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Show ii u y So ov CALEXiqo. Cal, Jan. 31 Sheriff 'Mcadov.6, of Imperial county, received a measngc today statin that a do-tachment do-tachment of United Stales soldiers from Sau Diego would arrhe hero tonight. to-night. Tho Insurgents made no move upon MevlcnII, Just serosa tho border today. Thoy still maintain their camp about seven mllos southwest of Mevicall and hao recruited a lnrge number of Co-copah Co-copah Indians Rain has be'Ai falling all day. but stimulated by considerable consider-able liquor taken when they captured Mexican Sunday, tho insurgent! did not seem to mind the weather. Tho members of tho little band hnJ been up two nights, and their loaders, "El Gonernl" Leyva and Simon Borthold. the Los Angclls Socialist, allowed them to rest and sleep all day. Warn Federals Not to Collect Customs. Cus-toms. Scouts, howevor, wore sent at Intervals Inter-vals to Mexican to keep watch on the Mexican authorities, who rosumed charge of tho customs house, when tho Insurgents ovacuatod the town yostorday. Leyva and Berthold declared de-clared that before leaving Mcxlcnli they had ordered tho fedoral officials to refrain from collecting customs, and when th Mexicans disobeyed this prder today, the rebels asserted, they would como back tonight and punish tho offenders. Barber Proclaims Himself King. Pending the arrival of tho United States troops Sheriff Meadows will maintain his guard of fifty armed 'deputies 'dep-uties who yesterday suppressed numerous num-erous incipient riots and disarmed many Intoxicated resldonts of Mexican. Mexi-can. Among thoso arrostod was an English barber, who procured a number num-ber of weapons and proclaimed himself him-self "king of Moxlcall," had horded a number of clti7ons, who ho sought to diive across the international boundary boun-dary Hne. ' j Traffic Will Be Resumed Today. No trains have been moved on this line since Sunday morning when tho rebel band appeared, but ono will bo sent out tomorrow morning. |