Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1916 — U. S. Ranger. Scouts Go With Army to Unravel Villa’s Trail. [ARTICLE]

U. S. Ranger. Scouts Go With Army to Unravel Villa’s Trail.

El Paso, Tex., March 20. —Accompanying a large body of cavalry troops which left here today were a number of civilian scouts said to know tjie mountain trails of Chihuahua in which Villa is reported to -be fleeing, as the city man knows his front yard. Wearing the sombrero of the frontier, heavily roweled spurs and with little wrinkles at the corners of their eyes, bespeaking lives spent in the open, these scouts form what is said to be the most picturesque group of then in the expeditionary force. Military men admit that upon their knowledge of the district in which Villa is reported fleeing, rests mOch of the hope for the capture of the bandit. It is these volunteers that Villa drove from their homes, and their property m Mexico,