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Show oo ENTIRE TWENTIETH INFANTRY . TO GUARD MEXICANS IN CAMP. El Paso, Tex., Jan. 15. Gen. Hugh , L Scott, commanding the border patrol pa-trol of the United States array, today ordered the Twentieth Infantry, recently re-cently arrived here from Fort Doug las. Utah, to break camp on the river and move to Fort Bliss to serve as guards of the 4,000 Mexican federal soldiers and civilian refugees to be brought here from Ojinaga. The El Paso city council protested to the general against bringing the Mexicans here, expressing fear that they would spread disease or might make a break for liberty and cause trouble. General Scott promised that he would be able to keep them Inside the refuge camp, and that If dlsase should break out he could prevent Its spread to the city. The 8econd battalion of the Twentieth, Twen-tieth, which Ik to guard the prisoners on trains from Marfa to El Paso, was ordered to prepare to entrain Sunday This mpans that none of the prisoners will reach here before next week. The bandits recently led by Max-lme Max-lme Castillo, who have been terroriz ing the country in the vicinity of the Mormon colonies in Mexico, have just raided and robbed another Americon concern, the Paloma3 Land & Cattle company The bandits took all wagons, wag-ons, saddles, mules, harness and everything ev-erything else portable from the ranch The saddle horses were driven across the international line by a quick-wit ted Mexican boy. and the bandits did not get any of them The Palomas I,and & Cattle com pany ranches have been robbed and the managers held for ransom a num ber of times. There were forty ban dlts In the gang which looted the ranch most recently. oo |