Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-17
CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO.
 From Hell on Earth.

MB. EDIToE:-Desr Sir-Perhaps your
 readers would like to know how broth
 CT Americans are fGriUg in tbr hands of tine Mexican gattOTity. | MI tsii you.
 tO begin Op, Ve are se, Ug tong time | and that the Mexican I-ison is sell here
 on earth Co Yuu'sh ...i amerieaIs thai
 may by bad luck fall into iEsir hands Or their jail, Or at least 1 taink SO, for
 have been ia their dungeon for s;x
 weeks, where # is 70 Ga that a man could not .oi. a Mexican from dOF
 without fGtl.ng ol ti,m, e.. !eEs. there is not enough for ms t1 iiui1- glIish 1t. But as for uar !siior, ihiUk
 he is 8 good mar, ind would b. "A first class gentlemen if the gov rnnert would allow him tI Dc. He sot.ni 50 dJ al he can for me, all thRs g i. his power. to n .ke me feel thai lnI ss good as 6
 Mexican.
 will try aud describe the vict1sis We ges to eat from the government. For breakfast we get two small pieces of bread and kind O, RTuel, and for din ne- ws get piece of 6eefs head CT Q piece of Jaw bone stswed and bowl of thick bean soup ana toFtlls As there are but few Americans tkA: know what tor.llia is, I will try snd tell them how they are made IL is corn boiled m hne water until it Is soft and h.u Il Is wash ed and mashed out m the shape Ot 6 pancake. For supper we iO on wind and water and l thiuk that i5 about the healthiest and cleBnest meal of the day. They do not salt or pepper anything wt eat oF furnish US anything to seascs our grub with. As for the bed lhey flrnIsh aFh aasI Iaf rN fT.. ..f~ cIn only imagine how Ve rest on Il. You who have been lucky enough to keep from having to sleep On one and L. rock floor 1 will leave the resd3- Co imagine whether our dreams are swset or not, after our days ra,ioDs and a-ih I hall of s gunny sack for & bed. And Bs fer lIce, fieas and chinches hope your med est readers will forgive Ice fOs speaking of them. but us they are the only com paay 1 have, l must mention them. They are large and vicious, especIa.ly after they get little American blood ID them. l sometimes wish l had the strength of John l.. Sullivan SO that 7 could stand bare knuckls go with them, but ss it is, take my boot to the natIOT al heir of MexIc0. as IL Is all the way can get revenge.
 l have always heard that everything was put on earth for some good. but Gs for this vermiD Icau't see for my lie g here any good Can ever come from them. unless it IS for 0 man in Mexican isil tO amuse himself by mur ieriny them. never did want to be & murderer, 1 had much rather no: come in contact with them. Last night when sleeping on my lisils bed I had a dream. l thought ! was trying 10 say the Lords prayer. but all could say was something like thii:
 Oh, Lcrd lay me dosn to sleep,
 While the Rrey-backs over me creep, If one should bite before I awake.
 pray the Lord his jaw to break.
 ! guess my case is little like that O. Old Dog Tray" lie was caught in bad company. That is the wsy with me. and 1 am getting my medicine in overioses. am as innocent Of .he crime of which I | am charged ss the nan in the uoor. I have been ID the dungeon ever sncs the i6th day of January and havs never had lhe liberty of speaking tO mY c IunFel Perhaps they think they are doing right. but 1t there IS any justice m the treat men l sm getting from the Mexican gog- srnment, can't see 1t.
 will ask you to withOli my uGue rom publication, for if ths Mexican au horlties should get hold of 't there is no cling what they would do with me. There i4 To telling when l will get this ut to you. l will have to buy guard Q as to get Is tO the pOst-Oflige-Ei oaso Times.