Bisbee daily review., 1912-09-25
M0RMONS TELL OF MANY WOES
AS the Days Pass Their Sad Condition Becomes More Apparent
 to All
SADNESS EVERYWHERE

As the days pass the sad situation in which the unfortunate eolonists find themselves is apparently aug mented to them. Many of them seem to have lost hope. and dispair is depicted on their countenances. Especially is this true of the older members of the colony.
 A visitor at the camp cannot but be deeply moved by the tales of woe and suffering. The grievances of each family has a distinction from that of the others, although | the trouble is mutual in the ab- stract-the loss of property and home and all.
 An Aged Family. | One family is composed of a hus- l band so years old, wife apparently | five years his junior, and two sons who are young men.
 They owned a good ranch upon which the sons had been raised. There they had planned well for advancing years and rainy days. The boys were large enough to do the work of the farm and support the old folks and at the same time lay up a competence for themselves when the time came for leaving the old home, although one of them isI Iafflicted with epilepsy. The father has a cancer on one of his lips which is quite well advanced. But they were so situated they could live in comparative ease on the farm. notwithstanding these physi- , cal calamities
 We had the best prospects for good crops this year we had ever , had" said the comedy wife to the ! visitor. "The boys had worked hard , all summer and We were looking , forward to a happy winter. But D the rebels came. They killed our chickens and shot all but one of our milch COWS, leaving their car, Icasses to rot in the sun. They took all but one team of horses and everything else we had on earth all our vegetables, canned fruits feed and everything, and made us leave our home never to see il again. We got to Douglas with one team and one COW. The COW we had to leave on the Mexican side because we did not have the money to pay duty. We are old and my afflicted son has been worse since we arrived here. Life looks darl and forlorn to us now" At thi' juncture in the story she broke down with sobs, the tears dampen ing her wrinkled face. And before she resumed her story the afflicted son fell into an epileptic fit, ant the brother and father and mother directed their attention to him al he lay on an old piece Of carpe on the ground floor of the tent in paroxysms of pain.
 The tent they occupy Is small They have few of the necessities or life, no bed or cot and sleep or the ground. They have a smal old stove and upon this severa families do cooking with mesquit, which they haul from the prairi, nearby. These quarters are typica of the majority of the temporar! abodes of the refugees.
 Another Sad Picture.
 Another tent contains a husband and wife and the father and mothei of the husband. The latter arr about 65 years old They had 1; fine home, we'll stocked, goot crop. plenty of fruit and vegetables lots of chickens, household comforts etc. The young man had married daughter of one of his neighbo colonists but two weeks before thu rebels drove them from their home When, they heard the rebels wer, near and realized the necessity O leaving. the young mans wife an, father and mother fled for Agu; Prieta, and he stayed on the farn to finish canning the abundance O fruit they had picked and to other wise prepare to take some of tn provisions with him when he Jeff He worked night and day and hat a number of hundreds of quart of fruit canned ready for the trir Just the night before he was t have departed in the morning tn, rebels came. They took the las team of horses, killed all the chick ems on the place and left them t rot. They poured 100 gallons O sorghum molasses on the grouni and into this mixed all the stool feed he had, bran. chopped feed. etc They shot mileh cows down befor his very eyes and even murdere' his faithful shepherd dog. Then