The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-07-29
NEED IS PEACE,
VILLA SAYS IN
SURRENDER|NG
Mexican Bandit Chiefs Men
To Be Given Farms He
Will Retire to His Planta-
ton.
CAREER IS PICTURESQUE
(By Associated Press)

MEXICO CITY, July 29-"I am sur
rendering Internationally because the
country needs peace for reconstruc-
tion," said Francisco Villa today when
he met General Martinez, chief of op-
erations in the states of Coahuila and
Nueyo Leon, at the railroad station in
Sabina. When General Martinez who
is arranging surrender terms with Vii,
la, arrived at the station, the rebel
general approac ched him with head un-
covered and hand extended.
Villa will make his residence at Me
yes, Zacatecas, after disbanding his
troops at Torreon, according to gov
ernment communication. His men, it
Is added, will go from Sabina to Tor
reon on foot.
Villas men, newspaper accounts say
were offered two trains, but refused
to use them. Each Of the 600 soldiers
will receive years pay to get a
start in life.
Villa was restored to full citizen
ship. Villa also was given a yearly
allowance by the Mexican government,
the report added.
Lived With Price on Head.
A rise from bandit with a price on
his head to one of the dominant fig
cures in Mexico, and fall again to
outlawry, comprises the career of
Francisco Villa, man both loved and
hated as no other has been in Mexico
since the time of Benito Juarez
Born In 1868, in the little mining
town Of Las Nievas. Durango, of peon
parents, he followed the trade of
butcher until the death of his father.
when he and his mother and sister
went to western Chihuahua. There he
became a vaquero on one of the great
cattle ranches.
He became terror to the well-to-do
OF northern Chihuahua, laughing at
the attempts Of Federal troops and
rurales to capture him. The spoils his
band acquired from the rich land own
ers and mining men were frequently
shared with the poor poems.
At the time of the Madero rebellion
against Diaz in 1910, Villa joined the
Inflated revolutionary leader and did
yeoman service with his band in the
fighting about Juarez. When Madero
sent General Victorfano Huerta to
break the Orozco rebellion, Huerta
end Villa clashed. Huerta finally had
Villa arrested, sent to the city Of
Mexico and condemned to death. Ma
dero had the sentence commuted to
Imprisonment. While confined, Villa
taught himself to read and write. He
then escaped and sought refuge across
the Texas border
Aids Carranza.
When Huerta declared himself die
tator after Madero's death in 1912,
and CarranZa raised the banner of re.
volt in Coahuila, Villa again crossed
the border to take a hand against his
old-time enemy. In little more than
year he held power of life and
death over a victorious army Of $1,000
men. The larger part Of his equip
ment he captured from the enemy.
Over 1000 men and eight generals
Q fthe federal army took refuge in the
United States and were interned, after
Villas victory at Ojinaja. He then
followed this success by desperate
attack upon Torreon, a federal strong
hold. which he stormed after a short
seige, in a desperate hand-to-hand at
tack.
Breaks With Carranza.
Then came Carranza's victory and
his break with Villa. who decicded to
play a lone hand. Then In turn came
the most wildly daring act of his reck-
less career, the attack, March 9, 1915,
on the American town Of Columbus,
N. M.,and it's garrison of three troops
Of American cavalry, resulting in the
dispatch of United States soldiers into
Mexico.
Whatever his crimes, and they were
many. none could doubt Villas
courage. He loved fighting for its
own sake and seemed happiest when
under fire.
WASHINGTON. D. c., July 29.-Of-
ficia1 confirmation of the surrender OF
Francisco Villa to the federal govern
ment of Mexico was received at the
state department today from the Amer
lean consul at Piegras Nedras.
MEXICALI, Lower California, July
Ex-Governor Estaban Cantu. Of the
northern district of Lower California,
declared by Under-Secretary of the
Interior Venezuela to be In open re-
bellion against the Mexican govern
ment." today pushed toward prepara-
tions to resist an expected invasion"
of Lower California by Mexican fed
eral troops.
Governor Cantu professed astonish-
ment at the Venezuela charges, which
he declared were without foundation.
The governor said friends had advised
him the Mexican provisional govern
ment was sending two bodies of
troops. numbering about 5000. against
him and that he would have an army
Of 1000 men ready within four days
to take the field against the federal
forces
Governor Cantu's military forces In
clude three airplanes.
Sent. 1925 Selected As