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Show TEXAS TROOPERS GO OVER BOUNDARY LINE Will Be Tried and Punlsned if Their Action Is Not Jus-s Jus-s tified. SAX ANTONIO, Tex.. Sept. 23. An in-1 in-1 ' vestigation will be made of tlie act of eisht members of the Texas .cavalry who I , -sterday rrossed the Rio .Grande into r Mexico near Rio Dosa and were fired upon by Mexicans. Colonel Malvern Hill Bar-num, Bar-num, chief of staff to General Funston. made this announcement tonight and added that if the action of the guardsmen was not Justified they would be tried and punished. News of the crossing was transmitted to General Funston in a dispatch from Colonel J. A. Gaston, at iMarfa. received after the general's return from Auston. Colonel Gaston said that Corporal Rogers Rog-ers of troop B, and seven men, forming the patrol at Rio Dosa, crossed to Mexican Mexi-can soil yesterday. He did not state the reason. At any rate, the Americans were fired upon by ten Mexicans and one of the troopers lost his horse. Colonel Gaston did not mention any return fire, but it is believed here that Corporal Rogers's men probably shot at the Mexicans. |