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Show oo TEXAS ALARMED OVER MEXICANS Houston, Texas, Aug. 11. Governor FerguBon of Texas, tonight telegraphed from Rockport, where he is spending his vacation, to President Wilson, asking the latter to double the number num-ber of federal troops now on duty in the Rio Grande valley. Governor Ferguson said ho purposely pur-posely delayed making the request, hoping the situation might clear up. Conditions now are perilous and grave, he added. Governor Ferguson's telegram recites re-cites that citizens are being murdered and property looted and continues: me oiienaura axu liiuhlij iubai-cans iubai-cans from across the border and only a few are American citizens. "I have increased our ranger- forces for-ces almost to the maximum and yet on account of the great era of disturbed dis-turbed district It 1b doubtful whether I longer can control the situation. I do not overdraw the picture when 1 say that a reign of terror exists on the Mexican border and that any unusual un-usual occurrence now would cause a disastrous invasion of Texas from Mexico." Brownsville, Tex , Aug. 11. Practically Prac-tically every American citizen in the three southernmost counties of Texas, Cameron. Hidalgo and Starr, is under un-der arms tonight in fear that the overwhelming Mexican population of the section may break out in a racial fight. Disturbances, attributed to Mexicans Mexi-cans on the International border, spread rapidly today Rumors of trouble camo from widely separated localities, some of them even from Laredo, on the border 200 miles distant dis-tant from Brownsville. The outstanding outstand-ing feature of the day's developments was the circulation of a rumor In many quarters even reaching to tho war department at Washington that the disturbance was an effort on the part of untutored Mexicans to turn back a portion of Texas to Mexican control. This scheme, it was rumored, was backed by ignorant Mexicans living liv-ing on the American sldo of ,the Rio Grande, assisted by escaped convicts and fugitives from justice and also, according to the report, by a considerable consid-erable number of irresponsible Mexicans, Mex-icans, both soldiers and civilians, who were,, said to have crossed the American Amer-ican border from Mexico. Impetus was given the movement, it is believed be-lieved in many quarters, by border political conditions. nn |