Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07

Aware Obregon, Carransa's principal
military commander, reached Aqua Prieta
today to prosecute, q campaign to drive
Villa out of Sonora. The general staff
arrived in Douglas from Ell Paso aboard
a special car. which was switched across
the boundary.
The coming Of obregon to Aqua Pr1eta
caused Villa to postpone his plan to leave
Naco yesterday: Instead Of. abandoning
the border Villa is said now to be plan
ming to fortify Naco. -
Prompt Pursuit Expected.
Mexicans here expected obregon to take
the field promptly. Villas friends are
urging him to let Obregon take the Of
fensive. In any case. it is not believed
he will go to Hermosillo. as was an
nounced.
obregon will make no move against
force those under Gen. Gales at Aqua
Prieta, according to one of Obregon's staff
officers. Military observers on this side
of the line expect Villa to make stand
, against Obregon at Villa Verde. water
station twenty-five miles south of Naco.
Villa has most of his men concentrated
there.
| Mai. Gen. Frederick Funston. COM
mander Of the Southern Department of
the United States Army. today made
| chief of staff of the Carranza forces of
e4ico. Means of protection for the
twenty or more Americans remaining
in sonora territory under control OF
| What decision. ii any. was reached,
Gen. Funston declined to say. Gen.
Funston will leave, Sunday morning,
for headquarters at San Antonio.
Purpose Of obregon.
| Rodolfo Garduno, Carranza consul at
Douglas. stated obregon's mission,
westward. was only to confer with Gen.
Gales. defending Aqua Prieta, relative
to his needs and the Sonora campaign.
Obregon. he said. intended to return to
Torreon to direct the Carranza forces
, in the north and west.
Managers OF the El Tigre Copper
Company denied any formal demand
| by villa for $4,000 had been made.
| Gen. Oregon, in a conference with
the presence In Mexico of George C.
'1Carothers. an agent of the American
State Department.
Turks Held for Ransom.
| NACO. Ariz., November 6-All Tur-
kish merchants in Cananea, Sonora.
have been arrested and held for ransom
by Villa authorities, according to ad-
| vices received here late today.
| These advices state that Col Beltran
is operating In the Cananea district,
and has taken all supplies wanted
| from the stores there.
| Word that Gen. Villa with all his
| forces again was headed for Naco was
brought here by Charles Dodds OF the
Cananea Consolidated Copper Company,
who said villa had received a supply
| Of ammunition from Nogales
| Dodds reported that Villa officers had
| taken his teams and a load of flour
| when he reached Villa Verde
Rodriguez Not to Die.
BROWNSVILLE. Tex. November g.
Carranza officials in Matamoros gave
assurances today that Martiano Rodri-
guez. a Texas-born Mexican, would not
be executed. even though he should be
found guilty Of charges that he at
tempted to recruit volunteers in Mata-
moros for the Texas revolution"
| Mexican officials said the arrest of
Rodriguez was a step toward carrying
out the order OK Gen. Carranza that the
forces Of the de facto government along
| the border should cooperate with the
American authorities in an endeavor to
rid the lower Rio Grande valley of law
| less characters.