History and government of New Mexico . Out of a total of 17,157 New Mexicans in active serviceduring the war only 5,437 or per cent bore Spanishnames, while 11,720 or per cent were non-Spanish. More than half of this immigrant population comesfrom the States west of the Mississippi. Texas, Missouri,Illinois, Oklahoma, and Kansas furnish the largest numbers,in the order named, Texas contributing about three timesas many as Missouri, her nearest competitor. VI. TROUBLE ON THE MEXICAN BORDER 294. Villas Raid on Columbus. — Stealing and cattle rustling back and forth across the Mexican
History and government of New Mexico . Out of a total of 17,157 New Mexicans in active serviceduring the war only 5,437 or per cent bore Spanishnames, while 11,720 or per cent were non-Spanish. More than half of this immigrant population comesfrom the States west of the Mississippi. Texas, Missouri,Illinois, Oklahoma, and Kansas furnish the largest numbers,in the order named, Texas contributing about three timesas many as Missouri, her nearest competitor. VI. TROUBLE ON THE MEXICAN BORDER 294. Villas Raid on Columbus. — Stealing and cattle rustling back and forth across the Mexican boundary,with the resulting complaints from those who were getting THE BEGINNINGS OF STATEHOOD 247 the worse of it, was an old form of border trouble. Yet theUnited States had been on cordial terms with the Mexicangovernment for half a century when the Madero fma-tharo) revolution broke out in Mexico in the spring of overthrow of Porfirio Diaz (por-feryo deas), the auto-cratic president; the murder of Madero, the reformer;. Villa Bandits in the State Penitentary and the accession of Huerta (werta), the bloodthirstymilitary dictator, ushered in a period of unparalleledanarchy throughout the Mexican Republic. American fi-nancial interests in Mexico suffered heavily, many Ameri-cans were killed, and popular indignation in this countryran high. One of the worst of the bandit leaders infesting north-ern Mexico was the outlaw, Francisco ( Pancho ) Villa(veya). With everything to gain and nothing to lose, he 248 THE HISTORY OF NEW MEXICO courted American intervention in order that he might ob-tain a following and win fame as a defender of his countryagainst the foreign invader. In pursuance of this plan heled eight hundred or a thousand of his ragged rebel followersinto the border town of Columbus, New Mexico, on thenight of March 8, 1916. shot up the town, set fire tohouses, and killed a number of people. The American border patrol under ColonelHerbert Slocum, commandingt
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