Arizona republican., 1901-09-21

state of ZacatecaS to write up the sil- yer mines that were just then having a
 boom I chose the capital of the state as headquarters, and put up at the Zacatecano hotel, not two blocks from the old penitentiary. As I walked
 daily to the postofiice I took to watch ing the windows of the great prison,
 and tried often to determine whether the faces I saw through the bars were white or copper colorcd. and cne day I
 was ready 10 swear that I saw q han l | waving through the bars in one of the fourth story windor~ Long
 watched to assure myself of the truth of this. and then l hastenei to the hotel for my field glasses holding my hat aloft as I ran.
 With my glasses I saw a country
 man at the prison window signaling me to come to him. It didn't take me iong to act. My paper was a power in that | country just then. for through it's col
 umns many of the state officials hoped to exploit their 'ring enterprises. The governor. old Rodriguez. was es- pecially anxious to keep in with the press and what was more he belonged to the Casino, one of the wealthiest clubs in the state, and I had been his guest there. This means a great deal in Mexico. A Mexican will do very near anything for hie guest.
 "I called on the governor that eve ming at the palace. He was just starting for the club, as I expected and invited me to accompany him. needn't go into the whole thing. It's enough to say that I visited the peni- tentiary the next day with a letter that passed me through every door in the place So far as I could learn I was the first visitor seen within those walls for many years. The officials were dumfounded. They looked from my let ter to me and then at each other. Then they put their heads together and talked. After a few minutes enc of the guards started with me through the prison.
 T found Jones in little cell on the fourth story. When he saw me and heard my voice he acted like a wild man and would not be satisfied until I had been admitted to his cell. There he fell on my neck and wept like q child. It was twenty minutes before the poor fellow was abie to talk and even then he spoke slowly and halting- ly, like one who uses T language a,nbst forgotten. Jones story was the most Iitiable recital I ever listened to. He had nevsr so much as been before justice. On the word of few peons he 
 seven years without any semblance of trial. He had never written q letter in seven years; had never seen q news paper or d magazine. nor had he ever spoken q word of English except to himself.
 Prom Jones story knew that in his own home in California he had been q person of some note and this decided me in laying out my future plans. The first thing I did was to communicate th Senator William Hearst of Cali fornia. The senator had left Wash ington when my letter arrived and it followed him to San Francisco. II took a month for him to get around to that letter. He referred it to the state department. and the way that James G. Blaine did hustle that case was caution. In exactly twenty days after my letter actually reached the state de- partment Jones was a free man and was on his way to California. Some day when he needs money Jones :s going to write a book about his life in the penitentiary at Zacatecas."- Kansas City Star.