Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1916 — Hoosiers Disappointed When Mex Bandits Failed to Appear. [ARTICLE]

Hoosiers Disappointed When Mex Bandits Failed to Appear.

Llano Grande, Tex., Oct. 3.—Outposts from the Llano Grande camp were on the lookout today for Mexican bandits who were reported to be operating on the other side of the Rio Grande, somewhere outside Progress© and the Donna pumping station and within less than a dozen miles of this camp. It was reporter that Carranza officers were pursuing the bandits and that it was expectei that they would attempt to cross th® river at some point in this territory: The First Indiana infantry was encamped at Progress©, having gone there on an overnight march, when the North Dakota company stationed at that abandoned settlement received warning from Gen. Lewis concerning the reported presence of bandits.

The Hoosier regiment pictured itself as being in on the ground floor for a scrap, but the bandits failodio cross at this point, though shortly after midnight an outpost from the North Dakota company was fired on from across the border. Since they could not see any target on which to fire, the North Dakota men, quite properly refrained from returning the fire. They took immediate precautions, however, not to further expose themselves in the moonlight. A Carranza uutpost Is stationed across the river from Progress©, but no explanation of the shooting has been obtained.

Gen. Lewis received a message from Brownsville concerning the bandits and he immediately notified the outposts on the river to be on the watcl) to prevent their crossing. The possibility of bandits Slipping over to the American side isdnereased by a rapid fall in the waters of the Rao Grande. Until now, the water had been most too high to permit fording. The officers of the Third Indiana infantry are planning to give a dancing party Saturday evening in the dining room of the hotel at Mercedes. The twenty army nurses of the camp hospital are to be special guests. Maj. Guy J. Shaughness, of Angola, Lieut. Arthur Tuteur, of Rensselaer, and Lieut. Clarence Clark, of Elkhart, comprise the committee on arrangements.