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Show Seventyiive Soldier' I Specials to Reach San I Antonio This Week I San Antonio, Tex., March 10. Not M knowing just how to designate the H concentration of troops down here, H they call it "alias maneuvers." In the H next 72 hours, seventy-five troop H trains are scheduled to arrive here. H The first on the ground was CoL H John T. Vanorsdale, at the head of the H Seventeenth infantry. The regiment M arrived at midnight, traveling lii two M sections. The soldiers owing to the M lateness of tho hour, spent tho night M In tho cars. The regiment has 33 of- M fleers and G72 enlisted men, two medl- M cal officers and fifteen men of tho JM medical corps. M Local wholesalers today submitted bids for furnishing provisions for the M division. The bids are on 200 sub- H sistence articles, delivery of which is J demanded for March 15th. Among the specifications is one for H a carload of fresh meat every day. H Sugar to the extent of 120,000 pounds H is wanted; flour, 750,000 pounds; rice, M 3,000 pounds; matches, -132,000 boxes; M beans, 35,000 tins; tomatoes, 40,000 H tins; coffee, 20,000 pounds; salt, 24,- H 000 pounds; swcot corn, 12,000 tins; fl and other articles in proportion. H Officers Desert Rebels. H .El Paso, March 10. News reached , M here this morning of a fight at the JM San Augustine ranch in Mexico, di- H rectly opposite Fabons and twenty- eight miles east of El Paso, between fl a band of GS Insurgents and 135 feder- M als under Lioutenant Col. Pueblita, M sent out from Juarez yesterday. ' Twenty of the Insurgents came M across the river and were captured H and disarmed by Captain Lindsey, U M S. A. Ton of them wero armed with M Mauser .rifles. Ten rifles,' three H horses and a quantity of ammunition , M were captured. The Insurgent offi- eery qnlt their -men-early in' the-fighL IH About half of the party were Ameri- , ll cans. Tho insurgents were jart of ll a band that has Deen concentrating about Juarez, with a view to assault- H ing that town, It is said. r' Troops at San Diego. San Diego, March 10. Troop trains , began to arrive early toda- with com- H panies of tho Thirtieth Infantry on j H board. ) H General Bliss and his staff are mak- ( ing preparations for a long stay In M San Diego. Army ofllcers hero de- j clare that with the forces at their M command they .will be ablo to stretch H a guard line from tho Pacific ocean H to the Rio Colorado so "snug" that a rabbit cannot get through. M Gov. Celso Vega of Lower California r M is expected to take the field with a ' M portion of the 900 men now available il at Enscnada and seek a battle with jl the insurrectos under Lcyva and Bert- M holdt These rebels arc cast of tho I fl mountains and a march of 200 miles H will be necessary before the forces Hl can join in battle. jH There was no movement of either ll Mexican federals or insurrectos at ll Tia Juana or CanTpo last night, 'H Diaz Not H Now York, March 10. W. B. Joyce, M prcsidont of the National surety com- H pany cold hero this morning, after H calling on Mr. Limantour, the Mexican M minister of finance: H "I am convinced that tho health of H President Diaz is satisfactory. I am - M assured by Senator Limantour that H General Diaz is at his desk day and H night. Moreover I believe that the H Mexican administration is fully able H to copo with tho rebellion." H |