The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1901-02-07
SANTA TERESA.
JOurneying Around the WOrld-Well
Known in CliftOn-Married
Here.

people, is TO make a tour OF the world
to endeaver to find among the seers o.
Egyrt or India some wise man who car
explain to her the source OF her won
derful healing powers.
Santa Teresa is well known in Cliff
ton, where she cured many. She holds
letters of recommendation from sew
eral citizens of this city aud a number
OF residents can vouch for her curative
powers.
While ia st. Louis the other day she
gave d reporter the following inter
II 40, Is Years I'd L wa. bo,,u in
s'opened Qsxico. Myi mother wis q
Very poor Mexican girl. Her name
was Calletana Chavez, My father was
%ell-to-do. His name is Thomas Urea
am not a legitimate child. My moth
er was only fourteen when | was born.
Ny father has eighteen children and
my mother four. and not one Of them
is my own brother or sister.
''I went to school when ! was nine
years old. but | did not want TO study,
but later felt | wanted to know how
to read, and learned my alphabet
from very, very old lady. My writ
Ing came to me OF itself | wanted to
write, and wrote, but how | learned
don't know, for | was not taught
TN the floor of my mothers house /
nj 1ittl.. Il, the
dust.
"When was sixteen my father sent
FOR me to come into his home. | went
to his hacienda in Cabora. II was an
adobe, the walls inside white and
painted part of the way up as they
paint them in Sonora.
"Thcrc for three months aud ei9h-
teen days | was in trance. | know
nothing OF what | did in that time.
They tell me. those who saw, that
could move about, but that they had
TO feed me; that / talked strange
things about God and religion, and
that the people came to me from all
the country around, aud If they were
sick and crippled and | put my hands
on them they got we'll. OF this re-
member nothing, but when | came to
myself saw they were well.
"Then when could remember again,
after those three months and eighteen
days, felt Il change to me. | could il
/ touched people or rubbed them make
them we'll,
IL felt in me only the wish to do
good in the world. spoke much to
the people about God-not about the
church, or to tell them to go to church,
but about God. | told them what |
believe that God is the spirit of love,
thdt we who arc I'm the world must
love one another and live In peace
otherwise we offend God.
"When | offend | say to the one
whom | have panied: Sister or broth
er, have offended you. | ask forgive
ness
when | cured people they began
to call me Santa Teresa. | didn't like
it at first, but now am used TO il.
~ was married at Clifton ON the 22ud
of last June to Guadalupe n. Rod
riguez. He is a Mexican. | had
known him eight months.
"rhe next day after we were married
lie acted strangely; he tore up some
things of mine, packed up some of my
clothes in bundle, put it over his
shoulder. and said to me: Come with
the. .'
1.-The people who saw him said for
me not to go. hut | followed him. He
walked on the railroad track. did
not know where he wanted To go. but
/ would follow.
"Then he began To run. | ran, too.
He had his gun and started to shoot.
The people ran out and made me come
back. Then they caught him. He was
insane, and they put him in Jail, There
is where he is now"
-----a.-,, loves him 2n --
Eyes, that is why married him."
"And you thought you ought to
msrry?"
ITO marry. senor, is one Of Gods
laws. | did not diSobey.
~ have been charged by the MeNi-
cans with causing the uprising OF the
Yaqui Indians. did not cause them.
| never melted anybody to bloodshed.
"Ten years ago the Mexicans began
to suspect me- They sent officers OF
The government to spy on me. They
asked me what l thought of the gov
ernment and the Indians. told them
the Indians were abused; they were
treated too harshly; they were killed
men, women and children-when
they should only have been mildly pun
ished.
1.-The officers went back and reported.
Then they sent an army of 500 men to
capture me--a poor little lS-year-old
girl.
"They took me from my home. and
to Guaymas, where they held me pris-
oner. They did not put me in Jail, but
in the governors house, in n room
looking out upon a cattle yard.
The mosquitoes ate me; the heat
suffocated me. suffered.
''Then the peOple-my friends-came
and demanded that | be released.
They took me to Cabora, and there |
healed many.
"There were angry mutterings