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Show VILLA LEVIES $40,000 LOAN. Bandit Leader Compels Merchants to Raise Ransom. El Paso, Texas. Francisco Villa forced foreign and native merchants of Chihuahua City to raise for him a sum estimated at $40,000 gold after he entered the state capital, refugees and letters received from that city Thursday Thurs-day stated. Villa also is said to have announced he intended to kill only Americans and Chinese found in the city. Jose Bovio, an Italian, who was ordered or-dered by Villa to notify the merchants to meet him and arrange the forced loan, said Villa offered Carlos Ketel-sen, Ketel-sen, the German vice consul, a special train to send his countrymen to the border. |