Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-11-05 | Page 13 | Fate of Americans in Parral Causes Relatives Worry

FATE OF AMERICANS IN PARRAl CAUSES RELATIVES WORRY U. U S. S Officials and Mining Men Besieged With T Telegrams Tele Tele- ele- ele grapes grams Asking News By The Tel Telegram gram Ep SpecIal I l Net Service EL PASO Texas Nov 4 United States States' government government- officials officials officials here and mining men late today were besieged with telegrams telegrams telegrams tele tele- tele- tele grams from anxious relatives in inin in all parts of the country asking in for news of the ten Americans known to tobe tobe be at Parral following town confirmation o of off theat the capture capture of that town by Desp Despite te efforts to obtain information no word from Parral has reached the border for more th than two weeks The narrow escape of Dr Haffner a a. citizen who w was mistaken e ehe for an American by the he bandits and clubbed unconscious in the train raid at Laguna last Monday has stirred anxiety fresh and fears are e felt f for the safety of the Americans in Parral most of whom are of mining c companies companies com com- who have haye interests ests valued at several million dollars in that district The Alvarado l I Mining company with t offices here has five men in the interior in interior interior in- in I of Mexico Will Try American Albert Herold an American Jailed at Juarez charged with having stolen cattle in his possession was taken to i Chihuahua City for trial today Heavy fighting between bandits bandits bandits ban ban- and Mexican de facto troops near Namiquipa about sixty miles south of of General Pershing's outposts took place yesterday according to a message message message mes mes- sage reaching Carranza military headquarters headquarters head head- quarters at Juarez tonight Losses Losses' on both sides were large The bandits I were put to flight ana a quantity of rifles and ammunition taken takeD the message message mes mes- I sage states Seventy bandits were killed and nineteen nineteen nineteen nine nine- teen executed after the fight officials said The losses were were twenty five By The Telegram Telegrams Special seas Service EL PASO Texas Nov 4 Alfonso Alfonso Lieva formerly a naturalized American citizen and recently a lieutenant colonel with the forces was executed In Chihuahua City today according to reports received by United States se secret secret secret se- se cret service agents here His mother lives in Brownsville Refugees arriving at Juarez from I Chihuahua today say that Villa hassent hass has hassent s sent nt word that he proposes to capture the city within the next ten days The refugees confirm the story that Villis- Villis I tas already have taken Parral Jiminez Jiminez Jiminez Jimi- Jimi nez and Santa Rosalie and are marching marching marching march march- ing on Torreon By The Telegram Special Sl N. N News Service I LAREDO T Texas Nov 4 Alonzo Alonzo Garrett American consul at Nuevo Laredo Laredo La La- redo Just across the border was or orde ordered ordered or- or La-I La de dered ed to pro proceed eed at once to Washington Washing Washing- Washington ton today by Secretary of State Lans Lans- I ing No reason was contained in the official summons Consul Garrett was given a farewell serenade today by the Fourth Missouri band The whole regiment participated In the sendoff By Isy The Telegram Special News Sonic Service SAN DIEGO Cal Nov 4 Ogle One e opium opium opi opi- urn um smuggler was killed lolled and worth of opium captured In an attempt early this morning of four smugglers to break through a cordon of customs officers on the Otay mesa southeast of ot ofSan San Diego and close to the border According to Deputy Sheriffs Tom R. R Ying and William Landis at least twenty customs officers were stretched along long the boundary from Tia Juana to the Otay Mesa l in anticipation of an attempt to run the border by by the smugglers Four men were detected in the act the sheriffs say and opened fire on the customs officers when commanded I to surrender One man was shot outright outright outright out out- right and the other three escaped dropping pounds of opium in tins tim