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Show IIU1 IBS OIL! I AB0UT3D HEN )utlaw and His Few Per- sonal Followers Camped in Canyon; Others Are J Scattered. Sj (HIIU'AHUA CITV, Mexico, July g Villa.' with about thirty men, is 1 the Canyon tie Las Huertas, near El ' 't,o de renoles, Durango, according to ispatches to General liamos, sent by mirier to Mapimi and telegraphed to eneral Trevino today. Calixto Con- reras, his chief lieutenant, whose death ' jcentlv was reported from Mexico City, e;erteil immediately after the Parral ' gbt and made his way southward with ae-half of the men who attached that tv, according to the dispatches. It was reported that the Villistas are rattered through the foothills of the ierras in small bands. Alexandro was lid to be in the Canyon de Las Pie-ras Pie-ras with the twenty survivors of the iphty wnoin he participated in the arral attack. Nicholas Hernandez, Crho attempted to reach Haciendas Her-Vanas Her-Vanas in an effort to locate buried am-Vnjnition, am-Vnjnition, was met and repulsed by tho ovemment troops a day 's march from is objective, the dispatches said. Jandit Turned Back. General Matias Ramos, commanding he Carranza troops in the campaign, has eiermined, according to reports, that filla planned to reconcentrate his scat ered command at San Pedro de Galle nd to attack Mapimi. For this pur-ie pur-ie 100 men, under the leadership of !''aili!la, struck off north of Penoles, toward to-ward Kscalon, with orders to burn 'j ridges both north and south of that oint, that additional government roops might not be brought south ivhilc Villa marched on Mapimi. The e facto troops, however, were too trong and he was obliged to turn back. - Colonel Suarez, commandant at Mapimi, Ma-pimi, reported, supplementing General Ramos's dispatches, that he is well fortified forti-fied and prepared to cope with the Vil-stas Vil-stas should they succeed in reaching the awn, even without the aid of Geiieral Ramos's forces marching in that direc-lon. direc-lon. !ew in Number. --. The dispatches also stated the Vil-stas Vil-stas now in the field in that vicinity Mimber less than 300, and, according to risoners, their clothing has been torn ) shreds by the hard marches; they are ractically without shoes, food and am-lunition. am-lunition. , : Other reports received from General avazos said his troops chased the band t Martin Lopez, which recently at- ;ieked a troop train a few miles west here, out of hiding places in the i tves of the Sierra de La Silla, and are ill in pursuit. |