Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-01
Bonds Stolen By
Cananza, Claims Villa
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plicatos Of their receipts in order that
the securities may be recovered from
any third party in whose hands they
may be found.
Major General Funston, now i'm per-
sonal command of the American
| force at Brownsville, Tex, reported to-
/ day that all was quiet across the bor-
| der at Matamoros, where a villa force
| Is preparing TO renew its attack upon
the Carran2a garrison. 1t is expected
another assault will be made as soon
as the Villa artillery is in place. Gen
! eral Funston made report on rumors
that there was firing from the Ameri-
can side during the fighting Saturday,
which was summarized by the war
! department as follows:
| General Funston has telegraphed
that officers on duty at the border
during the recent fighting at Matamo-
ros are convinced that there was no
firing across the border from Browns
vile. Colonel BlocksOm reports that
during the fighting he had a number
of officers watching the ground from
which 1t is supposed the firing took
place; that there was no shooting
from the American side and that the
firing came from a party of villa fol-
lowers stationed in a loop Of the river
and who fired over the grounds from
which the shooting from the Ameri-
can side was reported to have come"
Railroad Service Bad.
state department advices from
Vera Cruz dated yesterday reported
trains and stations on the Inter
Oceanic railroad between that place
and Jalapa were being attacked and
service virtually was suspended
Trains were operating on the MeXi-
can railroad, the dispatch added, but
the situation was not much better.
Between OmetuscO and Mexico city
the rails had been torn up and stalled
trains were scattered along that part
Of the line. Service between Ometusco
and Pachuca was stopped by the de-
struCtiOn Of a bridge.
Navy reports from the west coast
reported quiet except at Navajoa,
Sonora. where skirmshes were fire.
quent IL was said there was no evil
dence Of famine conditions I'm north
ern Sonora, although food prices were
high A state department report from
Turrcon said General villa had or
dcred wages increased by all en-
pluyors by a minimum of one and one |
half pesos a day, and had opened !
obtained by the people at cost prices |
L. :. Officers Watch
BROWNSVILLE Texas, March 81. |
There was no villa attack on Mata- |
mOros today United States army Of |
ficors with field glasses watched from |
the roof Of a tall building in Browns |
willie for signs of the expected attack, !
and especially indications whether its |
direction might be such as to en-
danger Brownsville. The field glasses |
showed that a difficult position for !
villa to attack has been strongly for
titled by the Carranza garrison at I
llatamsros. Breastworks high enough /.
20 hide a horse, with barbed wire
and thorn-spiked brush i'm front, en-
circlcd the land side of Matamoros.
These earthwOrks were broken by
small lakes and marshes impossible
to cavalry or infantry. Beyond these
stretched nearly half a
mile Of level ground. cleared OF brush
and trees. Beyond the clearing was
woods and more lakes.
There was no glimpse all day of |
Villas troops known to be posted in
these woods Apparently reliable re-
ports indicated that the cannon which
\ illa officers claim are coming up for
siege operations were within at least
d few miles Of the front Several
miles up the Rio Grande above Mat
imoros General Jose Rodriguez late
In the afternoon galloped. with an es-
,ort Of 100 men. away from the camp
h. has occupied since his troops were {
epulscd at Matamoros Saturday. He /
went i'm the direction of the Mata- ,
noros line. |,
Funston Refuses.
Major General Frederick Funston.
who is watching the Matamoros de- {
'elopments at first hand. was invited
,y the constitutionalist consul j. Z. \
iarza, to meet General +. Z. Nafar- {
ate the MatamOros commandant. on ,
he International bridge. General Fun q
'ton replied that he had no nstruc- !
ions authorizing such a meeting and I
he matter was dropped. {
1t was learned today that the fir {
ng last Saturday. which the Car {
anza commander claimed came from {
he American side into the rear Of q
he Carranza trenches. was fired by I
villa troops on the Mexican bank at 4 q
point where the river makes letter y
s." Their bullets flew over the neck S
4 American soil made by one loop 7
Il this IS" and then back into Mex | {
can territory behind the trenches. In