New Britain herald., 1916-03-10
CITIZENS ARM ID
 PREVENT ANY NEW
 RAIDS BY BANDITS
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NtolIIluueO From First Pago.) which Americans live. A search of Mexican homes for arms also was made by the federal authorities
 A telegram, OStensibly from the manager of the Palomas cattle com pany, received here yesterday and stating that Villa was there is now be- Heved to have been sent by Villa him. self as q ruse to cloak his movements Accordingly, when Villa was thought many miles from Columbus, he crept upon the city and in the darkness opened fire and applied the torch.
 Quiet prevailed here early today. Trains which arrived over night were held her until daylight to avoid the possibility of attack from the Mexican side.
 Slocum Ready for Battle.
 With the first battalion of the Twentieth Infantry stationed at Vic toria early today, Col Slocum has about $40 men under his command, prepared to meet any further ad- Vances by Villa on American soil.
 eff he comes again we will give him a worse whipping than we gave him yesterday' said Col. Slocum.
 Armed civilians kept guard at the school house, where their wives and daughters spent the night. The Mexican quarter was closely guarded by patrols.
 The commanding officer of the Seventh Cavalry, patrOIling the bOr- der west of here near GibsOn's ranch, was notified to watch for any attempt by Mexicans to cross the border at points leading to Deming, N. M, which is about forty miles north of the international line.
 Anti-Amcrican Plot Unearthcd.
 Among papers dropped by Fran cisco Villa in his flight after his at tack on Columbus yesterday, it be- came known today was what pur- ported to be an agreement between Villa and Mexican residents of Co., onia Morelos near El Tigre, Sonora, pledging mutual support in an effort to oust Mormons and other Ameri- cans, confiscate their property and operate their mines and farms.
 The citizens according to the al legged agreement, promised to take up arms with Villa to gain this end. Villa was to furnish the MeXicanS of the district with livestock to be delivered by April. 1916, after Che had overcome Carranza and estab- lished himself as supreme chief Of Mexico"
 Ransom for American Prisoners.
 Another of the papers acknowledg- ! ed receipt of $25.O in gold from | the Consolidated Cananea Copper | company at Naco, Sonora, shortly 1 after Villas retreat from Agua Prie- l ta. The receipt credited the money l to export duties on copper ores from 1 Cananea, but a quotation showed that 1 the money really was paid for the 1 lives of three Americans held as pr!- i soners and who, at the time, were re- ported to have been marked for ex l ecution.
 Two Mexican wounded. one Will 1 la general named Garcia, died Ut ] the American army hospital early 1 today.
 The pocketbook of T. M. Evans, one of the Americans killed in tho Santa Ysabel massacre. was found on 1 the body of Pablo Lopez, second in command to Villa.
 A considerable force of armed ci- williams left hastily today for Gibson's ranch, fifteen miles west, upon re- ceipt of a report that a body of Mex ican bandits had appeared near that point. Col SIocum imm ediately took steps to determine the correctness of the report.
 200 McXicans Slain.
 Approximately 200 MeXicans were killed in the battle here yesterday, in which sixteen American civilians and soldiers lost their lives, according to estimates of army officials today
 Major Frank Tompkins of the Thirteenth Cavalry, in command of the troops that drove Francisco Vil- la and his bandits across the border, said that Villas losses were fully one hundred. Mexican dead found on the Mexican side were either burned or buried.
 Army patrols and armed civilians today maintained a close watch for the re-appearance of bandits along the border.
 A report that armed MeXicans had appeared opposite Bensons ranch, fifteen miles west, was being inVesti"