The San Francisco call., 1896-08-03

was general favorite in her class, of which
she was vlce-president. Mrs. Carpenter is a
Daughter of the Revolution, and is a dire CT
descendant of John Alden and Priscilla. She
is the second graduate of Mills College to re-
ceive the degree of bachelor of laws. Mr.. and
Mrs. Carpenter have just sailed for Havre, and
will spend two months cycling in France On
their return Mrs. Carpenter will commence
the practice of her profession.
''There is law in Mexico called sla ley
fuga,'" said Peter Negro, an old mining man
from Minas Prietas, Mexico, as he sat by a
window in the Baldwin Hotel and watched the
cars and the people come and go on Powell
street. "1t is the runaway law for the execu-
ton of murderers. The man is escorted out
into the hills and then he is set free. But all
about secreted in convenient places are armed
men who shoot him down before he can
escape. They do not hang murderers in Mex
leo. Then they dig hole and bury the man
right where he fell. The whole country is re-
mark ably lawapiding now and this practice
has not been resorted to very lately. There is
little crime, and robbery. except petty thefts,
is almost unknown in my part OF the conn-
try. Minas Prietas is seventy-five miles from
the port of Guaymas on the Gulf OF Call
fornia, and is fifteen miles from Torres, a
station on the railroad 10 Guaymas. Every
month 1 make long trips on horseback, often
with large sums of money, to pay the men
"The money is all in Mexican pesos ana l
carry it in saddle-bags. ride alone thirty OF
forty miles through mountainous country
without any fear of being molested. That Is
what mean by saying there is little crime. IL
is known, too, that carry money. The Pres1-
dent of Mexico has succeeded somehow in Sc
curing q condition of peace that cannot be
found anywhere in this country.
eyes, the Yaqui Indians fight, but l do not
mean them. About three months ago Colonel
F. Privado met the Yaquis at Round Mountain
and there was a regular hand-to-hand fight.
The troops were travelling around the noun
tain one way and the Yaquis happened to be
coming around the other way. Twelve Yaquis
were killed and about twenty were wounded,
not including those that may have been packed
away by their companions. There are still
about seventy Yaquis up in the mountains.
about forty-fve miles south of Minas Prietas.
You see the Yaquis used to control the land
along the Yaqui River, very fertile valley.
and for fifteen years now they have been
breaking out and fighting to get it back. Well,
there are just those seventy left
"Minas Prletas is a settlement of $500 peo-
ple and embraces several mining camps. Eight
months In the year we have the finest climate
in the world; for the other four months it is a
regular hell. The temperature then is la
and lis degrees. This year felt it more than
ever before.
sI would like to see silver go up, but think
there is too much of il for that. 1t cannot
rise in value. Mexico is full of silver and
there are more mines than are now known.
Yes, there is money in silver mining. When
you get fifty or sixty ounces of silver and some
gold along with 1t it pays. know a man over
on the Yaqui River who is taking out $40, 900
to $500 a month in silver and gold; per-
haps $4,000 of it is gold.
Everything is taken up around Minas
Prietas for miles and good deal of it is no
good. The Minas Prietas and the Criston are
the two big mines. The output of all these
mines is 800 tons day right along. All the
mechanics, engineers and foremen are Ameri-
cans although the Minas Prietas is owned by
an English syndicate. The Criston has a shaft
1000 feet deep and is running two mills-one
forty-stamp and the other thirtystamp. 1t
is owned by Cleveland tOhio) company"