Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-22

! JeWeis Conduct in Mexico Is Said to Have Not Been Such as to War
 rant His Welcome in Social Circles.
 Jewell May Yet Be Alive.
 The recent publication of sensation. al articles concerning the disappear. ance of Luther H. Jewell from Mazda lena, Mexico. gives interest to the following letter giving information concerning the incident to the Amari- can consul at Magdalena. by one of the prominent business men of that city:
 Magdalena, Son. July II. 1905. Louis HOstetter Esq. American Con sul Hermosillo.
 Dear Sir:-YOur favor of the tenth inst. asking me for what Information l could give you regarding the disaD- pearanee of Mir. Luther H. Jewell ic at hand
 As to tho fact of his disappearance about the first of last May. I can give you nothing, but what is already gen erally known. It is understood. that he is interested in some mining pros poets near Llano a station on the So- nora railroad. thirty miles south of { Magdalena; it is known that he start ed out to visit one of these prospects. but as he had no near friends in the camp, his disappearance was not noted nor commented upon, until several days had passed.
 Then the authorities here and at St. Ana, the latter the town to whose municipal Jurisdiction LlanO belongs. were notified. Investigations. such as are possible in thinly populated and desert country were made. and these Tod in Nnrr ,see- ..g Juan FenOchiO. who is in command of the custom house reserves (Gendarme- ria Fiscal) of the Sonora and Lower California district. by Lieutenant Colo nel kosterlitzky. who sent out several detachments of men on horseback to SCOUT the country for traces of Jewell. Later on a judicial investigation was made at LlanO station by the judge of Santa Ana. the district judge of Mag dalena and the prefect later concur ring. The charge made by Garcia a drunken. worthless person. that he saw Colonel Moore with two of his Yaoui miners, was not supported by any ad- ditional evidence, to the contrary it was completely disprOTen. the ash heap which he pointed out. as being the place where the body was inciner- ater containing no trace of animal matter.
 Now. as to the gratuitious and foul insinuations thrown out in the Hermo- sillo report of the Los Angeles Exam iner. justice to my neighbors and to one of the most honorable gentlemen in the repubhc, Colonel Fenochio, com. pels me to utter some statements of facts. which do not reflect very pleas antly on Mir. Luther H. Jewell. disap- Ipeared. As to the transaction regard ing the distillery Colonel Fenochio re fused the money offered him. because it appeared to him more in the shape of a bribe to leave the remaining share holders in the cold. As to Mir Jewell being turned away from a ball given by some families in Magdalena, in the first place he had not received a pro per invitation and in the second place his manner of waylaying respectable ladies and addressing them as if they were prostitutes. had caused. days pre- viOus to the ball, some public indigna. tion, and the action of MT. Persa whose wife had been one of the suffer CTS will not be wondered at; that after being turned away from the ball and becoming in company with some bro ther boon companion. somewhat noisy he was arrested by a policeman, is al so nothing strange. Moreover he was released by order of the president al- most before he reached the jail. To state, as in the correspondence from Hermosillo referred to. that Mir Jewell was the victim of conspiracy in Mad dalena and of sinister whisDerings as to the conspirators, in Sonora, is worse. a calumny and has its only ex- planation in the desire of certain needy persons to make a dollar. even if it is pandering to the necessities of yellow journalism.
 l forgot to mention the appearance here of Colonel Jewell the brother of LutHer H., in the latter part of May to make investigations This gentleman can certainly not complain that the au- thorit;es failed to give him assistance As stated above, Colonel KosteTlitzky under instructions of his commanding officer. Colonel Fenochio. sent out men at Colonel Jewells indications even for long distances into the Altar dis. trict, and it must be borne in mind . that this was an entirely voluntary act, police duties not belonging to the GUS tom house department Further. more the local judge at Santa Ana and other men were placed at his disposal ] and carried by him all over the coun try during the hot and dry spell and SC anxious were they all to serve him that the judge. who was poorly mount ie ed. came near to famishing by thirst As to Colonel Jewell offering a reward of $500 - is true. he published one; but it is also true that he failed tC make tnis reward secure by depOsitins the amount either with the authorities any responsible bank or even in yOul consulate. Piease correct me if ] an in error.
 will conclude with stating that Ont rumoT. the correctness of which is un der investigation. and this is not the first time that Mir. Luther B. Jewel has disappeared; he is said to have played the vanishing act some years ago and later turned up in Alaska. Be sides it has happened before, and iI ? communities not Mexican. that people