Bisbee daily review., 1904-10-11
(Lordsburg Libe.al.)

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 Last Friday night a car was dropped off the west bound train at Lordsburg, which was filled with children. The children were from the New York Pounding Hospital, on Third and Lex ington avenues. between 6Sth and 69th street. New York, and were, in the charge of G. Whiting Swayne There were forty children in the party, ranging from two to four years, and they were en route 10 Clifton, where arrangements had been made for their adoption. This hospital is a Catholic institution, and the arrangements had been made with the people in Clifton through the Rev. C. Mandin, young French priest, who has charge of the parish during the absence in Europe of the Rev. Father Zimmerman.
 The car was taken to Clifton, where that night sixteen of the children were distributed to the people who agreed to take them. The next morning the remaining twenty-four were taken to Morenci and distributed according to the arrangements made by Father Mandin.
 | This was no more than accomplish ed than a committee of which Superin- tendent Mills was the chairman, call ed on MT. Swayne, at the hotel, and told him the kind of people who had taken the children. Telling him they were of the poorer sort of Mexicans low, immoral, ignorant and too poor to properly care for the children On learning this Mir. Swayne and the nuns who were with him Immediately went out and took back all the chil. dren and lodged them at the hotel Mir. Swayne went to Clifton to see il the children there were in similar families, and to take them back if they were. When he got to Clifton he found his work had been done for him There had been held an indig nation meeting, and the children had all been taken away from the Mexi cans and were assembled at the ho- tel.
 Some of the children bore evidences that they had not been well treated They were not used to diet of chile and frijoles, and many of them were sick Some had been giyeE liquor or beer. and were under it's influence. Mir. Swayne determined to take the children back to the New York home but the people of Clifton had differ ent determination. There was pub lie meeting held at the Library, 70 which MT. Swayne and the priest were invited. As they were under guard they could not decline the invitation. The people were incensed, many were I armed. there was a bucket of tar, a pillow plenty of scTubbing brushes and a rope handy. IL needed little to set the meeting off. and if it had gone wrong Clifton would have been serious ly disgraced.
 It was finally arranged that the children should all be adopted by peo- pie in Clifton. anC MT. Swayne and , the priest were ordered to leave town. They were finally allowed to go to Morenci, where MT. Swayne was to take the children he had left there and return to New York. Howver, the committee changed its mind, and concluded to adopt the children al Morenci.
 Tuesday morning DIr. Swayne and Father Mandin came to Lor6sburg | leaving the nuns to see 10 the distrib- ution of the children. Father Man din went to Tucson. to report to the bishop, and Mir. Swayne went to El Paso, to await the arrival of the nuns. who went down Wednesday, talk ing twenty-one of the children