Shooting Across The Border.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 4, 1912:
Mexicans Start Fusillade Opposite El Paso and American Soldiers Reply.
Special to The New York Times.
    EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 3.— Mexican rebels and United States soldiers on patrol duty in the El Paso Foundry in East El Paso exchanged shots across the Rio Grande last night. No one was hit by by bullets.
    Capt. D. G. Berry, in command of the patrol station, says that the soldiers reported that the first shots came from the Mexican side. After the first three or four shots the soldiers opened fire in return.
    C. H. Cole says that he heard bullets strike his house. He believes that the rebels fired at the United States soldiers to attract attention away from an attempt to smuggle ammunition across the border.
    Disguised as a rebel soldier. Sam Jarvis arrived on a freight train to-day from Colonia Dunlina, the Mormon settlement, 200 miles south.
    Traveling overland toward the west, he says, are the men who remained when the women and children were sent to El Paso last week. Fearing to move north through rebel territory, they preferred to take chances by joining the Federal army of Gen. Sanjines, which is approaching the Casas Grandes  district. Jarvis declares that the men do not join the Federals as fighting men, although they are carrying a few arms. They merely believe, according to Jarvis, that the Federal army will offer better protection.
    The village, which a month ago contained 1,200 Americans, is now deserted, the rich fields are untilled, and the American homes are filled by 400 Mexican rebels, who have taken possession.