| Show MEXICAN GOVERNOR SPOILING FOR FIGHT SENDS BENDS ULTIMATUM TO THE COM MANDER OF AMERICAN GUN BOAT OFF WEST COAST mexicans open fire on an sailors without provocation one american and six mexicans being killed as result of attack san sail diego cal an ultimatum amounting practically to a declaration of war against the united states was served sunday on Comma commander arthur 0 kavanagh of the gunboat annapolis by general flores carranza governor of the state of sinaida Sina sinaloa ioa according inato to a radiogram from the annapolis at mazalan and received here monday by admiral winslow corn com reander ln in chief of the pacific fleet according to the message the dom commander of the annapolis advised all americans to leave as soon as possible sible e the boat from the war vessel containing ensign 0 0 kessing paymaster andrew mowat and a number of blue jackets approached the wharf range with the mexican authorities to from rom commander kavanagh to orrange arrange with the mexican to get out all americans without provocation it Is reported the mexicans fire on the sailors and boatswains mate 1 I 11 laughter was seriously wounded the americans returned the fire and As as far as known six mexicans were either killed or wounded Far earlier lier reports that a drunken japanese started the trouble are not borne out in reports received here ensign kessling Kessl ng and paymaster mowat at were taken prisoners and sent to the fortress but later were released on demands presented to flores b by commander kavanagh the mexican state of sinaloa Is situated between the gulf of 0 california and the states of durango and chihuahua and the contains an area of 2371 square miles the country which along the coast Is low and sandy rises grad gradually to an altitude of feet in the western border of the state where it Is traversed by a portion of the sierra madre occidental range its population ins about |
