Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-04-20
American Prisoners Have
Little Food but Feel
Good
Troops SettIeing Down for
Long Stay at Fort
(By Annotated Press.)

chihuahua, Mex, April l9-One
thousand federal cavalry left here to-
day for the relief of Ojinaga. They
will proceed by train to Palomir, thence
ninety miles overland to Ojinaga. The
insurrecto activity i'll the north found
most of the available federal troops
here unprepared for what was about
to happen.
Word from the interior of the per
sonal participation of Francisco l..
Madero, the insurrecto leader, in the
fight makes it less probable he will
change his movements in order to con-
fer with his father on peace proposals.
1t is possible, however, the father may
be able to place himself in touch with
the leader. Peace possibilities, as
viewed here, is growing more remote.
1t developed today that fourteen Am
erican prisoners on their last days
march to Chihuahua, had nothing to
eat. Forty thirty-six hours they were
without food as they marched afoot
on the hot desert through binding
sandstorms. This, however, was due
to the exigencies of war and not to
any neglect. All the prisoners were
in excellent health and they arrived
here in good spirits.
United States Consul Letcher inter-
viewed the men Individually and saw
that they obtained all necessary sup
plies. The first things the prisoners
asked for were soap, matches and to-
bacco. Four dollars worth of tobacco
was consumed in couple of hours.
Owing to the excellent climate here
H.. ~. l. SoJo ,f,y
of air and light.
Washington, April 19-Maj or Gen.
eral Carter. commanding the maneuver
division at San Antonio, Texas, is as
sembling more troops at the Leon
Springs reservation for inspection and
progressive maneuvers. The Fourth
field artillery has reached the reserva-
tion, and tomorrow it will be joined
by the Third regiment, both being
scheduled to return to San Antonio on
the 24th Company D of the signal
corps today left San Antonio for ten
days practice at Leon Springs. The
Ninth cavalry will make practice
march from San Antonio to the reser-
vation tomorrow to test experimental
equipment, epuiqqage, transportation,
etc.
Tlouca, Mexico, April 19-Hard
pressed by General Leyoa's troops in
the state of Morelos, a band of 300
rebels yesterday crossed the line into
this state, and today four detachments
of troops, numbering about 400, are
attempting to surround them in the
hills near Santiago Tianguistengo.
Yesterday the rebels entered the
town of Jalatlaco, where for some
hours they were busy burning public
records and committing other depreda-
tions. Leaving the town they started
for Santiago Tianguiestengo, but
learning volunteers were garirsoned
there, changed their course and spent |
last night in the hills.
Today the company of volunteers !
from Santiago Tianguiestengo, another !!
body of volunteers from Ixtlahuaca, a /
detachment of troops from Toluca and
Metepec, a company of infantry and
company of cavalry, went sent to en- ]
gage the rebels.
Brownsville, Texas, April 19-Senor
E. Zayas, chief engineer of the boun-
Diary commission for the Mexican gov
ernment, who has been engaged in
surveying, in conjunction with the Am
erican engineers, the boundary line
from Roma to the Gulf of Nj exico, left
Matamoras this morning for Juarez
to survey the territory where Blatt
and Converse, the two Americans
claimed by the Mexican government to
have been aiding the insurrectos, were
captured some time ago.
San Antonio, Texas, April 19-The
big maneuver camp at Fort Sam Hous-
ton, is daily being made more perma-
nent. The troops have resigned them
selves to the belief there will be no
actual service and are settling down
for long stay.
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