STOLEN FORTUNE
RETURNED TO
ITS OWNERS
LOS ANGELES, June 20 (by Asso
elated Press). — Enrique C. Creel,
twice Mexican ambassador to the
United States, minister of foreign af
fairs In the cabinet of Porflrio Diaz
and for many years governor of the
Mexican state of Chihuahua, now liv
ing in exile in Los Angeles, has just
divulged for the first time how the
Carranza government has returned to
him and his family securities valued at
more than $1,000,000, and other val
uable property. He told, also, his be
lief that conditions in Mexico are rap
idly improving.
The securities hidden in two large
boxes since 1914, have been restored
to his sons, Edward, Henry and Sal
vador, who, under the name of Creel
Brothers, conducted a banking estab
lishment in the City of Mexico. To
the former Mexican ambassador has
been returned his family home in the
Mexican capital.
“As yet’” said Senor Creel, "my es
tates have not been returned to me,
but, as conditions in Mexico are stead
ily improving, I believe they soon will
be.”
His estates include thousands of
acres in Chihuahua, now in control
of the Mexican government, and are
15,000,000 acres which were the prop
erty of his father-in-law, the late Gen
eral Luis Terrazas, who died an exile
in Texas last March, and who, during
the Diaz regime, was known as the
•wealthiest man in the southern re
public.
“When the first revolution came in
1914,” recalled Senor Creel, “my sons
packed away in two large boxes secur
ities owned by clients of Creel Broth
ers and valued at more than $1,000,000
together with valuable papers of my
own. The boxes were placed for safe
keeping in a vault at the Banco Cen
tral Mexicano, in Mexico City.
“The forces which captured the city
found them, seized them and took
them to the capitol where they have
been lying for more than four years
In that period, the government hae
been making an Investigation to learn
if Creel Brothers had been involved
in political machinations against it.
Recently the official report that the
establishment had been guilty of no
political activities was made and the
government directed the return of the
securities and of my residence in the
capital.
“As my sons now are living in the
United States, the boxes were return
ed to their attorney, Francisco C. Ter
razas, in Mexico City, who has dis
tributed them to clients of Creel Broth
ers. Nothing was missing.”
Senor Creel, now about 60 years
old, short, wdth graw mustache is liv
ing here in semi-seclusion. Since he
left his native country nearly five
years ago, he has not returned, but
through his correspondence with
friends in Mexico he has become con
vinced that “a better day is dawning
there.”
This view is held also by Adolf Car
rillo, formerly Mexican consul here,
who has just returned from Mexico
City, where he had a conference with
President Carranza.
| "Business is booming in the Mexi
can capital,” declared Senor Carrillo.
“There 1b plenty of money. One sees
only gold and silver. Laborers are now
paid $2.50 a day, as compared with $1
a day several years ago.
"President Carranza told me he wel
comes Americans and American capi
tal, but that he does not believe any
one should have a monopoly in any
business.”
Jose Garza Zertuche, recently ap
pointed Mexican consul here also de
clares conditions in Mexico are rapid
ly returning to normal. He said he
did not take seriously the recent pro
claiming by Villa forces of General
Felipe Angeles as provisional president
of Mexico and of Francisco Villa as
secretary of war.
BIG HORTICULTURAL
EXHIBIT IS PLANNED
FOR LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, June 20 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A horticultural and
agricultural exhibition to be establish
ed at Exposition Park, in this city,
will include a varied display of pro
ducts from all parts of the world, ac
cording to F. M. Davison, secretary of
the Sixth District Agricultural Asso
ciation. Money for the exhibit was
provided by the last session of the
state legislature and work will begin
at once.
American consuls all over the world
will be asked to contribute samples of
the chief products of the territory
over which they have Jurisdiction, gov
ernmental approval of this plan having
"been secured by Mr. Davison.
Methods used in development of the
products will be described by the
sender of the samples.
“We will have the best and largest,
and, with one exception the only ex
hibition of its kind in the United
States,” said Secretary Davison, who
expressed his belief that the United
States government would take over
and maintain the exhibit after the
state had brought it to a successful
stage.
"The foreign exhibits,” continued
Mi. Davison, “will enable us to widen
the range of California’s agricultural
and horticultural work. We introduced
our new industry, the growing of the
avocado, from Mexico. There is no
reason why we cannot raise all the
products of the West Indies, Tunis,
Algeria, the Society islands and other
semi-tropical sections here.
“We want to see Japanese nitrate
processes and Australian wool in com
parison with our own. We want to see
the rice of Japan and the phosphates
of the Netherlands alongside our own.”
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