Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-15

bic resources ~ the surrounding coun-
try, II requires neither a prophet nor
the son n prophet to forctcll The
three considerable rivers that empty
into Cienfuer0a hay-the Cunudo,
saiudo and Danaie, ench navirnhle
some distance iniand-are Of great
consequence In a land 10 destitute
Of good roads. Hrl1ie-pathg run
on IN Oh directions. toward Santiago
ON the east Trinidad ON the west and
villa Clara on the north, connecting
with the rohher- infested trails Of the
history. too frequently stated, 90 need
repetition here. that since time ont q
mind bnudltu have made these trails
useless Tor any business purpose. but
their own. Even since the war and
American occupation. travellers have
been captured BY knights of the Road
and held Tor ransom, and q fcw years
ago n was 20 common an occurrence
na hardly 20 onuao comment. Terrible
tales are told Of
ToRTuREs INFLICTED
BY tho robbers upon those whose
friends failed 70 pay promptly the sums
demanded. Perhaps finger. an eye,
or ON ear of the captive would arrive
hy special post. as q gentle hint tn his
relatives " what might be- expected 10
happen next unless the money was
or portions of the Victim. until IL was
known beyond doubt that there was
not enough lcft OF him to be worth pay
irr fur The last authenticated case
of THIS sbrt wuH that OF scnor Manuel
dc Alvarez. merchant OF villa clara,
who started fnr CicufucEoa with "a
small escort presumably 10 buy goods.
Not one ~ the party lived Co reach hin
destination. Most OF tho oacurt We're
killed In the FIRST brush with tho rob-
beers. and the others deliberately muir
doryd. being poor men from whose rol-
ntlvcH no ransom could be obtained, as
even these gentry recognize the truth
NJ the Old saying that blood cannot be
squeezed from "a turnlp. After ~ few
days Senior Alvarez family received "a
written demand for twenty thousand
posaH, cmbcilishcd with drawings OF
skulls and cross bones worthy the ku-
kluN Khan. accompanied by the nssur-
ance that unless tho money was de-
posted In n specified place before
given date his lie would pay the for-
felt A week later a stranger knocked
az the door ~ the casa de Alvarez. In
villa. delivered 10 the wife Of the
prisoner small box. and gall
l1ped away opening the package, with
her hnby IN her arms, what WAS
the lndy'H horror Co ind inside
two toes ana i've bloody ilngcr-nnils,
evidently torn from thclr roots, nnd %
note signed by her husbands name.
BEGGING HER
Tor Gods sake 10 rescue him nt any
cost Tho distracted woman ana her
best 90 rcll the store and an she pos
Fcsscd, but nobody was buying proper
~ iu those troubled times. She begged
on her knees OF the Alcalde. nnd cv-
uryb0dy she know: but the people were
all Hu poor that hor frantic appeals
could not raise u 1.-THE OF the sum de-
mnndcd. Meanwhile, every day or two
brought Nomc another rrurHome re-
mindor OF the unfortunate husband
and fnthcr-inuyhe found In the morn
ing myHtcrlouily tied TO tho door
knocker, or tossed through the window
| bars az the family sat NJ dinner. An
| Cyo arrived IN this manner, "a foot an
arm; una Wien 90 length "a CHASTITY hui
man head. proppcd up on stick