| Show BLACK JACK STORY DENIED No Vengeance Wreaked Upon the Gang as Reported Re-ported Prosperity In I the Colonies Colonla Juarez Mexico April Bill 1S93 To the Editor A Blalcment ho been published In Federal nenBiapers to the effect that rioter Agnes Macdonald Tan murdered by the mark Jack band 01 outlaus and that a irly of Mormons had surprised the gang In their Stronghold In the mountains and had killed them all All such reports are Incorrect unit While It Is I not lOBllUcly known did commit the murder we have not < tile slightest reason to suppose It was mtmler of the IHatk done by nn > hii fem rnmbr of Jack gang lie r thai Any tile Mild ha been in hls par of the country Hal I thc band been In any I art of northern chihuahua parllcu Ivrlj I Us mounlnlnous portions i should certain Imo known U as not only our own People but many miners Ned prospectors are continually pass Ing I I through the country In oery J llrec lion Such being tho I cace none of our Itcple could have becn concerned in has lllack Jacks oxtorrnlnallon nor of Mormons heen I ont inquest any pans iiompeori band of any other quest ot hat or bani ontlnus nor has such a think Inc In I Dnlmplnllon Th law O x1co Ire I p to the aWre are nr trlct relative Iteration and execullon 01 crlmlnala or 01 0 is 5 0 FIelu 01 crime and = Uolted lynch lOll so t In I the Slate H unknWn almost In this republic re-public A s law I abldlnR cltlzons of this our udoiltd country wo arc In duly hound to leave Hit oxicutlon of the lawn to thoBO who oro legally appoint oM to that I lit 1VhoAara thee Is not the Incentive for lynching In Mexico that there IB In the Unltcil MulCT where Ii SlaleAiiiy hr edIt aitid ctlmlmils money will hire lawem 1 at frequently buy I courts and Jurors de of Justlc or feeling thus the demands ol least reducing Inlermlnal delays a In I t hpro = nt case nnl some even In trtah In Mexico punishment f r crime in swift I nd surmiIi wltna tho e 01 Iho who lynched the Iman who Htoly t trio 1 to kill L resident Diaz I Their doom was swift and suro no legal quibbles or delays liS Is a time ot general prosperity here and In the surrounding settlements Another field hAs been Surveyed In the alloy of the Tcnoja anl I n eat 11ia surveyed sur-veyed to Irrigate U Hut last 1 year demonstrated the fact that corn otn be grown hero without Irrigation other than that from the heavens In I ordl IIY sessions which usually come A about the first of July The time haa bn wh on rains were abundant In this land 01 we ample for the culllva tlon 01 the whole ountry which at one lime had nn Immen population The i country In dotted with mounds And hillocks I the remains of what once were houses and villages Not only the alleys and plains wore cultivated hut I hill and mountain side also clear to the tops of the mountains which are terraced In every place where there was enough earth to support pgeta tlon I have Been largo Hat rocks tenor ten-or twenty feet broad which had been covered with earth a foot deep brought i from a distance nnd kept on the rock by alone placed around the edges and the rock tam were omllme In situations very dimcult to reach On one such stone rising about fifteen feet above the surrounding rocks I found earth had been plnced and con fined upon It by Btonoa placed around the edge and wild potatoes growing there They were cry small but un v7 1Ubut mistakably polatoM I very IllUe I nook r wle ollcn not more than flllen nwNd often fpot wile baa thus been utilized the Mono will terrace heirs frequently In Bleep ground only two or three rods thli apart one abo el another Hut this Is a subject wc hyt a moro extruded notice no-tice J II MUVTINBAU |
