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AMERICAN KILL 31 VILLISTAS TROOPS Overcomes Crew Of 56; Is Put Ashore After Robbing Vessel; Now In Jail. captainYells of the holdup Schiller Says He Had Been Ordered By Germany To Blow Up the Maloppo Ll M- s 1 el , March 11 Krnest chiller, the jounc German who . aptured the British steamer Mj I'M and tenonzed her crew of j ii on Wednesdaj night short! after H lup had sailed out of New Tork I ii foi Vladivostok with railroad ill I Ins for the Ftaramn government, ii il tod that he via a ap for i '.tiinan government AAearv from itiincnt undergone in his efforts to - in fiom the steamer Thursdav af. i' he hid held tie crew in his power h pistols a!i of AVedresdav ularh t. thiew himself upon a rot in the !'(, jiU eail) toda and sought vf I am a pi foi the Geiman gov in nt " he said 'Ion can believe i oi noi It makes no difference to ma. i ot nn instructions from the German ok rim. nt to tf ft aoo id the ship and i 1 lii up to prevent her rarg"0 from il in. I: us 1 1 1 could have blown - in I'ut the raptaln s plea for his w U iirt dvughter wns too much for and I had not the haatt to do It I miyii to take the consequences, I sk that thev keep rae ashore in. i I of sending me bark to the ship i 1'i iiptaiii to take me In charge." Mnj- lie Tried for I'lrary. - h Her had lieen old thst as lus dar. iiiloit occurted outside the three t r limit, he would in all likelihood i' t Kin to British possessions in the ie-st Indies for trial for piracj Fed- 1 1 .minorities and representatives ' nm the lirltlsh government ciuna i tod-u to examine Schiller and to i !o whit to do Tilth him n - -eminatinn into Schiller s men- ' i oral it Ion will be made Those who I t talked wtth him he!iee he is ir- iionMb! and that his stor of his fcr i not true Tells Ills HUtory. s hlllrr was reluctant to tell his his- i T was boi n m Germans ." h s i I Ne-ver nnnd the tonn or my i cum name i hav e bet-n in this imiti one veil in e 1 ork three i -Km T was sent l the German gov . inptii to England soon after the war -in tin and at German) s request r en- M, in the British naw and was is- -lie! in the training ship Conws at I i ' i pool I I wvnt to saj riant now that there -everal thousand Germans in the I tish mi 1 know vt hat this means i mi Its the Tomer of London If " cit me back to the Matoppo But 1 wi it soft just bear that In mind" ' t Rnhad Bergner of th Matoppo id he iB con imtd that Schiller is a ' n e r naval officer 1 1 hSf rihiiisr Ins expel lence he said 7n dciuibinp hi' experience Schiller r n 1 1 spent three necks in Hoboken pre- liirn L foi this 1 went tlong the docks i in imjt drinks for the sailors and learn- i fiom them vihat ships were sailing u il ontraband i !i In the lifeboat on the upper K w ntinK for the ship to sail from ns.ln until the following- Wednes- ' nislit for two da s I did not eat. I h in onl brought some sandwiches v th in" 1 ut I stuck It out" ( antnln Tells of Holdup. Itloueh Dr W It Messick, who ex- i i in the prisoner after he had been I turd In the .ie of the federal iot iiaul launih as he was being ii i eil isheire fiom the Matoppo, de- in tl it lie nelieves the m in In men- i 1 1 cspo isible t ipiatn Bergner s he is fu fi in beiiiL, simple n lc 1 III fellovi ma ,nt 'h fool now," T ..i r iiid, hut lit is fir fiom being ilc iiinded ss ioii will see b what i I f i "d Up lift New loik W ednes- ii nine and hid passed the Sandy I I liht I was in m cabin Wo ii hound for ladioitok with rail- i I in iterlal fot tbe Russian proern- n ii' and had t rew of 56 men of mIi h nnlv 14 weic Englishmen The thci. w re iMit iene coolies Suddenly a i f t i i the link shouted Hands i i UeiHandril Moner. i t ' mil fued Schiller wllh two c i nilie vomtcd at me I )!se j i e ie! mined and planted with I ' n 1 v hiller snid ' ou do as 1 tell i ft i u ind our whole crew and 1 ii will c;o down in less than two mutes "i ou base 1000 in your safe id I w int e,er pound of It ' 1 pro- i.Ktei that I had onii 10 We will soon see what iou liae jil - hiller and produced a paper I ii' of m ship on wlil Ii he inji itcrt I mi th inoi t was supposed lo le II s h in ot iu lnp vt ik a'l iiht but he i i-i, hox In leni imled held onlv 1' i u id of C (ion 1 hi n he t ent over II tin papcis in th ho 1. 1 ol here m t mi m (ir pipi i h sav i u i ii i bail - I u n e T hit s, i ontra 1 nd mil 1 am i 'hm tn iihts in v liking iou tllll i n' I simnslird the M ireless Tine i Must then tr sirii.l ei en snl - hillei o e i I mi t w i ' imllnileH mi pace i. t ul 4 I ins ;. general I- VILLATAK BERLIN DENIES HI KNOWLEDGE ISIIIOFSTEIERSffiiGA Declares Only Information is From Newspaper Reports; Washington Awaits Answer From German Govern-' ment or From Ambassador Gerard Regarding the Responsibility For Late Ship Disasters. ERUX. German), Mardi JS ia IOndon, Eng, March '.1 ) In quiries in swvernment circles de veloped the statement that nothing is Known here concerning- the explosion which daam-ed the cross channel steamer Sussex beiond the newspaper reports from abroad Officials are re fraining from comment in the absence of definite Information WASHINGTON. D r March -1 Chairman stone of the senate foreitm relations committee and chauman Flood of the house for eign affairs committee, went oer the submarine situation full with secre tin of state Lansing todav at an earlv conference Ordrnary dela in communication with Berlin was one reason advanced for the failure to receive nn response from imbaeaador Gerard to t .c Amer iian go ernment's lnqulr whether a (erman submarine sank the husses Vs the inquirv to the American ambassa dor was sent last Tuesday officials stated, with Immediate nctioi ! him, a repl could hardl be rcdled be fore todn More Vfflilnvlls on Anj. Smerlean ambassador Page at lu don cabled tbe department today that he was forwarding In mail additional I'arls. Prami Much m The Ger mans delivered s fieri e attack Thurs day .night on three sides of thefvillage of MalaiM oui t, suvs the French official statement issued this morning The French retired from the v iIHrc nroper. which was In ruins but continue to hold its outskirts Fierce infantrv fighting lasted for the entire uigtit before the Frenih withdrew from the untenable position (in the village of Malancouit, the of ficial statement adds The Germans again tried to iarrv bv assault the position which the French had won back in the vocourt wood. but thev were repulsed Tilke 32S I'rlnnners. Berlin German. March 11 ( npiure of the village of Hal&ncourt in the Ver dun region wsst of the Meuse was an nounced b the war office todaj The Germans took 32S prisoneis (ALLEGED GE1 PLITTEI HELD aohmfcton, n ( MarxJi ii De partment of justice officials .mnouiued totia th it two alleK 1 conspirator! with Cipt Hrti TfUBiho in the plot to blow up the Velland an tl were un der Trrst ni New ork that i thud wts undei pur eillance m New KnianU and that thej expected to ui rest a lourth in a few das iuIsii II1: VILLAGE Kiinc Vityrlaid Much I Two airplanes s.f unknown nationally dropped fiv iaige bomls al dinii to da on the small Swiss village of I'oreriiruy, neai the French frnntiei Home damage to propertv was lauscU. GERMAN POWDER FACTORY BLOWN UP; MANY KILLED lAiudon, Eng, March 31 Heuter dispatch filed at Oldenzaal, Holland on Weonesdav. sajs ttiat man) persons list their lives in a fire in a powder f i'torv at Troisdorf. near Cologne, Ger man BRITISH LOSSES IN MARCH TOTAL ABOUT 26,000 MEN landon Eng Man h. 11 British cas ualties in Maich. as compiled from the published lHta amounted to 310 offi ceis and 19,317 men . 1 Ulllslll KMtCTlSH PIIUMUIIVT til' M-VMI' tMU I he lass f'itv stimp club wis Tor m il organized at the meeting last i veiling, the following officers b Ing ucanlmousl) elected J U I'.irtUtt, presldenl 1m V Uowsei secutarv and treasuier Other tiece-saiv i.ffi tcis will be elected at an nlv meet ing Mr Kaillttl ippointcd T I lopeis ll u 1 1 mi--tot iiirf win l i Her h loniniilte t .Ii ift Ml in f i th lub I I he I tun he h it l will If h. lil i pi vat j Railroad HI 11' I I AT MALANGOURT; 1 affidavits of mei ictus inoled in the Sussex disaster All evidence so far indicates tbe Sussex an unarmed pas senger ship with mei leans on board. was toipedoed without warnins Officials declared the w ere not w or iled because they had not heard from ambassador Gerard, who was instruct ed to make inquiries of the German foreia-n office, wrethei a submarine torpedoed the steamers Sussex and Ingliahman Aside from the slowness of communi cation between Washington and Berlin it was pointed out toda th n the American ambassador ma not have carried his request to the foreign office w nile it was ens-aged in the delicate situation In the (ri rman rcich-taj; over the submarine poljcv o t umpllrntlons. Says Sionr. Chairman Stone said no complications in the situation inspired his call upon secretary Lansing xne tact tnat cnairman i looa or the house committee was also at the drpartment was a mere coincidence." he said Chairman Stone stated emphaticallv theie was nothing involving congress at present, that eecretary Lansing re ferred ao question to the foreitrn rela tions committee, but arranged to keep both ihairman In close touch with de velopments GOPPEB STOCKS. FEfflHIKE-T t'npper Btx igdin fHt rd the niarK't Frule-T r ordinc to dTir to furti- Alcnnfnr Co jtorki and bond- l'lrst si tlonal toanR butldjns toypsri were )oi hy Miami which mibd a harp ndanco t' 3fc 'v Intplratlon and Armn ndi nrr a'-o fatureil uid htno sind I 4 t ' l H Torts that larse dom'1,!ti (n-lerv had b n pl?ud for copper metal str nxthined the whole ItsVt 9t eoppTR Calumet i. A r' eon a Was altw Atm at ll's Tradfna; In thr dprtmpnts wm qmt ind on m profffwlonal ton' with tbIIs asain lower r ap ialtlen wer quiet Copper Morkn Quo(atlon Th following w ir quotations furnished by Curtis Mstnnint Co gi tho noon priro Anaeonda -1 Butte Superior 90 alnraet A Artaona 74' rhino . 6' rpp?r Hi(go fi-f1 QF-ene Tanana T 9'4 Inspiration Kennecott -?1" Miami IR Sen Co-neHa 1 orth ftatt . 2S Ray Consolidate I'f1 Shannon ,1 httuek 3S Tneftee Copper 3 1 ntted erde Eat"n.on -ISC Jerome rde V IT 16,8 ' Industrial and I tall road Mock. merlen Car A Foundn . 67 U Am-rican Iocomotive . ' American Smelters ll ' Baldwin troromotite 101 rmdlan Pa-ifl- . . K?' ' ntral Leather foi. rado Fuel & Iron 44 U Cruribl' st "el - 89 .r at Northern Or 41'i 1 ackawanna Str 1 .. 'ft lexirnn PMroIcum . 10KS Mldvale Stpl 64-4 Rppubllf Iron & Steel 61) W Rock Island . . 1 Intrtn Farlfie 131 "4 1 T 3 StrM . SZ j 1abah . 1 J "WetttlnshouB 6C IITE CHARGED WITH POISONING 1 i.ew York, March 31 The grand iurv toda returned an indictment ihirginr minder in the first degree , aizalnst Dr vrthur Warren vvaite ac i i using him of poisoning his fatherm ' 1 iw, John 1- i'"ck, inillionani drug I manufacturer Of Grand ltaflds Mich SLATE CREEK FOLK THINK AIRPLANE FLYING OVER THEM rreseott Ariz March 31 Mories or a mvstenous an plane beum seen and heard on Plale creek hnve been biotiKht to Prescott bv se'eril persons whose veracity "" nevei before bi en iues tionod.' Accordins to iheii accounts the nrplane has ben seen sever il eve nings about dusk It carries onl a dimly Hg-hteo lantern but the buzzing of its powerful engine can be piiinlv heard. Their belief is that some inven tor has constructed a machine in that isolated region and is making test flights. SHOWERS AT BIG SPRINGS MAKE GRASS AND WEEDS GROW Big Springs, Tc Alan li 31 Show rs are fallinu over the Bit, prini.v i ountry The indications are for roimI iain Farm work will now open up tiid gras and weeds will diovv Hem i i-cheutflei vv h . mi til i i s i(lvv flvpapei into tin I i He 1 Mite' j now tuns a lestauianl in 1 01 ilaud. ot i Strike Would Cost tbe (Country MPRISDNED Part Of the Prisoners Exe cuted By Villa After Being Captured. 172 MEN TAKEN INTO CAPTIVITY Whereabouts Of American Troops Is Result Of Bor der Speculation. AN advance guard of the Carranza army under the command of Gen. Cavazos. is reported to have brushed up against the travel stained cavalry of Villa within sight of Guer rero Wednesday afternoon. During the engagement, ilia is reported to have been shot in the leg Gen. Gsvirs re celved the Information of the engage ment by telegram from the front Thursdav evening The telegram stated that following the battle Villa occupied Guerrero. A pai t of the Carranaa garrison sta tioned at Guerrero, it is Gen. Gavlra's information, was killed In the engage ment and those captured were later put to death. The garrison was" stated io he numbered approximately 172 men If was not ascertained from the co msLSsjsncla whether ot not Gen. Cava zos had eosse out f ross Guerrero to meet ViVVc or jihether he taa encountered tiasUrUU$ while nurvrhg Ms. cslumn soMlli. Th infi-nc is that ws the latter rase, as Gen. Mose Cavaxos was leportea to hare -Been in tne neisrnoor hood of Namiquipa when Villa and Col. Caro had a bittie V. here the troops of the HevenHi, 10th and i:th C S cavalry regiments ware at the time of the engagement Is per plexing to manv who have been study ing the progiess of the expedition On Monday of the current week; tbe Ameilcan troops were reported to have penetrated as far south as Guerrero The It- of the land from Santa Tonus to ouerrero, a distance of 2$ miles, is an open eountr similar to the Rio Grande vallev east of El Paso, and could have been covered with rapidRv bv the Ameilcin cavalrv Mlln Cuts Wire. ilia Is reported to have cut the Mexico North Western telegraph line somewhere south of Madera. The line is said to have been cut at the same time that ilia's men burned a num ber of bridges in the vicinity of Te-1 mosachia These bridges were small ones as the largei bridges were destroyed south of Madera several weeks ago by an Independent band of Mexicans who burned six. including one 75 feet long near Temosachii f.avirn Denies Humors. Gen Gabriel Gavira, of the Juarez garrison said Fridav morning that be had been making even effort to learn from Geni Francisco Bsrtani anything additional to the Dews that had come to him on Thursday that there bad I een an engagement between Gen. Jose avnzos and Pancho Villa's band at Gnerrero but lha.f he had learned nothing more than that ait engage ment occurred Jle denied emphaticallv fiat he had n ade unv statement to any one that 40 men of the Guerrero garrison had been killed in the engagement and 60 put to death b Villa after the gar rison capitulated J.ha.vf ra$on to believe that Guerreio is in the hands of the lllistas, but more I do not knpw. ' he said, "nor do 1 think that Gen Cavazos had with him so many men as 172 not- can 1 'u'nilersfanil how tub Information got abroad on the merican side 1 ilia's Ttrporled AVouud. Gen Bertani 'did nop say pomively i i his dispatch to me that Villa was wounded In the leg He said that Yhe imnoi had been to that effect. The onlv thing posit ii we Jure .is .that there was an engagement and, that ilia is In the neighborhood of Gusr leio Gen Gaviia was consideiabl occu-. Pied at the 'line a Herald" reporter callqd and refused to te interrupted, but upon leirning that the news had spiead on the mericin side that there had I -en a vvholtsale slaughter of Car ' nncista tioops u Guerrero, he stopped long enuush to sav Theie is no tiuth in it so far as I can learn, and I d like to know the. sourcic of the in foimation ten. (niariin nt llnuce. . mi I'lvaros who commanded the i iir.ui7i Harrison at Guerrero when A ilia attacked that town, was attend--ing a dime heing held in honor of his officers -n the town hall of the mountain town AV hen Villi statu d Ins attack. Gen Cnvi7os is said to have jumped out of i window and escaped with a number of his officers and men the remaining troops of the Cauanza garrison having been killed COURT PUTS $45,700,000 PRICE .ON FRISCO ROAD M Louis. AIo Aiarch 31 A minimum pru. if !4a700GOO was placed on the St Louis & Win Francisco railroad by iliciiit judsje sanboru in the tedeial distiict court here todav This was an nouiaeil bv the judge when he aid lie would Issue a foreclosuie dc"-ee lohti It l.ohl itt of tiieensnuii; ( ml 1 is ii hi in"cioii the fui dolliu li e tr earned which was 54 ears igo 0 1 LW Triple Murder Occurs at or Near Minaca- on the Orient Railroad; Blakenburg Was Either German or Amer ican Citizen; The Others Thought-to Have Been TJ. S. Citizens; Blakenburg Here Recently. TURKK foreigners were murdered at or near Minaca, Chth , bv Villa, according to a message received by private individuals in El Taso Fri day morning One was Herman Blakenburg, an American or German mining man, who has been a mine foreman for various companies in the Minaca district foi" a number of jears The two other fer elgners. whose names were not given in the brief message, are believed to have been Vmencan raining men. Minaca is located on the Kansas Citv, Mexico and Orient railroad, a abort distance from La Junta, where the Orient line forms a Junction with the Chihuahua division of the afsxico North Western railroad Tt Is about 1,0 miles southeast of Guerrero, -where Villa is reported to have massacred 17; Carranciata soldiers 1'rlrate Dispatch. The information about the killing of the three foreigners was received here in a private dispatch after it had been sent to Chihuahua over a private line bv an emplove of an American mining companv It was then relayed to LI Paso. Blakenburg Is well known among American mining operators who have been in Mexico He worked at a mine VILLA HM II BIT II American Forces Are Reported Upon the Heels of the Bandit, According to Scout Returning to Headquar ters ,at Casas Grandes; Gen. Pershing is afcthe Ad vanced Base; Villa May Be Heading for South. m r.i:oiu.i; FIELD headquaiters Punitive Expedi tion, V S Arm, near Nueva Casas Srandes, Mei , March 3D, by aero plane to Columbus, X M, March 31 A scout returning to headquarters to night from some point southeast of this place reported that A'illa is rapidly re treating eastward and is within approx imately a abort distance of the city of Chihuahua American armv officers in close touch with the situation refuse to discuss the scout's elorj. though they also refuse to discredit it The story has had its effect, however, to arouse much specu lation .as to the probable objective of the fleeing bandit and his meager force Those most familiar with the geogra phy or the localit in which Villa is said to be, are of the opinion that the bandit chief is not so much Intent upon reaching the cit of Chihuahua as he is to get Into the fertile Concho valley, where lie mav la in suppfies of food and forage to maintain himself while trying to etlect a Junction with some of the chieftains of the southern portion of tne republic, upon whom he can rei fer support Vlay Play for Chihuahua City. It.nw.b. too; thai, he will pursue the same tactics pursued by Salazar and Campa, Who, after taking Juares at the outbreak ot the revolution of 1912. and starting louth, halted at Sauz and de- monded that the then governor of the state of Chihuahua, l'asiiual Oroxco, Come to that point and outline to them bis plan plan for turning the capital of .the state ower lo Ihem It is not believed he is In communi cation with the present governor of Chihuahua, nor is it believed possible for Villa to repeat the Salasar-CamDa- Orozcb cbup of I dirr j ears ago Americans t lose lo A Ilia. The scout who brought the store of Villas whereabouts to the camp also said tbe American forces in the field wereiin close pursuit of the bandit and in his opinion it would be a matter of but a few ilnvs oi probablv hours before thev would come up with him This, too, was a matter which aimv officers would not discuss Gen Pershing commander of tin pu nitive expedition is still at the advanei haie a-bout l.'o miles southwest of this place There is no intimation as to when he will return to headiiuai teri or whethei or not hesdouartis will be moved forwatri to what is now re- tlUIHTHGEBUILDliS IE SEEN STARTED ICE Jl. 1 B l ILUINi. penuits is,md cluriujj the reached in value $1 204,998. an increase nt $583,673. oi nearly 50 nrient over the same nenoil m 191 The same' amount oi business owtsme.i ilurui' the renin imlei ,,f the vial will lanj tlie lnirs oi limKlin tin in cvcis ot $4UiMniuii tlie jjiatist in the lnstotv ot the e it v I In I vui is toi Mind wen $407 T7J auuinsi $Jlj oT0 tin m in, nth m 1"1t an uieiias ol $llt ;!.' toil ot 17h units wne iu d a,nn-t 118 in 'Marrli 111; nn .increase of 38 permits E about 5 miles from Minaca as a mint foreman and has been in Mexico for a number of vears as a raining operator. It was at first questioned whether or not Blakenburg was in the Minaca dis trict but later in the day it was stated by an American raining man that Bla kenburg and other Americans were known to be in thst section awaiting for the mines to reopen Aas Pro-German. Blakenburg is said to have been stronglv pro-German in his attitude to ward the Buropean war and it is "a question whether he is a German or an American citizen Little is known of his past and American mining men here state that he has no known rela tives in this countrj He was in El Paso one and one-half months ago on business and returned to Minaca by way of Chihuahua Citv. Other Ametlcnns There. Other Americans known to have been in the Minaca district Include Aeklln. Hemple, Dr Stell and a man named Lock, who wired here to the local rep resentatives of his company recentlv Max Weber the German consul at Juarez, said that he did not have a Herman Blakenburg an his register of German citizens in Mexico and that if Blakenburg were a -German, he did not knew It. ETREfTED Tl M FGHlflHKlTSflyS II. CLKMKMN. lerrea to In the dispatches as the ad vanced base," trie of llailroad. News was received here toda b wireless to the effect that permission has been granted the United States to use the railway from Juares t r-a.o. Grande for commercial purposes, which, is interpreted to mean that the road may be used for the transportation of supplies As usual, officers at array headquarters refuse to discuss the dis patches or their purport. Gen. Herrera Promises To Send Villa's Head Here to Consul Garcia As Souvenir Gen Luis Herreia ss he is golm; to take Villa prisoner, eveciite him and send his bead to Carranza consul Gar cia m Fl Paso to prove that it really was A'illa whowas captured by the Carranza troops. Gen. Herrera sent this i a iett,r which was received bv consul Garcia Thursday night vwwu Consul Garcia also received a tele gram from Chihuahua saving that Gen. Herrera and 1200 men had left Chihua hua city for Teraosachie with the In tention "of capturing A ilia He left Chihuahua cit Wednesdav according to the message The mission stud i lass of the Last III Paso Methodist church held its reg ular montl)lv meeting Tuursdav after noon at the home of Mrs George Smith 3117 Manzaiia street Airs J H Ne velle was in charge of the i..n..n ... Of the dsrv Discussion of the thlrH chapter of the stud book The King's Highwa; ' was conducted hw Mesdames J L Gilbert. A L Hill AA O Br an K AV Williams and J II Xevelle social hour followed the progiam and a salad course was served bv the bos tess assisted bv Mrs Charles Poole. Kach guest was presented with a clus ter of violets, tied with white ribbons The members present were Mesdames AV O Bryan L A AMMiams, AV I Hill I !.. Gilbert. Charles Pool, J II Nevelle and Ke H P Bond. The guists were Mesdames Hen-v Micel. L C smith dolph Hoffman A 111 Frame and R v Hill fust thin months ol the caleudar vrai $10,000,900 a Da: Eliseo Hernandez, Bandit Leader, Is Killed In Fight ! At San Geronimo. REPORTCONFIFIMS VILLA WOUNDED Declares Bandit Commander Now Hiding Somewhere Near Guerrero. AMERICA troops have been en gaged in battle with Villas forces, Mexican consul Andres Garcia toda said he had been informed by Gen Gabriel Gavira, Juarez com mandant. A battle occurred on March ".) at San Geronimo between a column of troops of the Seventh cavalry and i Villista. force of 500 men under Eliseo Hernandez. The Villistas lost Hernan dez in the engagement and 3d other men., while the American lgasas were iWiteioBayUa. atCaeas QimkIsk. Col. Daviias uttrnm uit thit i, had received his information through padltlonary force St TresTBfl8ssl&p. under instructions from Gen. Pershins. Confirms Ilia AVonndcd. The telegram'Tilso confirms the re port that Villa was wounded in an en gagement with the Constitutionalists at Guerrero and that he is now hiding in that neighborhood The hunt for Villa is being continued by the American troops, the bandits be ing scattered pell mell through the Guerrero country Text of Messajcr. The announcement from consul Gar cia, read. "Lieut Col Refugio Davila has wired from Casas Grandes to Gen. Gavira at Juarex as follows: " 'Chief or staff of American expe dition at Tres Alamos camp. Instructed bj Oen. Pershing has informed xne that the Seventh eavairv nn IVfareH 2i at ban Geronimo fought a Villista. col- ximn composed or 500 men under Eliseo Hernandez. Villistas lost Hernandez and 30 men. American forces had sev -eral wounded. Confirmation received that Villa was wounded at last fight with Constitutionalists and is hiding iu neighborhood of Guerrero,' ' SAN ANTONIO. Texas. March 31 General Funaton today awaite I news that fighting between Amer ican troops and a A'illa force had be gun along the Mexico North Wester i railroad between Madera and Chihua hua Information that be styled unof ficial, reached headquarters since Thursday that a considerable fore of A ilia's men had concentrated In that region and that the American cavalrv was moving forward in strength. "Wila to Take Offensive. Carranza's troops also were reporteti preparing to resist Villa's men who were said to be assuming the often -an e The exact position ot none of the three organisations was given out, but Villa s outpost farthest from the Amer ican lines was said to have been within 50 miles of Chihuahua .city Thursda. Caters Santa Maria alley. V report reaching Cen Funston Thursday night said Villa had turned north into the Santa Maria vallev foi lowing the fight with Carranza troops at Guerrero last Monday. The same report. said his path to the south was cut off by American cavalry Kills Garrison, llrport. After killing everv one of the 1.-' men in the garrison at Guerren Francisco A'ill moved northward Thnfsdav anel now is somewhere tier the headwaters of the Santa Man v nver according to unofficial infoima tiun securest by Gen Funston t th head of a considerable force A'llli was reported to be on the fran Geronini rineh or the Que in ad a ranch, an 1 troops of both the United Mates an I Alexico were believed to be closing in uu him. This Information was regarded bv Gen Funston and his staff as probablv correct.. If correct. It appeared pro!' ahlc that very soon A Ilia either would have to face his. pursuers In fight oi nuke another break through the tight ening line of troops AA hther his assault on the garrison at Guerrero was the same engagement reported by Gen Per-utng Thursdav was not known, but it was considered likilv. since the actlor renorted bv Gen. Pershing occurred Alaich J7, some where in that region Shipments liegla soon. A nether Ge i runston bas et given oiders to Gen Bell at 1.1 Paso, to ofu . supplies to the North AA estern for ship ment to the merlcan expedition coul.i not b learned here this morning. Geu Funston coriiiiuel siieme on the tail road situatioi n is helieved. how ever tin- in,, f the line will begin either todav t tomoiio-a' providing obiTtion is i "t made 1 Mexican iu iliorities at Inarez v, i 1