Ogden Evening Standard | 1913-01-18 | Page 5 | John Hays Hammond, American Miner and Millionaire, Has Plan to Pacify Warlike Yaquis, Whom Mexico Can't Subduf

JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, AMERICAN MINER AND MILLIONAIRE, HAS p PLAN TO PACIFY WARLIKE YAQUJS, WHOM MEXICO CAN'T SUBDUK lubn lln.ii Ilamruuorf nnd u u,--, of ladtaua hum b'd anlidur. John Hays Hammond, Amerlcuri miner and mllllonaJre, has askod the Mexican government to permit him to go, unarmed and unaccompuni.d except by an interpreter, into the mountainous ctronghold of the Yai"l InJIuns In Senora to pacify that war. j Ilka and apparently ungovernable tribe. The Jlexlcan governrnent has fought tho YsajuIh for thirty years. , but the YaquJa aro still unconquei.u Mr Hammond antlclUQtcs no (JUficul- ' ty In obtaintng the pcrmleaion Wbtch he deaire iiosa tflc 4iro aovurv;- - ment Hia program la based on the fik b.;llrf that, as a result ot his life and E work In Mexico many yars ago. th th understanding between him and tha Hf Yaquls la so thorough as to obviate 1 the risk uf bLs being Injured or killed. k Major Uurnbam, the lamous Amerl- K." can and South African scout and L fighter. 'vtIII accompany him L. "The YaquLa," Mr. Uammord x- V plains, "aro a; good workoxa aa they K.. uro lighters. And their naa of hf.n- Pt or is as highly dava-loped as that of & any peopto !a tho world. That la why L I am confident that thy would not p harm me if I wsnt Into their etrong- t holds on an errand of p$oce " p