Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-08
VILLA GATHERS
ADDITIONAL.
TROOPS
NOW HAS 2,7O0 MEN GATHERED
UNDER REBELS BANNERS ON
VARIOUS SIDES OF jUAREz=AT.
TACK NOT COMMENCED YET.
FEDERALS STILL
PENNED UP IN GUAYMAS

Ell Paso, Texas. July S.-PanchC
Villa and 1900 rebel troops were still
at Ascencion, three days march from
Juarez awaiting field pieces from
Aqua Prieta on Monday afternoon, ac
cording to advices to General Hugh
L. Scott, commanding the American
border patrol. Scattered about Villa
were various commands of subordi
mates with about 800 men. These are
Ortega, at Guadalupe, forty miles
east of Juarez. Villa explained to
! Americans who passed through his
camp and later reported to military
agents of General Scott at Palomas,
N NJ, that he hoped to have a force
sufficiently large and powerful to take
Juarez without fight when he was
ready to attack.
The Juarez commanders do not ap-
pear to be inclined to give up with
out fight, however, for today they
resumed building Notifications and
stringing barbed wire, which Is to be
connected with the electric current
from the FL Paso plant, which also
supplies Juarez A guard of thirteen
American soldiers has been placed oV-
er the American plant to prevent
harm to it from rebel sources.
" Americans who have been in the
vicinity of Guadalupe, report that
Ortega has a prescribed list of feder-
al sympathizers in that section ana
that as fast as they are caught they
are being executed.
Guaymas Still Besieged
Nogales, Ariz., July S.-Starvation
and artillery are the forces upon
which the constitutionalists are de-
pending to obtain the ultimate sur
render of the federals at Guaymas,
according to General Juan c. Cam
bral of the insurgent forces, VINO
with his staff and Thomas Dean, me-
chanician. for Didier Mason, the
French aviator allied with the rebels
reached Nogales late last night from
the beleaguered gulf port.
Cabral said he expected Guaymas I
20 capitulate at any hour as the con-
were doing deadly work
with their artillery and were aided
n their attack by hunger OF the fed
,rals. whose supplies of provisions
md ammunition were practically eX-
lausted.
Cabral declared the report that
ederal gunboats at Guaymas had
oined the constitutionalists was
,aseless. The constitutionalist Off
er left today for Cananea.
Mexican Murderer to Be Deported'
San Diego, Calf, July S.--Andres
\rreola. lieutenant to Lerdo Con-
ales and his band of Mexican irreg-
liars, who summarily executed four 1
americans at Alamo, lower California,
hree years ago, during the revoll- ]
ionary troubles. is in the county jail
ere, awaiting deportation to Mazat- ,
an.
Arreola was deported from San
'iego last year.
Model Army Camp.
Texas City, Texas, July S.--What
rmy officers say is the best organized
nd healthiest military camp in the T
-orld today stretches for two miles A
long the shore of the Mexican gulf h
ere. Four months ago the site OF q
,e camp was virtually swamp. The q
is one of several big !,
of the American sol r
ers sent here last February for g
utilization of the second division OF
le United States army. V
Major General w. H. Carter, COM n
anding the second division U. S. A. p
i'd of the camp today. r.
The division here and at Galveston k
,mprises one-third of the infantry g
rength of the United States army n
i'd with artillery, cavalry and signal G.
rps, makes nearly 10000 men. n,
ringing the division together has v,
ught the officers and men the inti- HI
ate needs of big corporation as
it's equipment and has weeded out o.
paraphernalia and un- |
rstandard animals.
"When the commands comprising
e various divisions go back to their
rious posts and are ordered to re-
semble for any service whatever, be
e commanding general can issue a
lgle order which will cover the en- l.;
e equipment of every man.
American Reported Killed.
Port Arthur. Texas. July S.-An
nerican attached to the consulate =,
ice was killed in battle between
exican federals and Zapatistas at
xpan July 4. according to Captain
Neill of the British steamer Bloom g.
Id. which arrived here late yester ~
Y. 81
He said the rebels retired after ex h,
listing their ammunition. Casual TT,
S were Iieht a.
Douglas, Ariz., July S.-Troops sta no
ned in Arizona made ready today, in
pursuance of instructions, to go to a
Paso for service during the expec-
attack on Juarez by the Mexican to,
th1
| machine gun platoon and four i'm
ops of the ninth cavalry stationed on
Fort Huacnuca are prepared LOT II we
mt departure. 1,3