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Show VILLA IS REPORTED KILLED BY GENERAL El Paso, Jan. 2. Unconfirmed reports re-ports reached here today that General Francisco Villa was killed yesterday by troops commanded by one of his generals, Eduardo Ocarranza, in the Sierra Madre near Casas Grandes. The reports could not be confirmed by Carrauza officials who declared they had not heard the rumors, it is known, however, that Ocarranza and Villa disagreed concerning the recent re-cent attack on Agua Prieta and that Ocarrauza was overruled. Ocarranza was reported near Guaymas on the west coast during Villa's defeat at Hermosillo. Carranza officials stated today that General Villa had sought permission to withdraw from Mexico. Through agents it was said Villa had promised prom-ised to refrain from participating in Mexican politics and if permitted to travel from the Guerrero district of western Chihuahua to the border at Columbus, N. M., he would leave for Cuba. General Alvaro Obregon arrived in Chihuahua City from Juarez early today. to-day. United States Consul Marion Letcher, who returned to Chihuahua with Obregon, has re-opened the consulate con-sulate there. Douglas, Ariz., Jan. 2 Fear that Charles Ausbern, an American mining man, may have been a victim of the Villa army on its recent retreat from Sonora into Chihuahua were expressed express-ed here today. When other Americans Amer-icans were fleeing to the border to avoid Villa troops, Ausbern, who was partially paralyzed at the time, chose to remain at the Mulatos mine, near the Sonora-Chihuahua line. Since then Ausbern's friends have heard nothing from him. It was reported that some of the Villa troops passed near the Mulatos mine. |