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Show i First Class Job Printing At living prices, Let us have your next order for anything you want prints Rich County News ed. printing is synonymous witfi art and efficiency, ' , , Are You a Subscriber? If not please remember will your subscription help make this paper strong a thing necessary for an unsurpassed news service. REACHES EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OF RICH COUNTY NINETEENTH YEAR RANDOLPH, I READING CLOUDY ONO UM5ETUED GERMANS DELIVERING ATTACK DEFENDERS. M 15 TRONO 8ft. H NO. 43 1916, THE WEATHER FORECAST ,ORTHeST wirios I N REPORT HAS IT THAT BANDIT IS UNWOUNDED AND RUNNING FOR COVER. APPEAL TO AMERICAN RED CROSS cOR ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT. AFTER ATTACK AGAINST THE FRENCH APRIL 8, RICH COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, 15 DEFEATED FIRST SHUSH MEXICAN BANDIT SURPRISED BV AMERICAN TROOPERS AND PUT TO FLIGHT. A rFrench ' Have Evacuated Village of Vaux and Lose Thousand Yards of Trenches Between Malancourt t);and Le Morte Homme. The Germans are still carrying strong offensive operations northwest of Verdun. About four and one:half miles northeast of the fortress they. , penetrated the Caillette wood' outside Fort Douaumont after a violent bombardment. From part of this wood the French in aaMhiruediate counterattack drove back, the invaders. Another powerful attack was delivered against that portion of the wood held by the French, but the latters barrier fire and machine guns held the Germans without gain. The French now have entirely evacuated the yillage of Vaux and have drawn theij Btfe' south of the town, ut id its immediate outskirts. Berlin says that northeast of Haucourt, between Malancour and Le Morte Homme, the Germans have entirely cleared the French from about 1,000 yards of trenches, where they had remained since the German victory on this sector fjiarch 30. On the otter sectors .about Verdun there have 'been only intermittent bombardments; artillery duels have characterized the fighting along the remainder of the front Aircraft have been ; very- - active around Verdun. The French brought down three German machines, but perlin asserts that the aerial combats hye resulted y in their favor. iBoth ddes 'Hfeve ' beeh busily engaged in dropping bombs on military estab-- ; lishments at various points'. , - Greater actvity than usual basbev displayed jn.tiLe fighting between thcr Germans und Russians in the region pf Baranovichi. southwest of Minsk. Flsewher'e on the Russian front the London. Avo-cou- , .. ' rt pituatioh.-i:ahchahge'- Reported Villa'Lo9es Leg. Queretaro, Mex. Villa, has lost a leg, according. to a dispatch received by the war department from the municipal president of the town, of Chihuahua, who reports that Villa was so badly, wounded in ' the surprise-attack- ' recently made on the constitutionalist garrison at Guerrerp that amjpijaion of he litnb was 'necessary. V,vv Jews'to be Sent to Siberia. New .York. The .Russian government Mas decreed that Jewish hostages from Lemberg and other Gali- cian cities who now are in Kiev and those who 'have been expelled from Galicia by administrative order must be sentfio' Siberia; according to information obtained by the American Jewish, committee and made public here. V;: , Pri sortftrs Hpld.jrt Stockade. Colummfs,' NT M. The Villista prisoners will be confined in a wire stockade, to be built on the military res- ervation here, it was learned Sunday. The stp.cka,dei.will ,be similar' to t,hat erected at Ft.: Bliss in 1913 for the five thousand Mexican , refugees who crossed ftlie international line at El Paso when; Villa Stacked Juarez. Germany Unable to Reply. Berlin. The German government is not yet able to make reply regarding the sinking otHe? 3ritish steamers Sussex and Englishman, about which the United States government has requested information, but it asserts most positively that Germany had nothing to do with the Tubantia disaster. r Carranza Insists Currency is O. K. r e i g ri as' well Qu ere taro, IJejaColT-- o as native throughout the republicVvf&i'refiise. to exchange goods, for JhA. present 'fss.ue. of paper money, will be forced into involuntary bankruptcy, and, tteir stocks sold at public auction, according to a decree issued by General Carranza. , Crew Abandons Vessel.' Stranddd.in' a storm oft the Lema islands, twenty miles south of Hongkong,- the Japanese steamship Chiyo Maru, whose 229 passengers, mostly Americans, were rescued by a British warship, now is believed to have been abandoned by her crew." Hongkoijjg. Engineer Held at Fault. Cleveland, O. Blame for the New York Central . wreck at Amherst, .in were 'killed and which twenty-eigh- t forty injured, was plared on Herman Hess, engineer of the second section Of train No. 86. Supplies Cannot be Shipped to Turkey From America Because of Blockade, But May be Sent from Roumania. PAIR AN0 CONTINUED COOL BLUSTERY PAIR ANO WARME.R. PALMV SOUTH WIND and The American Red. Washington. Cross received word Saturday that Turkey for the first time is ready to accept aid for 500,000 of her citizens, who face starvation. Hundreds, it was said, are dying for Jack of food. Ten thousand dollars was cabled to fill immediate needs. A message from Red Cross agents in Turkey said the American organization would be permitted to with the Red Crescent. The disCopyright.) patch added: Great suffering throughout country, particularly at Constantinople and suburbs along shores of MarKILLED IN mora, at Adrianople, Bruss and Smyrcomna. These people, not prising Armenian refugees, need help IN for bread. Hundreds dying of starvaASKED TO tion. No relief in sight. Typhus is spreading with high mortality." Supplies cannot be shipped to TurAS TO WHETHER THREE TRAINS COME TOGETHER key from America because of the al- QUESTIONED WHEN SIGNAL IS OBSCURED STEAMERS WERE SUNK BY lies blockade and foodstuffs probably BY HEAVY FOG. SUBMARINES. GERMAN will be purchased by the Red Cross and sent from Roumania. That Towerman Had Beefi No Action Has Been Taken by the Alleged ' DODD'S MEN IN PURSUIT. President Which in Any Sense Waiting on Sick Wife When Not on Duty and That He May be Considered as a DeAmerican Troopers Making Every Failed to Give Signals. Protest. a or mand of to Effort Wipe Out Survivors Villa's Band. Cleveland, O. With a toll of al Washington. Columbus, N. M. Riding mercilessSecretary Lansing, or ly, 400 American troopers under Col. with the approval of President Wilson, least thirty persons dead and forty hs s instrutced Ambassador Gofard to more injured, federal and state offis Dodd dCsperate-effortA. are George making to capture or wipe out the sur- in in ire of Germany whetheify of cials and officials of .the railroad vivors of , Francisco Villas:- largest its submarines torpedoed theBritish ;;ompany have begun an investigation the cause which early Wednesday command, which they defeated at Saip elVnnel steamer Sussex,, upoiy'which "tuv five American were$to to' onA of the mpst .disastrous $,ken. ravcli; leborbrns- - 0 .m?re leveling, or tile British ' honid ship iRrecks in the history of the New York report seeping across the border. Although the pursuit by the Amer fipnglishman, which went down with a Central system. Three trains, including the Twen-ieticans is a new experience for Villa, loss of one American life. Vs Century Limited, westbound, the the now situation stands the one he has never met in all his years and of guerrilla warfare, army men here Urjited States has no conclusive proof New York Centrals palatial flyer, No. of two 86, known as the sections a that submarine attacked either task ship, minimize the to inclined are not Limited, The Guerrero but all evidence at hand indicates before Colonel Dodd. came together in collision near district in which Villa, with a price on that both were torpedohd without thirty-sevemiles west his head, was able for eight years to warning. Upon the response of the Amherst, 0., of Cleveland. Mr. Gerards Berlin office to foreign escape capture by Porfirio Diazs credited were Reports generally abounding as it does in caves, inquiry may depend the next step of that sections ol second and first the the American moungovernment. canyons and almost impassable a rapid 86 at No. were no proceeding At this time it is made that clear tain trails, all screened from the eyes some points were only a of air scouts by heavy growths of action has been taken which in any rate and at or so apart. When the second mountain pines, is admittedly one of sense may be construed as a demand mile section crashed into the first section, or a protest the most isolated regions in Mexico President Wilson laid all the state the Twentieth Century plowed into and the one in which the bandit has department's reports on the subject the wreckage of the first two trains, the largest number of friends. before his cabinet. It was after the which bulged over from the parallel ENGLAND RAIDED BY ZEPPELINS. meeting that Secretary Lansing allow- tracks, and the three were thrown ed it to become known that it had together into a mass of debris. A heavy fog from Lake Erie had setScores Killed and Many Wounded in been determined to make an inquiry down over northern Ohio. This, tled Series of Attacks. of the German government. Later it London. With the exception of the was learned that instructions already with the alleged failure of a tower big air raid of January 31, when the had been forwarded to Ambassador man to do his duty under the rules, was ascribed by some of the railroad casualties were sixty-sevepersons Gerard. officials as the cause of the disaster. killed and 117 injured, the Zeppelin The towerman, it was said, had been PAYING FOR PURSUIT. raids of Friday and Saturday nights without sleep most of the time since caused greater loss of life than any Congress Authorizes $3,611,000 Sunday night, his wife being ill and previous aerial attack this year. Mexico Expedition. requiring his attention when he was The total casualties for the two not on duty. Washington. On Tuesday congress nights, according to an official report, were 59 persons, killed and 166 rushed through an emergency approMajority for Brandeis. wounded. priation of $8,611,502 to pay for the Washington. By a vote of three to of state the and the pursuit bandits, two the senate judiciary Scotland Raided by Zeppelins. department prepared to press Gemal tee considering the nomination ol London. The coast of Scotland and Carranza for permission to use MexiLouis D. Brandeis for the supreme tlie northern and southeastern coun- can railways to solve, the troop supply court voted to recommend confirms were attacked by Zep- problem. ties of England tion to the entire committee. pelins Sunday night, according to an GO BACK TO CHIHUAHUA. official announcement. Open Discussion With Workers. York. Eastern railroad man New BRIGADIER GENERAL EVANS Americans Who Fled When Soldiers deCrossed Border See No Danger Now. agers replied Thursday to the mands of their employees for an eight El Paso. Eight Americans, who hour day and higher rates for over came to El Paso from Chihuahua City time work by submitting propositions when the United States soldiers of their own for discussion; crossed the border, returned to the Mexican state capital Wednesday. They said they felt certain that all danger of molestation had passed. 500,-000- EM . - Bandit Chief SaiJ to be Sixty Miles Ahead of Pursuers and Riding Hard to Gain His Old Hiding Place Near Parral. Wounded El Paso, Texas. Francisco Villa, unwounded and accompanied by only eight men, was at Satevo, fifty-fivmiles south of Chihuahua City, two days ago, according to information received here Monday from Mexican El Paso, Texas. Surprised by Amer lean soldiers, the main bodyof Francisco Villas bandits was put to flight on March 2!), after sixty Mexicans had been killed and four American soldiers wounded. The attack of the Villa forces was made possible by an aeroplane scout who had located the bandits. J Bandit Escapes in Light Wagon, But Trusted Lieutenant and a Number of His Followers Are Killed in Battle. e sources which have proved usually reliable in the past. If this information is correct, it Four hundred cavalrymen from the bears out previous reports that the bandit chief is headed toward Parral Seventh and Tenth regiments, led by and is leading his American pursuers Colonel George A. Dodd, at the end ol ride, which they made in by at least sixty miles. The nearest a fifty-mil- e point to Satevo which the American surprising short time, hurst upon the troops are known to have reached is unsuspecting Villista camp, where 50c . bandits were celebrating the massaSan Antonio, sixty miles to the cre of 172 Carranzistas two days pre The route said to have been taken viously at Guerrero. Villa, shot through the leg and with by Villa is one with which he is thoroughly familiar and which, indeed, is one hip shattered, was hurried from known among the peons as Panchos the scene barely in time to escape the road. From Guerrero it leads acoss onslaught of the soldiers of the north. The bandits made a brief but hopethe continental divide through the pass into a broad valley which less stand before the fierce charge ol runs east to Sanandres, Villas old Colonel Dodd and his troopers. Then headquarters, thence south to Santa they broke and fled, leaving sixty Ysabel, the scene of Villas massacre dead on the field, including their comof eighteen American mining men, and mander, General Eliseo Hernandez. then southeast through Satevo to Par- Two machine guns, a number ol horses, rifles, ammunition and equip ral, The man who brought the story of ment fell into the hands of the vicVillas arrival at Satevo here gave a tors. circumstantial account of tne bandits Among the known wounded is Pamaneuvers and plan of campaign. blo Lopez, Villas lieutenant in the Co lumbus raid. The American casualties While his story is impossible of veriwere four privates wounded. fication, his own credibility is vouched The American soldiers did rot linfor by reputable American business men here who have employed him for ger on the field of victory. i'or five ! hours", they drove the enemy before .. several, .year:Villa, he said, lias" never taken them into the wilderness of mountain part in any of the fighting- with either peak, desert and canyon, .where, roads American or Carranzista troops. He or even trails are unknown, and left the main body of his troops in the where a misstep means deafh to Guerrero district with orders to oppose horse and rider. They halted only as far as they could the American ad- after the ebase had led them ten miles vance. At the same time the peons from the battlefield and the fugitives were instructed to give information were scattered far and wide in lit i le freely to the American offiers, always bands of half a dozen men each. The scene of Colonel Dodds victory provided that the information was is a broad valley lying at the head false. Rio Santa Maria. On the west WILL SEIZE PARCEL POST. rise the barren foothills of the continental divide and , to the east is a Government of Allies Make Joint Retrail, made famous by Villa, which ply to American Protest. leads through the Laguna de Castilla Washington. The governments of district to the Santa Ysabel. the entente allies, through Sir Cecil It was at the latter place that Villa Spring-Ricthe British ambassador, killed eighteen American mining men, presented to Secretary Lansing a joint a crime which sent a thrill of horror reply on Monday to the protest made throughout the United States and by the United States against the seiz- marked the beginning of what many ure, detention and censoring of neu- believe to be the end of his bloodtral mails. It declared that no legiti- stained career. It was toward Santa mate letter mail had been confiscated Ysabel that he was believed to be nor any treaty rights violated, but em- heading when the troopers of the phatically asserted the allies' inten- United States swept down from the tion to continue searching parcel post north upon his camp. concealed From the meager details which packages for contraband under postal folders. have reached here from Mexican and American military sources. Colonel Evidence Against Germans. Dodds meu made their way unnoWashington. Accumulation by the ticed through the arroyos, or deep of circumstantial state department gulches, which split the foothills in evidence indicting that the Sussex and all directions, and were almost in the other unarmed merchant ships have camp before the alarm was given. been attacked by German submarines Villa is reported to have been in a a willmake necessary probably small tent nursing his injuries when change in the administrations plan the crash of the American volleys for dealing with the broad questions awoke the bandits to of submarine warfare and the arming action. of merchant ships for defensive purThe extraordinary hold the bandit poses. chief has over his followers is shown by the fact that their first thought Turks Sink Russian Transport. Russian trans- was to save him. Unable to walk or Berlin. A 12,000-toride, he was hurriedly placed in a port with troops and war materials light wagon and driven over the rough submaa aboard was sunk by Turkish mountain trails to some secret lair. rine on March 30, the Turkish war ofAfter the battle on the San Geroni-mA surprise fice announced Monday. ranch, the American soldiers rein Arabia attack on British troops leased a large number of General Carcaused them to retreat after they had ranzas men whom the bandit chief suffered heavy loss, the war office was It is probable that it holding. said. also was at the Guerrero massacre that Villa was wounded. Experiment Director Resigns. Staff officers here believe there is of The Utah. resignation Logan, Dr. E. D. Ball, who for the last ten no doubt that Colonel Dodd's army, years has been director of the Utah strengthened before now by men sent experiment station of Utah Agricul- forward by General Pershing, has betural college, was accepted by the gun a driving hunt for the wounded bandit and for the scattered remnant j)oard of trustees of the college at its of his force. It will be no surprise S. Dr. Harris Frank meeting here. now to General Funston and his staff was elected to fill the vacancy. to receive a report at any time telling of Villas capture. News of another Favors Building Program. Washington. The house naval com- battle is not expected, however. The mittee brought to an end Monday its smart blow administered by Colonel prolonged hearings on the 1917 naval Dodd, it was believed here, would appropriation bill. Secretary Daniels serve to deter Villas men from speedy statement before reconcentration. closed a three-daColonel Dodd, who led the troopers the committee with a final appeal in support of the administrations five-ye- that put Villa's followers to flight, is described as a typical Remington cavbuilding program. alry officer. He is 64 years old, but doesnt show it by twenty years. He Ten Killed in Scotland Raid. London. Ten persons were killed rides his horse as though it were a in Scotland in Sun- part of him, and is known throughout the army for his activity in deLieut. Clarence Benson, and eleven injured Second it was He-iThirteenth United States cavalry, who day nights Zeppelin raid, aftemotofi veloping cavalry horsemanship. announced Monday i, man who made the monkey the was wounded In Villas raid on Co- cially There was no casualties in England. f drill a cavalry feature. lumbus, New Mexico. m ! . Chicago-Pittsburg- north-w-est- a - i p v ... ; V k - east-bound- , h n n . : Saloniki Raid Angers Greece. Athens. The Greek government has protested to the central powers against the bombardment of Saloniki. The mayor of Saloniki telegraphed King Constantine, asking that the population of the city be protected against future air raids. The funerals of the victims of the aerial attack were marked by shouts of Down with barbarians and criminals. Lone Bandit Robs Bank. Ventura, Cal. A lone bandit held up the Ojal state hank at Nordhoff, sixteen miles north of here at noon on Thursday, kept Miss Mabel Isenberg, the assistant cashier, covered with a pistol and escaped wtih cash estimated at between $2,000 and $3,000. Immigration Bill Passed. Washington. The Burnett immigration, toil, with its literacy tsts and Asiatic exclusion provision unchanged, passed the house Thursday by a vote Brig. Gen. Robert J. Evans, in com- of 38 to 87. It now goes to the senmand of the second brigade of Infan- ate, where favorable action is regardtry in pursuit of Villa and his bandits. ed as assured. - e panic-stricke- n n y ' s J |