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EL PASO HERAXD WB SAIS HO TAD; cms nEir its loss American Kepresentative C onfirms Claims of Diaz Lom- bardo that Villa Has Flanked Obregon and Cut in Behind Him; American Says Many Villa Troops Are Deserting; Ammunition Is Short. WASHINGTON. D 0, June S Consular agent George C Ca rothers, at ' Chihuahua city. Mex.. reported today that Villa troops in a flank movement captured Silao and put Carranza cavalry forces to rout Gen Obregon, toe Carranza com mander, hejteald, is surrounded at Trin idad by Villa infantry and has lost trains and large quantities of supplies. AS in the case of the reported cap ture of Silao two weeks aso, the present report, received in Jua rez Wednesday night, has resulted in flatly contradicting statements from representatives of the two factions here The Villa report comes from Diaz Lombardo, minister of foreign re lations at Chinuahua, and states that Gen. Villa, at the head of a strong cav alry detachment, has encircled the Car ranza lines, cutting the railroad south of Silao and capturing that city. Should this be the case, the Obrejron troops will be cut off at Trinidad. Though no official reports have been received by the Carranza consulate, it Is stated that Obregon is in daily com munication with Veracruz and that for more than a week he has reported only long range skirmishing Flanking- Wn Planned. That a flank movement against the Carranza lines was planned for Tues day afternoon by Gen. Villa is attested to by an American who has been at the front since the Celaya battle. At the Silao battle two weeks ago. Gen. Rod rlgu2. at the head of a large cavalry detachment, was successful in circling the Carranza lines and cutting the line south of Silao, but he was forced to retreat and the line was soon repaired. The American states that this plan ap pealed to Villa as practicable and that he announced that he personally would Jead such a movement of Tuesday af ternoon. DeserrtonH in Ranks. Desertions in Villa rabks are fre quent, according to the American, and conscription is the order of the day This American also states that a week report was that the advance guard had reached San Pedro, but five stations east of Torreon. The Arrieta brothers, who recently occupied Mapimi, have en tered a number of smaller towns and are getting reinforcements. This places the Carrancistas close into Torreon from both the east and west, with Obregon well to the south. VILLA'S COMMENT AWAITED UPON THE WILSON NOTE (Continued Prom Pac One.) CARRANZA RAISES WAGES OF MEXICAN SPINNERS BY DECREE Venustiano Carranza. "First chief of the Constitutionalist army. In charge of the executive nower of the nation, and ago 590 Carrancistas and a colonel de- I chief of the revolution," has issued a serted in a Dodv to VHla. These troops proclamation decreeing that "the re doing everything they can to prevent him making answer until Lombardo can get to him to frame it for him. otc "Not Received. In a message to a friend in 1 Paso Thursday morning, Diaz Lombardo, minister of foreign relations in Villa's cabinet, said that president "Wilson's note had not been received at Chihua hua or by Gen. Villa and that all Villa officials had been warned to give no expression of opinion on the note ex cept by permission of Gen. Villa. The message was dated at Chihuahua Thursday mdrning "The note Is a rather difficult one to translate into Spanish," said a well known American who knows the Span ish language welL "It loses all Its finer points when translated and will read rather bluntly compared to the usual flowery Spanish effusions." Says Carranxa's the Man. Andres Garcia, consul for Carranza In El Paso, discussing the note, said Tf any comment on the Wilson note is to be made from the Carranza side it is my opinion that it should come from Carranza himself or some high offi cial. As regards one part of the note, however, I wish to express the opinion that, if Carranza is not the man to control the situation, then the man has not yet been born" were put on the firing: line, but the colonel retired to the rear Villa had been watching the detachment, fearing treachery, and, when the colonel desert ed, had the man sent to him. Previ ously Gen. Villa had promised Gen. An geles that there would be no more ex ecutions, so, after cursing the ex-Car-rancista, he sentenced him to ten years" imprisonment in Chihuahua. The Amer ican states that all leaves of absence for Villa officers have been calcelled and that those asking for such loaves are frequently executed CarranclMtas Have Ammunition. The Carrancistas have apparently an unlimited supply of big gun and small arms ammunition. The Obregon bat teries, which are perched' on "Loma Colorado," a small hill north of Trin-. idad, are in charge of a German gun ner and the fire has been very accu rate It was the fire of these guns that broke up the Rodriguez flanking movement in the battle two weeks ago, Tha tmn-nOY-K fhutirh nnnlilA tn em thfl column locating it by the dust that , public' was rising aoove it. Practically all of the officers who have seen active fighting in the ad vance trenches are former federals. Gen Morales Zaragosa, who defended Tampico Gen. Carranza. who was se- quests of spinners and weavers being lair, and. it being impossime unaer the present circumstances, due to the urgency of the matter, to call a. confer ence of contractors so as to arrive promptly at the definite result, the in tervention of the government becomes indispensable to establish, if only in a provisional manner, a rule of common observance to the subject, therefore: An increase of 33 percent in the daily wages paid at the present time to workers in the departments and other dependencies of spinning mills and weaving factories of cotton, wool, jute and agave fiber, which are now estab lished in the republic or which may hereafter be established, and an in crease of 40 percent in the payments made in factories for needlework or Job work. "These Increases will be maintained until a definite agreement is reached as to the minimum wages or salaries to be established by law for the remu neration or personal worK in tne re PHUT IS NIB1HB First Assembly of "Coali tion" Shows Changes in Parliament Seating. London, Bng, June 3 The first assembly of the coalition British par liament today showed entire optimism. Premier Asquith was absent and Regi nald McRenna, chancelor of the ex chequer, was at Nice. France, confer 1 ring with the Italian financial authori i ties, while A. Bonar Lav. secretary for the colonies, and Arthur J Balfour, i first lord of the admiralty, and other i members of the new cabinet from the Unionist side, could not take their places on the front benches until the passage of a bill permitting them to take office without reelection to mem bership in the house. Rearrangement In Seatlnjr. Several Junior members of the new government, on taking the cabinet seats, were cheered, while members of the privy council and prominent Unionists outside the cabinet occupied the front position seats. The Irish nationalist contingent took the usual seats they had held for many years. I The majority of the members found their way to customary places on the opposite sides of the house, but sev eral groups of Unionists and Liberals found new vantage points together Harmony and cheerfulness appeared to pervade the bouse. All members ris ing, even for minor business, were applauded. BUI for Ministry of Munitions. The home secretary said he regretted the absence of premier Asquith, who was engaged In "urgent public busi ness" and declared that the premier hoped to be in his place Monday, when he would make a statement regarding the position of Italy and the war A bill for the establishment of a ministry of munitions, he added, also would be Introduced and it would go to the later stages on Monday and Tuesday of next week. Tribunal for Allen Enemies. . Sir John Simon announced that a tribunal dealing with alien enemies had been appointed, consisting of justices Sankey and Tonnger of the high court, and Amelius R. IT. Lockwood, Donald McLean. Stanley Baldwin and John J. Mooney, members of parliament. Insurance Against Aircraft. Sir Albert Spicer, liberal member for the central division of Hackney, asked whether the government wonld protect banks or goods in warehouses against risks from aircraft pending settlement of some former insurance or special indemnity He said the banks holding bills against goods in warehouses were demanding insurance policies or the refunding of amounts advanced, while the merchants were unable to cover full risks even at prohibitive prices. The home secretary said the matter would be considered as soon as possible. iUIS HEADS! i TOOTHS. AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICER FIRED ON BY MEXICANS Houston. Texas, June 3. Lieut Green y"el "wounded in the defence of Tor- mento was Hred upon by uen,, at rann arid f!n Villa ?hn ira ttitti .. (Continued Tram lnxe One). Rabbi and Minister as Tel lers Entertainment This Evening Postponed. A E. Rowlands, for the past year vice president of the Kl Paso Rotary club, was elected president for the en suing year at the annual election held Thursday at the weekly luncheon of the club in Hotel Sheldon M P Carlock was elected vice presi dent, Glenn T Moore, treasurer, J. R. Segall secrtary, Henry Welsch ser geant at arms and the following were elected directors Dr It- I Ramey. Claiborne Adams. C. W Croom. S. C Awbrey, Robert Krakauer, R. B. Orn dorff and E C Davis. President Adams was given a rising vote of thanks, on motion of Robert Krakauer, for his earnest work for the club during the past year and presi dent elect Rowlands promised to con tinue the work during the present year. Rabbi Martin Zielonka and Rev. C. L. Overstreet were the tellers in the election. "We ought to expect a fair election with these two men in charge," said Claiborne Adams, president of the club, in appointing the two members as tellers. Mr Adams, who has Just returned from a visit to Galveston and San Antonio, told of the competition among, business men in those cities to gain membership in the Rotary clubs and said "Texas is prosperous, and this j ear It is going to raise more wheat and oats than ever before in its history. Cotton is selling in Galveston for nine and a half cents and altogether, Texas is in good shape and is .not feeling any hard times to amount to anything, with the outlook good." The entertainment to have been given the club by rotarlan RF Davis, manager of Draughon's business col lege, this e enlng. has been indefinitely postponed because of the banquet to the visiting congressional party. TJ. S. STEEL CO. WINS A VERDICT CLAIM MAN HIT BY AUTO HURLED 30 OR 40 FEET Mexican, thought to .be Tonus Ansel, was seriously and possibly fa tally Injured about 1 30 p m Thursday, when a Ford car. driven by Jose Mar tinez, ran into him at the corner of Second and South El Paso streets. The injured man suffered a contusion of the brain and possibly a fracture at the base of the skull. He was hurried to the emergency hospital Papers found on him indicate that his name is Tonus Angel. It is claimed he was burled 30 or 40 feet by the car. SAYS MARRIAGE WAS JEST; SUES TO HAVE IT ANNULLED In a suit filed in the 34th district court, Mrs Bessie Hndnall seeks annul ment of her manage to Wilson Hudnall. Ihe petition alleges that the plaintiff is under aee and that the marriage hcense was illegally secured. It is stated by her attorney that the mamase was the result of a jest. Mrs. Hudnall is the daughter of Mrs. William Kvle and was married Friday night to IIudnalL HEARING OF STOCKYARDS SUIT HERE ON JUNE 11 The Southwestern Stock ards companM of 1 Pao has been granted permission by the interstate commerce commissi i to intervene and become a parU t complaint of the 1 Iaso Cattle Rais. - Stockyards association against the I i Paso A Southwestern railway aid oth -railroads centering in El Pato The ease will be heard in tins o'v June 11. by an Investigator of th In terstate commerce commission. (Continued from page L) controled by the new trade com' mission. Two Opinions Filed. The opinions, two In number, are largely a discussion of whether the Steel corporation monopolized the steel trade or dealt unfairly with, competi tors or purchasers. One opinion says "This case, a proceeding under the Sherman antitrust law, is one largely of business facts." Definition of Cases. It says all the trust cases thus far determined settle down to this: Only such combinations are within the Sher man act as by reason oO the Intent of those forming them, or the Inherent nTToesT A-wc- T rtCJTi I nature or ineir coniniu . RUSSIANS JjOSE i wrog the public "by unduly restricting PRZEMYSL FORTRESS ! cTWe'" "UD5;a It further holds the question or iaci for the court to determine is whether, when the bill was filed, the Steel com pany was unduly restricting competi tion or unduly obstructing trade in the home market, whether It was restrict ing competition or unduly obstructing trade In the foreign market, and, lastly, had the Steel corporation these objects in view when it was formed in 1901. The court holds the proofs show, when the bill was filed, the competitors everywhere, without obtaining any ad vantage. Fighting for the possession of the sugar refinery at Souchez con tinues. "In the Vosges our aviators dropped bombs on the provision center and rail road Junction at Remiermont and on the enemr camp on Ponphes. Many local fights developed during the night in th. region of the valley of the Fecht. , wfne Steel company" were dSing 60 percent of tne country's s. . " business. MRTSLAYDEN RECOGNIZES L PASO'S STRATEGIC POSITION Teon, and Gen Mills, who was prom inent in tne oeience or zocatecas un der Gen. Medina Barron, are all with Villa. Saloons All Closed. At Leon, Villa has had all the saloons emptied and the casks and bottles bro ken in the streets. His men" JJave suf ficient food and ammunition, but. ac cording to the American, the great majority are tired of the fighting and the continual heavy losses, apparently without any advantage, in the fighting around Leon. 'When the Americans left, on Monday, the trenches of the two armies were but a kilometer apart. For days there had been minor skir mishes, accompanied hy some artillery fire Torreon Situation. At Torreon, varying reports of the westward advance of the Carrancistas from Monterey had been received. One at Metzeral "Eastern theater of war: The situa tion is unchanged. Pntrnjil Booty "Unascertained. "Southwestern theater of war The fortified town of Frxemysl was taken bv us earlv this mornintr after the fortifications on the northern front.! 1 Paso is the most important stra which still held out. had been stormed I tegic point on the border, from a mil- Crawford Theater TODAY NEW BILL 'The Girl from Boston' Comedy Drama in 4 Acts Popular Prices 15c to 50c Tampico recently, according to Cant. Oscar Lane of the tank steamer 'Wini fred which arrived here 'Wednesday. He said the officer was In a launch, with a white flag at the bow and an American flag at the stem. His cap was shot away and his scalp grazed, Capt. Lane said Lieut. Green at once put Into shore and demanded an ex planation from a group of Alexicans. but was threatened with execution, and only persistence on the part of the American consul saved the officer's life. Capt. Lane said he knew of six Amer icans who had been killed in the'Tam pico district. He said two Americans were killed at a pumping station In the oil fields near Tampico and that chief engineer John Smith of the East Coast Oil com pany, and J X Bennett, another oil man, were killed wthin the past few days. during the night The amount of booty taken has not yet been ascertained. "The army under Gen. von Llnsen gen is penetrating the district of Zydacrow northeast of Stry. and lsi fighting for the Dniester section eas of Makolajow Tne Booty taxen in in battle of Stry has been Increased t 0 officers and 12,175 men." ki.ias puts in wnim I rnn rac mn nrpmr rUA 1I1& ULU XYCUUIlfe San Antonio, Texas, June 3. Discuss ing president Wilson's note to the Hex icon factions, Arturo II. Ellas, former Huerta consul general for Texas with headquarters in El Paso, said "Time has proved that neither the Villa nor Carranza factions can settle the Mexican situation. The time is drawing near when the men who were the backbone of the nation In the days of its prosperity will once more take up the task of building up the country Thev are the men, who, if gien the moral support of the Washington gov ernment, will bring order out of chaos in Mexico and put the country on its feet" I A I IU A fU B P H. LAST SH0WING i I FRANCIS X. BUSHSA I B EVEHLY BAYNEl GR AUSTARK" 1 I TQMOMROW'-One Day Only I I ELSIE JANIS--OWEN MOORE 1 I "BETTY IN SEARCH OF A THRILL" , j fc,s"f B COMPANY CHICAGO WOMAN IS HELD AS SPY'S ACCOMPLICE Milan, Italy, June 3. On a charge of being an accomplice of a German military spy. Isabelle Wade, of Chicago, aged S7 years. Is under arrest here A German army officer by the name of Martin Schehammer is also under ar rest. He is accused of espoinage. A valise, said to belong to the officer, was found in Miss Wade's rooms It contained military maps, correspond ence in cipher, field glasses and a re volver. Miss Wade was living under the name of Margherita Martello She ts a singer. EM.ISTS WITH ITLIAS: IS CO-XDEM-VED TO DEVTH Brescia. Italy, June 3 Dr Cesare Battistl, of Trent, a member of the Austrian chamber of deputies, has been condemned to death by the Austrian authorities, though absent Dr. Battlsti enlisted in the Italian army and asked permission to serve as a scout with the Alpine troos on account of his intimate knowledge of the topography of the province of Trent coo itvlivas reserwsts SET Mil. FOB PLBS New York. June 3 Between 600 and 700 Italian reservists, the first exten sile shipment since Italy's declaration of war, sailed for Naples Wednesday on the steamer Principe di Udlne to en list for service. The men were a hardy looking lot and their enthusiasm for their country and their mission was cp parently whole hearted. TWO ARRESTED CHARGED WITH TRAFFIC VIOLATIO'N Complaints were filed Thursday against G. W Stearns, charging viola tions of the traffic ordinance, and against Adolph Ruiz, for having no tail light A 1915 limousine model five passen ger, with two tops, limousine and one "man." guaranteed in first class condi tion, only run 5100 miles on paed streets; equipped with best seat covers, trunk, extra tire and tube, bumper, etc Car driven by careful, experienced driver Only reason for selling is I wish a seven passenger six. Car stands me complete over 31500. Will sacrifice for quick sale only J975 00 No trade. Terms to responsible party. Phone 1S7 for demonstration. Advertisement ilanr .aruinoint in the opinion 01 James L. Slayden. congressman from the San Antonio district, who is return ing from Hawaiian islands. Mr Slay den was one of a congressional com mittee that recently inspected the islands He is one of the ranking members of the house committee on 111..,,-., affair HUM.., .-.- TJ1I-- t.t My inspection oi ron .onea . iftaiing was simply one of courtesy. said Mr Slayden "As to wnetner tne post should be increased in size. I am not prepared to say, but from the fact that many railroads center here and that El Paso is right on the border, there is no doubt but that El Paso is one of. If not the most important mil itary post on tne Doracr The defences of the Hawaiian Islands have been brought to a high state of efficiency both from a naval and military viewpoint Pearl harbor is one of the most strongly defended bases In the world" Mr Sla-den is accompanied by nis wife. He will attend the congressional committee dinner tonight at the Hotel Paso del Norte and then leave for San Antonio FERGUSON TO BE REELECTED, COL JAKE W0LTERS DECLARES "Governor J. E. Ferpuon will be re elected without opposition," said CoL Jake F. Woltere. of Houston, who is here on private business and who will be a finest at the congressional dinner tonight. "The prohibition question is a. dead one and will not be an issue in the next state election," the Houston man declared. ' The local option counties will remain about as they are and there will be no chance in the lineup on this question. Neither will the pouticians.be able to make capital out of the liquor problem, as the state has had enough of this dis cussion." BODY OF MRS. LYMT H. TIOICE RETURSBD TO AMIRILLO, TEX. The body of Mrs. Lynn H. Boyce, of Amarillo, Texas, who died here Tues day evening, was returned to Amarillo Wednesday evening, accompanied by the husband, motherinlaw and babv Mrs. Boyce had been ill for several I months and is survived by her husband, baby, two sisters, Mrs. C G Anderson, of Sioux City, Ion a, and Miss Mabel Malmgren, of Carlsbad, X M. A brother, Joseph Malmgren, of Birmingham, Ala- also survives her Mrs. Boyce was a niece of Mrs. A. G Fahlgren. of El Paso. i oji sigi i ne',jwi n yi im I wilfflOjSsuLtESAjihjLBBL&AGSS&S&SjiB UNDERSELL ALL OTHERS JUST EE0EIVED A car of "Levy's Best" Flour. Acknowleflged the Best on Earth. Give us a trial and be convinced. It Is Perfect For Bread and Cakes Phones 505 & 506. 204 & 206 East Overland St. HAIL ORDERS PROMPT ATTENTION ' Dance If You Like. No Charge. UpstairsAlhambra Theater cflccMeui rotdecir, n.T:yv..fiw,T-Ti 208-110 City National Bank Bldg. ITLIV-VS OP KOUR !TYTES ARE CALLED TO COLORS Chicago, I1L. June 3 Italian reserv ists from 20 to 40 vears of acre in the states of Missouri, southern Illinois, Minnesota and northern Michigan wereJ v. ednesday called to the colors by the ' i j Laiian consuls ox ioe various ais- tricts The call is not supposed to in j elude Italians who haTe taken out r American naturalization papers. TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS. 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