Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1915 — TROUBLE MAKER KILLED IN TEXAS [ARTICLE]

TROUBLE MAKER KILLED IN TEXAS

Noted Mexican General, Aide to Madera and Huerta, Shot Down by Cowboys In Running Fight. Government officials have received reports confirming reports that Gen. Pascual Orozco, prominent military leader during Mexican revolutions in the last five years, had been shot and killed in a fight between Mexicans and an American posse. Civilians and United States cavalry participated in the battle which, according to reports, was fought in the Green River Canyon of the High Lonesome mountains, Culberson county, Texas. After a raid on the Dick Love ranch Monday, Orozco and four companions were pursued into the foothills. The raiders, headed by Orozco, had gone to the Dick Love ranch, where they forced the cook to feed them while one of the ranchers was made to shoe their horses. While they were eating they saw Dick Love and two ranchers coming to the house and began to pursue them, shooting as they rade. Love and his companions delayed only long enough to arouse the neighboring country. A posse was hurriedly formed and kept up a running fight until the last raider was killed Tuesday evening. Four bullet wounds were found in the body of Orozco. Orozco was one of the first to join Francisco Madero when the latter organized his revolt against President Porfirio Diaz in 1910. When Madero became president, Orozco accompanied him to Mexico City, but after a money disagreement abandoned his allegiance. With the fall of Madero he joined Huerta and became one of the most active chiefs of that force. With the arrival in the United States of General Huerta, Orozco joined his chief and accompanied him on his journey to El Paso, which culminated in the arrest of both at Newman, N. M., last June by U. S. officials. After being released on bond he again escaped a few nights later and since that time it is supposed he has been in the vicinity where he was killed.