OCR Text |
Show VKU BEING Messages Sent to Both Villa and Calles Urging Necessity Neces-sity For Co-operation. NOTED BANDIT CHIEF AN EMBARRASSMENT British Mining Superintendent Said to Be Held For Big Ransom. WASHINGTON. May 21. Efforts to bring Villa completely into line with the revolutionary movomont in Mcxi-co Mcxi-co are continuing"' despite lauuiu ui General Calles and Villa's representative representa-tive to reach an agroement yesterday at Chihuahua, ii was said here today by representatives of tho de facto government, gov-ernment, Message's were sent today to both Villa and Calles urging the necessity ne-cessity of co-operation, they said. Unofficially soino doubt was expressed express-ed as to the possibility of a satisfactory satisfac-tory understanding with Villa. No change in tho negotiations looking look-ing to the payment of taxes by the oil companies was reported but It was revealed re-vealed that tho controversy Includes discussion of a demand that a certain part -of taxes not yet due be paid in advance. Further indications of an adjustment were seen In tho unofficial announcement announce-ment that Manuel Palaez, commander in the oil region, was on his way to Mexico City to moot Obregon. Oil company representatives have asserted assert-ed that hesitation In payment of taxes was due only to the doubt as to whom they should bo .paid, a doubt that should be removed, It was said, by the conference between Obregon and Palaez. Pa-laez. Villa An Embarrassment. WASHINGTON, May 21. Francisco Villa who has defied every government In Mexico since the overthrow of Ma-dero, Ma-dero, already has become an embarrassment embar-rassment to officials of the new de facto government. A report to the state department today to-day that Villa had captured and was holding for a fifty thousand dollar ransom, ran-som, George Miller, British superintendent superinten-dent of tho Alvarado Mining and Smelting Smelt-ing company at Parral, Chihuahua, followed fol-lowed a report that General Calles had failed to obtain from the outlaw leader an unconditional promise of cooperation. co-operation. A. J. McQuartersr New York, "presi-dent "presi-dent of tho mining company, today sought tho advice of government officials of-ficials regarding payment of the ransom. ran-som. Tho state department, It is understood, un-derstood, has taken no action, although al-though it was regarded probablo that representations would be mado, not to tho authorities in Mexico City, but to the de facto loaders in Chihdahua. Representatives here of tho revolutionary revolu-tionary government said they doubted the report that a ransom had been demanded de-manded for Miller's release and called attention to the repeated seizure by Villa of Americans since the beginning of tho year and their subsequent ro-lease. ro-lease. His action was explained by statements attributed to Villa that ho was following the course most likely to provide him the most up-to-dato nows and a means of transmitting his own Ideas to some one on tho outside. Tho dispatch of Rafael Zuburan, to Chihuahua, was regarded hero as a' move toward further effort to bring Villa into the revolutionary movement Nelthor official nor unofficial reports re-ports indicated that the authorities at Mexico City had carried out their Implied Im-plied threat to force payment of the III Hill llll UN Ii I Ii .1111 lil I ' T-"l T" export taxes duo from tho oil companies. compan-ies. Information reaching the government govern-ment and the revolutionary agents agree that order In Mexico has prevailed pre-vailed in tho past fow days. General Arrleta, governor of Duran go, ha3 not yet announced his endorsement en-dorsement of the now government and a force under General Joso Hurtado was reported to be moving on his capital, cap-ital, j Agents of tho do facto government claimed to havo official confirmation that Follx Diaz, who has been operating operat-ing in Southern Mexico, had asked permission to leavo tho country. I CAMARGO, Chihuahua, Mex., May 21. George Millar, superintendent of the Alvarado Mining Co., who was re-' ported captured by Villa, is at liberty' on his own recognizance, according to messages received hero today from Millar and Villa by General Calles. Mil-' lar will remain with Villa at La Bo-, cjullas, south o? here, untl certain "ob-1 ligations" with Villa havo been fulfill- ed, after which, the message said, he will proceed to Parral. I oo |