Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-18

HtI S'bIcy NJ Los NiamOs, 10
miles south of the border. None
Of the Americans was injured.
GAN ANTONIO, Texas, May H.
~ An early withdrawal of the
dimunitive punitive expedition di-
rected by Colonel Frederick Sibley
south Of Boquillas was indicated at
department headquarters today. The
rescue of Jesse Deemer, the store
keeper. and Monroe Payne. the negro
cook, who were carried across the
border by bandits when they raded
Glenn Springs and Boquillas ~ DAYS
ago, was reported today by Colonel
Sibley who received his information
from Major Langhorne, and reported
that he was endeavoring to overtake
the bandits who had eluded him at
El Pine. from where he sent the re-
port and where he found Deemer and
Payne.
Officers here regarded as probable
that successful encounter with the
bandits would bring the expedition to
an end. and not at all improbable that
failure to overtake them would also
be followed by recall. IL was ex-
pltincd at headquarters hat the
troops of cavalry and the machine
gun company operating urIer Col
onel Siblcy south of the border was
altogether in debate for extended
operations and that further pursuit
or the bandits was unlikely
Left Prisoners.
Decmer and Payne had been left
ut FL Pino by the retreating bandits
with instructions to the residents that
they be killed If an attempt to rescue
them was made. The residents of the
village refused to obey instructions.
protesting their friendliness to the
Americans when they entered the
town yesterday morning.
reports from General Pershing
were characterized as routine.
Information from Mexico Indicated
That the troop movement toward the
border had assumed such magnitude
as TO indicate that before many days
the number of CarranZa troops i'm
northern Mexico would be even
greater than that General Obregon
said he would send.
Texas Troops First.
Two regiments of Texas militia,
under direction of General John A.
liulen of the state troops, will be the
first of the irregulars to go to the bor-
dci stations. They were included to-
day in the allotment made by Cen
tidl fT"ueilck y funStOn IN MS plan of
"A reorganized border patrol. They
Will be in the brownsville district, eX-
tending from the gulf coast to Ar
rcya I'll Tigre, near Roma. General
James Parker will command that dis
trict, reporting to him being Colonel
A. l.. BlOcksJm with the Third cav
airy, Colonel A. l.. Bulard, Twenty
sixth infantry, and Colonel f.. Ii.
Ilumer, Twenty eighth infantry. In
that district there will be within five
days more than live thousand men.
General William a. Mann was given
command OF the LAREDO district from
the western limit of the Brownsville
district to BIocker's ranch, between
Laredo and Eagle Pass.
Outline Plans.
The Eagle Pass district. from
Blocker's ranch to point near Del
Rio, will he commanded by General
Henry A. Greene.
Lieutenant Colonel A. l.. Parmerter
will command the fourth district,
headquarters at Del Rio. Six com-
panies of the Nineteenth and six COM
panies of coast artillery will be used
in that district for guarding tho
bridges and towns west of Del Rio
along the Southern Pacific railway.
Three companies of coast artillery,
the Seventy seventh and Seventy
fourth and the li5th, left here today
for that district