The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-10
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BYBANDITS
LAST night
Crossed Border at Several
Points and Stole Cattle.
1000 Believed Lurking Near to
Renew Atrocities.
VILLA PLAN To CAPTURE U. S.
Invited Zapata to March North
and Join Him.
Recover Letter Villa Wrote on
American Invasion.
Crossed Border at Several
Points and Stole Cattle.
4 900 Believed Lurking Near tt
Renew Atrocities.
VILLA PLAN TO CAPTURE U. S,
Invited Zapata to March North
and Join Him.
Recover Letter Villa Wrote on
American Invasion.

Columbus, New Mexico, March
1O.-Border raids on American
ranchers and farmers continued
today.
Again invading the United
States, Villista bandits this
morning and last night crossed
the border at several points be
tween Columbus and Hachita,
looting ranch houses, driving off
stock and destroying buildings.
There were no Americans
murdered, according to tele--
phone advices received here. Z
Reports to Colonel Slocum stated
| that ViIlista raiders had been com
pleteIy cleared from American soil be-
| fore noon.
renorted large bands of armed Mexi-
! cans encamped close to the border at
! several points
Returned at Daylight.
Inst before daylight several bands
which figured in the raids today re-
crossed to the Mexican side
/
! her we're believed to be lurking with
in a few miles of the international
boundary. Wherever seen by Amerl-
can patrols, a close watch was kept
on their movements
Reinforcements from Fort bilss
have reached VictorianO, New Mexico,
whore the inhabitants were IN terror,
fearing a Villista attack Ihe IrsC
battalion of he Twentieth infantry
detrained at Victorianc shortly aIter
7 o'clock this morning and pltcned
their camp at the edge OF the to''h h'
close to the border
Defend Hachita.
i The first battalion of the Eleventh
infantry arrived at 1Iachlta at a m
Troops A of the Seventh cavalry I'M
mediately left Hachita for the border
directly south to watch the move
Tnants of large bands of outlaws re-
norted close to the boundry line.
| Columbus, n. M, March 10.-An IN
vitation to General Emliano Zapata
to march north and join in an attack
on the United States was sent by
Francisco Villa in January, according
to a copy of a letter found among
Villas captured papers. The letter
was dated San Geronimo, Chihuahua
January 6. 1916
"I shall not expend another shell
on brother Mexicans,' Villa wrote in
the letter, but will prepare and or
ganize to attack the Americans on
their own soil and let them know
that Mexico is a land of the free ano
the tomb of traitors
! villa proposed that the joint move
| ment with Zapata against the United
States should occur six months from
January 6. Zapata SO far as known
made no move to accept and this may
have been responsible for Villas de-
cision to march on Columbus alone.
Villa in the letter attributed his
defeat at Aqua Prieta last November
to the action of the United States gov
ernnent in permitting Carranza mill
tary authorities to send over American
territory reinforcementS for the Mex
can town opposite Douglas, Arizona,
and declared the act an invasion OF
the sovereignty of Mexico and an in
suit to the people.
Prevented Douglas Attack.
HAt that time" Villa told Zapata,
''I restrained but with greatest diff
Guilty the impulse of my troops to at
tack the city of Douglas
Carranza, he also stated in the let
ter, had sold Mexico to the United
States agreeing to lease Magdalena
bay for 80 years and giving over con-
troll of the Mexican National railroad.
Several wounded Mexicans who had
lain out all night were found today in
the brush and taken to the army hos
pital Lack of field telegraph and tel
ephone equipment, it was learned. was
responsible for the delay in the ar
rival at Columbus OF two troops OF
cavalry from the station at the Glib
son ranch.
Troops to Victoria.
| Word of the Columbus fighting was
, not received there until s O'clock AL
though Major Lindsey started imme-
diately it was almost two hours later
) before he reached Columbus with his
troops
A battalion of the goth infantry
commanded by Major William Sam.
l pie reached Victoria at daylight
The pocketbook of T. NJ. Evans one
of the Americans killed in the Santa
. Ysabel massacre, was found on tbs
! body of Pablo Lopez, second in com
mand to Villa.
A considerable force of armed