The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1915-08-19
PLAN OF San Diego
TEXANS SEE PLOT TO RESTORE
THEM TO MEXICO :.
MUCH UNREST ON BORDER

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 70 a conspiracy
OF Mexicans from both sides of the
Rio Grande was to be laid before Gov
Ferguson.
That the raiders are acting under
the "Plan Of San Diego" was indicat-
ed In the reports of United States
army officials reaching the headquar-
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 a Mexican supposed
to have been q member of one of the
bands Of marauders at Mercedes,
Texas, Thursday night, was the lat
est death to be reported in connection
with the outbreaks. Near Mercedes
three Mexicans had been killed sew
eral hours previously and twenty
two horses belonging to the raiders
captured. The numerous unconfirm-
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 Mexi-
can population of this section may
break out in a racial fight.
Reports indicated that the Mexi-
can disturbance spread rapidly west
ward until rumprs Of trouble de-
velOped at Laredo, two hundred miles
up 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 I'm reality an attempt to turn
back part of Texas to Mexican con-
troll. Army and federal investigators
have received information that the
nrUAyatzRs-a n ha
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 ere pledged
to this organization already. Federal
officials last winter frustrated one
attempt to put this revolution into
effect when they arrested Mexican
on charges Of sediion, discovering in
his possession details OF the plan
which were published at the time.
Rangers in Hidalgo county. pursu-
ing some Of tho gang which killed an
American trooper near Mercedes
Tuesday uight captured a flag We'd
nesday bearing the words, in Span
ish:
Army of Liberation for Mexicans
in Texas"
Authorities Wednesday night
watch the river some miles below
Brownsville at point where it was
reported several hundred armed
MexicCns had gathered on the Mexi-
can side OF tho Rio Grande, waiting
to cross the river under darkness.
Officials have reports that seven
teen hundred former Carranza SOL
diers have crossed tho river along q
zone one hundred and twenty miles
wide, as the crow flies. from a point
below Brownsville to Rio Grande
city, up the river. There are said
to have been at least thirty differ
ent crossings.
Washington reports: Raiding and
guerilla fighting in Texas along the
Mexican border will cause strength
ening OF American forces there If
Maj. Gen. FInston requests It, Sec
retary Garrison of the war depart
ment and other officials insist, how
ever, that any such troop movement
had no connection with Mexican in
ternal affairs and would be only for
protection OF Americans in Texas.
Secretary Garrison said he had no
information that Carranza troops
crossed the border and added that
IL they were found in Texas they
would be disarmed and shot If 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 troops.
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 IL he asked for
them.
Gen. Funston reported that the
best information he could gather in
dicated that the Texas raids were
directed by Texans having headquar-
ters in Brownsville, who, having
political feud, sent bandit gangs to
rob and attack each other. Secre-