The record-union., 1896-02-13

Ell Paso-The Governor of the state,
However, Says Orders Have Been
Given the Troops to Shoot Any or
All Participants in a Fight on Mex
lean Soil.
Ell PASO CTex.), Feb. 12-The situa-
tion thirty-six hours before the time
originally set for the appearance of
Fitzsimmons and Maher in the ring is
in nearly every respect the counterpart
of the conditions that Immediately pre-
ceded the meeting of Sullivan and Kill
rain at Richburg in July of 1889. The
Texas and Federal authorities and
those of the adjoining States are ap
parently determined to prevent the mill
as were the Executives of Louisiana
and Mississippi seven years ago.
BY the same token the active promot-
ers of the contest are just as cool and
collected and going ahead with their ar
rangements with as much energy as did
Bud Renaud and his associates at New
Orleans. There is no question but that
they have carefully laid their plans and
that they are confident of their ability
to bring off the big fight at least
The battle-ground has been finally Sc
Iected The arrangements for trans
portation are effected, and every detail,
including the hour at which the tip is
to be given to the ticket-holders to rem
devious, has been carefully planned to
the end that the powers that be OF the
locality selected may be outwitted. To
the remaining events of the carnival,
everything depends upon the outcome of
FRIDAYS venture. The fight managers
admit that it will hardly be possible to
bring off two contests at the same spot,
and their ability to find safe locations is
seriously doubted.
There is talk tonight that an effort
will be made to pull off the Everhardt-
Leeds contest, and that the others
would be abandoned, but this, the man
ayers would neither deny or affirm.
Their GOODNESS and assurance concern
ing the big fight, however, has given
renewed confidence to local people and
visiting sports and bets are freely Of
fered tonight, with no takers, that the
Australian and the Irishman will come
together on schedule time.
At midnight it is reported that the
spot chosen for the fight is on the
Mexican border, directly opposite
Strauss, N NJ, eighteen miles from Ell
Paso ON the Southern Pacific, Here
there is a plateau surrounded on three
sides by mountains and which is abso-
lutely inaccessible save from the Amer
lean side.
Meanwhile Governor Ahumada, with
his headquarters at Juarez, is keeping
in close touch with the situation. A
NJ I,,xv
twenty-five strong, arrived from Chi
huahua during the morning, and is
quartered at the Juarez barracks, where
there is also a company of fifty of the
poems infantry. There are no rurales
on the border or within a distance of
two hundred miles, and the Governor
is emphatic in his statement that none
is needed, and that none will be brought
on.
To Judge Crosby of this city, who
visited him to-day to make a final eff
fort toward inducing him to withhold
interference, Governor Ahumada said
that he was satisfied that even with
the small force at his command he
could prevent an invasion of Mexican
soil at any point. Later in the day the
Governor was even more emphatic
This fight must not take place in
Mexico" he said, "and If it's promoters
come to our side Of the line our soldiers
will have orders to shoot without dis
elimination between combatants or
nom -combatants, principals or specta-
tors. EVERYBODY has been given fair
warning, and if they disregard it then
it will be ct their own peril
From his headquarters in the Federal
building AdJutant-GeneraI Mabry is
also watching the movements of the
managers and receiving reports from
Captain Mcdonald, whose forty trusty
rangers are mixing with the crowds at
the numerous headquarters and gath
ering in for their superiors all the float
ing rumors and gossip. General Mabry
expresses himself as satisfied that there
is no intention to bring off the fights in
this State, but yet he does not intend to
relax his vigilance. A number of the
rangers went out to the yards and side
tracks of the different roads this after
noon with view of spotting the cars
in which the kinetoscope platform and
other paraphernalia have been placed,
and keeping track of them by numbers
as they may be shifted about the yards
Whatever information in this line may
be obtained, the Adjutant- General will
communicate as a matter of courtesy
to New Mexican and Mexican author
tiles. Information reached the United
Press tonight from Fort Bliss that or
ders had been received from Washing
ton countermanding until further no
tice the fifteen days practice march
upon which Company B of the Fifteenth
Infantry should have started to-rnor-
row, and also ordering that the troops
be confined to barracks Tomorrow.
Company B has just returned from it's
ffteen-days' march and the officers and
men of Company H had everything in
readiness for the start tomorrow.
The orders, which came via the de-
partment headquarters at San Antonio.
are interpreted at the fort as indicat-
ing that the troops will be ordered out
in the event of indication pointing to
the selection of New Mexican ground
for a battlefield. There are at Fort
Bliss two companies of the Fifteenth
Infantry 80 men and troop Of fifty
Of the Fifth Cavalry.
Fitzsimmons and Julian were in town
for several hours to-day. Both sat
around the headquarters uncommunica-
tive and inclined to be morose. The /
Australian, who to all appearances is
in fine condition, quit exercising to-
night. He said he could make short
work of his opponent.
Maher, Marshall and the rest of the
crowd at Las Cruces viii come down
tomorrow. Ross of Colorado, who is
looking after Marshall near Maher's