The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-07
Demands $4,000 Each From
Two American Companies
Operating in Sonora
INCENSED OVER U. S.
AID TO GEN. CARRANZA
Drs. Thigpen and Miller Back
Across Border Safe After
Having Been Twice Sentenc-
ed by Villa to Be Shot

Naco Sonora, Nov. 6.--That CEN
eral Villa is in q very ugly mood to-
wards Americans Is evidenced here by
the threats he has made against
American citizens and property in
Mexico.
1t developed today that he has de-
manded $4,000 each from the
! Phelps-Dodge Company of New York.
operating the Nacozari Copper Com
pany and the Moctezuma Copper Com
pany, and from the FL Tigre Copper
Company. owned by Kansas City peo-
! pie.
The Cananea Consolidated Copper
! Company, another American company.
has already paid s25, goo for the pro.
lection of its Cananea properties. and
in addition has surrendered its hos
pital for Villas wounded and given
large quantity of supplies me
treatment accorded Doctors II. X.
Thigpen and James Miller, Americans.
the two physicians of the Cananea
Company was another indication or
Villas attitude toward Americans.
Twice Sentenced To Die.
Accompanied by their two chauf-
feurs. arrested with them, the doc
tors reached the border today and de-
clared they were twice nentenced 20
he shot by villa during his assault
upon Aqua prte.a. They were MAX
| ing their way from Cananea to the
border, they said, when arrested by
Villa. who cursed them and accused
them of being spies OF the enemy
Villa had lust learned that Carranza
troops had, been permitted to pass
through the United States and he was
greatly ineensed. and threatened, the
refugees said to kill all Americans
who fell into his hands. When Villa
left for Naco 1t was with the under
standing that they were 70 be shot,
but when he got to the border and
found that the american people were
not willing to accept his story of their
death from a Carranza shrapnei sheH,
he sent a courier and ordered them
released.
Think Mormons Dead.
The victims had not seen any Amer
leans with the villa teamsters. and
the presumption is that the Mormon
teamsters who accompanied him from
Casas Graudes were executed white
Villa was in his rage against the
United States. villa said yesterday
that he supposed the Americans he
saw killed by the Carranza shell must
have been these teamsters.
VILLA was somewhere south of NaCo
! today with his troops. and is reported
as receiving supplies eiiit ~ w iEt%'i'
from Nogales, through Cananea-
Charles Dodds. an American teamster.
who was made prisoner by the Villa
force when they captured Cananea,
reached the border today and said
he was forced TO haul supplies to villa
: Verde. south of Aqua Prieta. 10 villa 5
men, and he arrived there, while DOG
tors Thlgpen and Miller were held
prisoners.
! He says he was threatened with
execution. but was finally told to haul
load of hides Ia Naco. When he got
the hides to Mace today he ran across
| the line. He asserts that villa 6
forces took everything they wanted in
Cananea and Imprisoned many for
! eigners, including all Turkish mer-
/ chants of the city. They are being
! held for ransom, he said.
| Threatens To Destroy All Property.
1t Is safd II at Villa has threatened
TO destroy all property where the own
ers do not pay him for protection. in
Guiding the smelters and mining
plants Of the MocteZuma. Nacozari
and Ell Tigre mining companies and
the Douglas and Nacozari Railroad,