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Show El Paso, May 9. Dispatches re- cetved here from Cananea, Mexico, tell of a clash between the Mormons , In Colonln Morcloa, on tho border of Sonora and Chihuahua. ' and Cobo Randall, federal stamp collector tor the district cf Montezuma, who now alleges ho was endeavoring to collect taxes in tbe district. The colonists, believing that the collector and his deputies were :i band ot rebel foragers, are said to havo driven them away. When tboy learned the Identity of Randall they sent a communication to the chief civil officer ot the district, declaring that tbe Mexican officer did not ask for their taxes, but appeared with his deputies and began to round up their cattle- and horses. When the Intruders In-truders attempted to drive off the livestock they resisted. The Mormons say If the proper demand de-mand had been mado they would willingly wil-lingly have paid the taxes. Randall bad asked the commander ot the Cananea military zono for troops to enable him to levy on livestock live-stock and personal belongings of the Americans to settle the amounts which, he says, they owe the government. govern-ment. This step Is not necessary, say thp Mormons. Hernld-Republlcan. |