Bisbee daily review., 1912-12-03
COl. CH|APA IS
 NOW IN D0UGLAS
Fighting Prefect Who Was Prominently in Limelight During Revolution Is
 Shelter Boss
Is LONG IN PRISON
(By W. H. Loomis)

ent employed in Douglas in charge of a gang of laborers at the Queen smelter, having decided to remain In the United States until he can see an opportunity to render ser vice to his own country.
 It may be that the border press was rather severe on the colonel at the time of his active service in defense of the old Diaz government and of his splendid efforts 10 re- sist the progress of the Madero rev olution.
 Plenty of Americans now have reason to wish that Mexico had yielded many others as faithful as he in support of the grand old man who had made Americans so wei come and so safe in their many enterprises in the sister republic, and regret the bouquets that were tossed over the line in encourage ment of the great reformer who has never protected any foreigner since hs esss:Ese :seSS ::se.SS rower, and who even spoke against the Americans and declared in more than one speech to his men that he was supporter of tht doctrine. Mexico for the MexIcans."
 The Diaz government was good at its fountain head. but its long duration had seen the establishment of little dynasties, of petty prefects and local officials whose bearing toward the common people wss practically ntoleraDle, these orrl- cials having no scruples in using and abusing their power for the sole benefit of their own family bunch. and sons. sons-in-law and nephews always were to be found in favor in the little district capi- tals.
 When the great test came in So- nora, and those at the crib were called upon to do something for the authority back of them, the power to which they owed the favors they enjoyed, all these grafters hunked and fled.
 chispa Struck.
 Col. Chiapa, prefect of the dis trict of Moctezuma, was the only one in the whole bunch who was not terrified at the thought of hay ing to fight, but he alone began a most strenuous campaign in loyal support of the government which had made him, and whose pay he had enjoyed, recognizing his moral obligation to help 1t in it's time of need, and so we'll did he establish and maintain a prestige as a fight ing man that the mere name, "Chiapa," was enough to stampede the enemy.
 Much has been written of the Talamante incident at Salmaripa, but whether Col Chiapa ordered those executions or whether he sim ply carried out orders from a su- perIor is of little importance, as he found there that the most horrible abuses of warfare had been commit ted, perhaps not with the consent of the Talamantes bunch, but as a direct and logical result of their raid.
 One little daughter of a promi- nent citizen of Nacari, who was visiting the family of the cowardly prefect of Salmaripa, who fled, de, sorting his family to their fate, was ravished by that bunch of toughs who followed Salamantes, and her enraged father, who soon learned of the crime, voluntarily attached himself to the command of Col Chiapa and went with him in much of the campaign
 Endured Cruelty.
 When the end came and the Dia1 government was no more. the new administration. in full keeping with its general line of blunders, in carcerated Col Chiapa instead O recognizing in him, most valuable citizen. and then began a year ana a half Of suffering. danger, insul and abuse, the recital of whicl would seem rather to belong to tn dark ages.
 All through these dark days ther was one who never failed him, am who took her snare of all his sui ferings and humiliation--that on was his faithful wife. a lady Q culture and fine musical taleni She eheered him by wor through inc bars whenever 'poss
 bic. She worked constantly by a fhe fnfiuence she could bring