The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-10
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SERGEANT MARC A. DOBBS, ma
chine gun troop.
THOMAS BUTLER. troop F.
UNNAMED CORPORAL.
All the wounded are expected to re-
cover.
In addition to those killed by
Villas men at Columbus several
others are believed to have been exc
cuted by the bandit chieftain before
the American invasion. Arthur Nc
O'Neill, employees of the Palomas
Land and Cattle company, whose
property was raided on March 1, were
captured and are believed to have been
executed
Edward John Wright and Frank
Chihuahua, recently, are also believed
to have been killed.
Declares Colony Was Slain.
Mrs Maud Hawk Wright, wife of
John Edward Wright, was taken pris-
oner with her husband and after n4ne
days in captivity was released yester-
day at the height of the battle before
Columbus. Her baby, she said, was
taken from her and she was ,old,
given to a Mexican family. A Mexican
soldier, she said, told her that the
members of the Mormon colony near
CasaA Grandes had been slain by han
dts.
With the first battalion of the Tween
tieth infantry stationed at Victoria
early today Colonel Slocum has about
$40 men under his command, prepared
to meet any further advances by Villa
on American soil.
IF he comes again, we will give h
a worst whipping than we gave him
yesterday" Colonel Slocum said.
Armed civilians kept guard at TIE
school house, where their wives and
daughters spent the night. The Mex-
lean quarters were closely guarded by
patrols. The town was quiet nd
dark, except for the glowing embers
of the hotel ruins. The commanding
officer OF the Seventh cavalry pa
trolling the border west of here near
Gibson's ranch, was notified to watch
for any attempt by Mexicans to cross
the border at points leading to D. n
ing, n. M, a town about forty miles
north of the international line. Two
Mexicans wou1 ded, one vinager
named Garcia, died at the American
army hospital
Funston at Head.
San Antonio, March 10.-Major
General Funston will personally COM
mand the expedition which will in
wade Mexico to capture Villa unless
the war department orders otherwise.
General Funston is at Fort Sam Hous-
ton here awaiting explicit instruc-
tons, but press dispatches of the pres
ident's action did not surprise him be-
cause he had strongly urged such &C
ton.
The army's plans are being rapidly
made and equipment and supplies for
any probable force are already concen-
trated here.
A preliminary concentration of Dor
der troops already is under way.
All Right With Carranza-
Columbus, N. M. March 10.-Car-
rama authorities, according to official
] Tr1o will OF m
the entry of American troops into
Mexico to attack Villa
Mexican Troops to Aid.
Messages have been received here
stating that Carranza cavalry had left
Guzman to attack the bandit chief in
American troops, whom they already
supposed had crossed the border
would attack him.
The CarranZa troops, it was stated,
carried black and white flag to
notify the American troops of their
ing at Juarez has the bandits escape
to the eastward blocked, and official
information from Aqua Prieta was to
the effect that Military Governor P.
Elias Gales had dispatched troops to
cut Villa off from entry into Sonora
| General Gutierrez was reported
watching the south. Advices today
from the west stated that the entire
! Seventh cavalry under Col. Erwin had
left Hachita for Culbertson ranch on
| the border.
A troop of cavalry was reported en-
route from Douglas, Arizona, to Hach-
ita- One troop of Seventh cavalry
was sent to Alamo Hueco ten miles
south of Hachita. There were Amer
lean cavalrymen also at Dog Springs,
guarding all routes across the boun-
| dairy in that section of New Mexico.
Kill Carranza Consul?
Washington, March 10.-Dispatches
| to the Mexican embassy said the Car
rama consul at Columbus was anon,
the missing and expressed the fear
that he had been killed. Eliseo Ar
redondo, General Carranza's ambas-
sador, said he had communicated with
his government after his talk yester-
day with Secretary Lansing, but hao