Show THEFT OF LANDS LANDSI I AT ROOT OF YAQUI I v AR IN MEXICO Armed Yaqui in tho service service of the tho Mexican government Yaqui babe whose clothing consists of a couple of bracelets With the tho sun Mexican sand and a litter of his fa favorite far s puppies all radiating heat he II I needs few garments II I I I II I I l W R Rt v r t t t a s sr I r sy l I II I j i I I f I YS I f I i iS j jI I S' S I I I I Inveterate te Hatred I Engendered by Monumental Jv Crime Against f Brave and Industrious but I Implacable and Revengeful People I I Special DIp Dispatch NOGALES r Ariz Juno 10 Recent 10 Recent reports 0 of alleged atrocities In Mexico and threats against the lives s of Americans Amen Ameri I Amerl-I cans nand Mexicans ns In Sonora again put puti i i the Yaqui tribe In the headlines I Sporadic outbursts of the these e Indians have ha for years Ears demanded a heavy loll Ion of Mexican lives with attendant sprinkling of murders murden-l of or Americans Behind the Indian revolt lies ties thc the old question of land proprietorship The Tho Yaqui question bids fair fall to be definitely Nettled fettled only when hlll the bones Lones I of or tho tiro entire tribe are nr plou ploughed hell under the rich river valley alley lands now I permanently permanent lost to this band of fight Ight- j i In Ins ing people GOOD AND The Thc Yaqui has morn more intermingled good and bad baiJ characterises than any I tribe of American Indians lie Ile I IH brave and bad faithful and treacherous a tough warrior and good workman above all unconquerable For J generation the Yaqui fought tho ho I Spaniards anI and Mexicans who ho sought to encroach upon hi his land In the thc fertile fer fer- I tile Yaqui river valley alley Numberless expeditions against him have proved futile Many Inn prominent Mexican generals have o met mel their Waterloo In the tho fastnesses of the Sonora So So- Sonora nora mountains to which v tho the always alwa's flee Ice when hen hard pressed THEFT BRINGS ON WAR For a time under Porfirio Diaz the Yaqui was undisturbed and known asu at UI a u hard hurd working agricultural Trillion To people with whom ho he way was on a friendly fooling he hp made an admirable servant and a n faithful friend It looked as thou though h tho the Yaqui problem had hall been solved Sol Then rhen came Ramon Corral Diaze Diaz's vice Ice president who dispossessed the from the tho rich alloys alleys of or Sonora So So- So nora stole their lands land and distributed them among Mexicans and foreigners ners at nt a huge profit This theft brought bro on ona ona ona a bloody war which resulted In fu tho the deportation of or thousands thou of Great Grat number numb numbers were taken to sea and kicked t o overboard o Men Ien wom fn n and children were transported to Yucatan and Quintana Roo Hoo whore where they ther were enslaved d Few lew of them survived sur oven even v n six months JOIN MADERO REVOLT With the tho Madero revolution the unvanquished un- un vanquished Joined In Inthe the war wara a against their despoilers Diaz Dla and arid Corm Cor Cor- m ral They ex expected ded their rich holdings back hack but never got them Since that time they the have been heen dl- dl videl Into Inlo two taro classes peaceful and ami broncho Indians Many of the th Mx M x- x Ican han troops In Sonora onoro are arc but the l live 11 In the hl high h Sierras Sierras Sier- Sier ras and raid mill the thc valley towns with regularity Most n of the tha time they pa pay little litho attention to the American settler set- set setI I tier lieI but on op occasions murder him as ns I I relentlessly as aM the Mexican I NOT TO BE THOUGHT OF Tho The broncho demands tho ho return I of the Yaqui river aile valley to lo his tribe lIe He steadfastly refuses poorer land allotted al- al to him But Bui the distribution of of tho rich tribal holdings 9 among foreigners foreigners for for- eigners and Influential Mexicans for I has placed the thc Mexican government In a To Tn hand back to lo the what Is rightfully theirs would mean dispossession dispossession dispossession session of man many Americans Americana as welt well as i Mexicans It the I would give o In the tribe time the richest portion of or Sonora unora and would bring no less INIS of or a howl from Am rl- rl i can C land holders than from froin froN a Mexican proprietors 1 i |