Marches On Carranoistas.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 4, 1913:
Col. Rivero Dispatched to Crush New Clan of Rebels.
    MEXICO CITY, March 3.— The War Department dispatched to the north this afternoon Col. Antonio Rivero, in command of an infantry force numbering 300, with two field guns and four machine guns. That action was taken because of the activity of a band of rebels to the north of Zacatecas. The insurgents have proclaimed themselves partisans of Venustiano Carranza, the rebel Governor of Coahuila, whose headquarters is 100 miles to the east on the line of the National Railway The rebels have burned several bridges on the Mexican Central north of Zacatecas. They have been named Carrandistas.
    There is much disaffection in the State of Hidalgo and an uprising is feared if the Federal Government fails to satisfy the conflicting interests. A committee composed of citizens of Hidalgo has come to the capital to make charges against Ramon Rosales, the Governor-elect. He is charged with grafting 70,000 pesos and with secreting arms and ammunition belonging to the Government. The committee also charges Rosales with the murder of officers of the rural guard, alleging that Carlos Vidal Gomez, Rafael Reyes, and Alfonso Falco were executed by Rosales's orders.
    Gen. Alberto Yarza has been named Military Governor of Hidalgo, pending a settlement of internal political affairs there.
    Four hundred textile workers to whom was denied permission to hold a public demonstration in memory of President Madero started rioting this afternoon, but were dispersed by the police. A factory, La Carolina, has been closed as a result, the employes having gone on strike.
    Representation in the Mexican Cabinet, promise of the fulfilment of the revolutionary programme, and a pledge that all Deputies in Congress from the State of Chihuahua should be acceptable to Gen. Orozco and his partisans, were the demands presented to Provisional President Huerta to-day by Col. José Cordova, Orozco's representative, as the price of the rebel leader's co-operation with the Federal Government. Gen. Huerta expressed willingness to grant the demands, and told Cordova he would submit the proposition to the Cabinet.
    The firm and energetic military rule promised by the new Federal Government probably will be begun in the course of this week, now that President Huerta has had eight days of direct conferences with the rebel chiefs and negotiations with insurgent leaders in the Northern and Southern States by the indirect means of commissions sent out by the Government. Gen. Huerta is disposed to consider irreconcilable all rebels who continue to delay definite recognition of the new order of things or who are disinclined to accept the terms of surrender offered to them by the Central Government.
    The programme of pacification started by the Government is expected to be put to severe tests. That was shown yesterday when a band of adherents of Emiliano Zapata fired on a Federal troop train running from the capital to Cuernavaca Sixty soldiers were killed or wounded. Bands of Zapatistas continue making raids in the Federal district itself and in the State of Morelos, indicating that some of the mountaineer rebels and bandits to the south of the capital are not in sympathy with the peace negotiations being conducted by the Government with the Zapata brothers and others of the insurgent leaders.
    The railroads between the capital and the North still are blocked, and there has been practically no mail from the United States in fifteen days, except that brought by steamers to Vera Cruz.
    Alberto Fuentes D, ex-Governor of Aguas Calientes, who was captured and brought to the capital by Federal troops in the night, asserts that he fully recognized the Government of Provisional President Huerta from the beginning, and that he was called a rebel by enemies.
    Fuentes D romains a prisoner in the National Palace. He will be transferred to the penitentiary and placed at the disposition of a District Judge.
    Abraham Gonzales, ex-Governor of Chihuahua, who was arrested a week ago, also will be brought to the capital for trial.