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Show Hi. H - K BBjy --, - H ' ' - " '-!"ia-" nit i-i I II l- . ii iLjji L ttty lYaqui Indians Guard Golden jl ' I T?BK"" ' " -4BPtft& iMvmfeH . I R MSKttM W S Mwim-'rim JPik Wt-IH "HaW Stfffpt ffl4 TVail from 20,000 to 25,000 Yaquis, many of Bf n II?Sf mmtmm tmm&fMh. wno oave iruac me irau honi arc liewin. ,V(oU and dpawill. Hf ' Wsiil3? -.' -B-MWAxlwl'v T-k4 t "Vi v.-"ft-r TVL-k- walor for Mexican r foreign umployors. m "- - Ej?Jr v fill ilPIBES xaqiti Country, INone . ta. n . am,, 0f u 135Sy -J Hk Mft SS v Haw Rptfirnp to TVff of tt-i brceris UD,ons tl,cm- wh"c'ufa Hgg li-Wi225t BrlPili rUl 'B-3W VJj A-' tlUrilCU IU ICU Ui UlC Yaqui you usually find him of pure Yaqul K mSSL fiQ -fifell wiB Vl Hollow Mountain Where Leg- Jn,;arrutheiribciiT,e,itaTiuaSo5 E& RB?PKS)Kracrf -B-CV FHrf1 Wfc' ' t i mAAMs made of square rccd house-) and sent B PnIW )KkMI ! end Says ' the GW from Old "i.ssis ! P H-i aJHBPfrTp '" jj 'MFiKII-i Pn C , w, T T" O 'colony in the mountains. Ilr.ro, aloug Bf w3- mwwM .-? --g:--Ky- rJr..M opanish Mines Is being Stored tbe nvcr tber '"cd ia waco nnd "" fl-K's V" CiS uT lP t& fi1 J J l3S---B' wF " r - , . . ,, ,, I -1r Bfc'-AtQHKiB?. -ft,. , :;;& ' PSTJTlebU JO!'-', by the New Vnrk Herald Co. AU t;. F you aro sailing alous the Gulf of jj Callfoni.n and the tiny ia clear and you :nre posaeiscd of A powerful glass you jrcan see far off on the edge of the skyline J E7 to the cast the rupged peaks of the j Bi Sierra iladrcs. And -Jen your ship J Bff rives within two or three miles of the J Krt of Gunyma, the part of -this great J hngc of hill vrtiich comes .vithln your line HviElon is knov?n through that locality m Bfte mountains of mystery. BEvery mountain has its mystery, nnd HRenerally it not well to bcek solution Hlie mountnins of Sonorn are no execp-Son, execp-Son, and men have paid with their lives HHfbr endeavoriar to uncover the secrets of Htjai9 special group, which for four hun Kred known years and perhaps for cen-rurics cen-rurics before that have been held against BKJl comers by a race of Indinns, which HRJl historians declare indomitable. HThis race is the Ynipii the tireless, Knercilc5s Yauqui. And the secret has to JPdo with gold. There is gold in many i Kuarta of Sonora and there arc known and BBoerelopcd gold mines In the Yauqui country ajhundred miles or more from any rail- ( way. But the gold deposits in the ancient Rnronghold of the warrior branch of the jH-Yauqui up in the mountnins of mystery ffaro known only by tradition. For the gateway to their riches has ever been EBv't (found too strongly held to admit pasta ge Hy any white men, although entry has Hbccn demanded nt interxals by armed Brtorcc3 ever since the Spiniaids first ap. Broached that country iu 1531. EiNo Avbitc roan save one ever came back, E&nd he was promptly hustled back to the B JThllls by his companions. Btlt was in the town of Guaymns, distant WEmore than a hundred miles from the foot- MR bills of the Sierra Madrn, thnt this white Vj ann appeared dressed an the aquts K dress and accompanied by four Ynqui v V m jrarriors. The story is told by Hob., a B k German attendant in a hardware .supply Wk, Bouse, to whom the Yaqul party applied IHhfar. 1,000 kilos (about one ton of steel) for UK mining. lBr The conversation relative) to the pur- IB chase was carried on in Yaqnl patois, re- HK. licved more or less by Spanish iutcrpola- IB' tions. During the negotiation for the fm steel the white man managed to mumble tm to Holz in English these words. IB "I am a prisoner. Bonanza pold in JmL MytitOry Mountains." jK But the watchful warriors who formed ffS 'the guard, noting the quick upward glance jBK. of the storekeeper, immediately drew the OH?, white man away and harried him from Kp" m' k. the town, leaving the steel purchase un- BL .completed. An hour later the four Yaqui Hr warriors returned, bringing with tliem ten Hh "tame" Yaquis as beasts of burden. Hk, Upuii the shoulders of each was laid a jC- hundred kilos. The steel was paid for in K gold dust and the entire party moved (&, promptly from the town. H&,, Holt says this incident occurred just (Br -before the opening of the rainy season H in the year liHK. lie is still Iu the em- E Ploy of the hardware cohceru, but no "-farther purchatos have been made and no Hp Yaqui warriors have since appeared in imjt the town. Hp "Tame" Yaquis are constantly to be Ht teen in Guaymas, brinting the mats and IK hats and white zernpes for sale, but K neTcr a warrior. Whether the white man R is Mill prisoner of the Yaqui or was pun- Xl. ished by death for tho suspicion he had r aroubed Is unknown, but his direct, though Hk brief, announcement of fact odded ft trcngth to the gold tradition and has f been the cause of nt least three unsuc- W ceasful expeditions to penetnitc the fust L uc'ss of the mountaina in search for the yellow metal luclf. W flL.. AJ. ,2u -x C U. , Mfmmr WM Ufa HiBK'9li ISHP . 9 Pacific Ituilro.id has extended its tracks down through Sonora and Sinalon and into the town of Tepic. Another rond ha been built down through Chihunhun and across the Sicrrc Madres just south of the Mountains of Mj story, and a route has been surveyed by the Southern Pa cific from the town of Hcrmosillo to run to an important camp on the headwaters of the Yaqui River, not far from the: mountains supposed to contain the big i gold depositK. The Mountain Guard. ThcBc encroachments mRke it likely that presently the way to the secret will be forced open, but it may be depended upon that1 this will entail the spilling of much pure Yaqui blood. The stories of gold in the mountains are embellished whenever new encounters with the Yaquis occur or whenever the tribe is induced to take part in nny niili- , tary movement In the country. It is always figured out that some day the mountain guard, said to be composed of four thousand warriors, will be lured into tho plains and the way to tho riches of the hllla left so weakly guarded that successful move upon the stronghold may be made. ithin the last few weeks the report that the Yaqnl Indians would take the field on one side or the other of the Mexican Mex-ican civil war once more revives interest in the Yaqui mines nnd the sensational developments that may result when these wild ranges of deeply wooded bilb arc thrown open for settlement. The reports now state that H is the Yaquis from the ranches along the Ynqui River that will take the field, the "tnmej' Yaquis, as they arc called in distinction from the wild warrior l'nquLs of the hills, but there is alwaya the chance that if the tame Yaquis are drawn into a fight their fiercer brothers will join their cause, and that then the long looked for chance may come to penotrate the 'mountains of mystery mys-tery which they hare held for so long But It is hard to decoy the warrior from the hills in considerable numbers. Even last year, when tho opportunity came to Join the Madoro forces against Diaz, but few of the mountain warriors were eeut, to the field. The men who went f battle were taken from tho "lame'1 or agricultural portion of the tribe, with but sutBcicnt of the warrior branch to organize and manage the Yaqnl corps. And there were' excellent reasonB last year why every available Yaqui should join the movement, for the most relentless relent-less enemy tho Yaquis have ever known was Ramon Corral, once Governor of Senora and up 'to May of last year Vice .'resident of the Republic of Mes;lco, Down in the fields of Yucatan seven thousand 1'aqul slaves bear testimony to the war wared upon tho tribe at th it stanco of Corral; seven thousand taken In hundreds, two hundreds, and threo hun-,. hun-,. jiarlttd ioto rigji u3t Ua ctuVi (ftuViiSV j ,, . ' . : ', " t " """'" ' 1.' . T " ' Httpftjr4 v- l j WLxr A Yaqul Family Meal A Yaqui Grass House 7AMFwUk. -iPl-Hfc 1 -fe. -glW SSBSmmSSm and shipped the fifteen hundred milu journey to Mexico Citj , unloaded at night, ninrcbed across town to the narrow gauge road and reshipped to a port on the Gulf of Mexico, another three hundred miles Thence hi steamer they were taken to a Yucatan port to pass under the sign, "All hope abandon ye," into that bondage from which, no peon is ever released. These slaves were captives of "war" made upon the "tame" Yaqnis lling peacefully in their villages, tending their fields of cotton and corn. None, it l wtd, were of the warrior branch, and it is one of tb deep mysteries of the Yaqul code that eren when the raids were being made upon the tame branches of the tribe the fierce-warriors of the hills did not come to their rescue in sufficient numbers to prevent their capture and transportation. There Is a deep reaaon for this somewhere, some-where, and It lies in the jraditions of the triDe which calla for the protection o( their mountain stronghold at all hnzards. Huggine: the Secret. There seems to be no recent evidence that tho Ynqu's aro washing the gold mines In the beds they hold so securely. It seems rather that, knowing the gold thirst of the Mexican or tho white man, they will not leave their base of operations opera-tions unprotected. Having hold this bno for nearly four hundred known ye.ir and probably for a thousand years befora that, they hug the secret of the gold deposit? ns an asct of the tribe, n tho belief that if tangible evidence of gold mining opera, tions were to bo displayed ench persist-e-ut war might be made upon them that their entire tribe would be killed or en-euved, en-euved, a so many of their tamer roerj-bers roerj-bers hnve been. They hare seen rhelr brothers, with v.Ives and nwh children ua vero old enough to bear burdens, tnken away they know not whither uevcr to return, and they have stoically refused to further fur-ther ne.ikeu their position as au Indian nation by exposing their reserve force to the chances of war. Botter that every tame Yaqui should be enslaved than that the secret of their fathers should bo betrayed. be-trayed. lf Ihe V.tqul can Icnrn with definite-new definite-new which Bide of the present Mq.t!ein fiU J- haimt dH bj tn i" -flULaUd Yaqui Women with those who sold their brothers into slavery i the tribe may appear in the contest, con-test, and in such case the course of the struggle may lead them to uncover their baso nnd something definite may bo liarned about the treasures of the Moun-tains Moun-tains of Mystery. One of the shadowy traditions which refer to these mines Is that sonic of the tribe were impressed by the Spaniards into mining operations nt an earlier day and as a remit of this nt ltast one great shnft hus been dug into the bowojs of the mountain a diagonal shaft mora than two thousand (eet in depthwith criss-orofjj criss-orofjj hidden of notched timbers reaching the entire distance from the surface to! the bottom. It is told that the ore hns' been carried, as in the old Spanish min ing, in eacks on Jie backs of miners front tho bottom to & P an thero run through such crude reduction processes as the Spaniards used three hundred years ago, nnd the product is stored awny In some bidden reccw In the mountnins. There seems to be no method of tracing trac-ing this tniditlo to'any relinula nourcc, but it would be in uecon! with the queer antics of this virile tribe to carry on in secret such an industry with some end In view of whigh none may cen guess, unices It bo the end of accumulation, which seems to have n high place in the i method of people much further advanced iu civilization than the uuconqycrod Yaqui of Sonora. But tho mind cnr-tonMr Lurm to ti slave trade carried on in the early years J of this presQUt century; the trade and its profits. It Is quite well known who tbq I men wero that ordcrea tho raiding and shipping. The Yaquis arc peculiarly well adapted to m.ike profitable Yucatan field laborers. They posse.ss a capacity I for enduring labor that is probably unequalled un-equalled by any people In tho world.. They are practically impervious to heat and can toil all day in the scorching tropi-l cnl sun without peix-cptiblo fatigue. They I nro schooled to a lifo of narrow rango and no comforts, so they can Mittain tho horrorn of the Yucatan stockade in which tho field laborers arc herded for the night. The Ynqui laborer it a wolcomo slave for tho planter nud should hrlug n good j price. Trniirportntlon for tho long dis- , lance bnb been worth something doubt- ( less, but iu carload lots tho rates are ' lower, and perhaps tho government has . been willing to pay the freight just to be rid of that uurohor of YnqulH in Sonora. , On tho whole tho transaction has clearly r been a profitable one for somebody. A Virjle Race, Beyond nil question the Yaquis arc a r wonderful people, else they could not have held their Ideutity intact all these l hundreds of ioars without noticeable " v deterioration, Their number remain 0 ubout the s.tmo as when tho early Spanish Span-ish explurora reported upon them in f' 1031, barring the inroads of tho slavo trader in recent years. Scattered L ilvuwi iiiu - -Lc of Sonora there arcjp An Old Warrior ., . vatcd the rich oil. The significance Iu English of the word Yaqui is "chief." I It certaiuly seemed to be u nation acknowledged as such, for no other In-, diao tribe cared to molest them Theyi were raising corn and cotton nnd wcav-, ing cotton cloth long before the oldest city of the United States, St. Augustine, wojj founded. Thoy made a treaty with Spu in 1610 which stood for lo0 jcars.. Tho next troaty hvstcd twenty-foui years, and the next sixty years. Thei encroachments upon their land becanu more frequent, and with Mexican independence, inde-pendence, more outbreaks. History notci . Yaqui wars from 1S25 to 1001, and yel the tribe seems not to diminish in uura- hera. The four ancient tribas of Sonora, 9 of wb.ch traces yet remain, are tb; a Mayos, the Punas, the Pnpagos and the 1 Yaqui. All vcro rclnted in habits nnd lnngtingc, but none of the other tribe ? retain their identity. They mixed and jwcpo lost. : When the first Spanish Missionary went to the Yuyili cpiintrj following the treaty of 1010 ho found tho tribo with no deep I sented beliefs to uproot. Lie was soon . I followed by others and innny Spanish jol- Idiurs, nil of whom acted in concert in con-I con-I verting the Yaqul to tho Catholic faith, ' in which one of, the most practical tenets. ) nt the timu was work in the mines of the i Spaniards From 1G10 to 17-10 the Ynquls, foi the most part, led peaceful lives. Converted 1 to the Catholic faith, the; did not conslder it necessary to abandou thedr cherished customs, so they carried on a mixture of Christian and pngnn prnctlccs. Crosses divided honors with Indian charms on their persons. On Sundays they drnced in tho open squares of tho villages around a pole which bore the image of n saint and; was surroundod by candles. Only the men danced, the women pqunttlng around. Tho men tied shells around tholr ankles and shook gourds tilled with pebbles as thoy danced to tho music of drum and rccd. Those "paieolo" feasts might last for two or three days, and much bujlratat and mescal Avcre consumed. The waternwlou wns also a favorite. The men niada masks of pklns to imltnto certain animals. j' But no part of this performance was I for the unmarried women. A strict watch i was kept on them chat no Indiscretion or ' .flirting should mar the occasions. The most innocent ki;id of love-making was t .punished by the stocks, nud Inter on by I Imprisonment for a fqw dnye. For real H lovcmnklng, leading up to marriage, thu H pnnishment was quite the same, but ax ' H accepted as a matter of course. Matches H might have been arranged by parents when H the contracting parties were but infants, IH and yet the announcement or the dls- H cotery of a betrothal was treated as a H misdemeanor. Immediately after the H punishment the. pair were wrdded in no- IH cordancc with the rites of the Catholic H Church. H No less peculiar and quite as pagan H was the pleasant arrangement by which H husbands exchanged wives on feast days. H No Yaqui could refuse to participate in H the custom or he would incur the enmity H of the tribe. The exchange lasted for H the period of the feast whether one, two H or thre: days, hut divorce was unknown. These customs and many other pe- H culinr Yaqui schemes, gradually lost H their hold upon the tribe, as frequent wars for preservation of their villages gave a sterner turn to their live. With H the final destruction of tho villages ' H fiectn? or feasts played a minor rrtle or H disappeared Whether the organized H warrior Yaquis iu the mountains are keeping up the ancient practices is un- known, as is everything else associated with the branch of the clan that holds M the H How long will the plcturosque Yaqui remain and retain his identity upon .the stirring stage of current events? M How lone villi the secret of the gold H in the mountains of mystery be kept from H slaking the gold thirst of mankind? M Effects of the General Electric H Light Bath on the Organism. H THE general hath of elrctnc light. M which is tr-keu in a large cabinet with M its walls lined with electric lamps, has H been especially recommended against H obesity. It is a method which is certainly cnicacious if kept within the limits of the M rOlc it is fitted to fulfil. It should be con- M sidered as an adjunct to the dietary which is intended to conduce to Ioys of weight and also as a preparation for habits of H hygiene and muscular exercise, which H alone are capable of preventing relapse. H Some minutes after entering the electric light bath sudation begins The sensa- H lion of cutaneous heat is, as a rule, well supported, and in the majority of cases H the impression is agreeable rather than H otherwise, but after the lapse of vnr.ving H intervals it is not so -nell tolerated, and H it is neccssnry to dtcrense the number of H lamps or even to suspend the Vance." H The resistance of different subjects varies with the same apparatus. Some- can snp- H port fifteen minutes and others sixty min- H utcs of application. H After the sC-ance some operators rccom- H mend the patients to he down welt H wrapped up iu a blanket in order to allow H the sudorific action to be prolonged. Oth- H ers, on the contrary, give c tepid or cold IH douche nnd apply massage treatmenL l The p.'itionts should be woighed before H nnd after the bath. If tho subject is too H intolerant of the electric light treatment H to produce any nppreciablq loas of weight H hy sudaiion, and ifVlic does not become H more tolerant after a few i-Cances, there H Is no need to be iushtent. ' The loss of H weight ought to be -00 to u00 grammes at H least. Strict supervision of the weight should be insisted uikhi as iudisiicnssble for the next few days. H . .ji iuL' lusi ol wciKiu is nni continuous jH the reason is that the patient's appetite. J under the inlluence of the treatment, has H I increased nnd he has been unablo to re- sirt it or that assimilation has improved. H Under theso conditions it is well to sus- ' pcud this method of treatment, which 'cannot giro tho desiicd result, except with j very long seances, that might lead to ex- : liuustion and consequent inconvenience. j The frequency of the seances may vary Jin geuer.il three a week will be enough. !They may be coutimtcd until thii subject has reduced his weight to the normal for H his age and size. But generally the H treatment may be stopped sooner by pre- l scribing a series of graduated physical IH exercUcs for the patient, provided the latter couscuts to practise them thor- oughly. H It should be understood that electric H light baths alone do not euro 0DCtj. H TltQ electric Hgbt tteatment cats etttc- lively ui reducing tljo weight approxi- H matcly to the normal, but it is iudia- H peiuablo that a tpecialy appropriate diet- H ary find system of hygiene should he re- H lied upon to prevent the reappearance of H nutrition troubks. IH Calcutta Has Largest Water H Tank in the World. H THE water supply system of Cal- cutta includes the largest water tank In the world. It covers an area of H two nnd one-third acre&, and the total M weight, yhcn it b full of water. Ia 72.00U H tons. There are thirty-two miles of steel M joLstfl in tho vertical columns. nnd brae- ngif, and in tho foundations rwenty uiilun A steel joists nnd tie bars. H The capacity of the tank i.s D.900,000 jallons of wator. The tank acts a a. H alancr and to assist the pumps when H hoy cannot sc-nd eufficlent water Into' H he mains to meet the demand. Dur- ng tiic night. houra, when the pumps pro- ide mote water thnn In required, the ex- JH ss quantity goes Into tho tank; when JM hu demand is greater the water from the ank flows automalicaliy into the maluk H |