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Show MORMONS MAY BE ' HELD FOR RANSOM BY YNEZ SALAZAR EL FASO, Texas, Feb. 14. Jose Ynez Salazar with his Villa fommand occupied Ojit os. an American owned cattle ranch in Mexico, forty-five miles southwest of the Corner ranch, yesterday.- One American negro is being held there for ransom anil three American Mormon cowboys, who were captured during the raid on the Corner ranch also arc believed to be held for ransom at Ojiios, while American troops tonight 1 patroi the border on the "jog1' to prevent pre-vent a repetition of Mexican border raids. These were the developments in the newest Mexican border situation today. Interest in Mexican border a t'fai rs shifted 'suddenly from the contemplated ! Villa attack on .Juarez to the -operations of Saiazar and his mounted force of men who have moved into the coun- : try opposite the Gadsden purchase in western Chihuahua. No One Killed at Ojilos. Following the raid on the Corner ranch yesterday, which is located on the American side of I lie boundarv sixty i miles southeast of lla.diitu, iS:. Al., Sal-aar's Sal-aar's forces occupied Ojitos, taking) prisoners nine Mextcau cowboys and windmill tenders together w'itli ''Bunk" Spencer, an American negro employed by F. K. Warren k Sous, according to reports received here today. No ono was killed when Saiazar occupied Ojitos, j according to these telegrams received , by American cattlemen. A demand for .focitO ransom was made upon Bob Morehead, ranch overseer for the Warren interests, and forwarded j from" Haehita to K. K. Warren at Three Oaks, Mich., it was said here tonight. Reports from Hachita said Warren had j instructed Morehead to protect Spencer and had ordered the payment of the j ransom, but agents of the Warren-in- terests here said tonight Nthcv had j strongly urged that the ransom be rc- fused. j Mormon Held for Ransom. j The three Americans, Andrew P. Peterson, Buriem Jensen and Hugh1 Acord, were believed to be held tonight !at Ojitos lor the payment of large ran- I soms. . Saiazar was said to have been joined at Ojitos by Prudencio Miranda and his, band which raided the Corner ranch vei'.ttM'uay, according to advices from Hachita.' Fear that the men might be executed by Saiazar 's men were ex pressed by friends of the Mormon cow-f cow-f boys here tonigllt. ' Reports wore in circulation during' the day here that American cavalry troops had crossed the border line into Mexico in pursuit of the bandits, but j this was not confirmed. Two troops of i the Twelfth United States cavalry went to the border today, but are not be-' be-' Heved to have crossed.. There are also j troops at I)ng Springs, Cienegas and at Alamo Hucco near the boundary. i Will Represent Villa. Saiazar is believed to have moved into western Chihuahua in order to rep-, i resent Francisco Villa at a conference scheduled to be held soon somewhere south of Hachita in Mexico, according to a reliable report received here. Delegates Del-egates from Governor Ksteban Cantu, of Lower California, Villa partisans in Son or a, a representative of the V ilia junta in El Paso, and Saiazar. representing represent-ing Villa, are scheduled to hold a meeting meet-ing on the Mexican side of the line within the next week, according to the same source. Among other things to be considered at tlijs conference is the selection of a provisional president for the revolutionary revolution-ary government, vrkieh, it is said, is to be organized. Miguel Diaz Lnmmbardo, a former Villa cabinet officer, was said here to have been practically agreed upon for this position. |