Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-07-18

Pursuing Marauders on Mexican Terri
N Y tory.

Pursuing Marauders on Mexican Terri
FtI tory.
WASHINGTON, July 9.-The following
telegram from General Ord, command
ing the Department of Texas, in regard
to our troops following the Indian ma
rauders into Mexico, has been received
at the War Department.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 7.-Ajeta1u
General Townsend, Washington, d. c.
The following has Just been received
1t accords with my reply to Trevino's
letter telegraphed to the military divis-
ion yesterday. / telegraphed Shafter
that there was no necessity of following
the trail Of the Indians to the place
where they have already been punished
by Lieutenant Bulls, but look close for
that made by the party that raided on
the Neuces
Signed ORD, Brigadier General.
Fort CLARK, Texas, July SO Gen.
erM Ord: Had already to cross to-mor-
row in support of Lieutenant Bulls,
Tenth Cavalry. This morning at 9
o'clock Bulls came in alone, having
ridden 140 miles in thirty-six hours.
In coming down from Fort Davis he
struck the trail of Indians from Giles
pie County, half way between Pecos
and the Rio Grande, just before the
night of the Oath of June, and only
three Or four hours behind them. He
followed to the Rio Grande, and crossed
the river, drowning two Of his horses,
and on the third day came upon the Indi-
ans as they were resting. He attacked
them at once. The Indians retreated to
the mountains afteran engagement of an
hour. They all managed to esCape
some Of them wounded. Bulls got all
the horses but two. Fifty, reported by
General Clitz as passing Point Rock
Spring, are all accounted for. Eight
were left on the trail, and six were killed
while the rangers were on the trail; nine
were killed while Bulls was on their
trail; two were taken away by the Indi-
ans, and twenty-three were captured by
Bulls. He also found at the camp
parts of harness taken from Johnsons,
on the Neuces, showing that some of
the band had scattered after that affair,
and had got with the party raiding in
Gillespie County, probably joining them
in Mexico, as they were out ten days.
Lieutenant Bulls reports the Indians at
Llpans, and that he saw no signs to in
dlcate they were near their village
This is likely near some of the towns.
| have ordered the companies to stop as
they are until your orders are received
The trail followed by Bulls is the only
plain trail we know, and as the Indians
who made 1t have been caught, [ will
not go on without further orders, as
Lieutenant Bulls reports it impossible
to follow the trail from where it struck
them, and scouting on the other side
would have been for Indian camps, or
anything that might turn up
SKATER,
Lt.-Colonel Twenty-fourth Infantry.
THE NEWS AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, July 9-The President
and others in high official station express
qualification with the intelligence receiv-
ed through the War Department of the
crossing of the Rio Grande by United
States troops in pursuit of depredatory
Indians and of the success of our sol
diers' efforts in recapturing stolen pro-
perty and Furnishing the marauders. One
Of the gentlemen referred to, who occu-
pies very prominent position in the
| civil service, remarked to-day that the
action of the Cabinet in directing that
the Mexican marauders shall be followed
across the frontier was taken after most
mature elaboration as to its results, and
was based upon the unanimous convic-
ton Of the Cabinet that in no other way
can our border be effectually protected
Just 50 often," added this gentleman,
cas- the Mexican enters our territory on
thieving expeditions, just SO often will he
be followed across the Rio Grande, and
the next time our troops follow such
party Of thieves as are mentioned in to-
days dispatch they will probably bring
something besides few horses. They
will bring back some Of the Indians who
commit depredations upon our territory
at the instance and for the benefit of the
Mexican organizers of such cattle steal
ing expeditions. 1t is considered very
likely that the Diaz government will pro-
test against this entry of United States
troops into Mexican territory, but there
is not the least probability that General
Ord's present instructions will be modi-
fed The position heretofore formally
assumed by the Mexican government,
that our government has no right to send
troops across the Rio Grande in pursuit
of marauders, whose operations Mexico
has herself failed to prevent or punish,
seems to be very lightly regarded at the,
State Department, both on the general
principle of lex talionis, as these entries
of United States troops into Mexico are
invariably preceded by forcible incursions
into our territory, and because the right
to pursue and forcibly recapture ones
>nrfxy h,,rr rlo,. otb
robber is universally recognized.
The United States is not the only corln-
try suffering from the stagnation of its
own industries. The capital invested by
thirty-two Of the largest iron and steel
manufacturing companies in Germany