Mexican Hostility Grows.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 15, 1913:
Congress Embittered by Guaymas Incident — Bandits Robbing Foreigners.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    MEXICO, April 14.— Financial conditions here are critical. The 10 per cent. tax on the export of gold, it is believed, will aggravate the situation. The note struck in the discussion of the measure in Congress was "Mexico for the Mexicans; the foreigners are robbing us of our gold."
    The political leaders are working on a discriminatory tariff reform measure in an attempt to force recognition by the United States.
    The feeling over the Guaymas incident grew to-day with the publication of an official version laying the entire blame upon the United States sailors, who are said to have made an unprovoked attack upon a citizen and the Chief of Police.
    The anti-foreign feeling was evidenced in Congress by the frequent use of the epithet "Gringo" in references to Americans.

    CHIHUAHUA, April 14.— Vaciovio Herrera, with 400 followers, is terrorizing this part of the country by demanding ransom from foreign residents. He says he is opposed especially to Americans.
    According to advices received here today, Herrera's band on Sunday entered the Town of Naica and sacked stores and residences, taking prisoner José Bovio, an Italian subject. Bovio was released only after the payment of $2,400.
    Later the bandits entered the camp of workmen building the Conchos River dam, demanding $25,000 under threat of killing the English heads of the construction works. J. W. Fuller, the manager, refused and was tied to a burro, which Herrera threatened to send down a mountain side.
    Fuller's associates offered $5,000 to prevent the act, but Herrera insisted that the sum be doubled, which was done, after much parleying. Then the bandits looted the homes of the foreign and American workmen, robbing the company stores of $7,000 in merchandise.

    NOGALES, Ariz., April 14.— The beginning of a campaign of State insurgent forces against Guaymas, the only point in Sonora remaining in the hands of the Huerta Government, only awaits the arrival of the State troops which yesterday took Naco, on the Arizona border. Nearly 1,500 men will be hurried from the vicinity of Naco to Hermosillo, the State capital, south of which more than 2,000 troops are already mobilizing.
    Not more than 600 Federals defend Guaymas, on the Gulf of California.

    EL PASO, Texas, April 14.— Emilio Vasquez Gomez, aspirant to the Provisional Presidency of Mexico, to-day refused the offer of Gen. Victoriano Huerta, Acting Provisional President, to visit the National capital. A private car, brought here from Mexico City to convey Gomez, was returned.