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Show VILLA EXECUTES STATETREASURER Officials With Families Start for Border and Are Arrested and Taken to Chihuahua. EI Paso, Tex., Aug C. Arrivals from Chihuahua City today declared that Sebastian Vargas, Jr., state treasurer treas-urer of Chihuahua, was executed Wednesday' on orders from General Villa; According to Villa officers who are responsible for the report, Vargas, with Sylvestero Terrazas, secretary of the state government, loft the capital cap-ital with their families in automobiles automo-biles for the border. At Moctezuma, ninety miles south of Juarez, they were" arrested on orders of General Villa, It was said, and returned to the capital. There Vargas was executed. exe-cuted. The fate of Terrazas was not reported. Reports from Columbus, N. M., today to-day indicate the quelling of the latest' lat-est' faction In northwestern Chihua hua, which resulted recently in the revolt of the Villa garrison of P,alo-ruas, P,alo-ruas, Casas Grande and Ascension. It Is said a Villa force advancing from Guzman re-occupied Palomas, Ascension Ascen-sion and other towns where there were revolting forces without a fight. The revolters had declared for Guiterrez for president and refused to fight Carranza. oo |