Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-23
.JO CONNORS' SEARCH
 FOR MEXICAN HEROES
 LANDS HIM LEGLESS
Arizona BiOgrapher Returns Here Minus Artificial Limb After Thrilling Adventures EnCOun- tered Over the Border.

mciently protected in Mexico He re, turned from that war torn republic by the way of san Francisco yester- day morning stripped of all his world ly good, one leg and a part of a foot His experience was livelier and more unique than that of any man that has been heard from
 Still, Mir Corners cannot be heard to complain very loudly Though not exactly combatant, he was a semi combatant, occupying the position of the Trumpeter in the fable, though he did not fight, he melted others to battle
 He went to Mexico nine weeks ago to prepare a work on the Heroes of Mexico" along the same general line as Who's Who in Arizona" which he produced here some three years ago The Villa party being in the as cendancy, he, Mir. Corners, believed that more heroes could be found in that faction SO he allied himself with l it. Instead of opesating on specula. tion or commission he was employed on a salary of SlO0 gold a week anG ihad an automobile at his disposal. He was the higest priced man in the Nilla | service except some of the many lead l ing generals He worked first along he border within easy striking dis ance of the United States. He found l more heroes than he supposed there ] were in Mexico and more were com ng an the time Nilla's ascendancy l n Sonora seemed to be assured auC Mr. Corners threw caution to the winds and went as far into the in .erior as Guaymas He expected tC go to Mexico City. The only thing
 hat worried him was that the revo- lutior would end too quickly and Villa would no longer need a hero
 ,hronicler
 One night he retired at Guaymas
 with everybody yelling for Villa. The next morning the town was unani-
 nuus for Carranza and the frite-ups l 1f 2SO Villa heroes which Mir Con cers had prepared were in the posses.
 sion of the enemy.
 Mir. Corners was escorted to the
 hose-gow." deprived of four weeks ] salary and everything else than any
 of the Carranzistas though would be l useful to them except his fountain 7en and typewriter They were left with him apparently in the way of a ! joke and one of his captors applying 1 an English epithet which produces l lighting in this country, told him t- l get busy and write some more about l "thces Meester Villa"
 MT Corners had suffered an acci
 lent several years ago that deprived | him of his left leg slightly above the i knee and a part of his right foot
 The next morning after his incarcera ton he was sitting in his cell med
 tating upon the sudden mutations o
 fortune. His artidcial leg which he
 had procured in San Francisco on ht way down. and steel appliance foI , lhuinp out the shoe of the right fool
 were lying on the floor beside him.
 His taller entered his cell. He wal afflicted in much the same way a'
 Mir. Corners. He had a left peg leg He eyed the modern artificial leg
 creeduy and picking 1t up he saiC
 something about a trade He re i moved his peg and his clothing anl
 adjusted the artificial limb which h'
 found with some slight adjustment t'
 be a good 6t He also took the stee i appliance for some purpose whici
 was not quite clear
 'I gif you" he remarked as he wa g leaving, with proud military air "wha you Americanos call, what you sa
 some boot send you some tom
 atos.' In a little while he returne'
 with a large plate Of tomatoes whicI @ for a time took the troubled mind O MT Corners off of his lost limb 'l In a few days he was released am h he called upon Che American cousu to inquire what could be done abou lit. Te consul replied that in th present state of affairs nothing coul s be done But he assured the autho 70 of the War Heroes of Mexico" Una
 in the very nature Of things the rel
 outiou must end some time eithe 8 within his own regeneration or in tha t of some of his posterity when dc
 mand might be made through dipl'
 lmatic channels for reparation for th
 tS400 gold and the conhscated leg. D The consul arranged for his retur
 to his native land He was put O e tramp steamer for San Francisco l- He called on the artificial leg make a there and recovered the limb whic
 he had cast off in his pride less tha r three months before
 s Mrs Corners was at Sacrament 10 and he made his way there Sh
 wept at the story of his misfortune 'e but presently both of them saw tt of humorous feature of it
 n The sympathies of Mir Corners al
 with Villa though when he went
 Mexico he had no sentiment that wa u preiudicial to Carranza He wou .o as soon have undertaken to write
 the Carranza of Zapata heroes as-ar g others at the same salary per mont .y But now he Is hopeful that Villa wi ., win He ,net him frequently and ? DO ,-1- ,fr, ,s hath a ffhaf.a1 Dafron ar