Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-10-01 | Page 2 | Plans of Bandit Chief

Plans of Bandit Chief. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 30., Francisco Villa, with 600 men, was in the Snnta Clara canyon district on September Sep-tember 22, according to the most reliable relia-ble information, planning to capture the towns of Namiquipa, Cruces and Bach-ineva. Bach-ineva. This is the substance of a message mes-sage received at southern department headquarters from General J. J. Pershing. Per-shing. General Pershing says various stories of the bandit chieftain's whereabouts where-abouts are afloat, but; that this seems the most credible. Reports have reached, him, he adds, that emissaries of Villa have been working throughout the district paralleling the American lines. Cruces is only about thirty miles south of El Valle, where American troops are stationed. The American commander in Mexico also transmitted the names of the Americans killed and wounded in the encounter with Carranza soldiers in a ?aloon in El Valle. "Wagoner Andrew J. Watson, belonging to the supply troop of the Fifth cavalry, was killed and Private William A. Cook, D troop, Fifth cavalry, was wounded.