Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-12
BUT ONE ESCAPES
FROM VILLA BAND
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thousands of dollars in currency and
large quantity of supplies sent by the
american Smelling and Refining Com
pany to its mines in Cusihuiriachic.
II Is learned that before the train
n no with employees left Chihuahua
Carranza soldiers for the train had been
refused. -
Andreas G. Garcia. Mexican consul.
aecilhed to accept a suggestion that he
~ sraph TO Cen Trevino. commanding
the military of the state, for informa-
lion. 1t was said at the Mexican con-
sulate that no report of the killing had
peeh communicated to Gen. Carranza
because it would be useless"
Villas Order to Kill.
The Cusihuiriachic Mining Companv
was one of the first to accept the prom
Uses OF protection made by the Carranza
government to the State Department.
Inc reports of the killing of the en-
pioyes Is taken by mining men to mean
that an alleged order issued by Gen
VIVA upon his return from Sonora and
a1ter MS family had arrived in Cuba.
was to be obeyed. This supposed order
10 KIN all Americans, loot and burn"
mad been reiterated by bands return
ing ing from sonora. 1t was this order
that is believed to have resulted in the
death recently of Peter Keane. book
keeper of the Hearst interests. near
MADEIRA, chihuahua, at the hands of
Villa bandits. ~
Activities Unimpeded.
Mining men here. in further discuss
ing the tragedy, emphasized, in part.
that the activities of Gen. Villa have
been unimpeded for some time in the
Guerrero district, where he commanded
a territory of rich country along the
lines of the Mexican Northwestern
t t together with Gen. Rodriguez
ne mas cut the railroad and threatened
the property of the MADEIRA Companv
Limited, at MADEIRA
Gen. Argumedo. a Zapata leader. sent
to aid villa. held Gomez Palacio. within
reported. 5000 de facto government
troops were stationed. for Ave DAYS
without fight. Argumedo left the town
Monday, 1t is reported. without being
attacked. 1t is said Gen. Martin Trisno
occupied Durango City without onnoo
stion, and it is reported Gen. RosaIio
Hernandez holds Parral in peace with
a handful of troops.
Petty Grating Charged.
Incidentally. reports have reached
here that the inefficiency of the de
facto government hastily established
in these three states has resulted in
petty grating in the cotton crop of the
Laguna district. where. it was said.
constitutionalist paper currency was
being forced upon planters in exchange
for cotton for the Mexican mills.
These reports have been brought to
the foreign consulates here by their
nationals returning from the south
1t is believed that Areumedo left
Gomez Palacio to form a junction with
Gen. Triano and the Arrieta brothers
at Durango. The Arrieta brothers were
nomnally affiliated with the Carranza
forces.
Added to the reports of military op-
position to the de facto government by
growing bands of former Villa troops
Is the apparent suppression Of or lack
of news OF military movements
Refuses to Discuss Reports.
Mexican Consul Andreas G. C,rcfe
has reiterated for many days that he
could neither affirm nor deny reports
of movements of operations by bands
of armed men in the interior of the
state of Chihuahua.
1t Is known also that the recent at
tempt of the new Governor of Chi
huahua to force the Carranza paper
has resulted in dissatisfaction among
the people of the state, and it had been
expected that the decree would be re-
voked as impracticable.
Villas Whereabouts Unknown.
The whereabouts of Gen. Villa still
Is definitely not known here, but he
is believed still to be in the Guerrero
district.
Gen. Manuel NJ. Medinavietia, until
recently associated with Villa, was last
night arrested in Ell Paso by the local
police and locked up on a technical
charge of vagrancy. Only recently Villa
adherents gave out a report that Medi-
navietia was en- route to Cuba. 1t was
Medinavietia who was charged with
taking prisoner P. Keane, who later
was killed.