The Opelousas courier., 1885-10-10
THE TERROR OF SONORA.
Career OF Cajen1e, Chief of the
| Yaquis Indians.
Once a Mexican Colonel and Now Bidding
Defiance to the Government.

The City of Mexico THO Republics
has the following sketch Of the career
Of Caieme the successful leader of the
Yaqui Indians in their instruction
against the Mexican government in
Sonora:
While the world is wondering at the
singular success which has placed Ell
Mahdi on the babaric throne of the
Soudan, Mexico has apparently found
her mahdi in the person of Jose Marie
Cajeme, who holds a sceptre OF terror
over Sonora as the Mohammedan
chieftain does over the Soudan. Ca
jeme, chief of the Yaqui and Mayo In
dams, was born in 1912, in the tiny
town of TORN. on the banks of the
silent Yaqui river, which creeps to the
Pacific from Sonora's heart of forest.
His parents were Pantaleon Leiya Ca
jeme and Hilaria Buitemea, the latter,
his mother, being known yet through
that country us the sibyl. From earliest
boyhood Cajeme took to the chase, and
refused to work on a farm when he
could COT the deep forests with his
bow and arrows. When thirteen
years of age he ran away from home,
and from that day his life was a CON
slant, restless march, a Bohemian exis%
lance. He entered the service of J. Il.
Bourse, an American miner at AlaGos,
a town on the projected Alam5s and
Mazatlan railroad. Wine an11wonan
loon drew their chains about him, and
ired by jealousy and drink he drew
MS first human LloodFby stabbing
Abraham Jollman, who was Mr..
Bourse's steward. He then fled.
In 1872, when the governor of Son
Ora, Ignacio Hesqueri, started out to
assist the government of the neighbor-
ing state of sinalor against the revo-
luton headed by the bloody Marquee,
Cajeme joined the state troops. Dur
ing the campaign he gave proof of
great valor and Of uncommon military
skill, and was made a colonel in the
Mexican army. During leisure mo-
ments Of the campaign he learned to
read and write, for he never would 60
to school; he did not even know the
alphabet when he entered on this ex-
citing period of his life. When peace
was established Cajeme returned to
his home, preceded by an uncommon
fame. At this time Julio Moroyoqui,
nicknamed The Jaguar. ruled the
Yaquis. He was one of the most
sa%nguinary caeiques of Mexican histo-
ry and known as the American Nero.
Moroyoqui confirmed the rank of colo
mel earned by Cajeme in the govern
ment army, and the latter soon bent
his extraordinary talents to REFRESHING
disorders in the government of the
former. Little by little Cajeme &C.
quired popularity, and the Indian
camps soon become too narrow a the
atre for two such men. One day Ca
jeme with ten picked men surrounded
the palace of the Jaquar. and going in
assassinated him, and was immediate
ly proclaimed his successor in power, a
place he has since held.
While in Nayajoe he solicited in
marriage the hand of a dark-eyed belle
of that town, the daughter of a rich
His suit refused, Caieme
reiterated in good order" and went
back to the Yaqui river, thinking that
time would ameliorate his suffering.
he made up his mind to
see the girl, Juana Narvaez, and he
on a dark night and in dis
guise to visit her. On the way he
was ambushed by r. J. Castro, a
brother chief, who was his rival for
the possession of the Mexican Helen. |
handed he killed Castro and
three of his men, besides wounding
and arrived, bleeding from
several wounds, at the feet of Juana
Narvaez. She fled from her home ia
his company. Since that time Caieme
has led a fugitive life, amid his band
Of Indian warriors, and has defied the
power of the Mexican republic, among
The mountains and marshes of Sonora.
Cajeme is well built, has herculean
muscles, regular features with a saw
age air impressed upon them, and has
brusque, abrupt manner. He is a
splendid horseman; has saved his own
life on several occasions by his fleet
and excellent swimming quail
He has an unconquerable will,
q presence of mind which never de-
serts him, and a courage which bor-
1ers on temerity.
Killed By Metordc stones,
Considering the number of meteorie
which reach the earth's surface
i would not be surprising il many