Seize Ammunition Shipment.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 17, 1913:
More Than 448,000 Rounds of Cartridges Taken at El Paso.
    EL PASO, July 16.— United States officers assisted by Mexican Consular agents captured the largest consignment of contraband ammunition ever taken here when they discovered four Mexicans covering with coal boxes containing 448,000 rounds of rifle cartridges which they had placed in a car in the Santa Fé Railroad yards. To-day the prisoners, who are of the laboring class, were arraigned before the United States Commissioner. An American, who is thought to be the leader of the smuggling party, escaped.
    The ammunition is believed by the officer to have been a shipment for Gen. Francisco Villa, and destined to a border point near Columbus, N.M. The estimated value of the cartridges is $20,000. An American business man from Chihuahua, who passed through Villa's camp at Ascencion, said the Constitutionalists had 100 well-drilled and thoroughly equipped cavalry. Villa told the American that his intention was to assail Juarez within, ten days. One of Villa's officers, who left El Paso to-day, said the intention of the rebels was to join forces south and southeast of Jaurez for the attack. In that case the fire would be directly toward El Paso. The defenses placed by the Federals at the western outskirts of Jaurez, consisting of barbed wire "trochas" and rifle trenches, is the reason given for the change of the rebel plans. Jose Parra and his son, leading a detachment of the independent forces under Maximo Castillo, were captured and executed Sunday, together with eight other men, by one of Villa's scouting parties commanded by Porfirio Talamantes after a fight at Casas Grandes, according to an American rancher who reached here to-day. Parra was reported as having been on a looting expedition among the Mormon colonies in the Galena district.