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Show IOTHIEIGI ; HELD FOB 1PM W NEXIGH BHI15 State Department Directs That Carranza Take Steps to Bring About His Release 1 WASHINGTON. Feb. 1G. William Welsh Adams, an American, has been captured by bandits in Zacatecas, Mexico, Mex-ico, and is being held Tor 50.000 pesos random, Ihe state department wa? advised ad-vised today. Adams' home is in Los Angeles, whore his wife and child now live. The American embassy at Mexico Cily has been instructed by the ctalo department to bring the kidnaping to ihe attention of the Mexican authorities authori-ties with the request that every step be taken to secure Adams' release. Th American representatives at Sal-tillo Sal-tillo and Monterey, in reporting the incident, in-cident, said the authorities in Zaca-tecafawere Zaca-tecafawere endeavoring to learn the whereabouts of Adams and his captors and I hat three columns of Mexican troops had been sent out. The kidnaping occurred at Avalos last Friday and the bandits were- reported re-ported to have looted the warehouse of the Providencia mine, operated by tho Minerales and Melales company,1 an American concern. Adams was su-! perintendent of the mine. j |