Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-23
THE BsbEE REVIEW ARIZONA SUNDAY MoRNG MAY 2 1909

!, BiSBEE, ARIZONA, SUNDAY another disaster overlook them. Att no time in it's history had the country borne such glorious fruits.
 Agriculture, stock raising and prim- tive mining were carried on with splendid results and the community was prosperous.
 Fronteras at that time numbered about 4000 people. not including the prosperous population of the valley.
 One sullen summer afternoon a portentious silence prevailed. The air suddenly grew thick and stifiing. A tremble was felt. a crash came, a mighty crevasse was formed in the earth. cutting squarely through the old adobe fertilization on the hill. This volcanic crack can be traced for sixty miles today in an easterly and westerly direction from Fronteras to the Lucky Tiger mine.
 Along with rumerous fatal casual ties 1t taI-ped and drained the water supply of the Fronteras valley. the accompanying picture of three of the old, deluded oo'fonwoods conveying some idea of tie change.
 Again the ,ale~ must be abandon cd. For many years drouth, desola- ton and decay obtained where the happy pcpulat on once lolied in prim-
 tive luxury. Then it would seem that the lower labyrinths of the great vol canic crack had become filled. and the water aga'n began to appear on the surface. Immediately the people returned and went to work. and today the valley is swiftly taking on a splendid rehabilitation. with smiling fields, an abundance of water, soil of the rarest quality and ready mar ket to both the north and south for every staple product of the earth. The land as yet is largely cultivated by Chinaman. the Mexicans being too tired and the American inexper enced under such cordiaions. it falls on the patient, systematic, never-tir ng "Chink'' to bring forth fruits from the soil. All of this will shortly bt changed however -hen the Amer can is given an opportunity to go on t1n' land with a good title and handle il in his own way.
 The Tnibofet incident
 Perhaps the most peculiar and tragic incident identified with the modern history of Fronteras was the Tribolet episode.
 Tribolet owned a ranch two mites north of Fronteras. He was a power among the local Mexican population and authorities.
 He was master of their methods. an apt student of local customs, he had gathered in a liberal supply shekels and was considered a power in the land
 In the year 1895 the Guggenheimer rs operated a small smeltef at Nacoarri Veijo, six miles south of the present city of Nacozari, the camp of the Moctezpuma Copper company. The Guggenheimers were operatirss pn the great Pilares de Nacozari chal- ccpyrite copper mine. which they subsequently sold to tine Moctezuma Copper company. a branch Of the Phelps-Dodge system. The stage was known to carry the pay from Bisbee down to Nacozari V'eio for the em. ployes of the Guggenhe'mer smelter On this occasion it transpired that TTiboet conspired with the presidente of Fronteras to intercept and hold up up the stage and take in the pay roll which only amounted to six thousand 'dobe dollars, which at that time were worth about 90 cents.
 Relying on their strength in official 1 other circles, TFiblotet and the presi dente of Fronteras employed ssji5I ss;sji5iI hexicans to do the work
 On the date appointed this work was carried out so effectually at a 1 po'nt on the Arispe road On the Gu | chuta ranch about SIX miles south ci Fronteras that six thousand dobes were captured and Moreno. the driver ! was killed This wodld amount tC one thcusan 'obes for each man. In the stage at the time was q ' ''tenderfoot" connected with the Gug senhe,naer company. who made swift run when the ho,dup occurred. He went across to the headquarters of the Cuchuta ranch and pad Mexican 2 fat sum to cary him on horseback | across the line 10 Bisbee Arriyir.q | at Bisbee, he never stopped to retir, or rest until he set the wires on fire
 He communicated every detal of ths | NhOle tTdnsacIOn as ne naQ observed | it to the Guggenheim agents in tce City of Mexico. They in turn handed the matter over to President Diaz, tn, i Bismarck of Mexico.
 | The president wired the parctular.
 to the governor of Sonora, with in
 structions to forward adv,ces to tn, l local mil tary officers at Arispe tt f proceed immediately to apprehend al
 suspected parties, give them a tria!
 and if guilty of any complicity in tn,
 affair whatever give them the "fusi
 lar The governor of Sonora ad yised the president that there was powerful and influential American
 implicated as well as strong local of
 c'als, and timidiy suggested thafit the, mad better be careful
 | Strict orders along the same lin,
 were repeated in manner that clear ly int mated that the governor wa
 supposed to cary them out CT fac
 consequences. z Il All this time Tribolet and the pres
 idente of Fronteras were breathin;
 easily and lounging in every sense O