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Show ANOTHER BATTLE WITH THE BANDIT BAND EXPECTED COIA'MBUS. N. M., May 26. American cavalrymen pursuing the fleeing adherents adher-ents of Candelario Cervantes, who attacked at-tacked an American army engineering party near Las Cruces yesterday, expected expect-ed tonight to engage the Mexicans within twenty-four hours, according to unofficial unoffi-cial reports here tonight. Two troops of the Eleventh cavalry and a troop of the Thirteenth were close behind the bandits when they passed through Alameda canyon can-yon several miles southeast of the village-Much village-Much gratification was expressed here over the killing of Cervantes, the most dangerous of the Mexican brigand leaders in. Chihuahua'. |