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Show PUCES PRICE UPON THE HEADOF BANDIT GOVERNOR 'OF CHIHUAHUA IS DETERMINED TO EFFECT CAPTURE CAP-TURE OF VILLA. Outlaw Chieftain Said to Have Taken Up Cudgels Against New Government, Govern-ment, Causing Offer of Fortune For His Death or Capture. El l'aso, Texas. A reward of 100,-000 100,-000 pesos for the death or capture of Francisco Villa lias been offered by the government of the state of Chihuahua. Chi-huahua. This announcement' was made here Sunday by 1'rovisional Governor Tomus Gumvros, who added that 2000 troops had just left Cliiualnia City under orders to hunt down the bandit chieftain. An unconfirmed report that General Francisco Villa had ordered American and other foreign owned mining companies com-panies in Chiuahua to pay him ?500,-000 ?500,-000 and that he had cut the power line between P.oquillas and l'arral, caused considerable concern in Mexican revolutionary revo-lutionary circles here. The report, if confirmed, it was said, would indicate Villa had taken tip the cudgels against the new de facto government. gov-ernment. Previously it was officially reported Villa and General 1'. Ellas Calles had failed to agree on terms looking toward the bandit's elimination from Mexican affairs. A military campaign against Villa is an immediate prospect, it was said by revolutionary agents. Villa, they said, can be captured because of his present inability to recruit a large force, or if successful in recruiting, to equip and supply troops. Revolutionists in Chiuahua of late years have practically cleaned the state of its cattle. Previously it was an easy matter to feed a large body of men, but now, it was said, it is an impossibility im-possibility unless the force has a source of supply outside the state. |