Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-07-30
FATBFUL SINALOA.
MORE COLoNISTS RETURN WITH
TALES OF SORROW.
Death Comes to the Latest Company
to Seek Fortune on the Mexican
Plains "A Pitiful Story.

About eight months ago the REELEC-
TOR gave an expose of the sufferings
endured by the TopolObampO colonists.
1t was the first paper to show up the
true nature of the deceptive Utopia.
Those interested in booming the place
denied the report and bitterly de-
nOuDced the writer, finding no words
severe enough for either. AS result
another colony was gathered and the
deluded members started for the far
away cooperative stamping ground to
share the dismal fate of those gone
before.
These are already coming back and
the La Junta (Colo.) Watermelon gives
their experience EXACTLY tallying with
the REFLECToR's previous expose) as
follows:
"There arrived in La Junta on Mon
day evening, direct from TopOlObampO
Mexico, Mt. Ezra Comfort and his IS
year old son and daughter-in-law, Mrs.
SOrelta Comfort. They are, or rather
were, members of the SinalOa or TOpO-
lobampO colony and were in the party
that passed through this city last fall
in charge of Hen. e. b. Hoffman, of
Enterprise, Kas., and bound for that
Utopia il Greaserland, off the coast of
the Gulf of California, known as
TOpolObampo, where so many nave
gone by the bright glare held out and
decisions of lettering their worldly
condition, only to find rest from dis.
appointed hopes in the tomb of the
great sand hills that reflect back the
heat of a scorching sun that oft times
sets the mercury to dancing at 145
degrees in the sur, which finds little or
no abatement of its powerful force in
the shade. Mr.. Comfort was on his
way to his old home at DelphOs, Otta-
wa county, Kas., which he hoped to
reach with his bOy-whO was suffering
from one of the peculiar and fatal
fevers known to TopOlObampO-before
he breathed his last, so that his remains
could be laid away in the dust of the
stars and stripes, and not under that
of an alien land. Nor was the journey
made any too quickly, as word received
yesterday announced the death Of Mr..
Comforts son within one half hour
after reaching DelphOs. Mrs. SOrelta
Comfort stopped off in La Junta and
is visiting her parents, Judge James
HOffmire and family, but will go to
her old home in Kansas in about two
weeks. Her husband lies buried in
the God-forsaken country of Topolo-
bambO, Died, a young man two
months ago, of raging fever, in that
foreign and sand ridden paradise,
where eight months ago he and his
young bride followed the siren voice of
Hoffman, Owen, ct. al, and realized
the disaster of their lives, There are
about 400 deluded colonists in the little
valley. A common store and a COM
mon fund supplies all. The bosses,
of course get the cream. The water is
so hot that much sickness follows It's
drinking. Ice is unknown. Flour is
$l2 per hundred pounds and is fur
nished by H0ffman's mills at Enter
prise, Kas., and is of the poorest grade.
OF would be called shorts in Kansas
In white mans country. Indians
and Mexicans are abundant but soci-
able. All the tropical fruits are grown
in profusiOn but no market. The
company farm is under the management
of n. ThurstiD, of Hope, Kas., who
has all the isms that can well be
crowded into the human system. He
draws fat salary and is one of the
benefciaries Of the wild cat scheme.
The community deals and believes in
spiritualism, and has implicit faith
and confidence in the sayings, teachings
and utterances Of Messrs. Hoffman,
Owen, Thurstin and other receivers of
tie colony money. The Utopia is a
dream, the dream farce and the farce
numbers many victims"