Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-01-02

About Time that CARA Nui-
sanCe Was Suppressed.
LIEN AND GUNS WANTED IN TEXAS.

The Mexican Bandit Attacks Uaited states
Troops and Gets Them in Il Critical Pn-
~ition-A Battle Fought in the Chan
uaral in Which Uncle Sans Boys Have
To Contend A&ein>t Big Ohds-The Rev
uiuti"ni>t seems To BE Having Things
al His Own Way--Mexicn Coming: to
the scratch with Troops.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. Jan. 2-There was
much suppressed excitement and uneaNi-
ness at military headquarters here yestcr-
day over the failure to receive any report
D ON the seat OF war on the border for the
past forty eight hours. 1t was feared that
CARA had received such a large number
OF reintorcements from Mexico since the
revolt of Mexican troops at Mier that they
had the United States troops which were
commanded by John G. Bourke complete
~ surrounded
The approximations Confirmed.
And these approximations were confirmed
later in the day by the receipt of dis
patch staring that battle has been fought
Oh the border and that the United States
troops are in a critical situation The dis
patch came from Captain Harde who
sent it to a small station on the Mexican
Central road 10y couriers. 1t was so gar
hled in its transmission over the wires
that its exact meaning was not made
clear. Enough could be CLEANED from it.
however, to learn that an engagement had
taken place between the United States
troops and the revolutioniStS. and that the
former are III critical position. The loss,
if there WAS any on either side, could not
be made out from the dispatch
Could Get y" Further News.
General Stanley at once sent telegram
to the operator who sent the dispatch, ask
ing that it tie repeated, bat no answer has
yet been received. The fight occurred in
either Starr or Duval county, and it is sup
posed that the Garza men greatly out
numbered the troops. The ranchmen who
have come INTO contact with CARA within
the last three weeks all state that he is
abumdantly supplied with money and com
pels them to either furnish cattle for beef
and receive pay for the animals or take the
the alternative of having them taken by
force.
Location of the Bandit Cara.
The point where GarZas forces are re-
ported To be concentrated is in remote
section and very difficult of access by the
nlted states troops owing to the dense
chapNaral 1t Is not great distance from
the home of GarZa's fatEer-in-law, who IL
prominent. wealthy and highly respect
eel ruchman. He is said to he not i'll sym
pathy with the bold movement inau-
gurated by his sOn-in- law although reports
to the contrary have been in circulation
from time to time. Those who are &C
quantrd with him assert that he is not q
man who would lend his financial or moral
support TO Suth an undertaking.
Uncle Sans Force in the Region.
The forces of the United States troops in
the country between Laredo and Browns
Vile are all well trained and brave men,
and it is believed by those who are ac-
quainted with them that they did not
hesitate to encounter the revoutiuniSts
If they are concentrated as planned they
will number about 40 men. In the case
of the present trouble Catarino GarZs and
his men are thoroughly familiar with die
country in which they are carrying on
their enlisting and organizing opecati ions
and apparently have no fear vaa.sr er OF
capture by the United States authorities.
They are tnowa TO he well armed and are
receiving the support OF nearly ali ida
rauchmen in the border country. wal sill
them horses, cattle and food supplies thus
making themselves liable under the law
of the United States for arres. and i'm
prisonment
The Revolutionlsts Well Armed.
j. X. Hardy, a prominent man who is
well acquainted in the lower counties of