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Show IlinilCK 1 JUAREZ I ' AMY BE DVNIKUT Camp Fires, Thought to Be Those of Villa Bands, Seen in the Vicinity. JUAKKZ, Nov. 1?. Tonfsht camp fires, thought to be those of A'illa bands, can be seen west, south and east from here. Burins the day scouts reported a strong force of Villa men. under command of Marttno lxoez, at Guadalupe, thirty miles to the cast. Another considerable force was "located at Rancherla. twelve miles to tha west and close to the New Mexi-ran Mexi-ran line. At Ouartel General, it was said, every prer-HHtion ha-d ben taken to yuani a?nin?t a suvpris attack, and the commander com-mander profp.ssed confidence in the ability of his men to hold the town against any fore that, mizht. he sent against it. Not withstandinc the general lelfpf that an attack was impending, muniejpal elections elec-tions were held todav and passed off without untoward Incident. The vote was heaw, at S o'clock tonight Francisco T. OnnzaleK and Rafael Martinez. lending candidates for mayor, both claiming the election. Th eleetlon is the fir?t to fe held under the constitutional government, the present officers having been chosen during th pre-constltutional period and before th recogni tion of 1 he Carranza government by the United States. PTiraSTDIO, Texas, Nov. 1S. Fewer than one hundred A'illa troops occupied the garriRon at Ojinaga. today, the remainder of Villa's men heing in the field to the south of the town or at San Juan del Rio, nine miles up the Sanchez river. Few soldiers were to be seen on the streets of the. old town, and no one appeared ap-peared at the fords. "When Villa entered Ojinaga "Wednesday night bis ordnarvce officers of-ficers uncovered quantities of ammunition and rifles which had been hidden in the houses of the little town. "asrs of rifles arwl ammunition were uneovere-1 from the earthen floor of the houses and many rifles were taken from the thatched roofs. These had been left there by the ilia troops who were in Ojina-ya last .Tune. Another Villa officer died in the hospital hos-pital here today. He was shot through the lungs. Two more are expected to die during the night. Oeneral Eduardo Hernandez, acting head, of the federal Mexican troops in the northwestern military zone, is expected ex-pected to march against the Villa forces in the Ojinaga section at once with a column of cavalry from the famous "death head." brigade, which even the Villa officers of-ficers in Ojinaga today admitted were good figtiters. For military reasons the movements of General Hernandez are not 'being revealed, re-vealed, but it became known tonight that the federal column, composed of all "branches of the service, had left Chihuahua Chi-huahua City. The seamy side of Mexican battles was to be seen tonight in two adobe buildings build-ings here, ono a hay barn and the other an abandoned dwelling, where wounded Mexican federal and Villa soldiers moved in great, agony of pain. Eighteen Villa wounded crowded the dwelling, while twenty-five federals were around an open fire In the federal hospital on the other side of the place. One boy of 18 from Guerrero was dving with pneumonia, superinduced bv exposure expo-sure incident to lying on the battlefield wounded all during the night of the fight |