Word: jalisco
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...Mexico City the U. S. Embassy made formal protest last week to the Mexican Government at the murder in Mexico during the past month of three U. S. citizens: George Holmes, slain in the state of Chihuahua; Edgar M. Wilkins, killed in Jalisco; and Frederick C. Combs who was done to death in Sonora...
...courteous" police sergeants a month ago had escorted out of Mexico, over the Guatemala border?Pasquale Diaz, Bishop of Tabasco, now exile. Newspapermen marveled at how, in the serenity of Catholic priesthood, this man's face had acquired its strained lines of truculence, combat and domination. He is a Jalisco Indian, born 1876 in Guadaljara, Mexico; trained by Jesuits in Spain and France; ordained priest in 1899, bishop in 1923. His face showed no benignity save when he smiled. In the civilian clothes that he wore? soft hat, grey suit, knitted tie?he looked like a superintendent of a railroad...
...mining man from Pachura, and "the wife and child of C. H. Sharratt, Manager of the Guadalajara branch of the Bank of Montreal." President Calles at once ordered 4,000 Federal troops to pursue the bandits, or "revolutionaries," to a ranch known as " Quitupan" in the state of Jalisco, whither they had fled after escaping on the engine of the wrecked train...
...assassins. Eight men who were caught red-handed with loot from the train " confessed" ?to exactly what was not stated? and were instantly shot. The only hint at a definite explanation of the bandits' acts was that they thought General Ferreira, Military Commandant of the state of Jalisco, was on the train and wished to murder...
...Bynner, whose co-judges will be Rose O'Neill and Vachel Lindsay, offers the prize under the auspices of Palms, of which he is an associate editor. His Excellency Jose G. Zuno, Governor of Jalisco, offers the winner free fare from the American border to Guadalajara, Mexico, and a term of free tuition in the University of Guadalajara...