Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-03-15
Actual Chase of Villa and
His Bandits by U. S.
Soon Under Way.
TROOPERS BATTLE
WITH 20 BANDITS
Eight Captured on Island Where They
Made Stand-2G Armed MeXicans
Surprised Near Ell PasO, Which Is
Practically Under Martial Law.

PfactlCaiIy nNer MaftMl Law.
Ell PasO, Texas, March 14.-Ameri.
can troops will cross the border from
Columbus, n. NJ, at $3.50 O'Clock to-
morrow morning, according to an APP
parentIy authentic report received
here.
Although no official confirmation is
at hand, the report Is credited here.
Ell Paso, Texas. March 14.-General
John J. Pershing, at the head OF the
cavalry division which will start the
hunt for Francisco Villa, has COM
pleted plans to cross the border to-
morrow morning.
Tho rush with which the final az
rangements for the expedition were
closed tonight, is conceded to be an
answer to demand made by Car
rama representa- yes for further de-
lay. General Luis Gutierrez, COM
mander in CHIEF of the Carranza
forces in Chihuahua. urged, in the
name of president Carranza, that the
American troops keep out of Mexico
for two weeks longer. He declared
five covering columns of Carranza
soldiers within the time stated will
have trapped Villa and eliminated the
necessity of The punitive expedition
of American troops.
General Pershing refused to grant
further time and advised the Mexican
leader that he take the matter up
with the diplomatic service at Wash
ington.
Villa according to General Quit
terrez' dispatches, is forced to move
slowly because he is carrying large
number of wounded.
A train bring ng Americans from
Chihuahua City is expected to arriv7
tonight. There is no information
here as to who the Americans are or
how many are in the party.
| [M3rm0ns Consolidate.
Collector of Customs Cobb has re-
ceived Information that the two Nor
mon colonies near Casas Grandes are
now together. A train has been held
in waiting, to remove the Mormons.
but Carranzistas have refused to let
it start for the border. fearing It
would be attacked by Villa.
With the expected crossing of Gen.
Pershngs brigade tonight or tmor-
row from Columbus, disorder along
the border has occurred aga'n at a
number of places. At Sabin. 80 miles
east of Ell Paso, two companies Of
infantry reported attempts Of small
groups of Mexicans to loot stores and
get supplies.
II with horI NJ
20 bandits. squad of troops cap
tured eight Mexicans who attempted
to make stand on an island. The
(iMexicans put up fight until their
ammunition ran out and then sur
rendered, with a plea for their lives.
Surprise Fourteen on American Side.
Fourteen armed Mexicans were cap
tured in an adobe hut on the Santa Fe
track, two miles from Ell Paso. The
American troops surprised and cap
tured them without shot. Each
prisoner had 200 rounds of ammuni-
ton. All were lodged in Jail. They
are in company with number OF
well-known Villista sympathizers.
Ell Paso is practically under martial
law. Members of the provost guard
walk the streets with rifles over their
shoulders. In the Mexican quarters,
every Mexican house is being searched
every day for arms and ammunition.
Clerks in every store in the city
have been armed by their employers
against possible raids. and though no
trouble has yet occurred beyond a
few scattered fights. majority of the
men of the city are carrying pistols.
y 1t IS reported that the news censor
ship established at Columbus will be
extended to Ell Paso and other border
} towns.
Photographers and moving picture
camera men have been barred from
the lines.
Dispatches late this afternoon from
Galveston tell of the entrainment OF
the Twentythird infantry there this
afternoon, making them due in El
! Paso tomorrow. The Eleventh cav
airy. from Fort Oglethorpe. Ca.
} passed Little Rock this forenoon, en-
: route to the border.
Gen. Cecil Lyons. Of the Texas
national guard. has issued an order to
his colonies to recruit their CON-
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