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Show USE THE CHURCHES 10 STABLE HORSES Mexican Federals in Mormon Colonies No Better Than i the Rebels. . r 2 Special to The Tribune. EL PASO, Texas. Oct. 12. Relieved of the presidency of 'the Mexican stake,' Junius Romuey, who has been tho Mormon leader in their hour ' of darkness, will continue as their leader until he has seen ever' refugee safely cared for the winter, when he will relinquish his official position and duties du-ties and will devofo his attention to other church activities. Tho reliof oi President Roniney is taken here to mean that the church will make ' no further effort toward tho colonization ot Mexican lands, at least not until the church oflicials havo boon fully satisfied satis-fied that their people can be given all the Guarantees that they onjov in the United States, a thing yet a dream of the future. Cattle aro beincr shipped out of boT' Chihuahua and Sonora colonies Xy the trainload. As soon as the horses which have been eorralcd at Tfachita. N. M., arc disposed of tho duties of Business Agent 0. II. Brown will be at an end and the two councillors, IT. S. Harris and C. E. McClellan, will also cease to bo in authority. Conditions have crown gradually worse and worso until it is no longer safe amoncr the once friendlv Mexicans for the Mormons. The rebels, bred to the most inhuman cruelties, havo boon praclieitiff unbelievable crimes on their prisoners and the federals aro no Hot-tor. Hot-tor. The latter have stabled their horses in the Mormon churches in Sonora So-nora and Chihuahua and have made little or no effort to protect property rights. Appeal for Protection. 151, ASO. Tex.. Oct. I';. Reports that rebels are boldly smuggling ammunition Into Juarez, tho Mexican town opposite El Patio, led to n rigid Inspection of pas-sensors pas-sensors and pedestrians :il the interna-llonal interna-llonal bridges spanning the Hlo Grande by Moxiran sn!diein. Wlilp. the officials of the road make light of the robol threat to kill all Americans Ameri-cans operating trains after October 15. eighteen of the railroad mon, testifying before Iho senate fommlllee here, tool; the warning scrlnulv. It Is learned that In a body the railway men appeared before be-fore the committee and appealed for protection, pro-tection, which thev ?ald was not given by Mexican federal troops. Twenty Federals Killed. MEXICO CITV. Oet. 12. Twentv federal fed-eral s- Idlers and citizens were killed bv Zapatista rebels In an attack on Vnlle do Bravo nenr Toluca in the state of Moxtco, several days ngo. Upon the arrival ar-rival r.f General Felipe Amrclos with rc-Jnforccments rc-Jnforccments of federal troops the rebels (led. carrying their dead and wounded. Felix Diaz Revolts. J3v International News Service. MEXICO CITV. Oct. 12. The evening, papi-ra publish extras tonight declaring that Felix Diaz hns openly revolted and gone to Oaxaca to take command of tho principal rebel army. It Is stated that Dlnz Is now the choice of nil rebels of whatever faction a the man to succeed President Madcro when he Is overthrown |