Elder Orozco Slain.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 1, 1913:
Huerta Will Send Peace Envoy's Son to Avenge His Murder.
    MEXICO CITY, March 31.— The report from Cuernavaca of the shooting of Pascual Orozco, Sr., by followers of the rebel Emiliano Zapata, is confirmed to-day. Col. Orozco was in Zapata's territory as a peace envoy from Huerta. The Federal War Department is preparing to place Gen. Pascual Orozco, Jr., in command of a column of 5,000 men and send him to the State of Morelos, where many of Zapata's adherents are operating.

    WASHINGTON, March 31.— Gov. Carranza, at the head of tlie revolution against tlie Mexican Government in the north, has declared himself Provisional President, according to official advices received here to-day.

    EL PASO, Texas, March 31.— Annexation to the United States is being sought by certain revolutionary factions in Sonora, the northwestern Mexican border State, which is practically in control of insurgent State troops. Ignacio Bonillas, a Sonora State Congressman, is on his way to Washington to confer with officials regarding the plan. According to leaders here, Bonillas will promise that if the Washington Government will recognize the belligerency of the State troops, annexation to the United States will be advocated.
    Gen. Pascual Orozco, Jr., is not convinced that his father has been killed. The reports that the other members of the commission had been shot are definite, but there is a slight vagueness in the dispatches as to the fate of Orozco, Sr., which gives grounds for the theory that he may be held for ransom.