New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-17
4 LADS LONG AND M0UKYFUL JOURNEY
FROM DENVER TO GUATEMALA WITH HIS FATIIEEs
RonY-RFMARKAnLE pUsINtss rACr.

FROM DENVER TO GUATEMALA WITH HIS FAIIlEEs
BoDY-REMARKABLE BUSINESS rAcr
There came to this city short time ago, boy OF
tender years, who, in the discharge OF mission
unusual in one young, had performed "A Journey,
remarkable not only from the distance travelled,
hut from its attending Circumstance Pablo Vas
coucelas the lad in question, was visited day
or two ago at an uptown clearinghouse
freaueuted by persons of Spanish race. II" is only
tweivc wears old. small and delicate, win pale
face slightly frecked. and remarkably hgl lore
head. He ~ Il "A nervous temperament ana -hoWs
great natural brightness. He was attended only
by stolid Indian servant, boy about hllr"l or
Al teen wears of age Pablo had in charge the dead
hody of his father, who died in Denver. aud "a on
his way home with il. The boys father waS sehnr
Jose NJ Vasconcclas, Minister ~ Public lnstruc
ton in Guatemala. during the adn'ni4tratlen at
President Miguel Garcia ttranadoS. natter lst-
tnu for ten yea q. closed four years agn,
Senior Nasconcelsa was man Of pinptty nnl
good standing in Mexico, aud wae on" ol the rni-
mission. consisting of four Americans snh tpnr
Mrrtrana which drew tho huundtt! linn hctw"rn
tho Mpsran pua=saanna pf Old California aud THO
conquered province which now FORMS the state ~
tslifofn,a, lle was minins snaino"t 70, r''iis-
aian aud waA interested IN SOM" mh
ing ing. nts IL a. S''p %s.a a aSa w. -
wheeled about 10 chair while attending - hs
| dutlea, Latte Pablo hid 'rompihind hla tithnr
| III His journey for about veal past, N''"is a.
| eoneeiaa remaining al home 10 manage hes aus
On July - the father died of paral' O. sToke ,
al the American HOUSE N DehNril hlAfT ~ h'h
| II two days. Pablo, with thought
| fulmess beyond his years, took charge
| at his fathers money and Valuhhlr'I
| and, after having the body emoalmed, arranged
| for it, transportation to New-iork where ms only
relative is "A sister sixteen years Old at school ~
! the Convent of the sacred Heart, IN Manhattan
! VILE According to the best accounts that could
| obtained from Pablos Spanish friends, he iuacb 81
| here the last of July. Before starting he teie
| graphed to this city BY what tram ne
| should leave Denver, and some OF the
| spanish residents met him at the depot mere
mt the little fellow would neither eat nor rest I'M
| til he saw the box containing his fathers body
| safely stored at an undertakers in Fourth-aye'
He secured receipts for all money paid ont by HIM
| In connection with his journey. The strangest
thing is that neither he nor his ., ser ser
| want can speak word of English. PABLO
| managed to make himself understood by
| signs. In speaking of his father, Pablo becc ms
restless and excltable. HIS friends speak of II IS
! an extremely strange thing that notwithstanding
| all he has done IN the matter he does not seem e.
realize that his father is dead and tries TO console
his sister by telling her that their father i only
asleep" He imagines that he has heard HIM Sigh,
| aud saws that he knows he would c0me and
| speak 10 them If he were not In that box"
When a TRIBUNE reporter saw tie boy, az VI
Irving Place he was expecting to start for Mexico,
| 10 see General BerrioZabal, who IL named az
executor of senior Nasconceas s. esta ate On ms re-
| turn his fathers body will be forwarded 10 Qua
! temala