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Show oo MEXICANS FIRE ON AEROPLANE Brownsville, Texas, Sept. 3. Mexicans Mexi-cans on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande late today fired nearly a hundred hun-dred shots at an American army aeroplane aero-plane flying over Brownsville, and then turned their guns against a 6quad of Amorican soldiers on guard at the Brownsville electric light plctnt When the firing started the soldiers got behind shelter and returned tho fire. Thore wero no casualties. Lieutenants Joseph G. Morrow and B. Q. Jones were in the aeroplane. This is the second time within two days that a United States army aeroplane aero-plane has heen fired upon. United Suites soldiers at Los Tu litos ranch, 20 miles north of here, during the past 48 hours, have captured cap-tured ten Mexicans, strangers in tho neighborhood, and supposed to be members of raiding gangs. United States cavalry and infantry and posses of county officers and citizens tonight continued the search through the section of country eleven miles from here, where two Americans Ameri-cans were murdered yesterday. The list of bandit dead stood at six tonight, though others probably have been killed and not reported. A detachment of the Twelfth United Uni-ted States cavalry early tonight engaged en-gaged in a short fight twelve miles north of here with four Mexican bandits, ban-dits, one of whom was killed and the three others captured. None of the cavalrymen was injured. The prisoners pris-oners wero taken to San Benito This information was brought here in an official report tonight. Concerted plans by federal, state, and county authorities, aided by hundreds hun-dreds of ranch men and cowboys, to exterminate or drive the marauders out of the border country, were organized or-ganized today Guard Stage Road. Two hundred cavalry and infantry, commanded by Captain II S. Hawkins Haw-kins of tho Third cavalry, are guarding guard-ing the old Calexico stage road and the railroad leading to San Benito Detachments of men have been placed at every bridge and crossing, and every ev-ery power plant in this section Is being be-ing guarded Several hundred owners of automobiles automo-biles have been requested to hold their machines ready for instant use in dispatching infantry to anv section. sec-tion. All reports received at Fort Brown concerning the firing today at the aeroplane agreed that the shooting came from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, and from the same place where, two days ago, shots were fired at an American aeroplane. Colonel R. L Bullard, commanding Fort Brown, took no action other than to report the occurrence to tho southern south-ern department headquarters at Fort Sam Houston. Whether the men who fired tho shots were Carranza soldiers or Mexican Mexi-can Irregulars is not known. Tho flrinf, which stopped when the Americans Amer-icans began to reply, seemed to come from five or six rifles The Mexicans were hidden in the brush on the Mexican Mex-ican side of the river and could not be seen. It was reported tonight that a Carranza Car-ranza outpost had been stationed near tho point from which the firing was directed no |