Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-05-22
Lieutenant Dougherty Remains
Cool While Two Hundred In
sufrectos Charge Toward
Boundary Line.
TEXAS RANGES IN
IMPORTANT ROLE
One Shot Fired by Mexicans
Whose Attitude is Regarded
as "Menacing;'' Infantry
Supported u. S. Cavalry.

Supported u, S, Cavalry.
IBy Morning journal Special Leascd WIre.I
At the Boundary Camp OF Ameri-
can Troops, Near Fabens. Texas,
May 2i,--The cool judgment of an
| American army lieutenant and the as-
gressive stand OF two Texas rangers
In the face OF 200 Mexican rebels ad-
vancing on the American boundary
! line. prevented serious complications
early today between the United States
and Mexico.
Death to them" cried the Next
cans, and a shot rang out as they
spurred their horses. drew their car
bines from their saddle slots and
charged forward to a wagon road
| where Lieutenant c. A. Dougherty and
thirty-five men of Troop b. Fourth
United States cavalry, had stationed
themselves, their rifles pointed toward
Mexico.
C. Il. Webster and Charles Moore.
of the Texas rangers. who have been
accompanying the American troops on
their border patrol, dashed forward.
"If you dare to come across this
wagon road, we'll arrest your whole
army" shouted Webster.
Lieutenant Dougherty, thinking per-
haps he had miscalculated the bound
AIRY line gave the Mexicans the bene-
fit OF the doubt and drew his men
back few yards. under cover of
some sage and mesquite. ordering
them under no circumstances to fire
until so commanded.
This wagon road IL the line" Web
ster continued to call in spanish to the
advancing rebels, who formed into a
fighting line. demanding at the same
time that they send out their chiefs
for parley.
Colonels Jose Cordoba and Carlos
Busamente, In command of the rebels.
who were moving on Guadaloupe, dis
mounted and came across the sandy
road. The Mexicans declared they
took the rangers for two men they
had been searching for. Lieutenant
Dougherty came forward and defined
what he believed to be the American
line. The rebel leaders soon turned
their troops away and headed east
ward toward Guada!oupe.
To an Associated Press correspon-
dent who rode with the American
cavalrymen today. the attitude of the
Mexicans was described by the troop
ers as "menacing." The firing of the
shot was unexplained. though It was
declared by the Americans as hav-
ing originated on the Mexican side.
Had not the American troops sighted
the galloping Mexicans from a dis
tance and quickly lined themselves
along the international border, II is
generally asserted here that the Mex
leans surely would have entered
American territory on their way to
Guadaloupe.
There was no fighting at the ia,,er
place. which is only three miles south
of the American border. nine miles
southeast of here. and forty miles
from El Paso. The federals under
Major Louis Sanchez, deliberately
evacuated the town al daybreak. NOV
ing southward few miles. while the
rebels entered peacefully a few hours
after. "a
The feoerais under Major Sanchez,
from Ojinaga. and those un-
der Colonel Jose de Ia Cruz Sanchez,
who will attack the rebels from the
east. while the eyacuating column will
swing into Guadaloupe and Juarez,
thus cutting off their retreat to the
after place.
Fighting Is probably within a short
distance of the American line. The
United states troops have orders to
prevent combatants from either side
srossing into American territory be.
'ore or after the fight. There is a
feeling of tensity among the
American troops. chiefly because of
he confusion existing over the Amer
can boundary line. Though iron
labs six feet high. mark every mile
With inscriptions showing the
boundary to have been fixed success
lively by treaties of 1s4s. 1854 and
sSg between the United States and
dexlco. the Rio Grande here bends
nto the United States. leaving an i'm
ginary line as the boundary for
many miles. Many times today as
he American cavalry traced this line
through a series of muddy irrigating
itches to find the slabs. some OF
hem concealed in heavy sage brush.
he American officers feared they had
topped into Mexican territory.
Horsemen. Mexicans and Americans
like, moving about In the American
one adjacent TO the scene OF the
81 the Mexicans. were
topped by the American troops.
Some OF these we're diverted from
he American line hack into the
'nited States. Two companies OF the
Eighteenth infantry picketed the bor-
CT crouching low In the high grasses
nd reinforcing the cavalrymen~