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Show oo FEDERALS HEAR NEWSJFFLIGHT British Consul Tells Garrison at La Paz of Fall of Gen. Huerta. On Board U S S California. La Paz, Mex.. July 19. (By Wireless to San Diego. Cal., July 20). News that Huerta has fled was communicated to the federal garrison here today by P D. Moore, the British consul, in the hope that the information might bring about a cessation of hostilities As soon as the constitutionalist troops under General Alvarado entered en-tered Guaymas Saturday, a constitutionalist constitu-tionalist government under Governor I Maytorena was inaugurated. Ten federal partisans were imprisoned, and It is reported that their property will be confiscated Among them Is Senor Martinez, one of the owners of the Naviera line, on four vessels of which the federal garrison is steaming steam-ing southward. The flotilla is pro ceeding slowly and probably will reach Mazatlan on Monday. At Magdalena, an American colonisation colon-isation company, which a few years ago launched an ambitious plan to put five thousand families on the soil each year, has met with a vexatious reverse. Its deeds and papers have been destroyed at La Paz. during the process of recording them, and it now will become necessary for the company com-pany to negotiate afresh with the constitutionalists. oo |