Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-04

perlnte1cent Slteerr JonESo1s ToNi-
 iy Killed by Mexican-suried at
 Denver.
 The body of Gilbert Johnson, the former representative of Thomas w. Lawson's mining interests in Mexico
 Who was stabbed to death by a Mexi- can peon while trying to save a friend from a murderoUs assault, ar rived in Fl Paso last night, after having beer carried over a stretch rof mountainous country in a manner so remarkable as to be without a known parallel, unless it he the trip of those who brought the body of Boss" Sheperd to Fl Paso over q year ago.
 Johnson was killed, as related ir dispatches tc TFe Times, on July > on tho outskirts lof the mining camp of Urique. Chihuahua. Before his family could be communicated with in Denver Johnson was buried, but when word reached the young engi- neer's mother she ordered the body exhumed and brought to Denver. physician was summoned from the nearest town and rode fifty miles to embalm the body. Then, with twelve men as a funeral cortege and with crudely constructed scaffold for q bier, the lonely tramp was begun through the mountain trailA For five days he body of the dead engi- neer was carried on the shoulders Of the miners, who constituted the volun- l tary pall-bearers.
 The story of the tragedy and of , the remarkable trip with the body i is told by c. R. Ussher. an American | miner and resident of Urique, who !, accompanied the remains to Fl Paso and will continue b Denver, where l. he will deliver the dread burden to a heart-broken mother and sister.
 Rahn, who was manager of Thomas ". Lawson's Mexican mines, had been approached several times by the pecn, Rafael Rocha, who demanded g, which he claimed was due him fer labor performed about the mine. Khan declared that RoCha had re ceiyed all that was due him and re- fused to pay.
 On the night of July ,, when Khan, by Johnson, went to a spring some distance from the camp, they saw the Mexican lying nearby. As Khan stopped down to drink the Mexican rushed at him and dealt him a terrific blow over the head with a -'rb. feliing him to the ground, un- conscious. Johnson interfered, try ng to ward eff the blow and grabbed he Mexican by tiis arm. As they struggled the Mexican drew his knife from his belt and stabbed Johnson three times. infIicting a wound in the groin from which the engineer died the following day.
 When 1t became apparent that the body would have to be moved in with the orders of the relatives, Dr. R. Emerson of Batopilas, formerly of Fl Paso, was summoned to embaim the body, and were begun to carry the body over 25O miles through the noun tains to the nearest railroad point. A scaffold resembling a raft was con structed, a wooden coffin was rudely put together and lined with tin and with the box dramatically sealed and placed in the center of the raft the march was begun.
 The twelve men who accompanied [ the remains divided themselves into two shifts and on their shoulders, talk ing turns about, carried the burden for five days, resting only at night to gather strength for the ensuing day. One hundred and fifty miles were GOV cred in this manner, the little cOrtege making thirty miles a day until the town of Boycona was reached. There
 the body was placed in a wagon, eleven of the volunteer pall-beare.s turning back and the body accompa- nied to the nearest railroad point by Ussher. One hundred miles were
 covered by wagon and after laying in
 Alinaca over Sunday waiting for a train, Ussher accompanied the re mains to Chihuahua and thence on to
 Fl Paso.
 Nine days were consumed in mak
 ing the trip. The body will be car red to Denver today and the long
 wait of the mother and sister will | be at an end. Johnson had been in i Mexico for some months and was con isidered an expert surveyor and min
 ing engineer.
 | Khan, whom he saved from death
 by sacrificing his own life, passed through Fl Paso several days ago, en lroute to Chicago to confer with the
 Lawson interests
 Kocha is in prison at BatoDilas and will have to answer to a charge of murder.