The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-01-07
The Federal Troops Are Still Actively En-
gagged in Scouting for the Revolutionist
Whe Are Keeping Close in the
Dense Chapparal.
Special to The Statesman.

OF the revolutionary forces when at
tackled so far, has been to scatter
through the chapparal and it is conf
IDENTIFY believed that in every such in
stance they have a secret rendezvous,
where they come together again after
the skirmish.
1t is not believed that the actual
strength of the revolutionists has been
reached, although Second-Lieutenant
George Langhorne and Capt. Francis
II. Hardie, with their attachments,
met many roaming bands of the men,
during their recent scout, lasting
several days.
The population of the lower Rio
Grende country are peculiar people.
Capt Jno. G. Bourke, who has spent
some time among them, thus describes
them in a written report just made to
Gen. Stanley, commander of the mill
tary department. He says:
"Of the population Of this part Ct
the Rio Grande valley not much can
be said, There ale some few people of
education and refinement, but the
mass of inhabitants are saturated
with ignorance and superstition and
have no parallel this side of the Congo.
In thought, habit, speech and dres
they are essentially anti-American
but they are also anti Mexican. They
have no sympathy with either gov
eminent. 10 make clear how thor
oughly supersttious these people are,
Iwish to say that during last spring
and early summer L noted down all
"a; Nd irl nd; no
and found that they were firm be-
levers in the evil eye, wtchcraft,
cures by magic, sorcery, incarnation
and all other ideas of the same kind
which prevailed in Europe from the
time of the Crusaders until the French
revolution. They still have the mira
Gle plays of the middle ages"
The telegraph wires between Fort
Ringgold and this city are again in
good working order and daily reports
are received from the seat of war at
military headquarters here. Captain
William b. Wheeler ofthe Zig hteenth
infantry, who is in temporary COM
mand of Fort Ringgold sent the fol-
lowing telegram to Assistant Adju-
liant General J. p. Martin this morn
ing:
"A courier is just in from First
Lieutenant William D. Beach of the
Third cavalry, who 10 now at the
Pineo ranch. He passed Captain
Hardie at Sabneno. All information
from that direction and from the
scouting parties in this vicinity
indicate the breaking up and
scattering of the bands of revolution
lists that had begun to form into
tiarza's larger forces. | have re-
vinces me that the statement con-
tanned in your telegram of Dec. 30 was
incorrect, as regards the assertion of
the Mexican minister at Washington
that prominent Mexican citizen was
being held by CARA at Celia del Prieto,
Duval county, Tex. All the stage
lines and travel here have continued
as usual unmolested up to the present
time.n
Col. Martin also received a telegram
this afternoon from Capt Jn0. b.
Johnson of the Third cavalry, who is
in command of Fort Brown. 1t read
as follows:
81 returned last night with troop
from scout of forty-five miles up the
Rio Grande. A large ram was
reached but no force of bandits was
discovered there. Private advices
were received here this evening that
Captain johnson was assisted in his
scouting operations by a force of 800
Mexican troops who covered the right
bank of the river"
The above dispatches were at once
forwarded to Major General Schofield
at Washington by General Stanley,
who concluded his dispatch by stating
that detatchmeuts of cavalry are
scouting in Encinal, Duval and Starr
counties, and that the river from Fort
Mcintosh to Fort Ringgold is well
protected.
General Stanley was informed to-
day that troop d, under command of
Capt. Chase, left Fort Mcintosh this
morning for Palito Blanco, where
tiarza's headquarters are reported as
being. Capt. Geo. X. Hunter of the
rhird cavalry, also left Fort Mcintosh
this morning with large 6 detachment
of troops. They will proceed to Los
Angeles, a small station of the Texas
and Mexican National. The willsppnd
some time in that section scouting for
the revolutionists which have been
committing depredatiOns in that To-
cality. In addition to the above off
cial information, Gen. Stanley has re-
ceived letter from Capt. Bourlle, in
which the letter asks that the atten-
tiOn Of the federal authorities he called
to the necessity of having a greatly
increased force of United States
deputy marshals on the Dor
der. He states that the people OF
the Rio Grande valley will help Gar.
IN to the last won IN and child, and it
is almost impossible for the troops to
accomplish anything in the way of
snrpressing them. as they always as
sumo a new name when an arrest is
attemp' ed from the written descrip-
tiOn ct those wanted
Capt. Bnurke concludes bv stating
that he had Just received letter from
Can't. Hardie, requesting that Sheriff
Seelev send ont some one who knows
the revOlutiOnists He asserts that he
was positive that he has seen
several Of those whose names he
has on his list and that he is confident
that he can arrest at least a dozen of
the active supporters Of the Garzn
in the vicinity of Saleno if