Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-31
-DlAZ RISE
His Story Like a Romance o'
 Feudsl Days

There is no more sturdy, interest ing or picturesque figure than For firio Diaz, just deposed as president of the Mexican republic.
 Hero of more than fifty battles' fought at the head of his men, lead- CT of desperate charges and defend CT of forlorn hopes, six times held prisoner and each time escaping by the narrowest hazard, his career reads like a tale of an ancient cru sader.
 He was born in the city of Oaxaca in the south of Mexico on Septem' Der 5, 1880, and inherited from his mother a strain of aboriginal blood, her grandmother having been Aix- teca Indian.
 His parents wished 10 educate him for the church. After finishing with @ primary school at z, he served as errand boy in a store until he was s years old, and from that time until he was 14 he studied in the semin- ary. From 14 to IT he was obliged to support himself by tutoring. and at that age he volunteered for the war with the United States. but was not sent to the front. The young churchman then decided to be a law yer, and after four years course he entered the law office of Juarez.
 Soon after he served in the revolu- ton against Santa Ana, at the close of which he became mayor of Ixtlan, and established a military force there with which he overthrow Garcia, who had issued a pronunciamento in Oaxaca.
 Later he became captain in the Ma tional Guard and crushed the rebel lion of Jamitepec. In the war Of the reform Juarez gave the young officer control of the district of Tenuante- pee, where he not only held his own in the tield but commenced to put in practice his ideas of public edIica- tioh and good government. Then fol- lowed a number of campaigns ! re- ceding the invasion ot Mexico by France England, and Spain of 1862, when JUarez sent him 10 the front to hold back the invaders while he should gather forces in the interior, and on May ,, 1862, he won the splendid rattle of the Cinco de Mayo against the trained EuroTean sol diers of Lorencez. After the heroic defense at Puebla, he was obliged 10 capitulate to the superior forces of the French, but he refused to take parole with the other officers and sCon escaped from prison.
 At this iuncturs President Juarez offered to make Dim secretary of war, but Diaz declined the honor on the ground that he was too young a man for such a promotion. but lat CT he was forced to yield to Juarez solicitations and became command- erin hief of the army and general of division.
 Again the combined forces of Eng land. France and Spain were conceu- trated uTou him, ana Bazaine took the field against him in rersou. Once more Diaz was obliged to surren der to greatly superior forces. Again he escaped his jailers by sealing the prison walls, and got away with a reward Of S1O,0O0 on his head. For two years more he carried on a guerrilla warfare with the invaders in the northern part of Mexico. during which he had many hair breadth esc3res. Then he appeared in the south again and recaptured hIs native city of Oavaca. Gathering forces as best he could. he advanced on Puebla. and on April 2, 1867. made a desperate assault against the city and scored his greatest bat tie in capturing it.