Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-04-03
VILLA Is WAITING
FOR HIS AVIATORS
His Officers Refuse to Pay Hundred
Dollars a Day Asked by United
States Birdman.
OREGON OCCUPIES oUERETARo

BROWNSVILLE, Tex, April q
For lack OF an aviator, General Vii
las expected aerial operations
against Matamoros we're delayed to-
day. villa officers sought an Ameri-
can flyer to operate an aeroplane re-
ceived from Monterey, but baked at
paying 500 day on a thirty-day
contract, which was the price de-
manded by at least one aviator from
this side of the line. II was said the
officers would await the arrival of
an aviator from Monterey. Three
more seroplanes are said to be on
their way from Monterey to the villa
camp.
Operations to reduce Matamoras are
likely to continue to be slow. according
TO information reaching here, for the
reason that villa has no means OF speedy
communication. Railroads are so torn up
that save for cavalry military bodies can
make only a few miles progress each
DAY.
J. NJ. Dougherty, an American. man
ager Of an estate near Soledad, was ar
rested at Puebla recently by Carranza
authorities because of unexplained finan-
cha transactions. and has been taken to
Vera Cruz. where Consul Canada is look
ing after his interests.
Black smallpox in Vera Cruz was re
ported today in official dispatches The
State department summary said:
THE number of cases of smallpox of
the black continent type is on the in
crease throughout the city 1t is re-
ported that Cordoba and adjacent points
are also badly infected"
Oregon Occupies QueretarO.
WASHINGTON. April 2.-rrirst definite
Information of the location of General
Obregon and his army since he evacuated
Mexico City to the Zapata forces, came
today in an official dispatch from Gen
eral Carranza to his agency here, an
nouncing that Obregon was at Queretaro,
eighty miles north of the capital and
thus. again menacing any southern ad-
vance of the Villa army.
General Carranza sent this message:
Yesterday QueTetaro was occupied by
General Obregons troops"
Recently it was reported that the "a
pata-Villa forces intended to evacuate the
capital and Obregon again would oc-
cupy It
The gunbsat Machias was today ordered
from New York to join the cruiser
squadron at Vera Cruz. The battleships
Delaware and Georgia soon will come
north for target proa with the At
lantic fleet.
Carranxa Sends Order to NacO.
DOUGLAS. Arlz., April 2.-General
Venustiano Carranza has ordered Col
Onel p. Elias Gales. his commander in
Sonora, to refrain from any activities
which might endanger life or property
on the American side of the border, ac-
corning to an announcement today by
Gales.
copy of the telegram sent to the State
department at Washington in reply to
the warming against violation of neutral
ity along the borden given Gales Ivy
Colonel c. NJ. O'Connor, commander of
the United States border patrol here.
Purely out of respect for the United
States. Carranza said his followers would
der, but without regard for the Naco
agreement negotiated with the Sonora
factions last December by Brigadier Gen
eral Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff OF the
United States army. This agreement,
Carranza said. had been rendered void
by the almost immediate violation of It's
terms by Governor Maytorene in occu-
pying Naco, Sonora, after both sides had
consented to evacuate It,