Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-23 | Page 3 | Mexico Indians Spread Death

MEXICO INDIANS SPREAD DEATH MEXICO CITY Feb 23 UP UP- UP Five hundred Indians in the mountains moun of ot Chiapas state rose killed non Indian residents and set lire fire to government buildings official dispatches dis patches said today The uprising occurred at the little littletown town of o Cancuc between and down toward the Guatemalan border Meager government advices from the isolated district did not say how many persons were k killed Federal troops it was said had been sent m in pursuit of the Indiana Indian Chiapas state borders on Guate mala From both the Atlantic and Pacific co coasts as ts it rises into mountainous mountainous moun moun- territory and a great plateau of temperate climate and rich fertil- fertil it ty Its population of ol is Indian Agriculture which is s backward and timber cutting comprise comprise com com- prise the main mam activities up in the mountains There are undeveloped resources of gold silver copper and petroleum