Huerta Promises Safety.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 30, 1913:
Wires Washington He'll Protect Americans — Regrets Dixon Case.
Special to The New York Times.
    WASHINGTON, July 29.— President Huerta of Mexico promised the United States Government to-day in a dispatch from his capital to Washington that in future no American should be treated with violence or other injustice with his cognizance so long as he should remain at the head of the Mexican Government. He expressed regret for the shooting of Charles B. Dixon, United States Immigration Inspector, by Mexican Federal soldiers in Juarez last Saturday, and asserted that he was not responsible for the murderous attack. The dispatch in which the Provisional President made the promise and the apology was sent by him directly to the State Department in this city. Following its receipt this statement was given out by the department for publication:
    President Huerta has expressed himself as regretting very much that the American Government should ascribe to the influence of the Mexican Government any action which might be construed as antagonistic to Americans during his occupancy of the Executive authority, and desire the State Department to be assured that no injustice or violence shall be done to Americans with his cognizance while he is in his present position.
    Through the Mexican Foreign Office another dispatch was received forwarding a dispatch from Carlos Palafox, the Mexican Consul in El Paso, stating that the Dixon incident was closed, the whole affair having been arranged satisfactorily. Both the local military authorities in Juarez and the Government in the City of Mexico have expressed a desire to have the men who attacked Dixon punished in an exemplary manner, and the trial of the assailants by court-martial probably will be held in a few days. In every way possible, it is promised, the Mexican authorities will endeavor to meet the wishes of the United States Government.