In the room where once women and drunk and danced, now there are religious services in Spanish, and between times children, seldom less than 100 of them, at lunch or supper. Children of every race and religion are fed there. Other work of the mission is with lepers, and with old men and women. The mission of which Bohun took charge about four years ago, is not maintained by any organization, but is held together by free will subscriptions.
When Bohun talks with a visitor, particularly with an American who knows the West, his references to his work are mingled with spontaneous tales of "hard riding and hard shooting men." Of John Wesley Harding, for instance, the frock-coated gambler of El Paso, who Bohun says had killed 14 men, "was every inch a general man and always killed with regret." Jane, whose story was bound between law and men, up to the time of his death, had been a woman, a man of many more than a man.
Tombstone, Arizona; or Moroso, king of cattle, ahieves; of Wild Bill Hikok, who met his end at Dodge City; and who made the West, of many more a place of romance. Minister though he is, he is still a cowboy, bent on getting his herd safe into the final round up. 