The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1919-05-03


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~ y vssy amps% amigo. L. ~
~: ! had 0oisAs0 falling yo0 aDo1t
De 6ght ut La Joya. Iwas telling yoa
bow ] tainted. Some 5000 people found
Ne fsw ho11s after lost coooaoos-
nesa Thsv supposed I had been at.
tackled By suefssllas and lett faf dead.
Finding that Sdu had lie In ma easy
took me home With them. They Wefs
old friends nun Aatansas ~ eos
name OF Valdes-eoleared peopae Wno
had ned the city and wefs hiding N M
manigua IKE TIE rest OF us.
Not ValdsA ths notafyT
The very sane. Alberto valdss and
his four daughters. Heaven guided
them to me. Alberto was an old man
hs had hard work 70 provide food for
hIs girls. Nevertheless, he refused to
abandon me. Oh, they were faithful.
patient peoplsf You ~. I had walked
east instead Of west and now was
miles away from homo. and The eounr
~ bstwesn was swaEming With SpaA'
iards who were burning. Destroying
killing. You wouldn't know Aatansas.
orally. Il II desert
II finally became able to dFaG myoeh
around the hut But had no 0sene
Of sending word to Rosa. and the Nd
certainty nearly made ne crazy. NJ
clothes had rottsd from NJ; my boo0
were Just under The skin. must have
been . shocking dSht Then one day
thsfs came fellow travelling east With
messages for Comes. Hs was one Of
Lopez msn. and b. told me that u
pa had gone to the Aubi dlils Wta
Aacso. and that there were none o.
our men left In the province. He told
No other thinss. too. It was from him
that learnsd- Esteoan VarooAs
thin hands eiutchsd The edges OF biz
hammock and b. rolled his head weak
u from side to ode. TT was he VINO
told ne about Rosa. He said that Cooo
had ravassd the YumuEi and that m,
slstse-Was eoos"
There. thsssi We know better now"
Orally said. soothinSay.
1T WAS . A6soss story. . story Of
raps. murder. I wonder that I DIDN'T
60 mad. It nsvsf occurred 10 n 10
doubt. and % . matter Of fact the I'll.
low WAS honest enough: b. really b.
hsvsd what hs told me-. After IL
man had finished I felt the desire to
ct away from an I had known and
loved, b leave Natansas for nsw 6sads
md Give what WAS Left Of ne to the
easse. was fres 70 enlist. since ]
eosidn't reach Lopes, and I cane to
3oin our forces in he Orient.
THAT % how you found me In this
province. Lopez man never dslivsesd
thaes dispatches, for W were taken
crossing the trocha-at least WAS
takso, for Pablo was killed. They'd
have made IN sod Of me. too. / dsrs
~. only I was % weak. II sssms q
esntuy anes that night Ny msmoey
Doesn't sssvs NJ very well from that
point 1ee tbsy Jailed ma, and I arsv
Voess. I wae ct Of my had . good
1sal"
ne Two M fual sllsot for q vhdl>
lpss>s, lay viii closed eyea sxaauee.
e. O,Rsiliy eays hineesf M 10 frovn-
sng tAoasht. HIS thoushts were ~
naoaaant: - eoald not. Tor ths liee a
n. bersve N Roea.s esfsty 10 81.
plleitfy a. hs had lea nstaAan 40 20
poes: his seKoets to cheer The CO
had sauosA hia own sunnay Of no.,
leaving Mn 4 pesy 10 black n,Isadvinsa
He was dad vhea NoRsna Hvsns' n.
tus. nj On end to his speculat3oos.
Have 700 narrowed this poor ms,'s
feelings Sumcisntly for ooeef. ~ H.
ouirsd Of O,Hailiy.
n havs I'm as,.s IN %s,r .hn,,
noth,ns unnae ea.nt hsr.sft~es
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n eomethIns vant "A IN ~, hosH .
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