Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-03-21
Get MEN WHO Can
SHOOT AND WILL
THUS GOV. COLQUI1T ORDERS HIS
RANGER BORDER PATROL
RECRUITED.
Orders Follow Attempted kidnapping
OF American and Other Dis
orders on the Border.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 20.-Reports
of new disorders along the Mexican
border, including the attempted kid
mapping of an American citizen by flVe
MeXicans today caused Governor o. B.
Culquitt to order the ranger force re
cruited with men who can shoot
II have instructed Captain Hughes
TO look for more men suitable for
the ranger service My instructions to
him are to get men who can shoot
and will shoot when necessary said
Governor Colquitt tonight.
Captain Hughes commands the ran
ger force which has headquarters at
Raymondsvllle, Cameron county, in
the extreme southeastern tip Of the
state. Brownsville, opposite Matamo-
ras. Mexico, is the county seat. Cam
eron county citizens today asked the
governor for protection. Several fill
clustering expeditions have been re-
ported this week operating along that
section Of the Texas border.
Governor Colquitt would not discuss
tonight the conference of Adjutant
General Hutchings with the federal
commander. General Guajardo, at
Piedras Negras today, American
Consul Blocker, at Piedras Negras ac-
companied General Hutchings, who is
investigating border conditions and
especially the Vergara incident.
Two kilograms today formed tje
basis of the governors action in or
dering the ranger force increased.
The first reported the kidnapping of
an American, Charles Ballard, by i've
MeNicans, near CarriZO Springs. The
second was the petition from Cameron
county citizens Ballard was tied by
the Mexicans and hustled to the bor-
der. While the party was crossing the
river he cut the rope and escaped by
| diving His captors shot at him sew
| cral times, and then made good their
| escape Sheriff Gardner Of Dimmitt
| county, where tho kidnapping oc-
Cured, went I'm pursuit with a posse,
and the rangers and United States pa
| troll also began a search for the men,
but they were thought to have pro-
ceeded into Mexico.
The Cameron county petition de-
| clared murder and robbery ar. being
committed freely" and appealed for
ranger protection. Two murders and
! robberies, one in which an American
merchant was killed, and the other
| the killing of a wealthy Mexican, were
cited as instances OF prevalent dis
order. The petition did not charge
that Mexicans killed the men.
AT practically all places in the
county where MeXicans OF the COM
mon class gather for their amusement,
whlskey, beer and mescal are being
sold openly without state, county or
federal licenses" said the petition.
Ranger Captain j. j. Sanders to-
night made an official report from
Laredo on the Ballard kidnapping to
| Governor Colqultt 1t was Captain
Sanders also who received the body Of
Cleemnte Nergara when II was recent
ly returned from Mexico. His tele-
gram tonight said:
About noon Wednesday a Mexican
asked Ballard TO go into the country
to repair a gas engine. They left
Carrizo Springs on foot. Along the
road they met four Mexlcans with five
horse, who came out of the brush and
stopped Ballard, tied his hands behind
him and placed a rope around hi:
neck and started to the Rio Grande
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