Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 1 | Must Not Sell Gold Bought from Villa

MUST NOT SELL GOLD ' BOUGHT FROM VILLA Mexican Mining Company Claims Ore i Was Stolen From National Rail- way Right-of-Way. ClirfAOO. Nov. 0. United .States custom cus-tom officials, the receiver of the Chicago, Hock Island it Pacific Railway company and L. C. Barlow of El Paso, Texas, were restrained In a temporary injunction entered en-tered In the federal district court here today to-day from disposing . of $-10,000 In gold bullion and copper, stored in freight cars here and alleged to have been confiscated In Mexico by H i poll to Villa, brother of General Francisco Villa, and others. The injunction was granted on a petition peti-tion of the Companla ExpIoUidora de la Miua Nalca S. A., a mining company of Naira, Chihuahua. Tho company alleged it had ore slacked along the right of way of the Mexican National railway; that ft had been confiscated, smelted at Santa Rosalia and shipped in bond to Chicago. Rarlow assert tvl he had purchased the metal in good faith and had no knowledge knowl-edge that it was In the illegal possession of Villa and others.