Señor Romero to Mr. Gresham.
Washington, March 18, 1893. (Received March 20.)
My Dear Mr. Gresham: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date in which you inform me that a letter of the 15th instant from the War Department has communicated to [Page 446] you that on the 12th instant the bandits Jesus Sandoval, Ohico Procopio Sandoval, Seeundino Ramirez, Juan Maldonado, Eslas Ibañez, and Juan Guerra, arrived at Fort Ringgold, having surrendered, they said, because of the constant vigilance of the troops on the ranches.
The circumstance that a considerable number of the bandits who took part in the late incursions into Mexico, after organization in Texas, should have surrendered shows the efficacy of the pursuit of them by the agents of the U. S. Government, and is in contrast with the leniency manifested during the first two raids, one led by Ruiz Sandoval and the other by Catarino Garza.
It is very satisfactory to observe, that the active and efficacious pursuit of these bandits is bearing fruit, and I believe that in future there will be no further invasions of a friendly country like those which have occurred in the last three years.
I remain, etc.,