Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1916-01-22
VILLAS BANDITS
SURROUNDED BY
CARRANz zA'S MEN
Attempt to Cut Off Food Supply
OF Chief in Mountain
Retreat.

Villa is reported surroJ nded by car
ranzista troops in the Sierra Madre
mountains of Ghihaahuil
This report by Coy trnor-Gencral
1gnacio Epriauez. WHO pmnIands the
three columns hemming ia The ban
dit chief. was made 10 General Luis
Herrera at Chihuahua and resulted
in the premature announcement that
Villa was a prisoner
General Enriquez. on nniicial busi-
ness in Juarez today. gave this eN-
planation of the reported capture.
while pointing ont thai the outlawed
bandit probably could hold out IN his
mountain hiding place ind etinit6iy
Enriquez had heard that Villa even
took third wife recently and that
his followers have women in their
camps.
Execution Not Confri ned.
The Mexican consulate. which yes
4erday announced the eNhG1tion of
eighteen bandits. had obtained 10
official confirmation today. General
Cavases said that when he left Chi
huahua city, the eighteen prisoners
were being held, awaiting execution
He had no way of kuo wing def
nitely whether the execute ions We're
carried out after he left, but eN-
pressed no surprise. lie said the
officials were collecting evidence 10
fi1UW tf1Hi tflt men lltl PAD ti1iiidtta
in the Santa Ysabel massacre Of
americans.
Advices from the interior Of Chi
huahua assorted that Villa. had re
sumed activity in the Guerra district
and that raids on several ranches
were reported.
To Cnt on Troops Supplies.
Several of the bandit chiefs fol
lowers, who, Enriauez said, i1ad made
requests for amnesty. declared that
from Villas hiding place his loyal
band could stand off u regiment
The Carranzistas pursuing, the sole
object of capturing Villa, dead or
alive, are eudeaVoring 10 cUt off his
food supply.
The new revolution, started around
Torreon by a combination of Villa,
.Argumedo, Zapata and other enemies
of the de facto government. WIS re-
ceiving the major portion of The Car
rama military's attention today.
The rebellion, which threatens
Americans and foreigners there is in
territory the Carranzstaa had re-
garded as completely under their
? control.
WASHINGToN. Jan. 2&-Revela-
tons that Mexican bandit leaders had.
in convention assembled, decreed
death TO Americans in Mexico as well
as armed opposition to the de facto
government, was the outstanding
feature in the Mexican situation here
today.
It became known that the agree
5nent was reached at a formal con-
vention held near Cordoba, Mexico, in
November, according to informa tion
which came To the state department
sii thai time. Participants III the
pgreement are said to have included
5,epresentatives of Villa. Iapata, Ar
gumedo, IIiginio, Aguilar and others
YSIETA. Texas. Jan. 22.-Douglas
Downs companion of Bert Akers,
who was killed yesterday by Mexican
cattle and horse thieves Just below
ahe border Of San Lorenzo, Chihua-
hna. declared today that five MeXi-
cans fred 200 or more shots at Them
He said neither he nor Allers was
nrmed. Downs said the Mexican who
BILLED Akers first fired point blank at
Jim lDownsl, but missed. Downs
shen hid In Mexican rancher's
chicken coop, where he found a flint
lock musket With this he prepared
to defend himself. but the slayers
abandoned the chase.
FL PASO, Jan. 22-The tense situa-
fion here produced by the Santa Ysa-
bel massacre more than week ago.
today was complicated when details
of the killing of Bert Akers, an Amer
lean rancher from Nsleta, Tex. be-
came known Akers WAS slain by
Bernardo Duran. a Mexican cattle
sustler in a fight that occurred yes-
lerday afternoon at San Lorenzo, Chi
huahua n village a few miles below
the border.
With a companion, Douglas Downs,
and Mexican police official,
Akers sought to recover cattle stolen
last Monday from Mrs. Murphy, a
5eighbor, at Ysleta. when Duran.
fwith his brother, FREDERICK. opened
fire from the roof of their house.
General Gabriel Gavira, command
ant at Juarez, from headquarters gave
out a statement which. he said, COW
cred the circumstances of the fight
as they were related to him by Ber-
nardo Duran and his brother, who
participated in the shooting and by
squad of Carranza soldiers who
were near the scene Of the fray. and
who arrested the MeXicans. General
.Cavira declared that Duran claimed
self-defense. The general said il found
guilty, the Durans would receive
prompt punishment
Akers was shot in the back while
riding horse that also carried his
companion, Douglas Downs
QUERETARo, Mexico, via Laredo.
Tex, Jan. 22-MeXico will have a
new capital. Dolores Hidalgo, in the
state OF Guanajuato, has been chosen,
according TO a dispatch to the New
York Times. Tenochititlan, now
Mexico City. founded by the Toltees
in 64S, was taken in 1926 by the
Aztecs. who founded the famous
Aztec empire, which reached its
5lighest point of civilization under
Montezuma. When invaded and cap
4ured by The spanlards under Cortez
an 1919 il was famous as the most
cultured city Of New Spain.
The city has seen many changes,
sbaving been the seat of the empire
hinder Iturbide, who was crowned
there as first Mexican emperor in lS22
II was captured by General Scott,
who entered the city ON september Il,
.1S47; was the scene of the crownins
of Maximillian as emperor on June L..
sIs64, and was captured from the
lFrench by General Diaz ON June .
1867. Diaz. who became president
was overthrown by Francisco Madere
who occupied the presidential chair
for a short time and was murdered hy
sVictoriano Huerta. After ten days
fighting In which thousands We're
Killed, Huerta took possession of the
chair.
The city afterward was entered by
a-arranza, who conducted a successful
revolution against Huerta. on Car
ranza's retiring, after few months
TO Vera Cruz, the city was taken and
sretaken by the Constitutionalists and
The Zapatistas. In spite Of the fact
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