Show MEX got NEP OF ena nf ONE AMERICAN SOLDIER KILLED AND ANOTHER BADLY WOUND ED IN ATTACK ON PATROL blow struck flear ear daybreak while Sold tir were still sleeping army on texas frontier now practical ly y on wartime military footing brownsville Browns ville texas onu one american america soldier lost his lite in a carefully cue fully planned attack by mexicans elcans early monday on a tamp lamp of a patrol of the thiril third a valry near santa maria marta As a result Amerl american can troops in tho thu lower loer hlo RIO grande valley are held in n readiness for instant action prate anthony krat kraft of detroit mat was shot throat the tle head bead and adlea d lea beffie the fight was over trumpeter harold T forne fornel of wa VA feiten feit cn N Y aja is shot through the abdomen md li ii expected to dl die sergeant amea ames C walsh vas was slightly wounded although surprised and surrounded und ten troopers tro opera of A troop third i a av a airy under sergeant walsh made a spectacular defense and stood off oft three times their number of assail ants until the approach of another detachment tach ment of united states troops forced the mexicans to retreat I 1 I 1 the ramp whre wh re the fight light v ae as in a grove about a 9 shed in a rauch corral the Ameil can detachment slept in this shed and under the ebony trees beside it before the men nita had been aak awakened ened near daybreak one of the sold soldiers lers who was starting the break breakfast tast fire saw less than yards away outside of the corral fence one man on top of a itral stack and five others on the th ground nearby he lie shouted a ing sergeant kalsh awakened the command and as the men reached for their rifles the ana ans opened fire this fire starting from the straw i tack encircled the aa acherl nert I 1 cans calls until they were fighting with detachment detachments of 0 mexicans probably I 1 to talling thirty stationed station od d at five separate shelt shelters state peace officers searching amorian houses in the vicinity of d the ranch seized two wagon agon loads c arras arms after the battle but thery there wae was nothing to connect any americana americans directly with the fight in fn addition to the arm firms seized they found many lid 11 fashioned firearms in the possession of mexicans these were destroyed gen E P at matamo roe ilex in response for the a arrest rr e st of luls luis de do la rosa and aniceto pl PI zano sent word that he w as searching tor for them these two mexicans were alleged to be signers of the most recent circular circulars distributed in thia this section calling pon mexicans to kill americans five mexicans living at the ranch I 1 bouso bou bere the fight occurred mere ar on suspicion and taken to sin S in benito one of them sebeal days ago it U Is I 1 alleged ald one of te tt twelfth cavalry officer officers that he intended to kill oue of that officers s men |