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Show CHIEF JUSTICE IIIIIIE Thousand Mayo Indians Join Scnora to Fight Carranza ! Forces i ! FEDERAL SOLDIERS LEAVE FOR ACTION ' Preparations Made to Attack' Rebel Slate at One or More Points j DOUGLAS, Ariz., April ' Ignario ivquelrn. chief Jn.vtlce of Hie Mexico supreme court, tnlil lo have been appointed military iovcrnor of Sonora, was arrested by United States officers ho .stepped off a train here today. A woman, said to hae lice-n bronpli here by Pcsqucira 1'rom ;Mc.vieo, I was detained. ' Pcsqueira's arrest was said to be in connection with fringing the , woman into the United States and transporting her here .from Laredo, Lar-edo, Tex. Pesqueira is- married and jjne-cf .his, so.nsRorA'QPcs-'Tucjra,-was financial agent for the Carranza government at El Paso. Chief JUGtice Pesqucira Was said to have come here to "await the arrival of Carranza troops in Sonera," when he was to have assumed as-sumed the duties of chief executive execu-tive in the state, superseding Governor Gov-ernor Adolfo de la Huerta, who headed the secession of Sonora in its revolution against Carranza. General Pesqueira is from one of the most widely known apd wealthiest families of Sonora. He has vast cattle and mining interests, inter-ests, it was said. DOUGLAS, Ariz., April 23. The young woman detained with Pesqueira Pes-queira gave her name as Maria Rodriguez, of Mexico City. This was the second time she had accompanied ac-companied Chief Justice Pesqueira Pes-queira on trips to the United Slates, according to a statement General Pesqueira made. General Pesqueira showed no hesitancy in answering quesliqns concerning his relations with the woman, who he had known since 1914, he said. To one question he answered : "Yes, why not?" General Pesqueira said his-fam-Ily lived in the Arispe district of Sonora and that he is the father of nine children. AGUA PR I ETA, Sonora, April 23. More than 1,000 Mayo Indians, v-et-erans of tho last revolution in Mexico, which put President Carranza in power, pow-er, are en route here to join" as many more Yaqul and Mayor Indians already al-ready in this district, in the attempt of Sonora to overthrow the Mexican president, according to information given out at military headquarters today. to-day. Some of the Mayos accompanied General P. Ellas Calles, commander-in-chief of the Sonora army, to Xaco yesterday from Nogales. and fium : NfvCO "marched overland, arriving hero 'last night. Others arc en route from I their homes in the Mayor river lis-j trict, according to General Calles. j Carranv-a Soldiers. ! I The vanguard of the Carranza' troops that are expected to attaCK Sonora from Chihuahua, last night' were encamped at Ojitls, Chihuahua, ( according to telegraphic information received here. No attempt yet has i been made to force a way through the , j mountains. I Presence of the Yaqul and Mayo In-I dians in eastern Sonora was said to indicate tho state government expects, its hardest battlo with the Carranzistas In this section ' j General Departs. I EL PASO, Texas, April 23. Gen- eral Ignaclo Pcsquoira, recently appointed ap-pointed military governor of tho state of Sonora. to succeed Governor Adolfo de la Huerta, was in El Paso today en route from Mexico City lo Douglas, Ariz., to await tho arrival of Carranza troops in Sonora. He departed following follow-ing a conference in Juarez with A. Ruiz Sandovall, Mexican consul gon-eral gon-eral hero, and General J. G. Escobar, commander of the Juarez zone. Assigned to Command. EL PASO, Texas, April 23. General Candldo Agullar, son,-in-law of President Presi-dent Carranza, has been assigned to the command of Moxican federal troops in Chihuahua, Coahulla, Dii-rango Dii-rango and Zacatecas, according to Excelsior Ex-celsior of Mexico City. A force or S.000 men will be placed at his dis- posal. Troops now in Chihuahua will be sent lo Sonora. Troops Depart. JUAREZ. Mexico, Appril 23. Eleven trains carrying 7,000 soldiers, left Buona Visla, near Mexico City, for tho north Sunday night, .according to Mexico City newspapers roceiyed hero. They were sent forward for tho Sonora So-nora campaign- 'r |