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Show feL PASO POSSE FAILS TO CAPTURE RAIDERS i Mounted Mexicans Supposed to"' Ba Operating in Thickly Settled Fanning District. TXj PASO. Texas, March 30. Possos sent from El Paso in automobiles after the police department and the sheriff's office1 had receivod reports of a raid six miles southeast of El Paso by a band of tweuty Mexicans, returned to the city Ihi-i evening and said they had found no trace of the raiders, according ac-cording to Sheriff iSeth Orndorff. One version was that mounted Mexicans on the south bank of the liio Grande had shouted threateningly to Americans, who then believed a raid impending. The first report merely informed tho chief that the Mexicans ' had begun the raid, without further details. They are reported operating about half way be- tween El Paso and I-'abens in a thiek-Iv thiek-Iv settled farming district. Many El Paso-neople have suburban homes in the vicinity. Keeling has been high in Juarez on account of tho killing of a number of Mexican customs guards in an encounter encoun-ter with Americans near Polvo March '2, but an anti-American demonstration demonstra-tion was prevented when the funerals were held yesterday. |