Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-12-02 | Page 18 | Villa Sending Loot from City

VILLA SENDING LOOT TROM CITY Trains Being Loaded in Chihuahua Chi-huahua With Stolen Property Prop-erty by Bandits. Juarez, Dec. 2. Officials reports were given out last night to tho effect that Villa was loading trains with loot at the Mexico-Northwestern railroad rail-road station, preparatory to sending this stolen property to the mountains of western Chihuahua. Villa was expected to follow these trains with his troops, Carranza officers offi-cers here said. The bandit commandor was not expected to hold Chihuahua City when he captured it, it is said here. The prestige of the city would give him among his own people together togeth-er with the loot, ammunition and small arms were all he desired, according to officials here. Rather than remain and defend the city against Murguia's superior forces. Villa was expected to leave for the' mountains as he did at Santa Rosalia, Jimenez and Parral. This move, a Carranza staff officer declared, Vould compel the de facto forces to carry the fight to him in the mountains where Villa and his men would be in their own element as guerilla fighters, the officer added. A report that Villa and his command would move to Ojinaga, opposite Presidio, Texas, was received at military headquarters here today from unofficial sources. Neither Villa nor any of his leaders are expected to move on Juarez. oo : The wise girl always rearranges the parlor furniture shortly after the right young man has departed.