The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-02-01
BATTLING WITH Poems.
PerilOus Position of Two ST. Louis
ans in Mexico.

Up in H!eJla!ioyuch. in the State Of
Pueblo, HrZicp. 4 wild and InountiinoLs
region. two St Louisaas. Leslie \. Noffe,;.
Jr. and Roy Farrar, together with about
sixty or seventy coffee p-aat3tiOu owners.
are almost daily battling COZ existence
against jreache-.nS p.oHs-workmen whom
they employ on the plantations. The poems
are sIpersuuOGS ABOUT the Americans Sue
20 them. TEe coi1nt5:S com
plain bitterly because Ine Government.
which desires the Development cf the couH-
ny. does not more cfhcieEJly protect The
settlers. They say that = troop OF ruraies
should constantly be CHARTERED in the CO..
cuy. Tc obtain better protection they have
sent a representative 10 see President Diaz
ia the ClFy OF Mexico, and are bringing
which il considered the gateway OF Latin
American commerce..
Eon OF Leslie A.. MoIett Of No 35iS N.sh-
iug-Ol avenue, went 70 Mexico ana fo.aet
the colony o. Americans. The colony
ba-sh. from the Mexican Government .
co square mills % land. and upon this or
gained Il LUmher OF plantations. They
bGilt the town. Of Aetlaltoyuch, which -
row a prosperous place The colony II
reached by a ouFro path from a Su!: port
about g. days journey % the Northeast
The planters axe entirely dependent up
or the pro1S for labor and assistance The
poems axe an ignorant. degraded and super
~Stitio-ia LOT OF people. They are constant
l. armed with revolNers and machetes AMI
shoot upon the siigh.es; prOvocation. The
'-FA VI NiN- NAsAt NAts ~ ht.Atf4
less tEan miraculous 10 the poems and They
regard them with great suspicion. This
often leads 20 outbreaks. and only then docs
The Government send 4 troop OF TrraleS.
The native ut1GutGiu police. who are re-
formed bandits and are empowered to shoot
and XII az discretion. But the ruTalas
always withdraw IS soon as the dis
t.yh3nCe = CUailei and leave the planters
in a greater danger and Disadvantage than
before. What they are trying TO obtain
now ~ y surI OF permanent garrison fo-
their colony. and Trey declare that prog
Tess Will tc retarded unit. tho Mexican
Government does this
The most recent outrage In ;hs American
colony was the shooting OF Il Texan uarnel
Newton. Newton was re;y oCoy and sick
". ana 'ha men Of the colony RAISED 60
20 bay Rim a COW. The animal was pur-
chased and taken 70 the Texans ranch.
They found him lying On the ground dead
He had been shot Ky the poems. As he
had been dead FOR eight days, the colon
lists dug a grave on the spot and buried
him IN a hast!ly-imIrcvi-sd coffin.
This wanton murder stirred the colony
TO action. On Sunday. January -. I'll
COlouists mot IN the town Of NeIlaltoyuch
and decided 10 send = representative g.
President b;az to obtain the guard -
rurales so urgently required. Frank Hop
kins of Wisconsin started for the capita,
the same day. The ST. Lct;isans write To-
Their friends that every member lives i
daily danger of his life. and Nofrett Saws
that he has been told that a party twenty
miles away from their plantation IS open
" threatening TO ssSaSSinate him. TIE
colony is IN daily expectation that the Pres
id,nt will send sufficient protection to mako
their residence comparatively peaceaele.