Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1914 — OUTLAW GENERAL IN A $1O,OOO HOLDUP [ARTICLE]

OUTLAW GENERAL IN A $1O,OOO HOLDUP

Quaveda Demands Sum From American Gattie Company—>l,ooo,ooo In Cattle May Die of Thirst. El Paso, Tex., May B.—The demand of General Rodrigo Quevedo that three large American cattle companies give him sums aggregating SIO,OOO under threat that he ulould destroy the windmills on their land, has not been complied with. When the time limit fixed by Quevedo expired at sundown tonight, the money had not been left, as he directed, at a lonely hacienda near Nogales, Ariz. Instead the three cattle companies have made pressing appeals for protection to General Villa, General Carranza and W. J. Bryan, American secretary of '.state. It is estimated that if the windmills are destroyed a million dollars worth of cattle would die of •thirst within a week. "Quevedo formerly was a brigadier general in the Mexican regular army and still is said to maintain a nominal alliance to Huerta. When Chi-, huOlhua passed into possession of the constitutionalists, it i/said he escaped across the border, where he recruited a band of deserters and refugees and led them back into Chihuahua.