The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-04
REBELS AGAIN RAID
MORMON COLONIES
Mrs. Miles A. Romney Saved
From Harm by Ten-Year-
Old Daughter.
REFUGEES INDIGNANT
Threaten to Return to Their
Former Homes and Clean
Out the Bandits.
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Ell PASO, Tex, Oct. 3.-Rebels re-
turned to the Chihuahua American col
onles Tuesday night and but for the
presence Of mind of little 10-year- old
girl Of Miles A. Romney would have
succeeded in criminally attacking the
child s mother, Mrs. Romney Of Colonia
Juarez. The rebels rode up to their
house late in the evening before Rom
ney had returned from the town. They
secured Mrs. Romney and attempted to
accomplish their purpose. One rebel
ran after the little girl who hid in the
garret. From there she dropped from
the window to the ground and ran
screaming across the yard for help from
the neighborins colonists. Hearing the
child's screams and thinking it was
posse, the rebels left after looting the
house and barn and taking horses and
saddles.
The raid and attempted attack has
caused much feeling among the Nor
mons in the refugee camps here and
some express themselves as intending
to go back to the rebel-ridden colonies
to protect the few families still there.
Conditions in the Sonora colonies are
even worse. General Augustine San
iines, commander of the federal force
at Aqua Prieta, refused an escort to
the fifteen American Mormons who re-
turned to Colonia Morelos to look after
| their property.
"Mormons have no business in Mex
leo and should stay out,' he told them.
They went without the guard and dis
covered that tho native Mexicans had
taken advantage of General Salazar' 3
the homes in Colonia Morelos which
they claimed and had taken possession
Of all the livestock and crops and
granaries had been opened and all of
the grain allowed to spill on the ground.
The settlers were even driven from
their own homes by the insolent Mexi.
cans.
Fugitive Surrenders.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Oct. 3.-Richard
Diaz, member of the Mexican gov
ernment secret service in the United
States, gave himself up here today on
crossing from Aqua Prieta, Mex. He is
held on similar charge with the Mex
lean consul, secret service chief
and two United States army officers ar
rested in connection with the recent
raidinc Of the hotel Mexico. which re-
suited in a clash of county authorities
with Mexican government men and
United States military authorities Diaz
will be tried with the others Monday.
Fall Confirms Report.
Ell PASO, Tex, Oct. 3.-United
States Senator Fall today confirmed
the report that he had asked William
A. Smith, chairman of tho senate sub
committee Investigating conditions
along the Mexican border, to come to
Ell Paso Immediately.
Mr.. Fall today expressed indignation
over the results of his preliminary In
auiry here The alleged raid on a
Douglus. Ariz, hotel by Mexican Con-
sui Cuesta, his secret service men and
United States army Officers, Senator
Fall said led him to act at once,
Saved From Death.
CANANEA, Sonora, Oct. 9.-Saved
by an acquaintance among the rebels
who captured them, was the experience
of r. p. Stafford, a mining engineer,
and Al Stafford, his assistant, who ar
rived here today. They were captured
by rebels who threatened to make
two less Americans Stafford know
one of the rebels. A parley resulted In
the Americans being freed but relieved
of their horses, saddles and vsluables.