Omaha daily bee., 1917-01-28
PERsH|NG GIVEN
OFFICIAL ORDER
TO QUIT MEXICO
Utah Cavalry Goes to the Res
cue of the Cowboys and
Fight Lasts Several
UoNrs
SEVERAL MEXICANS FALL
Engaged Said to Be
s<{ Carranza Garrison
at Sasabe.
SCENE is NEAR TUCSON


has been ordered by the War depart
ment and officials here expect that by
Monday morning the entire column
will be moving north,
The exact time OF the withdrawal is
left by the department orders to the
discretion OF General Funston, the
border commander, and will be de-
termincd by his assessment of mill
tary conditions and facilities for trans
portation
As soon as the regulars reach the
border large proportion of the Ma
tional Guardsmen still at the border.
and possibly all of them, will be re-
lieved and sent home for muster out.
Tucson, Ariz., Jan. H.-Lying N
rocks close to the international line,
five miles south of Ruby, Ariz,, forty
members OF Troop E, First Utah
cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant
Arms, we're keeping up an incessant
firing at Mexican soldiers across the
line today. The Mexicans were re-
turning the shots.
As far as known none OF the
American troops have been killed
or wounded. Reinforcements from
Nogales are being rushed to the
scene. Soldiers and civilians return
ing from the line report they saw
several Mexican soldiers fall during
the fighting,
A telephone message from Ariyaca
says the Mexican soldiers engaging
the Americans are from the Carranza
garrison at Sasabc.
Firing kept up during the night
until 2 o'clock this morning, when
the cayalrymen i'll the rocks were re-
lieyed by detachment from Arivaca,
fifteen miles distant, where the Utah
troops have been stationed, The
clash was resumed at daylight.
Mexicans Fire on Cowboys.
The Mexican soldiers opened fire
on the American cowboys, who were
trying to round up herd of cattle
on the American side, it is alleged
The cowboys, although outnum-
bered, returned the fire and sent for
reinforcements from among the Utah
command.
American civilians are being kept
Lack from the scene OF fighting by
Lieutenant Arms, who is holding them
in reserve until it appears that the
troops are unable to cope with the
situation.
A party of civilians headed by N.
c. Bernard, rancher and county su-
pervisor, left Arivaca at dawn for
the scene of the fighting.
Supervisor Bernard will telephone
Sheriff Rye Miles at noon whether
he needs assistance. Miles is ready
to respond, leaving Tucson by auto
mobile with a posse. The scene of
the fighting is seventy-hve miles from
Tucson by fair automobile road,
Pershing Begins March.
El Paso, Tex, Jan. H-American
troops started north from the field
headquarters at CoTonia Dublan at
dawn today, according to reports from
Columbus, N. NJ, which were brought
here early today by passengers ar
irving overland and which were con-
sidercd reliable. The troops which
left were believed to have been the
advance guard of the punitive cxpedi- |
ton.
The troops which left field head
quarters early today included cavalry,
infantry and artillery, accompanied by
motor lorries and wagon trains, ac-
cording to the passengers from Co.
lumbus.
Villistas Follow Rear Guard.
Villa followers were moving in the
wake of the American expeditionary
forces as they withdrew from FL
Vale, San Joaquin and Charcos, ac-
cording to reliable report received
here. They remained at safe dis
tances, but moved northward slowly
as the rear guard of the American
columns disappeared toward the
north, 1t was said.
When the last of the Fifth cav
airy cantered out of Ell Vale Wcdnes-
day morning the Carranza garrison
there, consisting OF 100 soldiers, left
for Casas Grandes overland to join
the garrison there. From this same
source it was learned that the Villa
troops met with no resistance at FL |
Vale, but appeared outside the little
valley town soon after the last Ameri-
can troops had left and occupied the
plaza,
Said to Be Bandits.
Nogales, Ariz., Jan. 27.-A mes
sage this afternoon to the sheriff's |
office from an Arivaca store said
fighting still continued. This mes
sage said it was believed the Mexi-
cans engaged were followers OF Fran
cisco Reyna, bandit, who boasted
he had taken part in the Santa Ysabcl |
massacre. Reyna is leader said to
have opened recruiting headquarters
at Sonoyta some time ago. At that
time the Mexican general, Camarago, |
was sent to the Sonoyta district, and
Reyna and his band disappeared.
F troops of the First Utah cavalry,
sixty men in ALL is on the way today
from here to the Arivaca district,
south of Ruby, Ariz., on the border,
to reinforce Utah cavalrymen, who
have been exchanging fire at long
range across the border with Mexi- |
cans who were in a brush with Amer
lean cowboys yesterday.