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Show I' j I 4 MORTON'S SON" NOT DEAD. y j, t ( No Evidence That Ho Was Within I j 200 Miles of Tragedy. , , J ; ' CHICAGO. Jan. a.-Tho Nogales dls- i , patch is believed here to refer to a trag- i I edy- separate from the death of the Chi ;! , usTAl01 and co?;SSo?S5 ii ", cannot beicvc th,3 , th , 'I, ald Rc4)ort N. DIckman of the cnglneer- , , SB.i?nn wUh ?'h,ch thi' were connecu-d 1 vmhi mon acKonzlo and Coy. were t i"iedr T0" than 2(0 7,1,108 from Wales I ' ?2?,J Snow e"0l,eh of tho condition of I'' . . "-vel d0 there to convlnco me that I, !, Xlcsrn0.1 hlLVC bCn bht o o- S! "William Chapman Potter, son-ln-lntr n 5 k Secretary Morton. B safe, i am "ure as fjj few" nt l"3t 2 miles f rom Mr. Mac- ' Tnd, Dn ,C?y at thc time of tho f, I, crime. I do not know how many men , J whethor they had any ono with them I ) , have sent telegrama to a dozen or mora I ' I ft""1" lnformat,on- bu' haex"eren?ncd hi" i nTihiIasrord rccovcd in adcago from M1 TVIlllam Chapman Potter, son-in-law S i, Secretary Paul Morton, Is contained In a if,olr dat0d Ja"uar' S. nnd tolling of his I, pla"to 8tart from Chihuahua on a trip i Jnto tho mountains to look at mlnlnc h pr.o,P0rty a?ro,8 the Sierra Madrea Tango ji j( : This would bring him near Bahucrachlo and about sixty miles south of tho point whoro tho mn3acro of MacKonzIo and party apparently took place. "Tho letter follows: "j.$ca7 father: I am out-fltllng hero (In Chihuahua) for a trip across tho Sierra Madres to our copper mine at Bahucrachlo Bahucra-chlo pronounce If you can. "I go to Mlnaco, southwest of here, Which IS tho branch rnnrl hMnrr nvtnnl,1 westward by Stlllwell. and then tako mules five days to tho mines. In order to mako time I have four mules and two Indians, In-dians, Two mules are ridden and pockod ln the forenoon nnd the other two ln thc afternoon, and tho Indiana run on foot and keep thorn moving Thcso men aro not Mexicans, but Tahrumahrl Indians, who are said to bo tho greatest long distance dis-tance runnors In tho world. "Tho mines arc northwest of Puerto, about thirty miles, and on tho Fuerto river. "It will tako me about twenty days to get back here, I wish you could see the mountain country. WILLIAM " |