The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-02-05

Notwithstanding the sufferings created
by intense nervousness and an unsatisfed
craving for the narcotic, | withstood all
temptation and feel grateful to that kind
doctor to this day.
But not to him alone. Many indeed are
those, officers and enlisted men, whose
names are engraved in my memory i'll
deep lines of affection and gratitude for
the forbearance and kindness they have
shown ME, thus contributing towards max
ing my three years service with the
Regulars in Arizona" q period of almost
unalloyed happiness.
My comrades who left Tucson few
days previous 20 my discharge for their
muster-out at Wilmington Drum Bar
racks, Cal, came one and all to the hos
pital TO say good-by.
On Sept 1G | started on the blackboard
of the mail rider, my friend and comrade,
William Burns, to Camp Wallen, where
my friend, Leslie 3. Wooster, had the hay
contract for that year, in which l was
financially interested.
u never married Eulalia. A short time
after my last visit to Santa Cruz Mr..
Warner was stricken down with severe
attack of pneumonia and was taken to the
hospital at Camp Crittenden. few
months after his recovery he was attacked
and seriously wounded by Apaches or the
read from Santa Cruz to Magdalena, So
nora, and was taken to Tucson for surgical
treatment, which was protracted for i
long period, the wound being very compli-
Gated. He ultimately recovered. but with
the loss of all power and motion in his right
arm. During his extended absences from
home Lieut.. Reyes sought and obtained
the hand of Miss Eulalia in marriage from
her mother.
In 1885 was employed by the Mexican
Government to establish public schools in
the State of Sonora. While performing
this. service ut the town of Magdalena
was suddenly aceOsted on the street by Pc
dro Urguides, the former ma or-domO of
Mr.. Warner, then occupying the same pO-
sition with Lieut.. Reyes, who had quit
the army and was farming an extensive
hacienda upon the lands of San Lazaro.
Pedro said that he had brought his poor
master to the town in which we were that
he (Nr. Reyes might be examined by Il
skillful Spanish Surgeon who was there
looking at some hot springs: that Mr..
Reyes was evidently a very sick man, al
though nobody could discover the source
of his malady, which manifested itself
principally through insomnia, melancholy,
and loss of appetite. l went with Pedro
to visit the patient, and found an aged
lOOhllS, DrOheH-uOWu uldii. WITH SistSSy
eyes, sunken cheeks. wrinkled skin, sad,
listless, and totally indifferent to his sur
roundings. Pedro had cautioned me not to
mention his wife Eu!alia.
"Don JUAN" he had said to me; at was
an unhappy marriage, an ill-sorted union.
Soon after the first child was born Donna
Eulalia took TO drinking mescal-soon to
excess 0is voice began to tremble' here);
then she-oh, Don Juan, how can l tell
you?-then-she went to the bad-in an
other way-and'-
Here Pedro broke down and wept.
wept with him out of pity for the sweet,
broken flower, TIE love Of my early youth.
Pedro took Mr.. Reyes home after the
doctor declared that he could do nothing
for the patient, as the disease was caused
by mental disorder.
Next weeks mail brought me a postal
card from Pedro. 1t read:
"Lieut. Reyes shot himself through the
heart this morning.
yours,
PEDRO URGUIDEs."
FThe End)