The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-27
MEXICAN TROOPS
Being CHANGED
Ali Along the American Line a
General Movement Seems
Under Way.
ORDER CONSUL DODGERS HOME
Special Agent of State Department
Returning to United States
American Soldier Shot

Columbus, n. NJ, May ia gen
eraI movement of Carranza troops is
under way all along the American line
of communication in Mexico, accord
ing to private advices received here
tonight
These movements, it is said, are
part of the redisposition of the Mexi-
can command as the result of the
Scott-ObregOn conference at FL PasO
and are being made coincidentally
with the American movement toward
the border. From military headquar-
tiers here came a statement tonight
that none of the American movements
look toward a general withdrawal Of
the expeditionary command.
Rodgers Ordered Home.
San Antonio, Tex, May 19.-Uncon-
frmed reports reached General Fun
ston today that James L. Rodgers, spe-
cial agent of the state department,
with General Carranza, had received
instructions to return to the United
States. Mr.. Rodgers has had some
difficulty on account of wire condi-
lions in communicating with the state
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side of the border was said to be mere
ly for the purpose of reporting more
fully on conditions in Mexico.
General Funston said tonight he
had received no official advices con-
corning the coming of consular Off
GERS from Monterey, Chihuahua, Du-
range and other points in Mexico.
U. S. Soldier Shot.
Ell Paso, Tex, May 19.-Sergeant
Harry Furman, a member of the ma
chine company of the Twenty-third
infantry, was shot and killed on Mex
lean soil a mile and a half east of
Juarez today by Mexican customs
guards.
General Givira, Juarez commander,
and other Mexican officials say Fur
man crossed the international boun-
Diary in an intoxicated condition and
fired on the customs guard before he
was made the target of their fire.
-Furman's company commander says
that he saw the sergeant but a short
time before the shooting and that he
appeared perfectly sober.
General Bell detailed Maj. George
D. Moore and Capt. William B. Ora
ham of the Twentieth infantry to
make a joint investigation in the COM
pany of Mexican military judge and
two officers named by General Gavira
This investigation disclosed that
Furman, while searching for stray
mules, rode a horse upon a strip of
Mexican soil left north of the Rio
Grande by the shifting of the river
bed.
Two Americans Rescued.
San Antonio, Tex, May 18.-An ear
~ withdrawal Of the diminutive punt
tive expedition directed by Colonel
Frederick Sibley, south of BoquilIas,
was indicated at department head
quarters today. The rescue of Jesse
Deemer, the storekeeper, and Monroe
Payne, the negro cook, who were car
ried across the border by bandits when
they raided Glenn Springs and Bo-
quillas, twelve days ago, was report
ed today by Colonel Sibley. The colo
mel received information from Major
Langhorne, who reported that he was
endeavoring to overtake the bandits
that had eluded him at FL Pine, from
where he sent the report and where
he found Deemer and Payne.
Officers here regarded it as proba-
bic that a successful encounter with
the bandits would bring the expedi-
ton to an end and not at all improba-
BILE that failure to overtake them
would also be followed by recall It
was explained at headquarters that
the four troops Of cavalry and the ma
chine gun company operating under
Colonel Sigley south Of the border was
altogether inadequate for extended
operation and that further pursuit Of
the bandits was unlikely.
Deemer and Payne had been left at
Ell Pine by the retreating bandits with
instructions to the residents that they
be killed if an attempt to rescue was
made The residents of the village re-
fused to obey instructions, protesting
their friendIiness to the Americans
when they entered the town yesterday
morning.
Information from Mexico indicated
that the troop movement toward the
border had assumed such magnitude
as to indicate that before manay days
the number of Carranza troops in
northern Mexico would be even great
er than that General Obregon said he
would send.