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Show HON SETTLER IS MURDERED That William Adams, one of tho Mormon sottlers of Colonia Diaz, Mexico, Mex-ico, vho -was murdered July 2 as he Btood iu his own doorway about to depart to attend his wife's funeral was shot by a Mexican official, 1b thn charge mado In letters from the settlement set-tlement received at church headquarters headquar-ters In Salt Lake. The trouble Is said to have grown out. of the nrrlval of Mr. Adamt,' daughter and her husband, who crossed cross-ed from United States to Mexican territory ter-ritory without obtaining paasportB. do-slring do-slring to arrive In time for tho funeral funer-al of Mrs. Adams. The following day a party of officials called at the Adams Ad-ams homo and protested against the action of his daughter and Bon-ln-law In entering tho country without passports. pass-ports. An argument followed and I Adams was shot, It Is said, by one of the officials Leaving the body omc tho threshold the Mexicans rode away I and the slayer has not been arrested Mr. Adams was the ninth Mormon settler to be murdered hy Mexican without any arrests or redress follow-In? follow-In? He left a large number of sons and daughters, fhe of whom arc small children, left entirely destitute Feeling among the colonists, ac-:ordlng ac-:ordlng to the letters received in the . past few daj s, is at the breaking point I and an armed resistance against aP Mexicans, whether rebel or federal,, is now contemplated. i |