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Show I . MANY SOLDIERS '; DESERTING THE CAUSE OF VILLA , DOT Xi LAS, Ariz.. Nov. 8.- Forty soldiers I . of the Villa garrison at Nogales, Sonora. today left ostensibly to join the ranks of i General P. Klias Calles at Agna Prieta. .Nogales tonight is reported quiet. I 1 1 General Villa i reported eu route from Cananea to Nogales. Sonora, for Kb e pur-, pur-, ' pose of interviewing Charles Randall, act-I act-I ing governor of the state of Sonora. He ; is said to be accompanied only by a small r bodyguard, consisting- of no more than ' 150 men. The remainder of his force is In cHiivp around Villa Verde, where supplies I ( are being received from Naco, Sonora. ; Xacu is now occupied bv approximately i ' laOO Villa troops. j Twenty-five Villa deserters reached ' Agua Prieta today. R. Garduno. Mexican I 1 consul here, stated tonight (that one of the i i deseiters had informed lii m that General Villa was greatly depressed. General Obregon today granted amnesty to twenty-five Villa officers who. he said, would be allowed to return to their homes' j In 'hihuahua. General Obregon has agreed i, to furnish necessary money for the ex- pcnNcs foi this trip. 5 Two eases of smallpox were discovered in Agua Prieta today. The cases, which have been isolated, are Carranza soldiers who came via Laredo to Agua Prieta last :. week. While Genera! Obregon and General Calles refuse to disclose plans of a cam-i cam-i pa is 1 1 acainst General Villa, it was learned today ihaH. the quartermaster of General 'i Callcs's army is buying up heavy horses . in t he city and vicinity for the use of !, artillery and wagon trains when they take ; the field. Three troops of Thirteenth : 1 " nl t ed S t a t es cavalry t ha t we re brought : here laat week left this afternoon on a special train for their atation at Columbus, |