Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-19
ARIZONA.
The Border yTar--A Mexican officer In.
feryiewed.

HE sbOrGcr VITA MtNlCstn INJECT III
fcryiewed.
ToMBsroSE, August 1Sth-No news is re-
ceived from the party of Americans who left
here day before yesterday to ayenge the muir
ders committed by Mexicans.
General A3olfo DomiDguez has Just arrived
from the frontier of Sonora, where he holds
the position OF Adjutant under General Jose
Otero. now in command of the troops On the
Mexican frontier. An Epitdph reporter H.
terviewed General D0mingueZ. and obtained
the following Information: "Our people
have been great sufferers. We have lost
many citizsns killed atd much property stolen.
We are therefore taking active steps to pro-
tsct our citizens and repel raiders. There are
200 regulars, besides the militia, on the line,
and three forts and supply camps are to be
be taken to protect both our own citizens and
such Americans as are engaged In legitimate
industry within cur lines"
Repoiter-Are you in Arizona Gu official
business?
General am. A part of my business
was to purchase supplies for the new forts.
| purchased some at Bisbee and Charleston,
and will send more from Tucson. / want to
talk with representative men of your cities,
and also have an interview with your Gov
ernor and commanding General. leave to-
Prescott as soon as possible.
Reporter-What will you propose to cur
chief officials?
General hope to effect an arrangement
by which most thorough, harmonious and
efficient cooperation may exist between the
American and Mexican troops operating on
the border. We can only drive out these
thieves and murderers by united action. We
are not only willing but very anxious that
such united action should exist.
Reporter-Have Americans done much
damage to your country recently?
Geaeral-Yes. Affairs have gradually
been growing more desperate. Is is esti.
mated that within the last month more than
ten citizens have been killed and upwards Of
| $40. COO worth OF property taken.
Reporter-Are your people under the i'm
| preston that this disposition to raid is gen.
eral among the citizens of this section?
Genera,-Nc. We believe the American eff
cials, and q great majority of your citizens,
| deprecatc acts of lawlessness, and believing
| this we have the courage to hope that by a
united effort the outlaws may be suppressed
and an early adjustment of the difficulties
effected.
| Two companies of the Sixth Cavalry have
been ordered from Camp Huxehuca to Camp
Grant, the nearest post to the scene OF
trouble.
An American just in from Sonora gives
the following additional information About
a week ago Americans numbering about
twenty-five, supposed to be from San Simon,
made raid in the vicinity of BAvishe. They
gathered up all the loose stock they could
find and started homeward. The Mexicans
organized party, overlook the raiders, and
q fight ensued, in which the Mexicans werS
| defeated and eight killed A courier was ssnl
| post haste to 0tero, at thu frontier, with full
particulars Of the raid. General O:ero al
once ordered Captain Garlic. with his cous
pany, to the Ike where the raiders were ex
pected to cross with their plumber. As tbs
courier had ridden day and night, Captain
GARLIC thought he must be some distance
ahead of the raiders. 1t is not improball
that the killing in Guadalupe Canyon nigh
have been done by the Mexican regulars un
der Captain Carrillo, IS they we're headed il
that direction. Garlic has about fifty meI
| in his companv.