Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1881-07-09
MATTERS IN 1uAvMAs.
Fisstas and the Yaqui Indlans--Sam Brannsn
-0snsfsl Gossip.

EDITOR HERALD:-The heat
here has psrceptibly increased Of
late; aud, to use Lord Dundreary's
curseology, 1t ls id hot. The
Thermometers being scarce here, I
won't astonish your readers with
1907 In the shade and "sieh like
kind Of talk" but sufficient be 1t
for them to believe that Sacramen.
to is a little ice.chest compared to
the temperature we are now en-
during.
The feast Of San Juan which
commenced on the oath, has drawn
away from here most Of the
YaquIs who ordinarily are so con.
venient, to do heavy labor or odd
Jobs. They are now at the Yaqui
river, dividing their time between
superstitious mummerIes, which
they believe to be Catholicism, and
mescal, which we call alcoholism.
By-snd-by they will come back to
work hard all week and get pretty
Intoxicated from Saturday night
until Saturday afternooD! We
might consider this abnormal If 1t
did not happen that in California
we have similar examples every
week when the honest working
man places his horny grip upon
his hard.earned game. The San
Francisco Chronicle has q CORES.
poHdent who does not like Quay
mas or its population, and who
takes great exceptions at the dis
graceful habit of the people of this
port, to get, on what he calls "a |
general jamboree." This cores
pendent has frequented very funny
spots If he pretsnds to give true |
picture Of the Guaymas popula.
ton. It must be admitted that the |
Indians do imbibe pretty large
quantities of mescal on Saturday;
but, il this very clear-sigh cor.
respondent went any where but In |
the Yaqui quarter, I doubt n he |
could have seen much of what he |
talks about; so that, after all, the
peculiar habits of brother Lo were |
neither nuisance nor q sore In his |
eye. The correspondence to which |
1 refer appeared in the Sunday |
Chronicle OF the 18th inst. It Is,
without doubt,.a malicious publ.
cation; but as space prevents me
from fully ref1ting It, I will SIM
ply say that the story regarding a
Mr.. Lopez being shot at Alamos,
after having dared to claim re-
ward for causing the successful in.
generation or killing of the men,
bers OF robber band, is utterly
untrue and unworthy of BELIEF.
This ia not the first attempt made
by the San Francisco Chronicle to
throw discredit upon Guaymas,
through correspondents, but 1t 10
hard to find out what is the cause
of this sheets anlmoslty. A
The Sonora Railway Company
has not yet resumed tracklaying,
but there is now q sufficiency OF
ties on hand to allow the work to
60 on uninterruptedly until Her
mOsillo is reached. I think that
within few days tracklsying will
be resumed, and that we shall be
enabled to reach Hermosillo By
train within another month.
The rainy season is near ut hand,
and everyone will be glad to see
the waters of heaven once more,
cooling the parched ground and |
laying the dust.
About 800 men of the 9Th bat |
TALON OF Infantry are on the Ar.
zona border, projecting the border |
people from cowboy incursions, but
up to the present no conflicts have |
been reported. American troops
on the Arizona side are cooperating |
10 this campaign.
The TGx de AlamOs, the other
day, reported that the Supreme
Chief of the Yaqui Indians, q Harmed
at the threatening attitude Of the
Mexican Federal Government, had
offered to abdicate, but the other
chiefs ssembled In council refused
to let the mighty Gear, "Csjame,n
get away SO easily. They say, "you
urged US to resist and now that
things look queer you will have to
stand at the nelm to get US clear or
get shipwrecked with us.u The
Yaquis have really been very un-
ruly at the Rio for some time, and
% everything in the shape OF revo-
luton 10 now out of the question,
the Federal Government IL serious
~ thinking OF an expedition to tea n
these redskins that they must not
60 too far.
An American dentist, DIR. Earle