The Elbert County tribune., 1915-09-10
5000 TROOPS TO
MEXICAN BORDER
BANDITS SET SEPT. ts FOR GEN.
ERAL ATTACK ON PEOPLE
OF TEXAS.
GEN. FUNSTON TO ACT i
cARRANzA GOVERNOR AND 9TH
Err OFFICIALS KILLED DURING Z
ToBAsco OUTBREAK.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New Orleans, Sept 7.-Twenty-four
carloads of troops. including infantry,
cavalry and artillerymen, and twenty
carloads carrying tools of war passed
through New Orleans on the way to
the Mexican border from the East, the
majority of the troops being from Ala
bama, Georgia. Florida. Arkansas.
North and South Carolina and eastern
posts and forts.
They will be followed by a second
contingent of troops within from two
to four days. consisting of sixty-four
carloads of men and as many freight
and baggage cars as are necessary to
carry the material needed by the sol
diers for their encampmcnt along the
Rio Grande This will make a total
force of about 5000 men
Troops Chasing Bandits.
Brownsville. Tex Troops which
have been chasing the bandits be-
lieved responsible for the murder of
two Americans last week near San
Benito, returned here Monday night
with report that in the house of AMI
ceto Piano. alleged leader of the band,
they had found four letters post
marked Los Angeles. These letters
offered to send Pizano buttons for his
men to wear, inscribed Army of Lib
erty." Pizano Is believed to have es-
capped into Mexico.
Reports were spread that Mexicans
on both sides of the river were plan
ming an outbreak in this section on
Sept. 16. Mexican independence Day.
BY mid-week there will be 1900
men-.cavalry, infantry, artillery. sig
nal and aero corps-in this district,
command large enough. 1t is hoped, to
exert sufficient moral force to make
the use of physical force unnecessary
in maintaining quiet in the border
counties with their seventy per cent
Mexican population.
Maj. Gen. Function has full author
ity to deal with any emergency. and
officials here indicated that the Amer
lean commander would not hesitate to
pursue to rout the participants in
any movement approximating an
armed invasion. -
II the raiders continued to appear
only in small bands. however, it was
understood they would not be fol-
lowed acrosc the frontier.
In the two months since the band
dts began operations, four American
men lave been murdered Two have
been killed at Sebastian by Mexicans
who were their personal enemies.
Vera Cruz.-The major portion of
the state of Tobasco has revolted
against the Carranza government.
Street fighting in San Juan Bartista,
the capital of the state and in From
terra, a town on the coast, resulted in
the killing of Gen. Colorado, the Car
rama governor. the chief of police and
the secretary of state. Many women
I and children were killed on the
streets. The Carranza officials re-
4 manning seized boat at Frontera and
escaped to Vera Cruz.
Border Under U. s. Control.
Brownsville, Text was announced
here Tuesday night that Maj. Gen.
Frederick Funston of the southern de-
partment is to issue orders placing
practically the entire Rio Grande coun-
try in the Brownsville section in the
hands of the U. S. army 1t is under
, stood that the army will devote it's
forces primarily to guarding the bor--
der, leaving the policing work in the
, interior except when special troops
are needed, to state and county off
GERS