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Show FEDERALS LOOT j MORMON STORE If Colonia Oaxaca, State of Sonora, nri Mexico, July IS. Federal soldiers 11 have looted the .store of Haymore f 1 Bros, here of several hundred dollars' 1 worth of goods and robbed Millard 1 Havmore, Sr.. of $200 cash. The sil- 1 rdlers did their work In daylight and yn made no pretonse of concealment g This Is the second Mormon store that a1 has been looted, the first being at j Colonia Morelos. When the affair i , was reported to the government offl- j ccrs they promised to Investigate, but j made no effort to. do so, although j Haymore said he could identify the J robbers. ! The Mormon colonists are alarmed at the action of the federals and will j resist any attempt to bring tho sol- t I diers back toward Colonia JMorelos, 3 twenty-five miles east, where 600 I Americans are living. The column under General Sanjlnps Is still camped I in tho streets here and shows no dls- position to advance, although scouting parties havo sighted rebels on the op- g poslte sldo of the mountain. A rebel scouting party of 200 has been encamped at Las Veras, twenty- , five miles east, at the opposite end ot Pulpit pass. They retired when federal fed-eral sconts wore sighted, but are re-ported re-ported to have returned today. An official inquiry into the actions of the federal soldiers while in the l V Mormon colonies Is being made by Mormon officials for the state depart- n ment at Washington. & |