Twenty-one Rebels Executed.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 18, 1913:
Porras and Gang Pay the Penalty for Various Outrages.
    EL PASO, Feb. 17.— Juan N. Porras, a rebel chief, and twenty of his followers were executed Saturday on the line of the Orient Railway near Chihuahua. Federal troops also captured forty-seven others of the Porras group, who were taken to the State Capital to-day.
    Porras was a member of Gen. Pascual Orozco's, original staff, but had recently been operating independently. To him have been credited many outrages, including the cremation in a burning station of three Mexican Central Railway employes last week at Callego.
    It is said that the Porras execution, ordered by Gen. Antonio Rabago, met the approval of the rebel General, Marcello. Carraveo, who has made a truce with the Federals at Chihuahua City. Porras is said to have continued operations, despite the informal armistice which Federals and rebels seem to recognize. The main rebel group, under Gen. Inez Salazar, was to-day at Azcension, between the Northwestern Railway and the border, and about 100 miles southwest of Juarez. Salazar is waiting the return of Col David de la Fuente, who went to Palomas, on the New Mexican border to meet Attorney Emilio Vasquez Gomez, who has proclaimed himself Provisional President by virtue of the Tacubaya plan, recognized by the rebel factions after the Madero revolution.
    It is said that Salazar, who controls about 1,500 rebels in the district below Juarez, has already recognized the Gomez claim to the Presidency.
    Traffic on the Mexican Central was resumed to-day between Juarez and Chihuahua. The wires are operating south as far as Mexico City, but such strict censorship is observed that Mexico City operators refuse to answer any questions. Chihuahua City is reported quiet.