The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-06
WHOLESALE POISONING.
$500 Brazilian Indians Poisoned-5,oo
More To Be Killed.


More To Be Killed.
New YORK, May 5.--0n April 10 the Herald
published from its regular correspondent in
Rio Janciro, Brazil, an account of an alleged
poisoning of large number Of Brazilian In
dams by one Senior Joaquin Bueno, whose
name, judging from the character of the
statement ought rather to have been Malo.
The story showed that Bueno had already
poisoned 8, 500 Indians and was moditating
the murder OF 5000 more. The HerGlds cor
respondent stated that he merely gave the
news as rumor from the Sac Paulo frontier
and that there was then no opportunity of
verifying it.
According to the Sac Paulo weekly, the
PduliStd, OF Taubate, there was something
more than mere rumor in the premises:
When some days ago we read in the papers
that the worthy Bishop of Goyaz had en-
gagged several missionaries and acquired
books for the purpose OF teaching and con-
verting the Indians of our backwoods little
did we think that at Paranapanema certain
Senior Joaquin Bueno was also carrying out
q conversion OF a different kind among the
Guaymas Indians, surrounded with the
greatest horrors. A person recently arrived
from the west, who deserves our entire con-
fdence heard Senior j. Bueno himself re-
late In the presence of the ministerial judge
of Lencoes and OF other persons the follow
ing exploits achieved by him against the
| poor Indians:
Bueno, who resides at Sac Jose dos Cam
pos Novos, stated that he had under his or
ders about seventy people employed in the
persecution and determination of the In
| dams. Some DAYS ago they attacked a viii
lage and put 10 Eight all the Indians, who
abandoned to their prosecutors their huts,
which were inhabited by bodies Of ten TO
twenty Indians, who sleep on raised plat
| forms made of logs fastened together so that
from the beds, when all are counted, the
| number of the inhabitants contained in each
village can be ascertained when they are abb
sent
Around each Of these villages there are
three wells or holes; one, the deepest, is the
well which supplies them with water, in
another they keep drink made OF fermented
maize, which they call 'piksi," and which
composes their wine or rum, and in the last
they preserve game, birds and salt fish for
| their subsistence.
As soon as the assaiants found themselves
| in possession of the village, being furnished
with n considerable amount OF strychninc,
they set about poisoning all the wells con.
i tanning water, wine and provisions, and
after putting into execution this treacherous
deed, withdrew without touching anything
else.
some DAYS aftervard Bcuno and his fol
lowers returned 20 the village, and even
| from distance comprehended the horror OF
| the sight from clouds OF crows lowering
over the site OF the crime, where they found
stark and scattered 5000 corpses.
Now this Is not only the acme OF coward
ice, as well as the most repugnant OF out
RIGGS, there being no doubt that Senior
Bueno related this with great glory, stating
| that whoever exterminated such q race witt
a view Of taking possession OF their terri
| tories which required being occupied by civ
| ilizcd people, was deserving Of great praise
The crimes do not end here. Days after.
ward they attacked and exterminated
another village Of 400 Indians, on which oc
| casiOn, having no strychnine, they made ust
| of sublimated mercury In the same manner
poisoning the deposits OF water, wine and
| provisions, and at the time OF speaking they
were preparing 10 attack another village oil
| 5000 Indians
This senior J. Bueno, who might we'll b.
called Joaquin "Malo," states that he is sup
ported by influential people and by five
provincial deputies.
| II still in time Il Is the duty OF the prov
incial government 20 prevent the horror
planned for the next attack, the description
OF which we have here recorded, In favor o.
these unfortunate nomads and for the sham'
OF the human species.
by the Rio Norcnse journal published u
Rio Noyo, the story Is treated rs canard
because u declares there are no Indians II
the Campos Noyos district, yet u praises hi
grace Of IGoyaz for sending missionaries int
the district What are the missionarie
needed for Il there are no Indians1
Meanwhile the Journal de Cummercio, 0
Rio Joniero, explains that the government
will investigate the matter thoroughly AM
mako known the result.