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Show VILLA WANTS TO One Time Bandit Has Abiding Ambition to Be Next Ruler of Mexico. HARMONY WITH CHIEF General Will Remain Supreme Commander With Chief as a Figurehead. Chihuahua, Mex.. March J 4. "Villa, the one-time bandit, will be tho next president of Mexico. That is his ambition am-bition and, despite all reports to the I contrary, it will remain his ambition until he either is dead or president." This declaration was mado todav by a fr end so close to General Villa as to give authority to the assertion It was prompted by reports that the coming to Chihuahua of General Von-ustlano Von-ustlano Carranza who is recognized as civil head of the revolution was to bring about conditions more satisfactory satisfac-tory to foreign governments and to Place In the seat of authority better advisers than General Villa -appears to have in handling the complications growing out of the killing of William S. Benton, a British subject. That Villa and Carranza might meet and that they might publicly embrace as an cvidenco of their perfect harmony har-mony was given out as a possibility. Carranza a Figurehead. General Carranza now Ib on his way overland from Sonora. A magnificent marble building has been prepared as th0 official residence or capltol In which he will perfect the details of government. But it was stated emphatically em-phatically that the coming of Car- . , iuo VsUllllll UL VUl- ranza Is not to lesson In any way the power now. wielded bv Villa who for months has beon a dictator. '"General Villa will remain supremo commander throughout the progress of the revolution," revolu-tion," said one of his advisers "His succession of victories against the federal army, his driving the Huorta soldiers from the north of Mexico while Carranza remained In comparative compara-tive obscurity on the Pacific slope, have so exalted him in tho minds of lus soldiers as to make his subordination subordina-tion to any one else improbable. "General Villa could not afford to go south at the head of his troops in' the attack on Torreon before he had first satisfied himself that his soma will not result In the loss of any of his power." Strange Conditions Prevail. In the absence of anv indications that General Villa intended to move southward immediately, this city, the largest In rebel territory, apparently !has resigned itself to an Indefinite state of revolution. Outwardly conditions condi-tions arc almost normal. The military mili-tary band discourses operatic music In tho plaza, crowds promenade in the gay lights, a wandering Tarahumaro Indian garbed only In a blanket, a pair of boots and a silk hat, joins the parade par-ade and an enterprising merchant has opened a soda water fountain. But the bugle calls, the silent disappearance disappear-ance of "suspects," the reports of executions ex-ecutions and the general knowledge that many people for months have been hiding in basements of buildings, form another aspect of life hero which is little mentioned. VIMa Is Dictator. The man on the hill General Villa, who resides on an eiovatlon a few blooks from the United States consulateIs consu-lateIs the one Individual who can pronounce life or death for anv of those who stroll In the plaza or "hide in the basements. Residing in his own marble home not far from the plaza, but held a prisoner, is Luis Terrazas, Jr., son of one of the richest families in Mexico under the Diaz regime. As he paces up and down the tiled floor of his patio, not knowing what moment he may bo called to faco the firing- squad, Terrazas can hear the cathedral bells and at night the military band. When seen today the prisoner appeared to be utterly hopeless of his release. He has been confined here ever since General Villa's army entered the citv last December. Terrazas Is Hopeless. When told his father, who is now a refugee in El Paso, was making every effort to procure his release, the prisoner pris-oner merely shook his head. More than once since his detention he has been subjected to tortures to reveal places where Terrazas money was supposed to be hidden. As understood hero Terrazas Is being be-ing held by the rebpls for three purposes. pur-poses. They are: "So that money may be extorted from tho Terrazas family; so that by threatening to execute tne prisoner, the Cientifico party may be dissuaded dissuad-ed from Invading Mexico from the north and so that the prisoner maj sign documents turning Terrazas pro perty over to Villa," |