The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-02

the Nfexicans will come 10 steal horses.
cattle and food. and a continual outlook
has to be kept for hundreds and thou
sands Of miles. This is done with
small force. One man Will patrol
line thirty OF forty miles long. and there
are detachnsnts of troops at every
eighty or one hundred miles.
The men live in little tents out in the
desert. and one Of the great troubles Is
20 get supplies 20 them Many OF the
camps are from hfty to 100 miles from
the railroad. and il takes wagon or
pack train from ten days 20 three weeks
70 make the round trip. There Is prac-
tically no food ia the country. and the
men have 10 live on dried meats, can
ned stun and bareback. They boil and
filter the water of the country. and all
are inoculated for typhoid fever before
starting. The country IS 50 arid that
the only trails can be from water hole
20 water hole. and much OF the work ls
watching these water holes.
Keeping Out the Smugglers.
Another Job which Uncle Sam has ali
along this boundary is the prevention
Of smuggling. and also the keeping out
the Chinese. HindOos and others who
are trying 20 sneak across into the
United States contrary 20 our exclusion
laws Within the last two or three
years many Chinese have been SNUG
gled across at the rate Of $500 per man.
this being the price paid by each Ceies-
tial for his successful landing. II is
different now The government has d
band OF mounted scouts. VINO are under
the Department OF Commerce and La
Dor and whose only business IL 20 run
down and capture such characters.
One of these men, Tom Guriey, has
taken sixty-four Cinnamon within less
than year and in addition has cap
hc~ NJ
The Chinese are still attempting TO
cross over. and they are now offering
as much as 81. 900 apiece for successful
landing.
Right here a; Laredo I met a large
party Of Hindoos who were trying TO
get into our country They were on ne
southern side OF the bridge, in the
plaza which forms the centre of the
Mexican town OF Nuevo Laredo. They
were tall dark-faced. strong, husky
East Indians. and the chief was a tur-
bsned Eindoo from the Puniah-
asked him where they were going.
and he told me he mad brought the
gang Of forty-three with him from the
Panama Canal They had Travelled
fret To Guatemala and had come by
the Pan-A mericdn Railway from there
into Mexico. They had gone clear
across that country to Laredo. and are
now hoping to 90 through Texas 20
California 70 ma EOrk on the IdIffis
and railroads there. The chief com
planned 70 me that the authorities at
Washington had kept his party wait
ing for tEO weeks at \uevO Laredo
and that he could not learn when they
were likely TO leave. ] photographed
four of these IiindoOs- They were
nne-Iooking fellows. all wearing tur-
bans and Indian dress. and IL seemed
20 me as though they might have been
lifted up bodily out of the streets of
Delhi and dropped down into this
Mexican town
The Only Gateway to Mexico.
During part Of the past year this
crossing of the Rio Grance at LAREDO
has been the only gateway 20 Mexico
Vera cCru was closed by the revoiu-
ton of Diaz. and RI PaSo had d long
period OF interrupted traffic on account
OF the rebels Of chihuahua and other
parts Of Northern Mexico The bridge
az this point. over which the railroad
trains went. has been poorly guarded.
and I am told that the rebels. with a
few sticks of dynamite. might have
blown 10 10 pieces Uncle Sam has 4
fort here under the com mand OF Col
onel Brewer. The force consists OF
about COO cavalry. who have recently