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Show ens BORDER i f ' j Mexicans Drive Off I American CattIeU. S. Troops in Field I San Antonio, March 32. Additional ' details of the situation at Chishos ' and at Alpine, where Mexican marau- ;' dura, supposed tobe Insurgents, cross- ' . cd the Rio Grande yesterday and i drove American cattle across the j , border, were awaited at the maneu- ', vers camp today. ; A heavy rain fell last night but j Gen. Smith, undeterred by the weath- : er, started on the practice march this ' morning at 8 p. m. Tho column numbered num-bered 2.23S men and 118 officers. Troops on a' Special. . El Paso, March 22j A special train took a troop of cavalry from EI Paso : ' to Marathon today from whiere they will be sent to the Chishos quioksll-; quioksll-; ver mines, south of there on the Mex-' Mex-' lean border, where raiders from 'Mcx-j 'Mcx-j ico are reported as pillaging. A company com-pany of Infantry also 1ms been sent f from here to Landry, not far from Marathon and Alpine, to do border j duty on the report that the Pecos "high bridge" on the Southern Pacific Pa-cific was to bo blown up. Towns Are Surrounded. El Paso, March 22. Mall advices from Parral state that 20 robeJte have I robbed the station at OJito, on tho 1 Parral railroad, and took Marcus Ramos, the station ugent, a, prisoner.-H- declaring ticy would kill , him. bos' bo-s' cause he had "given Information as H to their whereabouts." r If El Tule iand Satovo, near Parral, HT have called! on tho Jef of Parral, H for troops, declaring that rebels are K surrounding the towns. HI NewB from the interior of the ''war' -It 20no'' today states thai the Mexican j insurgents have surroandod many Hj small iowns and have- notified -the ills' ill-s' iabitantg. that tbey will allow no HI f provisions to reach them from tho Br i. surrounding tcountiry. , The Insurgents ihave determined rlhat tho supply of H ' provisions shall remain in tbcinhands H njid it is feared that non-combatants H j will bo subjected to still greater H t hardships by tho blockade. Hun-H Hun-H pdreds of refugees are reported to bo HI i fleeing toward the border, many of HI them attempting to make the Journey HI on foot. 1 Col. Samuel Cuellar v President HI Dial's military staff, is still incapac-9i incapac-9i itated by his wound at Casas Grander. HI ' Col. Rabago 1b thought to be march-Si march-Si i ing to Casas Grandes to relieve him JH I aq It Is known that President?, Diaz I has sent a personal courier, l wtth instructions that Col. Cuellar be escorted es-corted to some point where he may recelvtt adequate medical attention. oo |