The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-31
THE MEXICAN FRONTIER.
The People Of the Border States in Sympa-
thy With the CARA Raiders.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Dec. 3O.-The mill
tary authorities OF this department. are OF
the belief that Catarino CARA has a plan
Of campaign against Mexico that he will
follow out The Mexican authorities re-
gard him with great fear, his work of the
past three months showing them that he
is a much more capable leader than they
supposed. His forces are well organized.
The whole Mexican population of the bor-
der states are sympathiZers, if not actual
followers, in the revolutionary movement.
| The discovery that Cara has established
recruiting stations in several frontier
counties complicates the affair, and greatly
| increases the responsibility of the United
States government in permitting a viola
tion of its neutrality laws. 4 telegram
from Monterey, Mexico, states that CARA
has a strong secret following il that city,
who have made every preparation TO join
him on the frontier.
a dispatch received here from Captain
| Wheeler, commanding the United states
troops at Fort Rnggold, says: Il received
| at noou yesterday, by courier from Cap
tain Bourke at Salinea, seventy-five miles
above here, message as follows:
| " News has been received from Sheriff
! Mays at Carlo Springs that Cara has
| congregaUed a band go strong, twelve
miles north of Topena. He is becoming
desperate and will fight. We have Hardie
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with l3 men; Beach will join with troop
OF "a men at Pinero, and we may get word
to "G' troop OF 40 men, who are at Car
| izo'
Upon receipt of this intelligence I sent
Langhorne, with 26 men, who are now en-
route to unite with the other forces and
report TO Captain Bourke."
The troops of cavalry stationed at San
Antonio are all being held in readiness to
proceed whenever ordered forward by the
war authorities at Washington
LAREDO, Tex, Dec. 30-A telegram re-
ceived by Colonel Cerron, in Neuvo Laredo
from General Lorenzo Garcia at Mier
says that Captain Hardie of the Uuited
States cavalry has notified him that his
(HardieS) scouts have reported that
Cara men are massing near Ell Tigre. a
crossing on the Rio Grande on the line of
Starr and Zepata counties, Texas. Below
Rio Grande City. 1t was supposed that
about 800 men would meet there. Can
tain Hardie stated that he was marching
for that point, and asked General Garcia
TO be on hand with the Mexican troops to
receive the wanderers when they cross to
Mexican soil.
A report was brought to this CITY from
ZepatO county tonight, to the effect that
Garza's troops had captured detachment
OF forty Mexican troops, with their arms
and equipments. The report states that
CHS SASFOiuG4oHiSIS executed the OfuCerS and
gave the men the choice Of going without
arms or OF joining the revolutionary
forces, and that they chose the latter.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, Dec 3O-The mur-
der Of General Lorenzo Garcia by his
troops, and their fight into Texas 20 join
Cara, has been confirmed. General Stan
ley says that he thinks that an engage
ment took place today between the force
of United States troops under Captain
Bourke and GarZa's men. The locality is
far away from telegraph station, and no
definite news has yet been received
GALVESTON, Dec. 30-Notwithstanding
the sensational reports, the Galveston |
news dispatches show no new develop |
ments in the Cara revolution. The in
timations that the revolution is backed by !
prominent MeXicans in the City of Mexico !
lack confirmation, and the rumors of de- |
sertiOn from the regular army to the |
revolutionists are not substantiated.
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