The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-18
PLAN OF SAN DIEGO
TEXANS SEE PLOT TO RESTORE
THEM TO MEXICO =.
MUCH UNREST ON BORDER

MUCH UNREST ON BORDER
Citizens Of Some Counties Sleep With
Arms Nearby, Because Of Fear
That Mexican Uprising Will Cause
Death OF All Males Over Sixteen
Years Old.
although few depredations by
bands OF Mexican raiders were re-
ported at Brownsville in the last
twenty-four hours, authorities in the
lower Rio Grande Valley continued
Friday to take measures to suppress
the lawlessness that almost had
brought about reign OF terror in
this section.
Developments in this matter were
expected to follow the, conference to
be held at Rockport, Texas, where
Gov. Ferguson is spending his vaca-
ton. Besides the governor, Adjt.
Gen. Hutchings, Congressman John
N. Garner and other prominent citi-
zens Of the state were to discuss the
border situation. Further proof that
the outbreaks are due to a conspiracy
Of Mexicans from both sides OF the
Rio Grande was to be laid before Gov.
Ferguson. i
That the raiders are acting under
the 'sPlan Of San Diego" was indhcat-
ed IN the reports Of United States
army officials reaching the keadquar-
ters Of the southern department at
San Antonio. The reports quoted
from literature said to have been dis
tributed in large quantities in the
border counties Of Texas.
The killing Of g Mexican supposed
to have been member OF one OF the
bands Of marauders ct Mercedes,
Texas, Thursday night, was the lat
est death to be reported In connection
with the outbreaks. Near Mercedes
three Me1icans had been killed sew
eral hours previously and twenty
two horses belonging to the raiders
captured. The numerous unconfrm-
ed reports OF killings and battles be-
tween the raiders and soldiers are
reported.
Practically every American citizen
In the three southermost counties OF
Texas, Cameron, Hidalgo and Starr,
rested under arms Wednesday night
In fear that the overwhelming Ae1i-
can population Of this section may
break out in a racial fight.
Reports indicated that the Me1i-
can disturbance spread rapidly west
ward until rumors OF trouble de-
yeloped at Laredo, two hundred miles
ND the border from Brownsville. The
arrival of troops in force from Lare-
do apparently had bearing on the
shift Of the bandits into the less pop
ulous sections between Brownsville
and Laredo.
The belief increases that the move
ment Is In reality an attempt to turn
back part OF Texas to Mexican con-
troll. Army and federal investigators
have received information that the
organizers of the trouble are work
ing, under the plan Of San Diego,
which calls for the death Of every
American male over sixteen years old
In communities along the Rio Grande
and also along the border OF New
Mexico, Arizona and California
It has been reported to Maj. Gen.
Frederick Funston that more than
three thousand Mexicans are pledged
20 this organization already. Federal
officials last winter frustrated one
attempt to put this revolution into
effect when they arrested a Mexican
on charges Of sediion. discovering IN
his possession details OF the plan
which were published at the time.
Rangers in Hidalgo county. pursr-
ing some Of tho gang which killed an
American trooper necr Mercedes
Tuesday night CAPTURED flag We'd
nesday bearing the words, in Span
ish:
"Army of Liberation for Mexicans
in Texas"
Authorities Wednesday night
watch d the river some miles below
Brownsville at point where 1t was
reported several hundred armed
Mexiccns had gathered on the Me1i-
can side Of the Rio Grande, waiting
to cross the river under darkness.
Officials have reports that seven
teen hundred former Carranza SOL
diers have crossed the river along
zone one hundred and twenty miles
wide, as the crow flies, from a point
below Brownsville to Rio Granoe
city, up the river. There are said
to have been at least thirty diner
ent crossings.
Washington reports: Reiding and
guerilla fighting in Texas along the
Mexican border will cause strength
ening of American forces there /!
Mai. Gen. Funston requests it. Sec
retary Garrison Of the war depart
ment and other officials insist, how
ever, that any such troop moVemen'
had no connection with Mexican IN
ternal affairs and would be only Tor
protection Of Americans in Texas.
Secretary Garrison said he had no
information that .Carranza troops
crossed the border and added that
II they were found in Texas they
would be disarmed and shot II they
resisted. Carranza officials at San
antonia denied that any Carranza
troops nd crossed the line.
Requests from afficials along the
border for more troopers have been
referred to Gen. Funston. Gen. Fun
ston has on the border and at Texas
City about seventeen thousand trooDs
Secretary Garrison telegraphed the
general that the twelve thousand mo-
bile troops remaining at other posts
in continental United States would be
sent to the border If he asked fol
them.
Gen. Funston reported that the
best information he could gather In
d;cated that the Texas raids were
directed BY Texans having headquar
ters in Brownsville, who, having
political feud, sent bandit gangs tt
rob and attack each other. secre
tary Garrison expressed doubt tina
Mexicans from over the border Wer'