Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-04
COWBOYS AND
REBELS CLASH
A Lively Encounter Just
South of Columbus, Luna
County
COL. STEEVER INVESTIGATES
Definite Confirmation of the
Report That Crozco Has
Quit Madero.

Qult Madero.
! (By Special Leased Wire to New McxicanJ
/ FL Paso. Texas, March .4-Colonel
IL. Z. Steever today dispatched Lieu
/ tenant Hill Of the twenty-second in
! fantry and d squad Of soldiers 10 Co
lumbus, Luna county, New Mexico, TO
investigate a report that American
cowboys and Mexican rebels clashed
on Saturday at Rancho Las Palomas,
thirty miles from Columbus on the
Mexican side.
According to the report, which was
transmitted to Colonel Steeyer for in
yestigation by the customs officers,
| the horses OF the Americans were
killed and they retreated on foot to
Columbus, after killing or wounding
several of the MeXicans.
! 1t is not known which side took the
aggressive. nor why the Americans
We're on the ranch.
! Il cannot say whether there is any
thing to the story" said Colonel Stee-
YER nor can | until Lieutenant Hill
has investigator and reported"
Orozco Quits Madero.
Washington, d. c., March 4.-Defi-
mite confirmation of the disafection
OF General PasqIal OrozcO from the
Madero government in Mexico reach
ed the state department today in
Telegram from american COn'ul Sum
mers at Chihuahua. Summers said
Orozcos resignation from the federal
army had been announced February
%, to become effective on March l.
Matamoras Still Safe.
Brownsville, Texas, March 4.-As
the day advanced, there was no indica-
ton that Mexican insurrectOs were
coming from the south to attack Mata-
moras, the town across the Rio Grande
from Brownsville. 1t had been report
ed that rebels were to attempt invest
ment Of the town today.
TWO Drunken Rebels Stray Across
i Border.
| Ell Paso, Texas, March 1.-Two Mex
= lean rebels, who strayed past the
2 boundary line last night. are in Jail
} here today. When American sentrieS
stopped them, two of them, said to
: have been the worse for liquor, resist
4 ed and were arrested. Four others in
; the party promptly retreated the few
: steps necessary TO take them back to
t native soil. The men arrested were
iarmed.
Germans May Move Too.
Berlin, March 4.-Although the Ger
man government has received official
notification of the action of the United
States government in recommending
its citizens to withdraw from central
+. Mexico, the foreign Office here has not
yet taken a similar step, according to
S a semi-officiai statement issued here
today. 1t is thought. however, that
action in the same direction, may be
taken at any moment by the German
:. government.
! Rebels Have Chihuahua.
: FL Pas0, Texas, March 4.-Accord-
: ing to an announcement at rebel head
quarters in Juarez today, the fighting
. reported at Chihuahua yesterday re-
suited in an insurrecto victory. Five
L men We're killed, it was stated. 1t is
= said that Colonel Pancho Villa at
tempted to take the town with his
IL loyal federal troops but was repulsed
l. by Pasqual Orozco, now in open re.
u bellion against President Madero. ~
l. mob is said to have surrounded the
l. residence of Abram Gonzales, govern
5 or of the state of Chihuahua, and de-
a. !manded his resignation. The govern
ior's loyalty remained unshaken. He
W escaped from the city and took refuge
le with Villa, who, after failing to cap
'e ture the city, withdrew to the hills
re eight miles away.
II The troop trains which left Juarez
yesterday with 500 rebels on board,
lie are reported to have made good pro-
C. gress during the night. Colonel De-
metric Ponce, at Juarez, stated that
le his detachment would be able to join
10 OrozcO at chihuahua this afternoon If
III needed in case of another attack By
Villa.
General Salazar, and his staff, who
did not accompany the troops last
}. night, are still at Juarez today. They
were waiting for one of the troop
70 trains to return over the Mexican
Central. There was but one locomo
tive in the Mexican yards and General
y Salazar did not care to deprive the
A road of its use.
C. Seven Mexicans Fell.
Iy Ell Paso, Texas, March 4.-Cattle.
Id men who passed through Columbus
II on their way to the cattlemens con
i'd Vention here today, state that Rancho
u Las Palomas is owned by Americans
oe and Englishmen, and that the Ameri
"a cans, in the reported fight were en-
es ployed on the ranch
le According to this source of infor
ce nation, the Americans resisted wher
the Mexicans tried to commander
er horses from the ranch. The cowboys
er- mounts were k:--ed and they retreatet
* to the ranch house where they resist
or ed until the marauders rode away.
he They were exhausted when the,
fl. reached Columbus yesterday after
noon. and talked but little. blt befor