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Show This afternoon the chamber of commerce held a mass meeting, heard the stories of the Monrion refugees, and took steps to aid them. Enrique Bowman, an aged Mormon, broke down and cried while reciting the sufferings suffer-ings to which his people had been subjected by the rebels. He declared that many insults had been heaped upon them. One Mormon speaker declared th,at a rebel officer taunted them yesterday as they were leaving their homes for the safety of the Stars and Stripes in El Paso with the declaration: "We have robbed! rob-bed! you of your horses; we have made you feed us; we have outraged out-raged women ; yet your country won't fight, What sort of people peo-ple arq you Americans?" |