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Show 268 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE INDIANS. the city of Chihuahua. We were told that the governor, Senor Ochoa, was a very liberal- minded man and not under priestly control, and that he would be very likely to allow us the privilege of preaching. I wrote to President Young regularly. We receiv-ed letters from him in return, giving us kind encourage-ment and instructions. I reported to him our finances, which were getting short, stating that we intended going on and working our way through the best we could. We received a postal card directing us to wait till we heard from him. When we did hear it was in the shape of postal orders for money sufficient to bear our expenses for some time. Before leaving El Paso I called on the Jefe Politico. I had hoped that I could get some kind of a letter from him that would assist us in getting introduced into Chi-huahua. The Jefe had the reputation of being a very kind and affectionate father, extremely fond of his wife and children, so I called on him at his residence. He received me kindly and expressed regret that we were going away. Said that he had had his opinion changed about the Mormons. " From the way in which your company have acted I think the Mormons would make good citi-zens, and I would like to have you remain." I told him our duty was to travel through the coun-try and visit with and explain to the people our princi-ples and make friends with them, in anticipation that some of our people would, in time, come into his coun-try and make homes ; that they were now coming this way ; that we had, on our trip found country and report-ed back the same, and that we had received word that several hundred were getting ready to follow upon our tracks to colonize the places already reported. |