Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-15
Brow,. sville Appears in State of Siege, and Border
 Being Fortified.
RAID BY MEXICANS
 APPREHENDED TODAY
Commander of T., $. Forces Learns 9t Plot to Capture Texas City in Order to "Celebrate Mexican Independ-
 ence Day"

Brownsville, Texas, Sept II - Armed with rifles and with cartridge
 belts slung around their waists, 3Vo citizens of Brownsville, with an equal number of United States troopers, arc patrolling the city tonight against threat tened attack by MeXicans who have sent broadcast a declaration that they will capture the city before Sep tember IF.
 Along the Rio Grande 300 soldiers are on sentinel duty Long rows Of trenches have been dug and forificl along the river. A battery of fl Id artillery is trained on Matamoras, the Mexican town across the stream. In the outlying districts heavy details of troops and Texas rangers are on pa trol.
 Colonel Bullard, commanding the American troops at Fort Brown, to- day received advices that the Mexican raiders are concentrating for an at tack on the city. They have sworn to celebrate the Mexican indepen- dence day. Sept. 16, by the capture of an American town, as a brand to start aflame the hatred of tha "gingo."
 Bullard Apprehends Attack. Colonel Bullard refuses to disclose the source of thi~ startling informa- ton, but is emphatic in his belief that |the Mexicans, who, of late, have be- come bolder in their attacks, really
 have in mind a plan to raid American border towns.
 Two companies of American troops have been rushed to Drulay ranch. six miles south of here, to guard it against threatened attack tonight by Mexicans. According to Colonel
 Bullard, farmers report the presence of large band of armed Mexicans near the ranch.
 A wagon load of arms and ammu-
 milton containing nearly every kind of gun ever made was brought into
 military headquarters tcnight by Texas rangers.
 All the arms were found in houses of Mexicans in this vicinity. The weapons will be distributed among the Americans forming a vigilance committee here.
 < Troops stationed here were put to work this morning digging trenches. Field guns were brought up and trained on the Mexican town across the Rio Grande. No Mexicans were allowed to- cross the American terri tory as precautionary move to pre- vent messa ges on orders from reach ing the hands on this side from ths ir leaders. some Of whom are known to be in Matamoras.
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 American troops captured and sunk two Mexican ferry boats on the Rio Grande ten miles north of here, ac- cording to a report received at mili- tary headquarters. The boats were empty, and it is believed they were used to transport a number of Mexi- cans to the American side. No trace of the Mexicans have been found.
 Tonight advices were received that three Mexicans among the six pris oners captured as suspects after yes- terday's Las Indios fight were killed today near san Benito. It is under stood they escaped from the San Benito jail last night. Their bodies were found some distance from the town today with bullet holes in their backs.
 In field where the Mexicans sur- rendered the soldiers at Los Indios two army canteens were found and unidentified by United States cavalry men as those they had lest on August 3 in fight twenty-five miles distant from the scene of yesterdays battle. TheAugust fight was with a band alleged to have been led by Anicto Pizano, for whose arrest Colonel Blocksom has made a request to the Mexican authorities. Army officials reguarded the finding of these can teens as highly significant, showing that yesterdays first was by the same, Mexicans who started the trouble trouble more than a month ago.