Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-03
Troopers Are Riding Night and
Day Through Blizzafdy
Weather in Pursuit Of Mex
iCO'S Robin Hood,
MOTOR TRAIN FROM
COLUMBUS THREATENED
Extra Guard of Infantrymen
Accompany Supplies For
warded for the American
Forces Under Pershing,
t.y sors,so .ouss.. SPECIAL ,s.sso w,.si


Columbus. n. NJ, April 2,-North
from the town of Guerrero and east
of the line of the Mexico Northwest
ern railroad, through arroyos and over
trails that lead through the buttes and
canyons of the Sierra Tarahumare,
American cavalrymen of the Seventh
regiment are riding night and day
seeking "Paneho" villa, according 70
latest reports received from feld
headquarters at Colonia Dublan.
Rumors of capture.
Little information concerning the
pursuit filtered over the border today
and nothing definite was received
from official sources. There were per-
sistent reports, however, that the
forces of Colonel Dodd had captured
the man who was once the ROBIN
Hood of Mexico. but because of the
difficulty in communication nave
been unable to make n report Late
advices from the camp of General j.
j. Pershing at the front stated that
the track Of vehicle believed to be
the carriage carrying villa In ms
flight had been discovered
Encounter Heavy Gale.
Other advices said that the Ameri-
can caValrymen were riding through
the mountains in the teeth OF heaVy
gale, which, now mingled with snow
and now with drzzling rain, cut
through the army blouse and sweater
into the very vitals of the men, but
that not single man indicated de-
sire to give up the search.
Threaten Motor Trains.
Army men here were considerably
1. n
ings from confidential sources that
Villista adherents are gathering in
The Chihuahua desert, both north and
south of Ascension and near the mo-
tor trail leading from Columbus to
Casas Grandes for the purpose of at
tempting to cut the American line or
communication.
Supplies Well Guarded.
An extra heavy guard of infantry
men. who were given specific instrue-
tions as to their actions in the event
of an attack, was placed on truck
train, which left here for the front
today Isolated camps of soldiers
guarding the line were reached by the
field telegraph and ordered TO watch
closely for signs of hostile forces.
Lieutenant A. w. Gillion, Twentieth
infantry, of Lexington, KY adjutant
of the base, left on the train for Co
lonia Dublan, where he will attempt
to cooperate more closely the work
of the expeditionary force and that Of
the base camp
Americans Slightly Wounded.
Unofficial information also had 1t
that several scores of Villas adhef-
ents who were captured or wounded
in the engagement at san Geronimo
ranch last Wednesday are expected to
arrive here during the night The
four American troopers wounded III
the same battle, it was said, suffered
wounds which are not serious enough
to necessitate their being brought
here and probably will be taken to
the field hospital at Casas Grandes
for treatment.
Pay Day for Soldiers.
Approximately 100000 was dis
tributcd to the soldiers on station
here, the regular monthly pay day
today. While the usual precautions
were taken to prevent trouble among
the men, the usual pay day excite
ment in a military camp was lcom-
pletely absent, the men apparently
the seriousness of the task
before the troops.
PuiOn1aS ADunuoHpu.
When Jesus Sanca and his daugh-
ter crossed the American line today
at Palomas, the first Mexican town
which the American troops
passed on the way to the front, was
left without human inhabitants. A
few lonely dogs were bowling at the
doors of the huddled little dirty group
Of Mexican huts which made up 'the
town.
Sanca. 82 years of age, crossed into
the United States in prairie schoon-
er. such as used by the forty miners.
| loaded in it were his household goods,
while from the rear axle swung a
bucket under which trotted a stubby-
tailed dog. The horses were hitched
to the wagon by means Of harness
fashioned from canvas cartridge belts
discarded by Villistas in their flight
from Columbus. Sanca said that one
by one the residents had left the town.
lie, himself, he said finally left alone,
was bound for Deming, y. NJ, para
siempre" (for always.
The question of the loyalty Of the
Carranza troops has again come very
much TO the fore here following per-
sistent reports that Colonel Cano the
Carranza commander at Namiquipa,
has joined villa.
Andres Garcia. the Carranza CON
sui here, has refused TO credit these
reports on the ground that Cano is
bitter personal enemy Of villa, but
he admits that nothing has been heard
from the Namiquipa commander for
more than a week
In the early days of the chase after
villa, both Consul Garcia and General
Gavira, the commander at Juarez,
made public several kilograms they
said they had received from Cano tell
ing of fights he had had with the VII
listas. These telegrams stopped alb
fuptly about ten days ago.
The only direct information that
has come from Namiquipa since then
has been a paragraph in dispatch
from General Pershing in which II