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Show AreWeli Armed and Capable Cap-able of Taking Towns in Northern Mexico El Paso, Tex., Dec. 8, Jose Sanchez San-chez Alvarez, former prominent mine and land owuer at I'arral, Mexico, now n lieutenant colonel in the In-surrcctory In-surrcctory army in Mexico, here last night on secret business, talked readily read-ily of the trouble in his country and did not mind having his name used, so confident wad he of the Insurgent success "Of course, we don't know whether w-e will win," he said, ".but many of us prefer to die rather than to lose. You are not getting the truth out of tho newspapers, nor hae you any Idea of what is going on. Wo huvc lelween 7.000 and S;oo0 men In arms, all through Chihuahua. They are Lhe same klud of men of which tho rural police are made, good fighting men. Our sharpshooters are as good as any. "Politically we want the Americans to know that we believe thein our friends, and the action of all our troops will bear out that statement. If the United States woujd promise to oversee a fair election, as It did In Cuba, we would throw down our nrms at once. That Is nil we want We could Lake the city of Chihuahua If we wanted It, but we could not hold It long at present. "Also, we could tie up tho National Nation-al Railways of Mexico, but we don t want to do that either. While It is called the National Railways. It Is own'd by Americans, and we don't want, any Americans helping the Mexican Mex-ican government. As long as w e keep our hands off American property wi will be left to fight our own battles. 1 we hope. "We are sorry that Alberto Terra-7.As Terra-7.As has been appointed governor of Chihuahua. "There will be fighting there soon. Our men are mostly still on their ranches, but all are armed. We are having -little trouble procuring arms from the States. It Is very easy." The colonel of insurgents smiled a. little. The colonel declared that troops reported ns marching from Sonora to Chihuahua would never reach their destination. He said the Insurrectionists Insurrection-ists would slaughter them in iho mountains. |