Show BATTLE WITH GiRZA I I is Believed to Have Been Fought Yesterday MEXICAN TROOPS DEFEATED Tlio Officers Were Shot and the Men Joined the Revolutionists United States Troops on Guard LAREDO Tex Dee 30An interview with a United States marshal just in from Garzas operations show there is certainly a large force with Garza and in one of Garzas detachments which Captain Hardio followed there are not less than oOO men At the camp where they had taken a single meal there were the remains of eight beeves which had been slaughtered also thirtyone camp fires The trails bore proof of a company of several hundred men Captain Hardio followed close on the trail of these men until they crossed tho river The country has a dense growth of chapperal which makes it almost impossible for a horae to penetrate and the country broken by deep arroyas which compel the troops to dismount dis-mount and pick tbeir way carefully and with great difficulty Captain Hardie has spies and scouts stationed in various ous directions and doing everything possible under the circumstances considering consider-ing the impassable nature of the country There are rumors of a battle between Garza and Mexican troops but inquiry across the river in New Laredo failed to rver confirm them |