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Black and white photograph. "Texas State Rangers from left to right Hubert Brady, John Edds, Charlie Wright U.S. Customs Officer, Frank Smith, Jack Webb, Roy Miller, Captain Will Wright and Lizzy Captain Wright's company pack mule. This picture was taken shortly after the Rangers had a gun fight with a party of tequila smugglers near the town of Mirando city [Texas] about 1500 bottles of the devil's brew was seized on many pack horses the liquor was from Guerrero Mexico [Tamaulipas] a few of the pack horses can be seen in this picture each horse was carrying 80 hotels amounting to a load of about 165 pounds each. Most of the horses were from Mexico according to their brands but several were horses that had been stolen from ranchers on the Texas side." ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/johnrpeavey/1038/thumbnail.jpg

Gen. Plutarco Elías Calles asks Gen. Esteban Baca Calderón, Administrator of the Customs of Nuevo Laredo and William Philip Sims to help Adalberto F. Smithers. Report from Gen. Calderón to Soledad González, personal secretary of Gen. Plutarco Elías Calles about the participation of an allegorical car from Mexico, made in Nuevo Laredo for the celebrations of the birth of George Washington in Texas. The car won the first place in a contest. He sends four photos (see photographic library). Letter from Gen. Baca Calderón to Luis Montes de Oca, Secretary of Finance and Public Credit explaining the collusion of customs agents with gold smugglers at the frontier in Tamaulipas. Instruction from Gen. Plutarco Elías Calles to Gen. Baca Calderón to allow the entrance of a film about Dwitgh Morrow by Roberto Turnbull. He also orders to allow the entrance of films about the surrender of the Yaquis in Sonora and the visit of Japanese sailors to the Colegio Militar. / El Gral. PEC recomienda al Gral. Esteban Baca Calderón, Administrador de la Aduana de Nuevo Laredo, se le den toda clase de facilidades a Adalberto F. Smithers. Imparte similares instrucciones para William Philip Sims. Informe del Gral. Calderón a Soledad González, secretaria particular del Gral. PEC, sobre la participación de un carro alegórico de México, preparado en Nuevo Laredo, para las fiestas del natalicio de George Washington en Texas. Dicho carro obtuvo el primer premio en el concurso. Remite 4 fotografías (véase en Fototeca). Carta del Gral. Baca Calderón a Luis Montes de Oca, Secretario de Hacienda y Crédito Público, en la que le expone la confabulación de algunos agentes aduanales con contrabandistas de oro en la frontera tamaulipeca. Instrucciones del Gral. PEC al Gral. Baca Calderón para librar órdenes con objeto de pasar una película sobre Dwight Morrow, realizada por Roberto Turnbull. Después se instruye para lo mismo respecto a películas sobre la rendición de yaquis en Sonora y la visita de marinos japoneses al Colegio Militar.