Huerta's Precautions.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 11, 1913:
El Paso Hears of Safeguards Taken to Protect Lind in Capital.
Special to The New York Times.
    EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 10.— Private advices were received at the Mexican Consulate here to-day by code cable from Mexico City that President Huerta was taking every possible precaution to prevent a demonstration against Gov. Lind when he arrives. The code message said that the police had been carefully inspected, drilled, and instructed in handling riots should any break our as the result of anti-American feeling. All the gendarmes have been armed with Mauser rifles, and a section of machine guns has been dispatched to the principal street intersections of the downtown district where mobs may gather.
    Everything was as quiet as usual at Juarez to-day. The troops remained under arms.
    For fear of a hostile demonstration in the interior a special train had been order at Chihuahua City to bring the American women and children, but the train service was temporarily suspended and the American families will remain until the next Government troop train is run.
    From the Federal viewpoint the situation in the North is showing a decided improvement. The rebels are demoralized by the defeat at Rancheria and by the arrest of Juan Dozal, Villa's Chief of Staff. There is now no active military movement against the Federal Government in Chihuahua. In Sonora the rebels are said to be quarreling among themselves. Gov. Maytorena has ordered the arrest of Acting Gov. Pesquiera and Col. Juan Caboal, commander of the rebel troops. This is the result of a split in the rebel ranks, and has given Gen. Ojeda a decided advantage.
    Gen. Ojeda is now accused of executing twelve boy cadets who were sent to the front from Chapultepec Academy at Mexico City. The boys were all under 15 years old. When ordered to the front at Ortez they declined, whereupon, it is said, they were promptly shot by the firing squad.