| Show A MEXICAN LETTER it was conjectured at the time of the revolt in january last in our neighboring town of la ascencion Ascenc lon that swift and certain would be the vengeance of the ruling party on the rebels but dill all who so BO expected have seen it delayed fur for once four months and now only five of the forty six aix arraigned are min ain aled out to rc receive further punishment I 1 say further designedly for four months in a mexican prison awaiting trial is in a punishment of bf itself considering si the magnitude of the offense committed that of murder connected with a genuine rebellion the fewness of the culprits who are to pay the penalty occasions some surprise but the submission of the rebellious was so entire and the success of the authorities in catching the offenders so complete that the government could afford to be magnanimous toward those not really guilty of murder four of the five were sentenced by the district judge to capital pu punishment nish ment the other to thirteen years aud and four months at hard labor the other forty one were declared exonerated by their early submission to tb the state authority but the sentence must be confirmed by the supreme tribunal of justice of the state before they will be allowed to return to their homes the funny part of the whole affair was the catching of the rebels first a few were ere apprehended and after preliminary examination were released on their own recognizance the example of these together with the proclamation cla induced some wore more to surrender who were in like manner released then the large majority mustered courage from the leniency apparently shown and surrendered in a body then those who had been released were gathered up and the victory was complete in a few the great scarcity ecar city of provisions in this neighborhood will be at an end for a tolerably fair barvest of wheat Js is assured unless it should rain so much and so continuously as an to ruin it the eldest son of our bishop wm D johnson jr is the suffer from the strange freak ot of a coyote the young man is abut twenty one years of age and being used to roughing it like alin alm st all country raised mormon boys entertaining no fear of the traditional dit ional coward of all cowards the coyote makes his hie bed ou the ground wherever night overtakes overtaken him on the evening of the 3rd ard dinst while on a trip on horseback on the range after took stock while sleeping inthe same game bed with his companions he was rudely and painfully awakened by the viselike grip of the fangs of a coyote fastened f on his hi chin the upper fang biting through his bis lip A groan that escaped him in his struggle with the brute awakened his companions who were obliged though both of them well wel built young men to exert all their united strength which broke the coyotes 68 jaws before they could make it release its hold bold with great presence of mind they held in such a way thai that no blobs was drawn on elther either of the other two except a very small place on the thumb of one of them until the sull sufferer brer himself out the animals throat they never losing their hold on its jaws this done the sufferer fainted and is at writing in a I 1 condition the rhe poison in i the s bite was so strong that the almost invisible mark on the thumb mentioned above immediately stiff ened it and it remained so for some hours one on of the young meta men had the curiosity to examine and dissect the dead coyote afterwards afterward so by daylight he found no outward sign of rabies in eyes or mouth and absolutely nothing except a few cottonwood leaves in the animal le stomach the recovery reo overy of the young man to la I 1 1 aped and prayed for by our whole community we have had general good health in our colony for some time past EDMUNDO COLONY DIAZ chihuahua mex J june u be 4 1892 |
