Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 312.41/471.

Collector Cobb to the Secretary of State.

El Paso, August 27, 1915.

Herd of five hundred cattle together with Mexican foreman, owned by William Benton, British subject, cousin of William Benton, deceased, while en route to border were yesterday seized south of Columbus by Gutierrez, former lieutenant of Salazar.

Cobb.