Show INS U R SARCHING fOR D AlS TROOPS Both Forces Are Within Forty Miles of Each Other Near Santa Isabel CORRESPONDENT VISITS THE REBELS CAMP Rebel Captain Yaqui Indian by Birth Says They Must Win Next Battle or Die 0 L Li 1 i I 4 CHIHUAHUA Dec 9 0 Via Vin 4 El m Paso Dec 10 The federal 4 4 I troops and those of the lie 4 s 4 4 rectos or us as they the 4 s 4 to o be Je designated are 4 4 some sonic forty Olt niles olles apart The rime fed 4 5 4 5 to eral oral soldiers are arc at Carretas a 4 4 hamlet oil olf the railroad in n the vi vl 4 4 of 01 Santa Isabel sabel west vest of or 4 i 4 5 here The location s a known 4 4 from Irom several reliable sources 4 5 4 T 1 They arc aie awaiting a er 4 I t 5 able augmentation n of 01 heir num 4 1 4 her bOl to make multO a surrounding move movement 4 4 ment abut possible 4 i iThe 1 r The Tho revolutionists were vera last within with a low r w miles unites of s Time The Associated press correspondent bit lett them there at tit noon Friday aft ci a thice three day trip in their while they thc were ere in search of ur their enemy At that hour they bad had that a report the tho were sonic some ten allies distant C Cat at was erroneous A 4 III In nat tn t was as coun I Searching for Federal Troops Last Wednesday We day at La Junta the 1 I call went forth fron 9 l Jh tho j t or Im hilT l era and sur towns tor a concentration cf f forces to meet the fie federals oderal wha were reported marching ou La Junta Juttua a junction point of o the Mexico anti and Northwestern railroad This move movement ment meat had not been beell consummated when the advance guard already con comi concentrated concentrated moved forward to lo R sarlA I Again A ain there was no enemy and und the tho 0 to lo Rancho a hamlet near u nalles was begun Thursday scouts reported ed sighting j twelve federal fed scouts nail ami a strong position was taken n awaiting an at attack attack attack tack During Duril the daj daylight light hours this did id id not miot materialize nor 1101 did It dui thur dulIn lag ing In the night although the horses h were wro kept saddled with eased ea ed cinches and the men slept on omi their thou arms At noon Friday ar some the ground groundless groundless less rumor of the presence of the forces at While no tune une seemed scorned to bo be in su sit supreme preme command the half dozen were working in perfect accord Perfectly Mounted Mount d and I The rhe coi respondent counted her por I teet mounted anti ann armed men in tho the thoi c i iRin naia street of Rancho De Do Continued On n Page Two c SEARCHING FOR TROOPS Continued from Crom Page Pago One of or them could coult bo be seen oc on the horizon of the mesa Three hundred others were encamped I about fifteen miles to lh the southwest nud nod an tn equal number north at about tho the same annie distance All AU were working east cam according to a prearranged plan piaui All are arc mounted well armed and antI well weB equipped with v ith ammunition Tho The captains who sao gave the information information mation as to troops other than those seen sect by the correspondent were In Interviewed n separately or ot in groups of twos trios of threes throes and all told the same story stor in essentials it ma may therefore lo io stated as a fact that thaw tho the rectos army ann now operating west tf f C this city cit numbers approximately 1 well weB equipped men Rebels Are Arc Men If It there thero wore a directory of or tho the men along ulong the tho railroad line as us far as La Junta It might bo be turned into an army n lU roster without much editing fOI for at the tho towns along alon the road there thoro wore no to be seen soon except young boys bos and Iud very vcr old men menThe The file contrary to 0 many statements are fully Cull Unit that other parts of Mexico are ure not In revolt In n Interview after interview tho thu corres was as informed that the Chi hl n ua i evolutionists regard themselves them selves seles as tho spark which may ma set I the country C In revolt If H they Utcy UIO con can 1 sIn Rin In tho the Impending battlo battle they thO declare 1 j b ir I that thal this city will iii be occupied o and that in their belief this signal of In ia will bring about a n gen gon oral revolt Must Win Battle or Die Ole OleVe We Ve o must win this battle or die was the sentiment generally express expressed ed UI 11 In lu a speech delivered to the troops Friday Frida whon It t was thought that the fight was only hours away awra Jose Ro no chin chiu a Yaqui Indian by birth hirth anti and ono one 01 ol the captains ns declared that tho the thomen theama men ama must realize that they might he ho merely merel martyrs but their deaths would be bo a 0 step forward in Itt the tho path of C liberty They claim that they arc are not fight lIght fighting lIghting ing lug to place Francisco I Madero or any nIl one else In the presidential chair They Thc say sn they the have begun tho the fight to save the country from possible an anarchy archy Madero Ma is highly regarded and aud he Is the first I choice but bul ho per ocr personally is not essentially lr a principle of o tho the It Is significant o othe of om the thc regard In which he ho Is hold held how however however ever eer that a Viva Madero IndeN was given glen iU nt the conclusion of address to tho troops Navarro Halted Halt d His Forces It is the consensus of or opinion hero here heroIn heren In n fl the tho absence of vf official Information that thal General Navarro halted hailed his ad a adanee anco anee when he lie found that his strength was numerically equal to toI I his own although lacking hacking his fire guns and anti his Their Theil I knowledge of trails and nd extreme mobility every man Me MeIng Ing ng mounted also demand that the at attacking tacking force very largely infantry s1 Sl all be two or three to one |