Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-02-12 | Page 4 | Villa Turns in Direction of Casas Grandes

I VILLA TURNS II DIRECTUM OF AMIDES Storehouses of Mormon Col-! Col-! onists May Be Looted by Bandit's Band Before j Help Arrives. ! ' j EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 11. Gen- I : era! Francisco Villa, -w ho today was 1 reported moving westward toward j Madera, tonight was reported faim- ing northward with ICO men and i i entering the district known as the I Cervantez ranch. This district is 1 about 100 miles southwest of Jua- 1 rez, near Casas Grandes, where the 1 storehouses of the Mormon colonies ' are located. 1 Troops from Guerrero are report-j report-j ed to have joined in the pursuit. I ' HROWNSVILLE, Texas, Feb. 11. , l.enpral Yemistiaoo Carranza,, head -of i the de facto jfovernment of Mexico, ! j will decide whether Aniceto Tizana ' , shall be turned over to American an-, an-, thorities to stand trial on charges of I j leading bandit raids into Texas dur-' dur-' ; in which a number of persons were J , - killed and much property destroyed. ! . Pb.ana's arrest and incarceration in 7 ; the Matamoras jail resulted from or-' or-' . ders i.'iven by the first chief. :) This announcement was made tonight b-c General Alfredo Kieaut, command-f command-f ant at Matamoras, who said the arrest t of Pizana had been reported to Gen- i oral Carranza. Four other Mexicans, 1 it was announced, also have been ar- ' rested in connection with efforts of the i Mexican authorities to disperse bandit 2au2S and are being held incommunicado incom-municado in the Matamoras prison. Orders have been given by General I Carranza for the arrest of Luis De I -a Rosa and four other men, General Kieaut Ki-eaut said. De La Rosa is known among Mexicans on tbe border as the leader ot the "Texas revolution." Basilio a Ramos, Jr., alleged secretary of the S notorious "plan of San Diego,'' by ! which a- part of tbe t'nited States was to be conquered and made into an in- dependent republic; Augustin Gar.a, ,, .!r.. Murelio Rodriguez and Domingo Arredondo were named by General Ki- r caut as the other men sought.