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Show AMERICANS ENDANGERED Rebels' Artillery Fire Upon Naco as Well as on Arizona Town Villa Captures Shipment Ship-ment of Bullion Naco, Ariz., April 11 Receiving needed artillery duiuic the night, the state troops surrounding Naco. Sonora, So-nora, took the aggressive In three . 1 1 -tlnci engagements before daylight I today. They poured shrapnel shell I into the Mexican border tow n and Incidentally In-cidentally Into Naco. Ariz. American I residents here hurried from bl and found shelter in the theater building 'aud guests at the Hotel Naco prompt -ly abandoned the frame structure. In the first two engagements the state troops were compelled to retreat re-treat but by morning had gained their former positions In ritle pits within 400 yards of the town Encouraged by the receipt of arllller. the state I troops were brisk in then movements ' ihh morning Bnd the federal garrison Is said to be suffering greater loss In killed mid wounded than at air. time i Ting the four days' siege. General Pedro Ojodn last night celebrated his sjxty-tblrd birthday an:iiversar . Besieged by a seemingly seeming-ly overwhelming enemy he celebrated the event by a champagne banquet for his oft leers and men alike. Pow-liei Pow-liei stained soldiers, many wounded, I nonchalantly sipped the frail glasses 'and puffed llabanas as shells bursl Over their heads. , Colonel Gullfoyle todaj ordered the Ninth cavalry border patrol lo re-jtaiu re-jtaiu strict neutrality and keep well under cover This was in accordance With orders received trom the war department Villa Captures Bullion Kl Paso. Tex, April 11 Panchfl Villa, who has taken the field iu Chihuahua, Chi-huahua, state ugairtsi 'he Huerta government, gov-ernment, esterday held up a passen- , , train easl of Chihuahua Cltj i ad secured 150 bars of silver bullion valued val-ued ai 175,000 The holdup occurred at Santa Ysabel on the exico N'orth-we N'orth-we Stem railway. The passengers were not molested, nor whs there any resistance re-sistance by the small federal guard Tb bullion was destined for the state I capital from a mine in the Gueria j district. |