Army Sees Mexican Move.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 4, 1913:
Significance Attached to Annulling of Kansas Shooting Contest.
    LEAVENWORTH, Kan., July 3.— A message to-day from Col. W. A. Shunk, commanding the Central Department of the United States Army, announcing the abandonment of the rifle and pistol competition scheduled to begin at Fort Leavenworth July 15, is causing much speculation at the Fort on account of its possible connection with the Mexican situation. Officers take the cancellation to mean that the troops in Texas may be needed for immediate field service. No reason for annulling the shooting competition was given in Col. Shunk's message.
    If the services of the men on the border are not needed immediately in the field, army men say, it is difficult to Understand why the Government should go to great expense for the biennial competition and then suddenly cancel it. It was said the majority of the men competing were to have come from the Second Division, and that a number of the officers were on their way here from Texas.
    A message has been received from department headquarters in Chicago calling for an immediate report of the number of horses needed to equip the squadron of cavalry stationed here.