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Show GENERAL VILLA WAS NOT SLAIN, AS REPORTED Kt, PA80. Tex., Sept. 11. A tele gram from General Villa, dated l Tor ivon, sen! tonight and rocen ed by Hi polo to Villa, brother of the northern leader, at Juarez, denied that either the northern general or General pierro had been injured on their visit to the ranch of General Tomas I'rbina at Niovis, south of iSanta Barbara, on the FhitrI Jlminea branch railroad, as reported here today. General Villa also denied thnt he bad executed General Urbiua, but added that he had secured from General Urbiua Ur-biua the loot the latter had collected iu two years. The report thnt General Villa and General Pierro had been killed in a tight with adherents of General I'rbina at Nievis was brought to the border by a Villa adherent) who said it reached him at .limine. The loot which the message from Genera Villa indicates had been re-t re-t timed to the Villa go ernment represents, repre-sents, it is said, the cash of the banks, in ereh ants, citizens and stocks of jewelry jew-elry stores in the once rich cities of t he territory tying between ' 'hihuahua fity and Mexico City, together with money received from the sale of looted stores, cattle, hides and sheep. in all, it is said, he had stored more than $&0(Kh0O0 in cash at his ranch, which itself is said to be worth $7V 000. Huge warehouses on his ranch are said to be filled with looted merchandise. mer-chandise. The opportunity to loot, it is said, came to him as commander of the eon st it utionalist force advance guard. In August, 1913, it is said, he occupied the state capital of Dura n go and secured se-cured more than a million dollars in cash from the banks there. The money was removed in sacks and handbags. Itis soldiers, it was said, showed civilians civil-ians bags of five-dollar gold pieces, explaining ex-plaining that they were new fivc-cen-tavo coinage. The looting of Dnrango was followed by that of Zaeatecas. where, it is mid, an equal sum was secured, after which Torreon was visited. The loot was conveyed to Urbina's ranch against the protest of General Villa, who did his utmost to restrain the leader of his advance guard. Urbiua Ur-biua 's refusal to submit to restraint engendered en-gendered the feeling between the two men. , Urbina continued in advance of the constitutionalist forces until Mexico City was reached. After the break between Carranza and Villa I'rbina sided with Villa and resumed his sacking of towns, taking San Luis Potosi and removing1 everything every-thing of value to his ranch. While operating around Tampico he became ill. returned to his ranch, disbanded his brigade, declaring the revolution was over. |