Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-20 | Page 2 | Battle in Progress at Sonora Capital

battle in progress I I! AT SONORA CAPITAL I. At -'J. XOGALKS. Ariz., Nov. The Lattle -,A f for possesion of HermosUlo. capital of .Sonora. has ue:n in progress since late Ci- yesterday, accord i to ad vi-ea received !.'( at Nosalea. Sonora. opposite here, by ViMa officials. It also was claimed that (": General Obregon, the Carranza leader, , cr was rf-pulsed in an engageinent near i i 'ananea. Carlos Randall, acting- Villa governor of 'f- .Sonora, declared today at his lieadquar- (Ji ters in Mexican Nosalea that dispatches j at received by him indicated that Gen-n)l; Gen-n)l; eral Obregon had been completely routed slr,"' in tlie fighting north of Cananca. Three J'-T hundred Carranza dead were left on the V bartlefteld. according to thia report. . K General ViJia personally is directing the ,1 J.f Attack on the garrison of General v 1 Ijigner at Hrmosillo, Governor Randall , M: seated, and messages from him said tliat 3Nh ihe city was completely surrounded. s Villa officials weie reported here to j v ' have confiscated a consignment of cop- ! yy' per, paid to be valued at approximately! , ; s'.fiM.fioo. which arrived at Nogales. - Souora. today from the mines of the i ' Cananea 'onsolidated Copper company. I, One elderly woman was shot by sol- dirrs at Novates during a celebration to-! night, during which shout h of "Viva v1', Carranza" were said to have been made ; O-' hv tiie floMiTH. No one was arrested by the Villa authorities. I i.