Show M I I I TUREA T liRE ATE TEN N IN TEXAS I Situation itu tion Along Lower t 1 Rio r ys Grande I Is Serio Serious i B Ban Bandits ii Make Daring Ding M At-M At Attack t tack on U. U S. S Cavalry Caval Soldier Is Killed i r r i WASHINGTON Aug I 17 u State d department dispatches from Vera Cruz today may Bay S Highly Inflammatory placards ha have ve been circulated throughout the town by the tho I. I W. W W. W The Tho placards caVed caled for tor a mass meet ing ingon on August 15 15 directed principally prin against prospective inter or Pl interference in Mexico by tho the C B countries Au profess ignorance of f the documents document Carranza forbade the mass meeting meeting hut ut the posters S remain on the walls S No active demonstration demon demon- has been r reported ported but officials pre re are uneasy over the as asit it affects Americans and other tor foreigners or The Tho battleships battle battle- S ships New Hampshire and nil L Louis Louis- lana fans with Rear Admiral MeLean Me Me- Lean are arc due in Vera Vora Cruz to t morrow t S Thc report adds that General Genera Villa has ordered many executions for pillaging i S BROWNSVILLE BRO At- At 17 rhe nie The border situation ulong the lower R Rio o Grande Graide as assumed a a- a threatening aspect today of Mexicans in force last night at Progreso on t the e Rio Rio Grande GrantIe thirty miles above Brownsville Browns Browns- ville and their daring attack across the river on a troop of the Tw Twelfth l v ft United States cavalry was was not not the only aggravating feature of r tile thc sit sl- nation S S 5 Authorities here heze rec received ived reports that twenty-five twenty horses including some recognized as an animals b by bandits in recent raids ralls tin OU the de were delivered er this week in Matamoros the Mexican town opposite opposite op op- here held by Carranza tro troops ps Delivery lj of these se horses and nd PIo the tho fact Tact that the tho Mexicans at Progreso had been gathering openly and n and Inconspicuously in inconspicuously inconspicuously conspicuously large nu numbers bers for tor days created suspicion among Americans Amer leans ieans that Carra Carranza za officials were ere lax in discipline or without sufficient dent dependable troops t to copo with the bandit element on the Mexican side d S Soldier Killed Kie l S The d death ath of Corporal Wilman Inthe in inthe inthe the fight tho the Progreso crossing last night and the wounding of Roy oyO Ot 0 Henry an and anc t Private Jackson Intensified feeling in this section I For nearly twenty mlle ab about ul Progreso crossing alarms w wore were re resounded sounded by rifle shots shots' and by bells ast i night Armed men patrolled roads and w women men and children were gathered where they c could uld be guarded Early Early- Early today more moro troops reached Mercede Mercedes and the Progreso section They were infantrymen from the Twenty sixth regiment who reached li horo ro yesterday from Texas City I DOUGLAS Ariz Aug 17 S 17 Semi Semiofficial ml official advices received here late lato last night said that tho the Carranza forces were victorious in the ilia fighting fight tight ing UK yesterday at five tivo miles miles' east rot Nogales Sonora The TheVilla Villa forces were driven lack back Int into Nogales according to the report after fter sustaining severe h hundred of or the Villa troops and two machine guns uns were captured by Genral Gen Con oral eral ral Calles Calles' men I Calles Calles' cavalry is 18 reported to beIn bet be bettl In tl possession of the railroad south from rom Nogales to Ma Magdalena dalena a distance die dis tance of miles The troops arc are reported l to be bedspread spread out in strategic position to meet Villa reinforce reinforce- month ments on their way from Guaymas to o S Cattle Battle Confiscated According to arrivals here hero from froth Mexican points an appeal will besent be bo sent ent to General Carranza requesting recompense for tor a number of of- his his' adherents ad ad- whose cattle were seized by Gen Son P. P Elms Elias Calles th tho Carranza Continued ed on page 2 ME MEXICAN ICAN OUTLAWS S' S Continued from pa page e J 1 1 commander command r. r under pretense of w war r contributions The Carranza troops It Is asserted forced the ranchers to give a bill of sale for Cor the stock In order ordet to export it to Arizona It is said that owners who protested agai against st the alleged confiscation of oC their property have been banished as traitors and their entire estates confiscated Jose Romero General Calles' Calles chauffeur received word today that his father Jose Romer Diaz and his brother Juan B. B Romero 22 22 were executed Saturday at Nogales Sonora Sonora So So- nora by Villa VUla troops on charges of ot being traitors CAREFUL First Kurae urse ur e Maid Are Maid Are ye gem gain to the dance danco tomorrow night Nora 1 Nora No Nora No Id I'd like to go but the truth Is hr is- is Im I'm afraid to lea o the bab baby with It It mother |