Show affairs in mexico tho the iron county record contains this excerpt from a letter received by ono one of its patrons henry lunt who is located at colonia juarez chihuahua mexico writes to his wife hers here as follows 1 I 1 expect you are much alarmed about us in mexico Il exico so I 1 hato to inform you you that th things are not half so bad as report reported in the pipers papers the trouble arose through a band of indians about forty in number who are much opposed to president diaz and the b government from the fact that their tribe were crue cruelly ily slaughtered because they would not pay taxes and these are those who made their escape they robbed the custom house at las palomas Po lomas took a number of guns guna and cartridges they stated that they did not want to hurt the mormons cormons Mor mons but while several of our brethren from juarez were out in the hills looking for them they came upon a camp of 25 26 unawares OUT our men retreated when the rebels fired upon them but neither men or horses were hit something remarkable as two hundred shots were discharged 0 ed the indians indiana said that the bu bullets ellets glanced off the mormons cormons and they could not hurt them wo we held conference here on alie alt the best ever held in mexico finishing up on oil monday evening with a social party dancing singing i nging speeches et cand thus thua enjoyed ourselves while our friends in utah were no doubt troubled about us |