Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-26
Bullets From Guns of Outlaw
Band Wound Pair and
Take a Life.
SHOOT VILLA LEADER
Cervantes and Comrade Are
Killed in Battle With
Yankee Force.

Field headquarters near
Namiquipa, Mex, May Is,
(via Radio to Columbus, N
NJ, May 26).-Candelario
Cervantes, the Villista ban
dit leader, was killed by
American troops south of
Cruces today.
Ceramics end came after he
had made surprise attack south
OF Cruces on detachment of
engineers. He was beaten back
and pursued into the hills by the
engineers, reinforced by q detach-
ment of the Seventh infantry.
One other Mexican, Jose Ben
c0rne, and one of the Americans
were killed. Two Americans
were wounded.
When the engagement began the
bandits outnumbered the Americans
two to one, there being 20 of them.
The engagement lasted almost an
hour, with a hot Interchange of bull
let's. Then reinforcements from the
Seventeenth came in sight and the
Villistas fed to the hills
Private George o. Hulitt was the
hero of the fight Bullets from his
rifle laid low both of the bandits
killed.
The Identification Of Cervantes was
at first uncertain. Later, however.
Mexicans who examined the body de-
clared it was that of Cervantes. It
was photographed for further iden-
LITIGATION
Cervantes' home is in Namiauipau
He has been thorn in the side of the
army in northern Chihuahua ever
since the expedition began. He had
succeeded hitherto in avoiding per-
sistent cavalry searches. His death
probably means the breaking up OF
the Villistas in this section.
General Pershing is, much gratified
over the latest fight, saying that there
remain only few scattered bands Of
marauders to be hunted down.
Is Next to Villa
San Antonio, Texas, May 26.-Can-
.elerio Cervantes, styled by General
Pershlng in report to General Fun
ston today as second in Importance
only to Villa" was killed yesterday
in a skirmish near Cruces. The Amer
lean loss was Corporal Davis Marks
bury, killed, and Privates George F.
Nicholson and George HuIlett, wound
ed. Jose Bencorne was another Mex
lean killed. The remainder of the
band was pursued and dispersed.
Carranzistas Attack Americanss
Columbus, N. NJ, May 26.-American
truckmen recently have encountered
spirit of animosity on the part of SOL
diers of the Carranza commands along
the American line of communication in
Mexico, according to stories brought
here today. Near Nueva Casas
Grandes, 120 miles south of the border,
barbed wire barriers have been thrown
across the roads several times and
Wednesday a train commanded by
Captain R, B. Harper was halted by
| crowd in which there were a number
of Carranza soldiers. The mob jeered
at the Americans and threw stones at
them but no shots were fired. AL
| though stones struck members of the
truck crew, orders were given to pro-
! coed without retaliation.
Waiting Soldiers Faint.
| San Antonio, Texas, May 26.-Mem-
! bers of the Texas national guard, who
| have been impatient at the delay in be,
ing ordered to posts along the border,
| tainted in large numbers yesterday
while waiting in line to be inoculated
with anti-typhus virus.
Psychological phenomenon" lacon-
ically remarked the army surgeons
Further than that, no one knows &C.
curately why militiamen and regulars
as well, who often later distinguish
themselves in action should be over.
come at the prospect of undergoing q
treatment characterized by no pain and
no ugly spilling of blood.
Everyone knows that typhus fever
is dangerous, often causing death.
said one surgeon. Perhaps 1t is that
Perhaps 1t is the waiting. The thoughts
act on the emotions. but more we dc
not know. You never can tell which
man will faint and which won't
The incubation proceeded indus
triously despite the psychological cas-
ualtes.