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Show UTAH TROOPERS ROUT MEXICANS AT STONE ROUSE Captain Freeman Bassett, With Troop F, Arrives Upon Scene of Battle Ready for Action. NO CASUALTIES ARE REPORTED Major Wallace Now in Command; Com-mand; Ranchers Positive Carranza Soldiers Made the Attack. NOGALES, Ariz., Jan. 27. The fighting at Ruby, Ariz., between ' American troops and Mexicans was caused by some twenty-five irresponsible irre-sponsible Mexican bandit cattle rustlers, according to a statement made by Brigadier General E. H. Plummer of tho United States army here late tonight. The bandits, he said, were resisting cowboys who were trying to recover stolen cattle. He said the Mexicans fired first from the American side of the boundary line. No regular Carranza troops took part in the affair, he said, although some. of the bandits were in uniform. uni-form. General Plummer said that no one was hurt on either side. The fight resulted, General Plummer said, from an old feud caused by the Mexicans' habit of. stealing cattle in the Arivaca district. dis-trict. . TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 27. The fighting fight-ing . at Stonehouse on the border between be-tween Mexicans and United States cavalrymen cav-alrymen stopped at noon today, according accord-ing to reports here tonight, with no casualties reported on the American side and the Mexican losses unknown. ' Mexican consul Delgado at Nogales telephoned to Sheriff Rye Miles of Pima county here today that he believed be-lieved the Mexicans were Carranza soldiers. sol-diers. Firing Incessant. Lying in rocks close to the international interna-tional line, five miles south of Ruby, Ariz., forty members of troop E, First Utah cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Arms, kept up an incessant firing at the Mexican soldiers, the Mexicans returning the shots. Reinforcements from Nogales were rushed to the scene. The Mexicans, who had been engaged in a de-suitor- battle with American troops and cowboys on the Sonora-Ari-zona line, fled, and tonight the Americans Ameri-cans were awaiting a renewal of the attack, at-tack, with no indication that the attackers at-tackers will reappear. So far as known, there were no casualties. Wallace in Command. Major Wallace, in command of troop F, Utah cavalry, is in charge of the situation at Arivaca and has seventy-five seventy-five men in his force. The battle ended at 11 o'clock this morning by the flight of the Mexicans, who were recognized by ranchers, who said they were from the Carranza garrison gar-rison at Stone House and, were under command of Captain Serine It was after Lieutenant Arns, with a detachment detach-ment on foot, went over the line to get into the rear of the attackers that it was learned the Mexicans had retired. There was no trouble last night, though the Americans had put out sentries sen-tries to prevent a raid across the line. Upon the arrival Friday morning about 11 o'clock of Lieutenant Arns. his force occupied the Stone House, but a small adobe house a few feet from the line seemed to offer a better position, posi-tion, and the lieutenant and his men advanced and occupied this building under un-der tire of the Mexicans. Here his little lit-tle force of eighteen men spent Friday night, with sentinels pacing the line in front of the house. Arns Crosses Line. No shots were exchanged during the night, but the Mexicans renewed the attack at 7:30 this morning. It continued con-tinued several hours without apparent effect, when the lieutenant decided to cross the line. Leaving ten men to guard the line, he took other members of his force and entered Mexico at a point some distance from the scene of the fighting. While no dead or wounded were found at the position held by the Mexicans, the Americans found blood stains, which indicated that some of their shots had found their mark and the dead or wounded had been carried away bv tho retreating Mexicans. Not an American was so much as scratched by the bullets of the attackers. Lieutenant Arns's force returned to camp at Arivaca tonight. Arivaca is about six miles north of the "stone house." Troops F and G of the L't:ih cavalry arrived at Ruby, where the Montana mine is located, tonight. Thev aro commanded by Major Wallace, who now is in charge of the situation. American ranchers say they arc posi- (Contlnued on Page Two.) CAPTAIN FREEMAN BASSETT, BAS-SETT, commanding troop E, Utah cavalry, at border. I UTAH TROOPS ROUT FORCE DF MEXICANS (Continued from Page One.) tive the attackers were do facto troops, as individual soldiers seen among them were known to be from the regular Car-ranza Car-ranza garrison, which was sent to that point recently. Colonel Camargo has been in command of the Mexican troops stationed at Sasabe, a Sonora-Arizona-Mexican border station a few miles west, but it is not believed that he was present at the fight. It is not known by Americans at the scene of the fighting fight-ing who commanded the attackers, though Captain Serrano was with them several days before the attack. |