The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-05-18
j. Deener and Negro
Cook, seize=din Glenn
Springs Raid, Safe,
M XlCANs RESPECT
Yankees For First Time Ir
Years, as Result of Show
ing Made by Soldiers.

| Marathon. IeN-A truck dIiy-
| cr arriving here this afternoon
from Hoquillas said it was re-
ported on the border that Major
kangholne and two troops of
cavalry had surrounded the big
Bend raiders about 125 miles
from the border, killing six and
| capturing seyentN-tiye. Army Of
| ticers here have made no an
nounccmcnt regarding such an
| engagement.
According to the truck drivers
report, the bandits were sur
rounded. They did not put up Il
f!9i; aud the Americans ceased
firing Immediately. Scvcnty-fivc
were captured and il is said
were 80 be brought here for
t,iai. No further details arc
available here.
San Antonio. TeXas,-Col. Freder-
icl w. Sibley, commander of the ex-
pedition which was sent into Mexico
at Boquillas to capture the Glenn
Springs raiders, is about forty miles
south of the border, according to in
formation sent to headquarters today
by officers of the signal corps work
ing along the line of communication
Three companies of coast artillery
were sect from here today to Del
Rio for distribution along the MAN
lil.c of the southern Paciic railroad
TO guard bridges and garrison towns
Marathon. Tex United States
soldiers have rescued j. Deemer, the
American storekeeper captured by
MeXican raiders AT Glenn Springs
aud Boquillas, Tex. according to a
nam named Terry who arrived here
this morning.
He said the soldiers entered
village 125 miles below the border
and the bandits rushed out, leaving
l)eemer and a captive negro named
Monroe Payne. Payne and Deemer
are being brought back to the United
States.
Report is Confirmed.
San Antonio, TeN-The rescue by
American soldiers of j. Deemer and
a negro cook carried off by the ban
dts that raided Glenn Springs and
Boqnilias is the report to General
Funston today.
The rescue alive is due to the re-
fusal of the residents of the village
where they had been left to carry out
the orders of the bandits to kill them
if American troops attempted their
rescue.
Rcspcct Khaki Soldiers.
Namiquipa. MeNico.-American
residents of this section of Mexico
have assured General Pershing that
the american troops have restored
respect on the part of natives for
United states soldiers to a degree
rot existing for five years. For some
time the MeXicans have sneered at
the fighting ability of the Americans
some OF them honestly believing that
the United States soldiers were
afraid to engage any Mexican COM
mand
After ,ne Ojo Azules fight, how
ever signs of growing respect on
the part OF the natives became more
and more manifest American non
We're treated with courtesy which as
tonished them. the like of which
they had not experienced for years.
These Americans. however, open
" express their intention of leaving
Mexico if the expeditionary command
is withdrawn. They believe a native
uprising will result Immediately
when the protection of the American
guns is removed.
Americans Not Found.
Marathon, Tex-Colonel Sibley
and the troops of the Fourteenth cav
airy, bringing up the rear of the sec
ond punitive expedition. have caught
up with Major Langhorne, whose
two troops of the Eighth cavalry
were leading the way into Mexico.
Tho eXpeditionary column has tray-
| eled so miles into the interior in its
object of rescuing the American
ranchmcn, Jesse Deemer. John Wood
.aon, f. r. Baltasworth and Monroe
! Payne. Nothing has been heard from
these men since the bandits took
them into Mexico.
\ rumor was current yesterday
that Major Langhorne's troops Ell
gagged III a brush with bandits and
that one American trooper was
wounded, but the report lacked con
tirmation
He Should Surrender.
El Paso, Tex.-General Hosea
Yncz salazer, former Orozco chief
who fled from Ell Paso across the
American line some weeks ago with
the avowed purpose of starting a
revolution of his own, last Sunday
night attacked the Santos Domingo
ranch so miles east of Ojo Caliente
chihuahua, with a force of three mer
and stole several bags of flour ac
cording to report brought here to
day by an American working at San