that "these mon havo no right to speak for the insurrecto party." |