Show THE RING CHIHUAHUA Mel Feb 9 Governor Gov-ernor Ahuamada of the state of Chihuahua h taken steps against the proposed pugilistic carnival taking place within the confines of this state He h issued orders for 1000 troops to proceed proee t the border and patrol the city of Juarez and adjacent territory during the days on which the fights are scheduled to occur Th governor has also addressed I ad-dressed i letter to the principals and e manager of the fights informing them r that they will positively not be allowed to trespass upon Mexican soil i any puelllstlc Encounters a contemplated EL PASO Tex Feb 9Dan Start baa what he calls a curio file on wJilcSi th letters from cranks are 1m poled Some of them are humorous others pathetic and a whole lot of them dEcdeY noveL They come from all 3arte at the country and fronj every oat 3 The other day a letter addressed to DanA Dan-A Stuart Rex Worlds Profound Maul Convocation wa postmarked Station ton G New York N Y The letter was IEtra written In a wide scrawl strangely suggestive sug-gestive of the chirography of George Francis Train Station G Is the post office most adjacent t Madison Square In New York and i this does not signify 1 signi-fy much I suggests the haunts of Cosmos The letter reads res Stick Psyche approves Worlds sympathy your command Putrescent fabric of decaped institutions draw inspiration in-spiration from sport which relegates stilleto In manman encounters to rand r-and ordains Godgiven weapons for use In arbitraments In law courts Go on Cosmos approves Vale Stuart Pita simmons Maher et aL T Another letter came from a barber at Tucson Ariz who says I you say so will bring my outfit on and shave yourself and fighters for nothing if I can see fights Put ad i papers that I have been made official barber for carnivaL nival J J WRIGHT I remained for Chicago to send in remne the following I a a young graduate from the college of physicians and surgeons sur-geons and anxious to get a little harmless harm-less advertising and at the same tame It will send render you a service I you wl servce me round trip ticket and pay my living expenses while In El Paso I will act a surgeon at ringside free of charge Kindly give this to Associated Press and say that I am to get a fee of 55000 for my services R 1 M d M D Iy The New Mexican border is protected by a posse of deputy sheriffs At Juarez Ju-arez Mexico there are five companies df Mexican national infantry two of the companies having been transferred I to the Juarez barracks within the past ten days One of the reports regarding the conference con-ference between Dan Stewart and the citizens yesterday is that the citizens committee of El Paso gave him permission mission to use in securing a battlefield L a part of the 10000 whch he was to receive ceive from local sources if he brings off the MaherFitzsimmons fight neM El Paso on February 14 Dan Stewart i is stated save bonds for the use of the money the bond to be forgfeited in case Maher and Fitzsimmons do not come together I is all n matter of supposition if this report be true a to how the money is to be spent towards to-wards insuring a place of meeting The kinetoscope people would doubtless doubt-less come up handsomely rather than L have the big fight called off They aro already out 17000 Maher for several days i is said has been suspicious of an alleged agree meat between Fitzsimmons and the carnival management Maher seems to think that Fitzsimmons has a partnership partner-ship in the kinetoscope enterprise and I is getting the big end of the bargain Maher however has given no intimation intima-tion of an intention of backing out or refusing to fight A telegram received today announce I that Matchmaker Kennedy latchmake represent ing the Empire Athletic club of Lon don England is o his aY here I is upposed he will come to pick up some of the matches if the worst comee to worst with the carnival programme t here The DixonMarshall and Barry Murphy fights are supposed to be what he is after HOUSTON Tex Feb 9A Special from Austin says Tho adjutantgen eral has gone to El Paso at which point i is understood the major portion of the porton Ranger force will be concentrated within ltrate wihIn the next few days United States Dis trict Attorney Culberson ha also gone I to El Paso presumably in obedience to instructions from Washington and United States Washlngtn may de part for that city tomorrow e From persons who have just come from El Paso It is learned that everything is at oresent in the hands of the boldest gag of toughs ever gotten boldet in any one spot on earth and hold ups are so common there now as to attract no attention attat EL PASO Tex Feb 9This evening even-ing Martin Julian received the following follow-ing cablegram London Feb 9 Should the contest not take place and there is no chance to pull it off the National Sporting I club of London will cUb wl post 5000 for a twentyround fight Wire acceptance or declination to A L Lumley New York When Julian read this REUTER message he crumpled it up and said Indignantly well what do you thing of that Here we are fighting to a finish for a cheap lure and taking chances against sol diers when we might pull the fight off in the best sporting club in the world and get a lot of money out of i Julian seemed very much out of sorts and dn view of the message from London he will evidently not be brokenhearted if the contest is pre vented and the big fight driven from this hemisphere to London It is fm derstood tonight that Maher I to be here tomorrow This circumstance helps the persistent rumor that the big light will take place before Friday EL PASO T x Feb 9Bob Fitz simmons and Peter Maher will meet in the ring in spite of official action and there is strong probability that several o the other carnival events will take place wi tke Dan Stuart so de dares and the cares preparations are making a though no bar had been placed upon the events The only effect of the action at acton Washington has been to make the promoter and his associates ls asocIates more se cretive a to the plans At midnight last night much of the paraphernalia of the mills was taken from this city Great care was taken to keep the matter quiet The material presuma oiy went across the border into Mexico at a point north of here Adjutant General Mabey of Texas galloped Into galoped the city tins morning at the head of a company of twelve Texas rangers Their arrival caused a stir until it became known that the object of their visit was to see that the fights did not take place on Texas soil When the troops found that there was no te hood of being called into action lkel individual rangers expressed an inten tion of being spectators The fights may take place at any time although they are not likely to be brought off for at least fortyeight hours FitzsimmonH took a run of ten miles today behind a buckboard driven ies Julian The return to his training quarters in Juarez Mexico was made through here e and the pugilist was the pUglst wa object of all eyes as he clung to the rear of the vehicle which Julian drove at a smart pace Jerry Marshall took 3 long walk breaking into a run now and then around the Rio Grande bot toms at Las Cruces tMs morning The other fighters booked for fgbt booke carnival events also took their usual exercise today All have been notified to con tinue work as they may be called upon at any time to enter the cale Alf meeting of Dan Stuart and his lieutenants this morning it was de wa cided that on the day of the big fight Bat aifst ers01l will be gIven charge of the train and train an will have one hundred men under his orders Jim Bates was given charge of the equipment and Secretary Wheelock was made master of transportation mater Governor Ahuamada of the state of Chihuahua arrived at stte de Juarez < i afternoon and the story at once epread around that he 1ad come ta > prevent the fight t pvent fght taking place He laughed when asked if such i was the case and declined to discuss the fight in any way He ha he said enough declared himself once and that w |