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Show VILLA BAIIDITS 111111$ DECLARES MILE ; Carranza Troop Fail to Protect , Colonists From Marauding Bands, Is Report Re-port of Church Official sfil people ft'i l I lie pini'Ts 1V1 of tl.e tux in.ll..tor only j bws a yar, lit Mormon ol troiftts in Chibuflhtia, Mexico, not only pay the feiloml -pnvrumpnt tha regular tag, but hand over any aval lab 's surplus to Villa sjid his band ; ef xiwt and 1awlea collectors every i now and then," declared Apostle A. W. j Ivlna of the . l. H. clmn h. mho has f returned from sn Inspection trip to the Mormon colonies In Meil o "When Villa needs some money hs swoops down on the defenseless col antata and takes It. If the money Is for hull fc.a klriasui ssins I wealthy and influential cttlasm and hold him for ranaom. If the amount Isn't seotired In time, kills the clti-sen clti-sen by way of warning; for the future. , A. T. Tenney. a wealthy Mormon rancher, was kidnaped recently with 1 twn mine owners. Although unaccustomed unaccus-tomed to long- hikes, the men were fr tJtO-mftrch " 1 urm.. Ifxa sun dreds of miles over the rough roads. At lvnajth, growing Impatlrnt at not rwfivlns; th muncy, they srnt Tsnnsv bark to Chi hu ah us. to I20.UU0. lhrktsnlnt; that tf hs did. not return in a avsn tlmw Ihs intnlns inen wsrs to b siscntrrt. Luckily, lis arrived tn tlm to sav them, but not before they had been tortured wtUi the, evident evi-dent preparations for eascuilon. Not only do the band Irs demand money, but they tuke sny and all prop srty thev hanpen to fstiry, Hccordltiff to Aprstl0 Fvlns. The rolonhiia live In terror of tba ba nd I ts, w ho respect neither lives nor property. The Mowing Mow-ing up of trains la a common occur-rence occur-rence and an thins; that ran b dons tn harass the fdral sjovej-iinient and CsrrausH Is done. 4'arrrinM has promised to protect ths colonists and for this reason the bandits ban-dits deliKht In plllttNinic hd murdsr-ns; murdsr-ns; whenever I hey -an to ernlsrrssa the federal loader. "The federal soldiers are afraid of the bandits," Apostle Ivitis says, "and only the other day, when the federal general received word that Villa waa coming; In the tirH-toii nf 1 -M (IniuUa.'lhstetfd of roIiik tu meotthem and putting; up a fltrht, the detachment want aa fast as th-y could In tba opposite op-posite direction. W hen the apparent danger was over the con t invent returned re-turned to (aa tlrande." The colon mts are In anything but a coinfortHhle po- I aliioa. ha says. J |