Bisbee daily review., 1916-04-14
Pershing Confers
 With Gen. Herrera
 AtAmericonComb Julio Acosta, Formerly Villa Supporter, Deserts the Ban- dit, Says Rumor. Mexican and Americans Talk.
(sy Review Leased wirs.)

| PERSHING'S CAMP AT FRONT,
 April :. CBy aeroplane and moor cour
 iers to Columbus, v. M.. April 1S.)-A
 report reaching here from Mexican i sources last night was that Julio Agos.
 la. Villa leader near Guerrero. had i declared he would no longer fight T.
 gains; Americans Agosta has been
 considered one of Villas most stead | fast men. His announcement. if true. | is taken as strengthening the reports ! that Villa has met with serious defec- | tiOn among his own people.
 A conference of considerable sisni- i, ficance and of unusual picturesqueness
 took plce here today when General
 Luis Herrera, commander of the Car
 ranZa army. called upon General Persh
 ing.
 The meeting took place in the mid
 de of 9 yellow grass dried mesa. five mics broad. and twenty miles long. with mountains walling all sides. and a grass fire raging up the side of a nearby mountain curtaining the east ern sky with smoke. The two staffs sat in the open. in a circle on cracker boxes and bacon tins. the only availa- ble chairs in the American headuuar- ters carp.
 A hot sun blazed on the tins and
 flashed from the silver buckles on the
 leather chappareios encasing the legs
 of the Mexican officers. The Ameri- cans wore the regulation olive drab. A hedge of dried yellow daisies was Gen
 eral Pershins's windbreak and q rec
 tangle of cottonwood bouehs laid on
 the ground marked the outline of Gen eral Pershing's quarters"
 Where the conferees sat. a boy could have stepped over the boughs. Part .of General Herrera's personal body guard stood with their horses outside the houshs. American troopers held the horses of the Mexican staff. II was the first meeting by General Pershine
 since he crossed the border with general of the Mexican staff. Herrera had arrived with twenty-five men. sev- eral hours earlier at the ranch housec about mile from the American camp. His first greeting there was from an American private, cavalryman. who was at the ranch trying to buy food. This private walked up to the Mexican whose coming into this region was un- announced. and held out his hand in greeting 10 the general. of whose rank ne was ignorant General Herrera shook hands.
 Herrera then sent word by his star 10 General Pershing that he had ar rived on his way with personal body guard from Chihuahua to Santa Rosa Tia, to the south of here, to assist in the hunt for Villa. The conference. General Pershing said this afternoon, was very pleasant. General Herrera. he said. told him about the disposition of Mexican troops and inquired about the positions of some of the American columns. Shortly before sunset. Her. rera and his escort rode out of camp to rejoin his troops who he said were already on the way to Santa Rosalia. He said he had several hundred men.
 The American scouts in camp watch ed General Herrera with much inter est. They said they had been reliably informed about two weeks ago that Herrera had declared. after the Amer ican expedition had crossed the bor- der. that if the Americans passed Cas- aS Grandes. he would join Villa. Since that time the Americans have progress cd so far to the south that Casas Gran l des is but a short first section of the American line.
 Herrera achievements did not ar rive it is said. and in conseauencs Villas command outnumbered the Car ranzistas who tried 10 block his path. | Today's conference. however seemed | io indicate that Herrera was co-operat | ing in the Villa chase. He asked ma l ny questions about Villa. in fact not | appearing 10 know as much about the | recent course Of the bandit as the Am. | ericans who have been close on his | trail of late. Herrera had heard the report at camp today that Villa was dead. but he knew nothing except the | rumor
 The supply train of mules following cavalry column which went south from here yesterday. was fired upon several times some distance out of this camp. The supply train guard Chased the Mexicans who did the shoot ing, taking them along as prisoners.