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Show IIIOTO I SIIEUpEES Instructed to Urge Good Offices of Car-ranza Car-ranza Government. I00ps Dispatched to Re-lease Re-lease Mormons Held Prisoner by Bandits. .rN-GTOX. March IS.-The Amer-P'Lwv Amer-P'Lwv to Mexico City was ln-'.'dtiv ln-'.'dtiv fy tl.e state department ' ,t the Mexican government to K?rv orasible stcp t0 '"SUre thC Pr" ' .' merican citizens in the terri-l' terri-l' iortliern Mexico, where Yilllsta. ' join llliVe beoome actlve- The Kn"a"uthorities also will be asked to ';',M release of James E. Whotlen. f , rjoaii, who, with Joseph Bentley, J," of 'the Mormon church and a Mexican, was captured by "ej near Las Cruces, Chihuahua, i.vs ago. '--ration that Whetten was in the 'i-tf the bandits reached the depart-a depart-a short time before a telegram ""..' ed'trom Representative Edward f-rl'ion of Michigan, who said he K Informed by Warren & Co that t of the company s ranch at S'-'rthuahuR. were held by Martin l a Vil'a leader who demanded $5000 it under threat of killing the prls- rJietroving the ranch. The mes-tvi mes-tvi the foreman of the ranch was taring to raise the money. Election Is Urged. jL-'fiion with this case the depart -L ti' leed that two days ago it di-I di-I mi erabassv at the Mexican capital c'ittlly request the Mexican govern- l 10 extend the proper protection to ajioyees and the property of Warren tihon now in the hands of the (department shows that the bandits I keen active for at least twelve days lat their operations cover a com-j'v com-j'v wide range of territory. The 1 oi Pearson, in northern Chihuahua, -lied bv Lopez and Ramon Vega ir-h 6, some time before the bandits jded uoon Las Cruces and took et and Bentley. Representative i. :on said Lopez had captured the p of Janos and Asuncion and that 2 had iM men under his command. Xews of Villa. far as has been made known, the ! department has no specific infor-oti infor-oti as to the operations of Villa him-It him-It was recalled today, however, crJy recently Villa was reported to i staled that he proposed ,to launch npaien in northern Chihuahua, near international line, to develop the at-'- le of the American government. Un-1 Un-1 I'Y began their present series of kiiitions. Villa bands had been com- - ' velv inactive since the raid on Co- " ;; i.i. X. M-, in 1916, which led to the i'.i'h of an American force into Mex-' Mex-' onder Genera Pershing. Lopez and j l vere Villa's chief lieutenants dur- his campaigns in northern Mexico, - re the Columbus raid. j ps Ordered to Rescue. I ;AREZ, Mexico, March 18. Mexican ral troops -have been ordered to pro-to pro-to western Chihuahua by forced il rescue Bishop Joseph C. Bent-jr Bent-jr 'Asident of the Juarez Mormon ( James E. Whetten, chief mlssion-ti mlssion-ti the stake, and Albert Tietjen, an- ' r of the Mormon colony in ) They were captured by Villa F rear Las Cruces, Mexico, and are I ted in Villa's main camp, accord -unconfirmed. reports received here ttrr.on church officials. 'I AtiBustln Mora announced late iy I tlM General Zuazua, with 500 cav-Ai cav-Ai . ordered to proceed from yVMiasas Grandes into western Chi-In Chi-In an effort to rescue the three , Please Prisoners. '.'"ale time Colonel Dal Arco, with '"try command, he said, will pro-m pro-m Guzman toward Asuncion. J 0Janos, with orders to drive off y t ' command under Martin Lopez ' and rescue "Bunk" ie negro foreman of the Ojitos . i.id the ten cowboys who are be- itn-??ez as hostages for the k 'i L"? WSich was sent to Oil-W Oil-W ltk.Vby Superintendent More-"4 More-"4 he L arren Cattle company. " 1 1, 6tated that Spencer and 1 J company's cowboys were be- V tirvi'!0rthwestern Chihuahua, tv Si lnformat'on showed Bishop ,:rr Whetten and Albert h "l belnS held in Villa's head-,S head-,S r Rubio, seventy miles dShu,a Clty- N ransom has arl,f0r the re,ease the charge of the church affairs |