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Show RUMOR OF BATTLE NEAR EL PASO SAID TO BE UNFOUNDED VAj PA SO, Tex., July 8. A sheriff's! posse, which left El Paso today to in- j vesticate reports that fourteen Mexi- 1 cans nad been killed in a battle with j three Americana near Anapra N. M., ; returned tonight without having oh- i tained any verification of the rumors, j "Members of the posse assorted that they had searched the surrounding country thoroughly and had been unable to find ; any trace of tho reported battle or of the bodies of the Mexicans said to have been killed. 1'V.Upe Lucero, sheriff of Dona Ana ; county, New Mexico, in which Anapra is loc'utod, said over tho telephone that he had heard nothing of the reported engagement, while a tendency to discredit dis-credit the storv was manifested generally gener-ally here tonight. The body of Lieutenant. Henry Adair. Carrizal victim, wasisenk to his former homo at Portland, Ore., today. That of De Witt Rucker, the only trooper identified, identi-fied, was shipped to Hartwell, Ga. ' Those of the six other troopers are bo- ing held pending instructions for their disposal. It was stated at department headquarters head-quarters that twenty -one of the twon-tv-three troopers captured at Carrizal nud released Juno 29 probably would bo sent to Columbus, K. M., today, en route to their commands in Mexico. Tho two wounded will be held here for treatment. The Tenth infantry, "Pennsylvania national na-tional guard, detrained todav at Fort Blis;;. " I |