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Show THElPROVO HERALD LEA '.Sty- rvr: - i 1? 1: rmv'iin 4 - L - ffl - .tfrtat- MlMiS . CSSCX.. Wy YAQVl ri"7 - .IF i turn 11 ii Auiwai arm, mm 'I AT little the dollar. of Mrfrrr bvt55JI": fn -- lpvjn&-Am- et. icanhasdone iu prying and ar ""Spanish in 1319, ing into the great natural treasure aftj from an es---' housea. of Sonora convinced him limated - popula- - , tion in 1?20 of jears ago that ihat western Mexican province was a country 'well 200,000 Jhe raca--ha- s vorth exploiting. If more "ihan steadily dc- alf Qf the silver of the world clined,chie.Hy be- - has come outtofJexlcO;-a- s Isrtiawse of its al- all most incessant - " reports; "when the argentiferous warfare, to about deposits of Sonora are properly 40,000 . at , the of the 1rcseiit'dy: opened up . three-fourthof Diaz. Sonora world's .silver will come from-tL4anHavl ng.-.- regard--- -' has been exporting $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 of silver ed . .the. Yaqu4-a-ta year and could' have exported close range, and and Sit Incalculable quantity of gold fouf foronejeason.- - rhaTtngslTiiied the country has not bee5 nsaf' for white people, except him and,, marked in the larger towns, beoausa'oHho warlike Yaquisho have been battling for generations against tbe Mexicans. man he," is any " But now the good newa has been flashed over the one may be wires that the long drawn Yaqui war is at an end and for an ad-- " that a treaty favorable to 'the Indians has been negotiated miration of him bo that soon there, will"!be such an inrush of greedy that surpasses grlngoes, as the Mexicans call us, into Sonora as has my appreciatjon never been Been befofoxJthre-Jwllt"beTj- o inore night 'of any other of JrJ attacks upon ore wagon and supply trains, no more ter-- " the native raoes1 rorizing of the miners. In their prospect hQlcsand na of North America. ' more rushes to the gun rack In the lonely cabin on the Assuredly these nesa. . " ' people are the It is characteristic of our commercial age that lha most industrious :T chief interest of the white people In the Taqul uprisings and civil--' has not been a humane but a financial one. Although Ized of all Indian.- -: Americans have obtained concessions f rora.JthMexica- a- tTfbearT)irig for st govern rueni . or . ffiining,cattie ana larmmg , janavwey part have never . been able to- - hold" undispyted sway over, -- farmers, miners " T them. Now the, hardy gringo will deseendjiponSonoj,aad--fansmen,T7bent upon a .conquestthan that of v and far superior ' Ocn. Scoftt in l848. He lusts for the silver and gold to- - the average hidden under the Sonora mountains, for great bands of Sonoranj 61 -- ihecattle and for the fruits otr the. fertile saUeya, and te WIIF" haciendas and have hem. villages, who wUl Not that the Americans have been essentialJyiio8til-Bot"::- : to the Yaquis, ior oiany ;uns and rnuch'animunition hav "he has a peso in been taken ove the border to aid them in their des- - his - pocket and " perate fight, but that when Dia has Been fit to parcel while mescal can oft a comfort able&ection of Yaqui land here .and there had at the . to an enterprising Yankee for a con- sideralion It has been -- only natural e ;hat Yaqui ,and Yank should have embroiled at times. "The Yaqui Indians are the most stubborn fighters on earth," said Presi-- . dent Diaz of Mexico, eight years ago, 'and if ever we are to put them, down we must strike at the root of. their race e must exile their women and cnit- peep- r ' . a. k fillin AX, in iMmtr ft IriSm ?AiILsJ- - - .JvriiVffMHr 1?-- ' m ' P.fi M Atf ' '"ft Execu V -- Ml, Met 1 d" ? " -- ' c2l-- e ST - m , 1 battle blu.Hi rnr. .! !! ni'o t'v li hid V.U-'r-v- v ' '-- r . In ' fe i r I u,. lAiM? T 1 rfod Ures.-reach- ed l-wwa soldiers- - tamr around the ' hacien- only desultonaidijipoa-th- e mountains, Burprised the Yaqnis,Rchased the armelwa- iawerermaaeT?During that period the Yaqui-womeriors down the. mpjiJi.ainr--kilirTniiflof """IBem "and ta- - . and boys and some of the kinOJTthe hacienda . folk' prisoners. Soon after the ' n ranches and skirmish Ales lltrit&.llu-HrdlickaujeDresentlntr the Amferlcnn m. - fisheries to buy. arms and ammunition to carry on the seum. found Jri a little ravine on tfiemouhtaia side the -" fight. xIL-i -- of .64 oj the IndiajSinc.ludlsjj, uuiberoT"woiif A number of American miners who had been unahle' poaies a baby. The skulls of nearly all the rirgirrand to 0f victims were bo shattered peaceably work by Mauser bullets as to be of no. "Orllx TnMay; 189T.-v.Thgovernment then began to take "z, use for ,the museum for which Hrdlicka was collecting. and send-theto Yaquh boys friMa u me nospitai at HernjoBillo In 1902 there , were as Vl . i 1 ft A "Ttl AM fH Titl Ai.nM l them. These bdy,ere as good if not better soldier JbreeJiuUet her body." ' " than Boer the saw sharpshooter, "oThPTrn 1 ,T 300 wqm f .that In thna cprivinr them" of what w6uld be a great j, y near the Rancho VIejo source of reliance In future battle they would fiTentually--- !" "V COr under two days, during !P So.' w w ' that the peace of Orltz only lasted a few months "before wer.e -- Slvea ; nothing to eat but - two . . ?. raw. corn, on which there was anothefjinriaing they aubslsted until night, when they were marched to Hermosilfo, 35 continued tor several years. a guerilla nature, urne.. away; .Meantime every cent that the of the .... InJuJy,-1902- , an attempt was made by the Mexicans tribe could earn and save was handed over to the chiefs, .to : 200 Yaquis in the San Mateo foothills, but who bought with this money enough Manser rtes and the surround, Indians learned of what was a Into afoot; clipped mountain howitzers to equip very decently an "army' of :8ide valley before the advance of the troop?, and in the " 5,000 naen, under Gfn.- "Tetavlate, who, in XpVil, 1S09, HQuring-wM- cl. n -- n jithe " e m ft 1 L youand.theui '.' "" I , , .11.. . S!Sgjg'g.?.'- ''- T u- - -- - -.- --- i' -- i' . tak- - tt.A' AMI An r. Utn j. -- . r sent. there from jail. As for the Yaqui as a fighter, he has proved himself-..- .a better than. the Apache, while resorting to few, if any, of 'the" Apache's bloodthirsty tricks of war- - , iare.: The Yaqui army has been regularly organized up"-tthe last year, has beru well th.il.Hl la the use-othe rifl, has had ls geueiais and coViv is "and captains, and has given such 'a good account of itself that it has kept 3,000 Mexican troops under Gen. Torres bu?y all tbe man-eve- o . f night strangled the sentries andZpnoceedfegVer to the If inr--!vlz." c: -- .' factories they come to ua.- - We do not want war, , We have never wanted It, but we want our rights. We made a treaty of peace with the Mexican government, our foe, in May, 1S97, after a long series of wars, the last of which waa more than ten years In duration. We intended to keep faith with the government of Mexico, but It- - hasrTiuTsued a course of cruel encroachment and menace. We are now ready to fight It again, and all the battles of the' past will be as nothing compared with tha Woodshed thatwlil follow our entry into the field." "T.en.' Tetavlate began operations In the lower valley .of the IUo Yaqui, w here his men drove out the white Bettlers upon Taqul lands. They cut the telegraph wires and destroyed other moans of communication, and it was herd-ltary. cantina, and who, when he enters tlie army, la generally " .? 'W11. , .J W,,'-"- 'T 1 ove Metnjmlare - vwe ..Yaouls .df6 ?i tealeful . and . . 'iir . T Ti ' . JlTif. 1!" . : in theNflarkneaa t,x-- . .jjouna ine omcprn ' found when relleL-te- . One reason why the last ten years' war has been inor blwdy than any thai preceded it waa.thathe Mexican government decreed that every Yaqui living on the pueblos or working on ranches or else was to be anywhere treated as a prisoner of war. . muu f A sad nature 7 Qualities Jn Mn. jsheds forth twilight. A merry and mirth J'il rature brings "daylight. A Busptclous nature ":r mPara Its chill to every generous soul within Its reach. A bold and frank nature "overcomes la men, "Fineness makes them' firm. Virmnesa rneia u.kes Vit-z- t fine. Taste directs, stlmulsV anl 3 tas'e. develop ""'' v ilenry Ward Upecher.: ' V . "" teu in tie . Hnyhn,e-,Rnd,Gen- am au ha p'' . ' mi Uu: .. -- 1 .populous planet, and of e.iUo;a enter so littln into the consideration- a. it'.rt rn fil Ht.u wm 01 me continent, with the ex- T U s. American, capitalists who have longed it f n.inlns treasuVes or that rich gold and t!-- u we have been . more interested" In roi.ttbts than in this terrible warfare 1 ' si wlt'rn f.vp days' ia'!wuy journey - l.xt thredecadcs and even longer. -- f ' the. Yaquls have never been l.'U l i"ary fJe i!u(( the conquest -- . 'trpr"il r T) st If the -- . fogLJ-Qtawrfta"'o- soc " s, 1 u- T ttor - remnant 'of the iu, thaUfiirht .:ii 'and surren- T.TCiTbet Ht; over-Bigh- t I. J an up... rr w-hlc- h i Bet -- lnto-the-3uit- 75f . n.:.-.- ' fixed a ha isfactory - YAQUJ JN thou- - followed a sklr that was, m&o by the, Mexicans' the capital of ....' (f In .which It Was reported that , i thief of tlt Yaquls, wns killed ho cf f s run awe slain. AHer : -- -- Sonora. . .' Thla means of bubdulng" a - race"- - that-- ; has been "In almost jconstant warfare ".!nsi the Mexican Tgaveroment-fo- ri.;orp- than .30- years has at last been -t ii Ttive, although It has been noccs:!- -. a.LJhm-trimrio'liee- p .from ) to 5,000 . troops in readiness or !n the Dold.tct fight the. diminishing--- I i of Yaqula, who have proved them ' t lus as valiantsiidl5-sa;franig"- ar i some lime' before the Fifth cavalry and Eleventh andXwelfihJInfantry companies could be niarched of against them. Then-fyllo.battles which generally "conclu ded unsat- i T , to th ..hastily-summone- -- ? two stands of the Yacfula lK Ctitly been reported In thadis- M;cs. One of these was Itf a inoun ' jast north of Altar, where and Papagos luted the - s 1'ito ambush and killed a l large vagui -- Worir-whire'""'' 1 to. Inst" TO YUCATAM for the Mexicans,-thoug- h there was an pccaslonal rounding up of, . the rebels in which large numbers of ' them were slaughtered. On the approach of the troops the Indians usually took strong,, positions -- in the "mountain fast- - '.. nesses. - One large band fortified itself-- - in th Bacatete'rangeT tetweentheXaq.ul MatopTTrrtvers7and " another in the were Efforts Sahuaripa mountains. .. made to keep these" two bands apart, but the working Yaquis all over Sonori and..- -, in Ca.ifoniianaM Arizona were constant-- , ly coming In and Joining with brethren andlhedepr3daUona..4.pot---the- ' rr: "ranchesind villages were widespread.: Meantime -- the Mexicans; gathered-t- ff the women and children of their foemen for deportation to Yucatan, following the demand of Diaz to .'Exterminate; the Taquls." Maddened by this and by 1 the reports that ihe women' , and' children . PJQIxSON - YARD cfi&--G were not merely deported; but that they ' were taken out tJalifor ' : Bnrt nia thrown nverhoard from thn trnon ! while In a warfare that has not been that .of savages v ship Oaxaca; the desperate Indians attacked the hacien-hain fact; been fully as- - humane as that of its foe- - ""ras and also threatened the larger' towns.'.: Terror mad, men' "" - - ' the citizens of Nogales fled It is not, necesearv ito go back anv fifr-rover the fearstricken "rnHi-.iiiayr-i!g-oeedoing - city of Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora. During the own against, the people of Spanish of the excitement, troops were coming Jn bringing height aescent m Mexico. In that year, because of trespass women and children for deportation, and also an occa--, upon their lands and because the Mexicans had taken sional band of Yaqui soldiers, who were generally thrust large numbers of them to woTlcupon their ranches In Into prison and In, the morning; taken "out, - . ' practical slavery, these tremulously tenacious fighters re: lined up and .shot sumed hostilities after a short period of peace.--Ge- n. " One of the most terrible slaughterajjnrlrrj. tho l.iwt wiir Cajeral, thelrgoverno?, took- - command 'and for seven pon tha Yqqniii nlMr.ffTtTfT(iin. One evening 300 n'TliTTT il yeafs held the passes and pfrrnrhnldn m linii,n uudui .a.i'U.'TCBiiuIera. finn rlK. th... w0,H,ft and tnnlr Q 8 gavea good account of them- 5? and who were" there ; employed.. The" band children, o.i C8jeml rched toward Mazatau mountain,-an.. tn waiUng for the Mexican soldiers made bows, ar- ahff fipearo for thole who were unarmed ---r-- f, "w-1. jaAyu --- - . UlO cient weJ " Finds of the little brown women of the Yaaui nation in Sonora have been torn from their homes on reservations and' rlHewhere, rounded up at GuaymaB, on the west coaat of Mexico, and,' with tlifir children, deported to. San Bias an LL"Tira acxfwuountry lu lliil !Ai fever lands of Yucatan, where many of them have died. None have ever returned to i rules ...1-,1 V) ' since then ol a Th the-Tno- So, month by month, tee TBv-tio- - - fin ing : - ' .oy.lheing Bill .manage son, bu yrobaWy--fherfact,""lfien,nfr- - .no the hp - s : of -- "1 1 |