Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-29
VILLA, IDOL OF THE
 PE0N, FINALLY LAYS
 DOWN REBEL SWORD
Submits to Huerta Govern ment; to Become Private
 Citizen
EACH MEMBER OF HIS
 BAND IS GIVEN LAND
Recognition of Mexico by The United States is Said to Have Keen Brought Measurably Nearer,
 As Result

! Eagle Pass, Tex, July 2S.-Fran- CISCO Villa, bandit idol of the Mexican pcon, and for years menace to gov ernments of his country throughout northern Mexico, is entrained tonight with his men for Torreon, there to take the first actual steps looking to his entrance once more to private Mexican citizenship, a consequence of his negotiations with the De La Huer- carly this morning.
 i Advices reaching here from Sabinas which contain this information, told also the terms under which the bandit chieftain agreed in the words of Gen. eral Eugenio Martinez, commander of the Torreon military zone and per- sonal representative of the De La lIucrta regime, to Submission to the De La Huerta government in recog- milton of it's stability and his desire to retire to private life and abide by the laws of the government"
 Under these terms, advices state, Villa is to be allowed a years army pay for all his soldiers, and permitted to go with them to Torreon under per- sonal escort where this condition of the terms will be effected. The band will number 1900, it is said. At Tor reon the men are to be mustered out of Villas service and each allotted a tract of land on which to engage in farming. Villa, too, it is said, has been given very pleasing financial guarantees.
 Slaughter Denied
 General Martinez, communicating Eagle Pass, termed Villas acceptance of the terms as an act of patriotism.
 General Martinez has wired that railroad traffic in the Sabinas district is being resumed and that he has giv- en orders for running of all trains as per schedule in effect prior to the interruption.
 Details of negotiations between the Mexican government and Villa says that conference for surrender, con- ducted on the part of De La Huerta by General Martinez took place all night, ending at II o'clock this morning. It was interrupted frequently by se- were electrical storm, but resumed im- mediately thereafter.
 All rumors of slaughter of Sabinas policemen and mutilation of bodies of many women there yet lack confirms tion. Other reports, however, tell of general rejoicing throughout Mexico and of celebration planned.
 Fl Paso, Tex, July 28.-Reports of the surrender of Francisco Villa, Mex can bandit and revolutionist, pleased business leaders here and in Juarez, Mexico, today. Opinions freely were expressed Villas surrender would do much to stabilize mining and indus try in Chihauhau the state in which Villa chiefly operated.
 Some of Villas agents and friends here expressed disbelief concerning the report. Others said that if his surrender was substantiated, it would be shown many of Villas conditions for surrender had been accepted by the De La Huerta government.
 Washington, July 28.-Recognition of the new Mexican government by the United States in the opinion cf Mexican observers here has been brought measurably nearer by the surrender of Francisco Villa.
 The status of Villa, as far as the United States is concerned, however, is not changed greatly. The bandit leader is under indictment carged with the killing of soldiers and civilians at Columbus, N. M., in 1916, and in the placing of himself under the laws of his own country may mean that his extradition will be sought. In such contingency the Mexican government might be afforded fresh embarrass- ment.
 | A more immediate effect of Villas surrender, the general official view here is that it removes from the mill- tary and political situation what has been the most menacing feature Tor many years. With Villa peaceful, It is believed generally in Washington. the prospects for complete restoration of order throughout the country are much better and the probability or the recognition by the United States