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Show REBEL STATES HAVE BEEN SEVERED FROM MEXICO Carranza Made President and Her-mosillo Her-mosillo Named as Capital of Provisional Pro-visional Government. Washington. The Mexican revolutionists, revolu-tionists, it is announced have proclaimed pro-claimed their independence of the provisional government, with Hermo-sillo Hermo-sillo as the state capital and Carranza Carran-za as president. The new government govern-ment has already secured a loan of ! $500,000 by a 50 per cent lien on the customs of the state of Sonora. The loan was arranged by Francisco Fran-cisco Escudero. who is to be the secretary sec-retary of the treasury of the new cabinet cab-inet and who has lately been in Washington The state department officials understand un-derstand that the Carranza government govern-ment will use its loan for the purpose pur-pose of gradually building up a navy It is first proposed to buy an armed steamer from some foreign nation, not the United States. This vessel, with others will be used to clear the Pacific coast of whatever navy Huerta has, and open the customs houses all along that coast for the benefit of the Carranza treasury. |