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Show If ESTIilt OF DIIETOO LARGE 4 jnericaii Consul Finds Con- 1 tits i u i f ditions in Atorelos Not as V Bad as Pai,ueci- drjat,nlln? to statomontsi liy United ej llci CoiimuI A. V. Dye, who returned 1 li ttrda' to DohkIsh. Aria., after :i wcok a! K"t in Investigating contHtionr. nt Co- via 3lnrtIoH and I-Jl Tlgrc, tho damage ' me bv the nUdlmy rubcls was not bo 8 ttcnflve an nt llrst thought. tiq iQausul Is preparing an official rc- jrt to b foi warded to Washington. The ; rport will bo illustrated with photo- mplis taken by iho consul at the scones th rcb'-l depredations. Upon Ids ar-"atf ar-"atf val at Douglas yesterday Mr. Dye an Id: I'. t The colonies suffered considerable 'tti yumaci' from the rebels. .None of tho 'lioUFea of the colonlsiH arc badly dam- ; ;'icd except for broken windows. iiu 'Practically all of the furniture Is gone out of the houses, as the colonists ' hove b"Cii hauling ruch portions of ik tlitlr f.vnlturc as could bo used out of tlir coloriv. T cannot say what part "was hauled out by tnom. what part i was destroyed by tho rebels, or what 'had been stolen A number of organs - and wwlng machines were damaged. rti Host of the wheat stored In the J flour mill was Intact. Tho mill was v 'running when I arrived. Unfortunatc-i Unfortunatc-i jy, through bad management during ' tlir sltfonen of the coIonlstK, the boiler J had bfcn allowed to warp. It blow Iff but last Saturday, disabling the mill 'H temporarily. There In another holler which belonged to tho old mill doll do-ll 1 stroved hy fire some time ago. Thin J lt lielng repalnul and can be lined. The null will be ready to start up i again In a few days. ' On tho day after my arrival, J. C. Campos, tile municipal president of i tyronteriLS. accompanied by tho local jjudgc of the. awno place, reached tho -colony. When J left thuy hud com- Z pletcd tho d.jtallK of rc-f-Htabllshlng I fclvil authority and are sitting m a Icourt ready to take up any com- 't plum Is ' A I found that much of tho Mormon II Cproperlv bad been rented to Jley.1-1 Jley.1-1 Itcano while other houses vrera uccu-I uccu-I :plwl by Mexican fainllioa pending tho "return of tho owners. 1 do not bo-Ulcvn bo-Ulcvn the Mexicans will make any ob- 31 'jecllon to gelling out when the own-' own-' ere want lliem lo. There Is no snem-3lig snem-3lig friction between the Me:ican.i land Monnomi at Oils time. I will say ithat in connection with the colonics "there na.j not much win I on deslruc- S'llon of propcrtv in evidence. Thero ij 'pui? nothing uf tho kind visible cither nt Kl Tlgre or Yzabel. |