Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-27
SENIOR D1NINCUEz MISSING
Mexican Has Never Arrived Home
from National Corn Exposition.
WIFE UNABLE TO LOCATE HIM
Friends Can ORer No sugEeSttOn es
to His whereabouts or the
Cause of HIS Mysterious
Disappearance.
z~eferino pominguez Is missing.

Zeferino Dominguez Is missing.
The Mexican planter and advocate OF
scientific agriculture for his country, who
presented a solid silver trophy to the Ma
tional Corn exposition in Omaha last year
and was one of the prominent figures in
the enterprise, cannot be located and his
friends in the United States as we'll as
Mexico are mystified at his disappearance.
Registered mail sent Zeferino Dominguez
remains in the postoffice at Puebla, Mexico,
undelivered: letters addressed to him from
Omaha with return cards have COM back
TO the writer's: Sonora Dominguez Is said
to be telegraphing and writing to all those
who knew her husband in the United
States. after waiting for almost three
months to hear from him.
Senior Dominguez left Omaha the last
time the first week in January. He ac-
companied Eugene Funk to his home in
Shirley. nj, after a trip TO Chicago and
to Moline. where he was the guest of
the John Deere P1ow company. After al
most two weeks as a guest of Mr.. Funk,
Senior D~omingUez left hurriedly in re-
sponse to a telegram from Mexico and said
he was going to st. Louis. He has not
been heard from since, and this was three
months ago, about February 5.
Daily Letters From wife.
While in Omaha Senior Dominguez re-
ceived letters ALMOST daily from Sonora
D~ominguez. When he finally left the city
II was after waiting several lays to get a
letter from his home and a remittance from
Puebla. He paid his own day in everything
while in Omaha, though he told friends
that he was not wealthy by any means,
but had only a small income, a large
part OF which it was evident he was de-
voting to the cause OF spreading the gospel
of better corn in Mexico.
After his visit with Eugene Funk, Mr..
Funk said he thought more of Dominguez
the longer he knew him, believed him to
be a genuine and sincere friend of his
people and devoted to the cause Of better
agriculture for the republic on the south.
This was the impression which all got
who knew Dominguez for the short time he
was in Omaha.
In Mexico he is referred to as a "philan-
thropist," by some OF the leading maya
zines, among them being 'Industrias Mex.
i~canas.'
II II n PuKsle.
What would cause Senior Dominguez Il
/, absent himself from Puebla, where he was
/ farming 1,bO acres OF land, being only
a small part of what he held, according
to Mexican newspapers, is a puzzle tC
those who know the Mexican planter.
OF Zeferino D~ominguez other Mexlcan'
who attended the National Corn exposl
ton. spoke in the highest terms. He wal
said to be generous with his friends in hi
eagerness TO promote better agriculture
and the only explanation which has beer
offered by any who know Senior Dominguez
is that he might have become temperate,
involved in financial difficulties which h,
is now endeavoring to clear up among
friends which he is said to have In Mexico
City. s1-s
He left" says Mr.. Funk, 'somewha
agitated after receiving q telegram" -.
He has not arrived ihAPuebIa, his home
says the postmaster down there.