The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-03-27
Once Trails and Passes Are
Blocked by Cavalry, Detach.
ments Will Comb District
Locking for Villa.
COLONEL DODD DIRECTS
HORSEMEN
Bandit Chief Scatters Com.
mand and Is Thought to Be.
He Has Eludcd All Forces
Pursuing Him.
10y Evening Herald Leased wirel

III IhNp' ltAs, M"iAh 80 ''a''7
columns of American cavalry ara
seeking today { o entrap Pancho'
villa aud his band BY sealing up an
the trails aud passes IN the noun
famous district south of El vale
once the outlets are barred, squad
rons of cavalry and detachments oi
infantry. operating from the base
near Casas Gtandes. will comb the
country and ondeayor to lush their
quarry into the open, This Is the
plan the military men aEe following
to cftec, the capture of the peo1
brigand.
villa aud his band are moving rap
IDLY among the foothills of Sierrt
Tarahumares. hotly pursued by three
columns Of American cavalr, col.
onel George \. Dodd h directing he
| cavalry movements.
This Information coming from
army officers al the front. confirms
| reports brought here by America
! traveller. from tho Casas Grandc
district last SATURDAY that villa nal
escaped through the lines Of the ca
rlnzistu troops. Mexican Consul
! Garcia does not credit the reports
that the Carranza forces iurnishcd
no real opposition 90 villa and per
mitted the bandit to escape.
villa scattered his command IN his
Hight southwark and at one time. II
Vas learned today. led only a small
force of nftoen or twenty men. tn,
army censor at Columbus has permit
ted the information to pass thai
villa increased his command At y
Vale hy forcing thirty 1--we yuunl
men and boys to accompany him
Military men here sry tins indicate
that villa nuw Believes that he ht'
successfIll, eluded his purfucrs an.
H. in a position to move a larger bod
OF men without far OF capture. Brig
adler General Pershinp has let II De
come known that he expects h a j
will take months to capture villa.
Returning American refugees un'
cottlemcu. who Know the countt.
are unanimous in their cNpross.o
th1t N.lLL Niil never bs taken Tn
nature OF the couAtTy ana the 'a"
that villa is amoug his oVn pcup'
who idolizo him. make tho bandit
capture unlikely. they declare. tn
NcN.can country. where VILLA l- no.
neiug. ~ q land peculiar to Itself.
iLrgr, sergeant an old campaigncr =
/, the Twenty fourth infantry, now
that region. speaking 10 o r''a
Giindcs ran. her. puts u thus.
u have been IN nearly ever, innc
But In this part ~ Meyi,p there AZ
more rivers ana less water. por
cows and ios- milk and futfht I
LOOK aud less To see than any coi1tr
have ever known
one hope of 4 speedy tcImiuat!o
10 the chase is that the night of Ia
bandits VIII be checked b, sthrvatio
and the exhaustion OF their ponic
II Is said that villa is almost dcst
tutc of both supplies and ainmunItio
and the dead aud diving HORSES fuuu
along his trail give mute Dut 'luquct
testimony to bic desperate haste a.
need,
once safely in h midst of m
Sierra Tarahumaros, the TASK OF run
ming the bandit to his lair VIII haN
become one 90 tremendous diiiirult'
This ountry H. inhabited 10y the Ia
ihulnarc Indians. one OF the mot
distinctive tribes In Mexico. \
American Who owns n ranch
ocampo. m the heart OF the distri'
and who ans lived there for fort
years gaze this description uf Tar'
humarcs today
'Thos. Indians he said. "ha,
some Of h finest and worst p~ualiti'
OF any OF the Mexican a~hortgiues.
you treat them inirly they VIII stan
by YOU 20 the last gasp.
As an indication Of the honest
OF the Tnrnhumarcs might mcntic
that no bullion train evcr leaves u
Guerrero region without a TarahI
mar. n4AVl Thu .tlntnp mon 90