El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-05-18

direction are found to be as bare OF
people as they were the preceding DAYS
Of the trip. despite the little ructiou
OF the night before The bandits have
accomplished their purpose. They have
created diversion by throwing a few
. men in the way Of the pursuers to stop
them while the main body escaped TO
I some prearranged rendezvous in the
! next to impossible country being
3 hunted over
The hunting parties operating in the
country to the westward Of this valley
have been more fortunate in meeting
the bandits than we have and there
. have been a number of engagements
worthy to be called battles in each Of
which the Americans have come off
: victorious after killing or wounding
many Of the common enemy.
Unable TO Secure Guides.
Nhen the night riding was first be-
tuu there was trouble in the matter of
getting reliable information regarding
tives had to be depended upon and they
were afraid if not absolutely unwilling
to furnish the desired information or
to act as guides to the gorges and
canyons in which it was believed the
marauders were using as daylight hid
ing places. The same condition of af-
fairs still exists so far as the natives
are concerned but so many officers and
men have spent so much time in ex-
ploring the country that they are able
10 get about now without being re
uulred to trust to natives or even to
the American scouts brought from the
border and whose knowledge of ter
rain was mostly based upon the fact
that at some remote period they had
helped round uD train load of cattle
i'm these hills.
scouts Poorly Equipped.
This latter observation is not made
ia disDaragement of the genus scout
but the fact is that many of the men
who attended the army under the guise
Of scouts were as little fitted for the
work which they claimed to be able to
do as could well be imagined. They
had been IN the country, it is true. but
when it came to leading a troop of cav
airy to any place not well landmarked.
they were as much Mt sea in this desert
land as they would have been in mid
Atlantic.
There is but little question that
many of the expeditions undertaken
by the troops since coming into the
the part Of guides. American as well
as native. to pick the shortest way
through the labyrinth of gorges and
deep canyons leading to the hiding
places of the bandits sought
After Cervantes.
Just Z present attention is beins
paid largely to the movements of Can
delaria CerVantes, one of Villas jefe>.
who to judge from the reports from
various sources received from all sorts
and conditions of natives. is just about
as ubiquitous as Villa himself. Mani
quipa is the home of this much hunted
and much wanted man and he is said
to visit il frequently but he always
seems 20 be able to evade capture. re-
gardless of the cunning traps which
have been laid for him. The fact prob !
ably is that he has not visited the town
since the arrival of the Americans i'm
the vicinity. However, that may he
the fact still remains that not a day
passes that q report is not received !
locating him anywhere from mile and /
a half to 80 miles from headquarters /
None of the reports are given much
credit but they cannot be ignored and .
the result is the sending of q detach-
nent or "a bunch of detachments to in ,
-estigate the rumOrs with a hope that /!
some of them may prove to be true.
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