Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-27 | Page 1 | Mexican Bandits Take Possession of Texas Ranch

MEXICAN BANDITS TAKE POSSESSION OF TEXAS RANCH SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 26. Mexican bandits today tolc possession of the Henry Eads ranch, twenty-six miles from the Rio Grande In Jim Hogg county, after driving off the foreman and other ranchmen, according to information which readied the owner here tonight. Mr. Eads also learned that in a fight with Sheriff Thompson and Ranger Pat Craighead one Mexican wras killed and another wounded. An appeal for additional Unltod States troops for Jim Hogg county was made yesterday by county authorities. Another anpeal for protection along the border reached southern department army headquarters today, when a delegation of He! Rio citizens, headed hy Sheriff .John A I ihomp, a skfi for more troops to gua i d against Incursions across the Rio Cnnulf by armed Mexicans. A I mop of ravalrv now is stationed at Del Rio, hut the tiof-nation tiof-nation said they decmM this insufficient, insuffi-cient, as more than 1 &0n st r;t ni;c M exi -fans have reached Del Rio in the pas: tlr'ep- months. Virtually every ranch in the border (Oirutry has taken vigorous measures nf defense against possible raids from Mexican Mexi-can lian:iits.