Huerta Offers Big Bribe.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 9, 1913:
Blanco Refuses $300,000 to Quit Carranza — Death for Envoy.
    EAGLE PASS, Texas, June 8.— Gen. Lucio Blanco, who directed the successful rebel attack on Matamoras, Mexico, last week, reported to Gov. Venustiano Carranza, Constitutionalist leader, today that he had been approached with an offer of $300,000 if he would betray Carranza and join the forces of President Huerta. Blanco reported he had caused the arrest of the Federal emissary, Bruno Trevino, who presented, credentials from Gov. Gonzales of the State of Nuevo Leon, and that Trevino had been sentenced to death by a court-martial.
    It is assumed the sentence was carried out, Carranza, to whom Trevino appealed, having refused to interfere. Trevino was one of the leaders in the Monterey revolt of last February.

    MEXICO CITY, June 8.— The Government will not attempt to recapture Matamoras immediately. It will organize as soon as possible a column of 2,000 men, but for the present these troops are not available. The gunboat Vera Cruz, on which it was intended to send a force to Matamoras to dislodge the rebels, still is at Vera Cruz.
    The War Department denies that Zacatecas, capital of the State of the same name, has been taken by the rebels, and asserts fighting continues there. Private information, however, confirms the fall of the town, and adds that the rebels are moving to the south against Aguascalientes, and that Saltillo is in danger of an attack. The rebels practically are in control of almost all the rural regions in the north.
    It is reported 100 more Americans are to be removed from Tampico this week in the steamer Mexicano, chartered by the Red Cross fund to carry refugees from Vera Crux.

    BROWNSVILLE, Texas, June 8.— Two Federal soldiers were killed and a command of fifty with their leader, Capt. Antonio Eschasaretta, was captured yesterday in an engagement with 100 rebels near Matamoras, Mexico. Eschasaretta, who with his men was taken to Matamoras, will be shot, according to a member of the staff of Gen. Blanco.