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Show U. S. SOLDIERS -ROUTJEXIGANS Thirty-Five Border Bandits Slain By American Cavalrymen Presidio, Texas, Dec. 3. In a bat-tlo bat-tlo at Bucna Vista, Texas, United .States cavalrymen under the command com-mand of Lieut. Lougard P. Matlack, and Moxlcan cattle thieves, ono eoI-dlor eoI-dlor wns killed and another sllghtlyl wounded. Justo Gonzatos, foroman of an American cattlo ranch, who was acting as scout for tho soldiers, was killed. Mnchlno guns were used by thp cavalry to drive tho Mexicans from tho houses of Buena Vista in which they had taken ofugo. Buena Vista is twenty miles northwest ot horo on tho Bio Grando. Tho tight occurred early Saturday morning. , Prlvato Biggs, Hlghth cavalry, sanitary detachment, was killed, and Saddler Noriel, troop K, slightly wounded. Tho bandits numbered 200, of whom thirty-flvo wero killed and many wounded. during tho fighting a number ot tho cavalrymen's horses woro shot from under thorn, as was also that ot Tlgnor, who mounted bohlnd a Boldlor, Joined In tho puixult of tho bandits nftor tho attempted nm-bush. nm-bush. In crossing a deep ditch tho cattleman wns jolted from tho horso nnd wns not found for sovoral hours after tho fight. Tlu careasses of tho stolen cattlo I '.n found In tho stroets of Bucna' Vista when tho last of tho bandits retreated across tho river into Mexico. Mex-ico. Colonel Langhorno arrived here tonight f loin Marfa nnd assumed command of tho situation. The troops have returned to the American side of the Bio Grande, i |