The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-16

| Americans III MS territory TO leave
Mexico. Heretofore all instructions
to consuls have been to advise Am
orleans to leave.
Already the Villa troops have kill
ed many of the colonists cattle and
seized their farm products.
FL Paso, Texas, Oct. 11.-Grave
anxiety is felt for the welfare of
approximately 500 members of the
Mormon colonies of the Casas Gran
des district, when the news OF the
recognition Of Carranza becomes gen.
orally known in the Villa army mob
ilized there.
These colonists have already re-
ported depredations by the Villa
force, but have refused to leave their
properties, although repeatedly urged
by the state department.
Word was received in Jaurez today
that Villa governor Avila at Chihua-
hua City has demanded of the Am
erican Smelling & Refining Company
that It refine and coin government
ores under penalty of confscation
and operation by the Villa force
there. Government ores are under
stood to be ores confiscated from for
eign properties.
1t is expected here that the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining Company
out OF consideration for the welfare
OF the Mormon colony at Casas Gran.
des will consider the demands Of
Governor Avila.
CattIemen Ask Embargo
Protesting that vast herds of cat
| tie owned by Americans in Villa ter
ritory are threatened with extermin-
alton by General Villas forces, the
cattlemen of FL Paso today drafted
joint open letter to Secretary Of
State Lansing and to Secretary Hous-
ton Of the department of agriculture
asking that an embargo be placed on
the further importation OF beef and
beef products into the United States
from Mexico.
The letter was circulated here to-
day and found many signers. 1t will
be sent along the border, 1t was stat
ed, for further signatures. The letter
says:
I'VE, the undersigned, respectfully
recommend and most urgently re-
quest that immediate steps be taken
to prevent the importation into the
United Staes Of all beef and beef
products including hides. This in
justice to American owners Of cattle
and ranches in the Villa controlled
territory In Mexico.
at is a notorious and well known
fact that all of the cattle coming into
the states as beef products are stol.
en- and are being taken from their
rightful owners by force.
villa announces publicly that he
will devastate the country through
which he passes. leaving nothing
that can be used by the Carranza
forces.
"The losses to Americans have al
ready amounted to vast sums and II
Is hard to conceive to what extent
they may go"
Oregon Force Near Border
Forces of General Obregon are re
ported to be within few days march
overland from Juarez.
Andres Garcia, the Carranza con
sui here, decided today that he had
been advised OF wholesale desertions
OF the Villa army modifying at Casas
Grandes, One general, he said, had
left there with 500 men during the
last week to march to the nearest
Carranza outpost, and another gener.
al backed by 1000 men was on the
point OF revolt. These statements
were secuted by Villa representatives
In Juarez.
Other reports from the Carranza
consulate stated that an engagement
had been fought Sunday at Villa
Ahumada, forty miles below Juarez
by General Bracemonte, commanding
Villa forces, and an enemy presum
ed to be Carranza force. This was
also denied by Villa officials who de-
clared Bracemonte was in Casas
Grandes.
A report that a Carranza force
commanded by General Luis Her
nandez was engaging the Villa force