Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-18
OVER THE RIO GRANDE.
Pursuing Marauders on Mexican Terri.
tory.

! 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-Ajaam
General To,n&end, 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
4 by Lieutenant Bulls, but look close for
that made by the party that raided on
the Neuces.
! Signed ORD, Brigadcr General
! FoRT CLARK, Texas, July SO Gen
erai Om: Had already to cross to-mor-
row III support of Lieutenant Bulls,
/ Tenth Cavalry. This morning at =
| o'clock Bulls came in alone having
ridden 40 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 mt once. The Indians rctrcated to
the mountains aftcran 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 rs passing Point Rock
! Spring, are all accounted for Eight
were left on the trail and six were killed
while the rangers were on the tlail nine
We're killed while Bulls was on their
trail; two were taken away by the lndi-
ans. and twenty-three were captured by
! Bulls. He also found Mt the camp
parts Of harness taken from Johnsons,
on the Neuccs. showing that some of
the band had scattered after that affair,
and had got with the party raiding in
Gillespie County, probably joining them
i'll Mexico, as they We're ont ten days.
Lieutenant Bulls reports the Indians ut
Lipans, and that he saw no signs to III
dictate 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 Us the Indians
/ who made it have been caught | will
not 90 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.-COIOnel Twenty-fOurth Infantry.
THE NEWS At WASHINGTON.
WAsHINGToN, July 9-The President
and others in high official station express
qualification with the intelligence rcceiv-
ed through the War Department of the
crossing of the Rio Grande by United
States troops i'll pursuit of depredatory
| Indians and of the success of our sol
dlcrs' efforts IN recapturing stolen pro-
perty and Furnishing the marauders. One
of the gentlemen referred to, who OCcu-
pies very prominent position i'll 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 delibcratiOn as to its results, and
was based upon the unanimous convic-
ton OF the Cabinet that in no Othcr way
can our border be cftectually protected
a" Just SO often added this gentleman,
as 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 a
party of thieves as are mentioned IN to-
days dispatch they will probably bring
something besides Il few horses. They
will bring back some OF the Indians who
commit depredations upon our territory
at ne 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
il 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