Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-10-08
2ND WEEK ENDS
WITHOUT RAIDS;
HOPEFUL VIEW
BANDITS REPORTED MOVING OUT OF
BRUSH ON MEXICAN SIDE AND
STRIKE TO SOUTH.
NEW COMMANDER AT REYNOSA
TELLS CITIZENS WILL GET RID
OF THE BANDITS.

since the last fight in connection with the
recent border troubles. and with the pass
ing of four days Of comparative quiet hope
i inspired that the end of the bandit ac-
tivitie~ i IN sight.
N Unofficial reports given To American
army officers also lends hopeful view to
the situation. Information from Maia-
moru~ wa~ that the bandits who have been
using the Mexican side Of the Rio Grande
for place oi refuge are moving oui
through the brush INTO the interior far
back from the river. Tie purpose of this
retirement wa~ not made clear but it,
effects appeared i'll the complete quiet al
along the border today. Today. for the
+, second day. the usual crop of false alarms
were missing
/ An American from Rcyno~a. the Mexican
town opposite Ilidalgo, Texas, IN the dis
trict where several raids have been
launched INTO American territory. reported
Yesterday that since the arrival early this
week IN Revno~a OF Colonel Cantu and hi~
command. all soldiers of the new Mata-
moro- commander. General Eueenio Lopez.
lHtft la~ HttN II uHllftdbt tfitll-f at hfN
no~a The Mexican- there seem to think
that the new regime will clean up the dis
trict
Colonel Cantu b. man Of fifty vcar-.
who before the revolution was Il re~pOn-
-ible ranctnan He succeeded a com
mander NJ twenty years Of age who had
given American troops considerable trouble
because ~ hi~ apparent frIcndine~~ with
leaders Of raidlng parties Colonel Caniu
told the people in Revno-a that he would
try ~ get rid oi the bandits, and that w
would ike ~ cooperate with the American
troops. lii coming brought feeling ~
relief 10 many Mexican IN Reyno~a.
! I'm Colonel Cantu'~ command were one
captain and several other officers, all oi
/ them Of very different type from former
Y Carranza officers III that district II = BE-
heved that Cantu'~ men. who seem ~ come
from different section of Mexico. will be
more free from petty graft and intrigue
with the Mexican~ on the American side
nf the river than were their predecessors
most IT whom were said to have been re-
crnltcd along this border. some ot then
being cooks and other menialS. Colone
Cantn said he had heard that there was n
camp of bandits below Revno~a. II that
provcd correct he said he intended to ruf
the bandits ont
Al the Carraaza consulate in Browns
vile today It wa~ sand that no information
had been received ~ 10 when General
Nafarrate j. To leave Matamoro~. but that
he probably will leave Monday. Nafar-
ratr'~ troops are reported being drawn
away from the river toward the railroad
stations. and il j. expected All will have
been entraned IN sunday, and started
Monday for the Torreon section whore they
will join in the planned final campaign
against General Villas forces.
one change ha~ been made in the sub
cavalry patrol districts recently formed by
the army in the work on the lower border.
The lIarneen sub district has been di-
vided. Major Edward Anderson having
gone ~ Mercedes. which has been formed
into ~ub-d~trIct. leaving the llarlingen
sub district IN command of Colonel Castor
of the Sixth cavalry. The Brownsville
~ubdStrict j. in command Of Major Hart
mann. the Mission district on command ~
Captain Frank r. McCoy. and the Rio
Grande CITY district T. III command ~
Major j. Mel. Carter.