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EL PASO. TgXAS. TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 14. 1916.

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Juarez Report Says Bandit

Chief's Men Are Riding

U.S. Cavalry Horses.

headingTor the

galeana district

Carranza Officials Say Five

Columns Of Carranza

Troops Encircle Villa.

VILLA was six miles northwest of

Casas Grandes Monday night and

is heading for the Galcana dis

ti Ir t east of Casas Orandes.

This information was received b

Mem an officials in Juarez Tuesday

morning Villa, the report stated, had

onlv too men with him at the time

nd was heading east across the rail

road track.

He was expected to more at daylight

Tucada morning. All of his men are

mounted, a number of the cavalry

horses captured at Columbus being

used bj his men, the report stated

Kite Columns In Jurault.

1 ie columns of Carranza troops are

in pursuit of Villa, according to Car

ranza consul Andres Garcia.

The first of these exneditionarv

forces reached Juaraz. 4ronv Cblhualjua

ity Tuesday morning In command or

.en i.uis uutierrez, military governor

"t hlhuahua, and went into camp at

the overhead bridge below Juarez. They

,ir expected to move southwest ovor

the Mexico North Western railroad at

on e and begin a campaign from Guz

man east. Into the Galeana district after

Villa.

Gutierrez In Junrez.

Gen Gutierrez, soon after his arri

val, met Gen Gavlra, the local com

mandant, and consul Garcia, of El Paso.

in a private conference. Afterward,

Gen Gutierrez save out that besides

the troops holding points and main

taining patrols, five columns of 1200

men each are closing up on the bandit

hief under the respective commands of

ulierrez himself, and generals Luis

ilerrera, Rafael Maldonado, Benjamin

Garza and Jose Cabazos.

Infantry to Prevent Uacapc.

Vvhile the caTalry forces are moving)

In from the east, the command of 900

men at Santa Ana, under Col Cano, Is I

bel'eved at the Juarez headquarters to I

n surriclent to check any attempt by

Villa to escape to the south up the

can on of the Santa Maria rler.

lias Many Wounded,

A dispatch received today from CoL

Nit to Macia. at Pearson, stated that

Villa carried a large number of wound

up; with him In wagons through Gal ea

rn The Mormons at Casas Grandes. lis

said, feel perfectly secure and have no

desire to be taken out of the country.

He also confirmed the news of the

uifeH of Mrs Wright's child, kidnaped

l. Villa and found at the Cornes Valles

ranch. ,

VILLA KILLED ALL SENTRIES,

SAYS U. S. OFFICER'S WIFE

Louisville. Ky, March 14 Francisco

Alllas bandits killed every sentry and

thus effected undetected entry Into Co

lumbus. N M. according to Mrs. James

K. Castleman, wife of Lieut Castle

man, officer of the day during last

week's raid of Mexicans on Columbus.

Mrs Castleman v. as In Columbus dur

ing the battle and now is at the home

of her parents in Louisville.

"At 4 oclock I heard a shot," said

Mrs Castleman, "and I dressed myself

and children Then bullets rained on

the housa I put the children under

the bed and got my pistol, for I said

1hi y would not take me alive."

I luring a half hour, she said, she

heird shouts of "Viva Villa. Death to

Americana " Then the Mexican trum

pets sounded the retreat.

"Lieut J P Lucas was In, command

of the machine guns and fought nil

through the battle barefooted"

35 AMERICANS ON WAY

HERE FROM CHIHUAHUA

Washington, D C March 14 Thlrty

flve Americans are leaving Chihuahua

city today on a special train provided

by the Carranza authorities Twenty

Amerlcns refused to leave and 17 oth

ers In various parts of Chihuahua state

also elected to remain. The state de

partments dispatch reporting the de

parture of the Americans Bald the Car

tnnza authorities lb Chihuahua were

showing an excellent spirit of co

operation GEN. OBREGON APPOINTED

MEXICO MINISTER OF WAR

Mexico City. Mex . March 14 Gen

Alvaro Obregon, commander In chief of

Mexican forces, haB been apnointed min

ister of war and Gen Candido Agullar

minister of foreign affairs

Many foreigners are leaving the cap- I

Ital There is an undercurrent or ex

cltement here.

DVUOOMST VOLTJM-EHTtS SRRVICI1

St Louis. Mo, March 14 Capt IL 1"

Honeywell, balloonist In a letter Mon

day night volunteered his services as

a balloon observer or builder with the

United States trooos In their punitive

expedition into Mexico to capture Villa.

Civilians Desiring To

ID DElf

LOSSES BY

Declare "War Losses Have

Not Been as Severe

as Reported.

Washington, D C March 13 German

estimates regarding French losses

around Verdun are quite inaccurate, ac

cording to a statement from the French

embassy today It sals

"The Germans, wishing to reach the

number of prisoners taken from them

in Champagne and the Artois last Sep

tember. have obtained the total of 26.-

000 unwounded prisoners b including,

as usual, the killed and wounded and

unwounded prisoners Such total la

more than double the real number.

As to the 189 guns claimed as cap

tured, the real number is onh 84. in

cluding damaged guns and guns aban

doned. The . Germans sav they nave

lost no airplanes in Februarys aerial

fighting, and claim that 73 French or

English machines have been brought

down after .fighting

"The truth Is that In February we

brought down. In aerial fighting. five

German airplanes, which fell in our

lines and five others which fell in the

German lines During the same month

onlj one French airplane was brought

down in aerial fighting'

WAHIIT

SEND MEN 1ST

Geneva, March 11. Germany has re

quested Bulgaria to send two divisions

to the French front according to in

formation received here from Bucha

rest. The Bulgarian government dei lined,

the advices state, owing to the uncer

tain attitude of Roumalnla.

FRANCE'S WAR BILL STEADILY

MOUNTING SKYWARD

Paris, France, March 14 The cred

its required for the second quarter of

1916 amount to 7,800,000.000 francs, ac

cording to the statement prepared by

Mr Raoul Teret. reporter of the budget

committee of the chamber of deputies

and presented Monday in the chamber.

This Is equivalent to a daily expendi

ture of 87,000,000 francs The figures

showed that the cpst or carrying on

the war Is steadily increasing as the

total expenditure for the jear 1915

amounted to 22,000,000 000 francs where

as that of the first six months of 1916

amounts to 15,500 000,000 francs.

The total national expenditure from

the beginning of August, 1914, to the

end of June 1916, will be nearly 47,

000,000.000 francs of which 37,000 000,

000 are for purely military purposes.

BRITAIN ORDERS MILLIONS

OF CANS OF BEEF STEW

New Tone. ITarch 14 Announcement

was made here today that the British

government has awarded a contract to

the Imperial Canneries , Limited, of

Montreal, for 600.000,000 one pound cans

of beef stew for army rations. The ag

gregate value of the contract Is given

as 191,000,000

Deliveries are to begin within 40 days

and the contract Is to be filled within

a year According to those interested,

it will require 300,000.000 pounds of beef

and 1,500.000 bags of rice, together

with millions of pounds of beans, car

rots and onions to fill the contract.

The Imperial Canneries Is a new cor

poration, composed of three American

packing concerns and one Canadian

concern.

GREEK AND FRENCH TROOPS

FIGHT AT MYTILENE, REPORT

Berlin, Germany, March 14 (by wire

less to Sayville.) Reports have been

received here from Athens of fighting

on the Greek Island of Mytllene between

Greek and French soldiers. It Is said

one French soldier was killed and an

other ounded severely French rein

forcements were brought up and Im

prisoned the Greeks

The commander of the French forces,

the reports state, has prohibited fur

ther mingling of French and Greek sol

diers. The Greek government la re

ported to have protested against the

arrest of the soldiers.

FRENCH AND GERMAN GUNS

KEEP UP VIOLENT FIRE

Paris, France, March 14 Monday

night saw a continuance of the artillery

activity on the Verdun front West of

the Meuse the cannonading was fairly

violent and a reconnalsance on the part

of the Germans in the wood of Haudre

mont was checked by the French, ac

cording to official announcement made

in Paris this afternoon

There was severe cannonading near

Vaux and also In the Woevre district.

In the wood of Le Petrle a German

detachment advancing on a French

trench was driven back.

GERMANS SHOOT DOWN

FOUR ENEMY AIRPLANES

Berlin, Germany, March 14 No Im

portant developments mong the west

tern front are recorded In the official

communication which 14 as follows

"Generally speaking, there was no

change

A small engagement near Wleltje.

northeast of Ypres, ended In the

British being driven back. A British

airplane was shot down by Lieut Im

mela. The occupants were dead Two

enemy airplanes fell behind the French

lines northwest of Verdun.

"A British biplane was compelled to

(Contlnuea on page i, column 4.)

BELL WILL COMMAND

RIGID U. S. CENSORSHIP

ESTABLISHED AT COLUMBUS

San Antonio, Texas, March 14. A

rigid censorship was ordered estab

lished at Columbus, New Mexico, to

day by Mai. Gen. Frederick Funston.

He instructed Brig. John J. Pershing,

commanding there, to take charge of

the telegraph office, watch all auto

mobile routes and gu"ard telephone

wires out of the town.

Gen. Funston said that newspaper

reports from New Mexico had been

revealing every movement of troops,

the disposition of the various forces

and the amount of theif equipment.

"There was no use trying to con

ceal our plans here while there was a

leak on the border," he explained, "we

had to act." It was indicated that if

the consorship ordered today was

evaded, martial law might be the next

step in controlmg the news situation

at Columbus.

TJFT CONSIDERS

BflAIEIS UNFIT

Former President Opposes

Wilson's Choice For Su

preme Court Judge.

Washington, D C. March 14 For

mer president Taft and six other for

mer presidents of the American Bar as

sociation today protested to the senate

Judiciary subcommittee against con

firmation of the nomination of Louis

D. Brandeis for the supreme court.

The others were Simon B. Baldwin,

Francis Raw ley, Jos. H,

1 CBoate, Ellhu

Hoot. Mooxliold Story

Meldrlm.

and Peter W. 1

The first six sent a letter stating

that "taking Into view the reputation,

character and professional career of

Mr. Brandeis, he Is not a fit person to

be a member of the supreme court of

the United States."

Hearings in the case pt Brandeis of

Boston uHder Investigation by a senate I

subcommittee as to his fitnesi to be-

rnmn a member of simrerne court, wern

come a member of supreme court, were

reopenea today. i

I Two Bostonlans, William Fitzgerald

I and Chas. R. Smith, testified regarding

Mr. Brandels's relation to the Old Do

j minion Copper company In which pro

moters were forced by court decree to

refund $2,000,000 to the company

Washington. D. C. March 14 In

keeping with the president's desire to

have all preparedness measures rushed

through, the house rules commltte to

day appointed a subcommittee to con

fer with speaker Clark jn side track

ing "all other business aftrr the passage

of free sugar repeal in faor of the

army bill

President Wilson urged chairman

Padgett of the house naval committee,

today to hurry tho navy DHL Mr Pad

gett told the president that the hear

ings probably would be ended In two

weeks

Thomas A Edison will be heard by

the naval committee Wednesday

In the senate, Monday's outburst

against prolonged delay (n considering

defence measures served to arouse sen

ators generally to hasten their work.

Democratic leaders declared today that

should a prolonged fight develop over

the public land water power bill now

before the senate, a motion will bs

made to displace It with the Chamber

lain army reorganization! bill.

An agreement was expected before

night If the plan carries, the army

bill may be before the house by Fri

day The Immigration bill now Is

stated to come up for discussion before

tho army bill

Chalrnii-n chamberlain of the mill

(Contlnaed an pace 2. Col. B.)

JMHLff BILLS

ILL BE RUSHED

El Paso Is Well Protected By Troops;

If Trouble Comes, Men Must Stay Home

i .

L PASO is protected for any emergency, but the authorities are not looking for any trouble.

The authorities have but one request to make of the people of the city and that is that in the event of

trouble which is iiost remote the men of the city remain in their homes, with their families, and not come

downtown. '

'.'The last thing we want or need is 'help' from the men of the city in the event of any sort of a clash," said an

official charged with the duty of maintaining order in El Paso. "We have an ample number of police, deputy sheriffs,

militia and soldiers to control any trouble that might occur. For men to rush down town in idle curiosity or in the

belief that they would be a help, will only hinder us in our work. We hope ever) rsife in El Paso leill help us lo keep

every husband at home irt any crisis that arises. The more men who come downtown, the more trouble the troops and

police will have."

The Eighth cavalry will remain at Fort Bliss, so will the battery of artillery .ow there and the half regiment of

the 20th infantry, accorcjjig to present plans, and the Seventh infantry, which took station last night in Cotton addi

tion, is to remain there. The 23d infantry, nov en route ' ere ' -rn Galveston, is also to take station here, according

to information given the peace and other civic off cials in El Paso.

With the additio a! police and deputy si riffs now on duty and the militia company at the courthouse, officials

say there is absolutely r dang;r p' their not beinc able to control any situation that might arise here, though the

chances are ery remote for anything other than ordinary conditions to prevail.

"Cooperate" and "Help" Will Remain Quietly At Home

LHELIEIE

Fifth Brigade Commander at

San Francisco Is Ordered

To Come To Border.

MOTOR TRAINS FOR

U. S. EXPEDITION

Horses Are Being Purchased

For Use of Army; Trains

Are Being Guarded.

SN ANTONIO, Texas, March 14. It

was announced, today that Brig.

Gen. George Bell, Jr. commander

of the Fifth brigade, with headquar

ters at San Francisco, has been or

dered to El Paso to take command of

the troops there, relieving Brig. Gen.

J J. Pershing, now at Columbus.

Gen. Boll will not bo under Gen.

Pershing, but will have charge of the

border situation when Gen. Pershing

advances Into Mexico

He will operate under orders of Gen.

Funston. No orders for a movement

across the border were Issued from

Fort Sam Houston this morning and

none are likely today. Gen. Funston

said that from now on ho would refuse

to answer questions

concerning the

1mnrinenco of the ixpedltlonarr fc-rcei

departure.

Will Vmr Motor .lrTralni.

The expeditionary foroe Into Mexico

Is to be equipped with a complete motor

supply train, an innovation In the

United States army. It was announced

todai. Motor transportation of -tup-

Pe3.was, de'mf? "Itum cits

Funston for after the expert! tio i gets

well on Its Way, it probably Will get

far from any railroad.

r-lvlllnn " ill 3Ian Train.

Th train v. ill be divided into two

..,ni.. coeli with 27 trucKS uno

companv will be equipped with four

wheel drive cars and the other with

faster and lighter machines. For the

present the train will be manned with

civilians.

Two hundred horses also are to be

purchased at once to complete the cav

alry quota of mounts. These will be

dispatched to the border as fast as

they are obtained.

Bay ironies In Sonthnewt.

Although European agents have been

buying horses In the southwest In huge

numbers, it Is not expected. It was

announced, that the government will

have difficulty In getting good mounts.

It became known today that lack of

rolling stock, particularly in Arizona

and New Mexico, has aided In the hin

dering troop transportation.

Attempt Made On Train.

Word came from Alpine. Texas, that

an attempt had been made to hold up

a train bearing ambulance company No.

7, from Fort Sam Houston on their way

to El Paso by six Mexicans, Sunday

night The attempt was frustrated be

cause the engineer sighted the Mexi

cans along the track and stopped his

train. The Mexicans fled but they

later were captured.

Steps have been taken to frustrate

similar attempts. It will bo Impossible

to patrol the long lines of communica

tion between the various troop sta

tions, however. Gen. Funston said.

This will have to be largely left to the

railroad companies.

Gen. Funston said the trains bearing

troops probably would be preceded by

pilot engines In sections where at

tempts might bo made to blow them

up

Wagon load after wagon load of

supplies. Including tinned goods, such

as corned beef and salmon, were being

hnuled out of Fort Sam Housotn today.

At the quartermasters' headauarters it

was said that "part" of these subdIIos

i were going to El Paso.

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BRIG. GEN. GEORGE BELL, JR.

Gen. Bell, who will command the TJ S. troops at Fort Bliss, Camp Fort Bliss

and Camp Cotton, is well known in El Paso. Be was colonel commanding the

16th infantry at Camp Cotton when promoted to be a brigadier general. He

has a long war record, including the Cuban, Philippine and indian campaigns.

He has been stationed at San Francisco recently and will come from there to

El Paso.

CDLU1BUS IS BIG AR1EB CMP;

BATTLEFIELD ISifTENTCIfl

rOLUMBUS. N

little camp

M March 14 The

tn which Villa at

tacked the 13 th cavalry with

disastrous results last Thursday has

been expanded to the proportions of a

small city today to accommodate troops

concentrated for the punitive expedi

tion against the bandit chieftain in

Mexico.

The battlefield on which 250 Amer

ican soldiers fought and put to flight

close to 2000 Villa brigands who made

the raid on Columbus Is dotted with

brown army tents and wagon trains

with vast quantities of material needed

for a campaign In a desert country.

Tents were still being erected this

morning.

From the hill behind the customs

house from which a detachment of the

13th cavalry chased the Mexicans ana

then assembled the 59 men with whom

Maj I'rank Tompkins made the

15

mile

drive into

Mexico

signals

HERE

wagged throughout the day It is the

highest point In the Immediate vicin

ity of Columbus and Is in the midst

of the army camp. It affords a clear

view of the level mesa southward to

and beyond the Mexican border.

U. S. ARMY WILL SECURE

54 TRUCKS, IS MOTORCYCLES

New York, March 14 Bids for sup

plying 54 trucks and IS motorcycles to

the united States government to be

used by troops in pursuit of Villa, were

received today by Col. A. Smith, the

United States depot quartermaster here.

Col Smith said the automobile trucks

probably would be used to transport

supplies to the troops at the front

It Is expected that the trucks and mo

torcycles will be ready for shipment

wltnln less than two weeks. The mo

torcycles will be of the kind that ac

commodate two riders. The outfit

will cost the government about 1125,000.

The motorcycles will be used by

couriers.

SAN SIMON CITIZENS TAKE

STEPS FOR TOWN'S SAFETY

San Simon, Ariz., March 14. Owing to

a threat said to have been made sorao

time ago by certain Mexicans, the

citizens of San Simon held a meet

ing last night and organized a mounted

patrol guard Men will patrol on the

four sides of the town all night until

It Is known 'that Cause for alarm has

passed.

A code of signals was agreed upon

and a place of refuge selected In case

an alarm Is turned in.

Constant "night and day vigils will be

kept until the possibility of a surprise

Is known to have passed. Owing to

the existence of a rifle club here, there

is a sufficient number of high power

guns and an abundance of ammunition.

CHICAGO FI,YEHS THAIV

FOR SERVICE IJT MEXICO

Chicago. Ill, March 14 The Aero

Club of Illinois plans to train a vol

unteer reserve corps of Chicago flyers

for military service In Mexico. It was

announced today. The Chicago corps,

it is said, will form part of a national

reserve.

ALI,

O.UIET IN VEIlCUUZj

AMEIUCYNS APPEATt SFE

Veracruz. Mex, March 14 Governor

Herlberto Jara has informed American

consul Canada here he will be able to

afford safety to all Americans. The

people here believe the military gov

ernor will be able to preserve order.

Resolution To Recruit Army

To Full Strength To Be

Introduced At Once, -

WILSON'SREPLY '

PLEASES "CHIEF"

No Trouble Feared; Alarm

ist Reports Irritate Presi

dent and Advisers.

WASHINGTON. D. C, March 14 .

Chairman Hay of the house

military committee late today

prepared for immediate introduction of

a resolution to permit the president to

raise the fighting strength of the

standing army to 120,000 men at once.

Senators who were consulted by

house leaders and war department offi

cials asserted late today that the in

crease to be authorized by the house

resolution would add approximately

800 or 9000 men to the rtglments now

on the Mexican border bringing that

force up to a total of about 27,000 men.

Both I'ortlea to Support Bill.

Most Democrats and Itepdbllcam wtll

support the revolution in the houee

chairman Hay and representative Kil i .

ranking minority members of the n i

ttarj committee assured we ret ir I

ker at a conference this afternoon

While the war department ins tr

power to raise the men without cl n

gressional action, secretary Baker de

sired to obtain an agreement of support

from leaders of both parties in order to

be assured that a point of order would

not be raised when the resolution

came up

American llepljr I'lenaea Carranza.

The state department was advised

today by its representative with Mexi

can foreign secretary Acuna, that the

reply made by the United States in re

gard to the reciprocal agreement for

the passage -of troops across the border

created "a most favorable Impression."

to "eT IVnralni; to Americnna.

The department has not renewed Hi

standing order urging Americans to

stay out of Mexico for the time being,

but It was Indicated that the attention

of consuls in Mexico might be again

directed to those instructions.

Ready For Cronatng of Border.

Administration officials today huh

mentarlly awaited word from Gen.

Funston that the first detachment of

American troops was moving into Mex

ico In pursuit of Villa and his bandits.

Latest official information from the

border Indicated that the mobilization

of troops had made such progress that

the first force was ready to cross the

International boundary Una at any

time.

CarTanzu Situation Adjusted

Officials are confident that the sit

uation, so far as Gen. Carranza himself

Is concerned has been adjusted by ac

ceptance of his proposal for a recipro

cal arrangement by which either his

troops or American troops mar pursue

outlaws on either side of the border.

Reporta Anger Wilson.

Publication of reports that the United

States expects trouble from Carranza.

Is understood to be resented by admin

istration officials Including the presi

dent some of whom say that the re

ports are being purposely disseminat

ed by a certain element In order to

bring about war with Mexico. Offi

cials nave made It clear that steps al

ready taken were deliberately intended

to preclude the possibility of armed.

Intervention and they are seriously

considering taking action to stop pub

lication of reports of an alarmist na

ture. o 111 Feeling Apparent.

Official reports thus far received

from lnterlo- points In Mexico and.

along the coast are all to the same ef

fect that there has been no 111 feeling

against the United States because of

the announcement that American troops

would hunt down Villa.

Conditions Appear Favorable.

Senator Chamberlain and representa

tive Hay. chairmen, respectively, of the

senate and house military committees,

conferred briefly with the secretary of

war.

Chairman Stone, of the senate for

eign relations committee, was told. b

president Wilson that conditions in

Mexico appeared more favorable

Acting secretary of state Polk re

ported to president Wilson todav that

word received at the state department

from various sections of Mexico indi

cated that a favorable Impression had

been made by the note sent Gen. Car

ranza Monday Mr Polk's report did

not confirm reports that the Carranza

supporters resented the pursuit of Villa

by American troops.

The disposition of the American

troops along the border and the plans

of Gen. Funston were explained fully

at today's cabinet meeting bv secretary

of war Baker, who Informed the cabi

net that he had no word yet that troops

had crossed the border.

WEALTHY MEXICANS COME

TO BORDER WITH AMERICANS

Laredo, Tex. Jrarch 14 The exodus

of Americans from Mexico continued

(Continued on pace :, Cot 2.)