El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-04
i'm OF surpriss The Yaqui warriors are

parties have defended mOunta1u6 pass
es ag ainst hundred, of Mex cans, until
every one of them had been killed. In
the summer OF 1892, thirty Yaqui wo
men 10 mems clothes were found al
diff rent times among the dead after
q night sskirmish. The youths are
taugot to becnme shsrp-shOoters at Is,
and at 20 they are generally experts.
Tney have bought thousands OF i'm
proved Winchester rifles from Amer
leans and they have been known to go
without food to get CARTRIDGES.
Toe mode Of warfare between the
Mexicans aud the Yaquis was strang }.
For moaths at q time the Mexlcao
troops would be Withdrawn from the
wo aid come down from the mount ,ins
aud go out to work, for the miners aad
rAncomeo 10 Son IRA. Their labor at
such times has enabled them TO keep
themselves supplied with arms add
ammunition. They would seex en-
Payment ran h h .n1s, miners, or
track hands on the railroads. and as
sOon as suffic e. ut mon y had bee saved
to buy q Repeating r fl or Ca bins and
y supply of ammunition they would re-
turn 70 the Is OF their fight, rs. 10
500 N q, VIII were regul .rly dri led.
aud presen e at the hoal sur -ende :
last Julya rem srksbly soldierly sp-
D sa-auce. Yaqul boys xnd ri |, have
worked IN the xra n fields for 10 ants
day each, aud have saved their
mon-y to send to father who was an
the Yaqui army. Another feature of
The war mas be n that tn. va Iuis have
not scalped and mutil .tsd the d lad,
~ they have not harmed noo-com.
batAnts. They have p under d ha Il. n
40 drix nff tf,o M 10 hnf
o~ners have zone unhurt. They
would not permit prosr ec"rs in The
N .'untaios, but they permitted Am-r-
,cans and Others hsvi"g min ing bust
n -ss on the Yaqui river and in the
mountain- beyond to cross freely. A
~elltraveled ad leads from o tiz
station 10 the upptr Yaqui river, pa-s-
ing through the Bacat ,te mountains,
whicn were their re u &c, yet no traio
and no travel r. on toat road was ever
mol sted by Ysquis.
Theic mo t famous chief was G 'jemi.
He WAS of Indian .igia and was Urn
in Hermo ,illo in 1873. He had good
C 'mmon school education, asc'm
p ,nied his + her to c. ifOroia in the
gold ex lit ment in 1852, and learne
t speak E ,glisn 10 the two yea he
v.d 10 Nevada comfy. In 1854 a
patty OF Freochmeu in San Francisco
o gsnizei q fi,ioustering expedition
TO Guay mas. Mrx,co. Young Clients
ed him to join it. Toe Mexic ans de-
fes ed the exp dltion in a week after
3 arriva', aud Cajemt got away to sea
aud ESCAPED the imnediats executions
tn Attn Freuchmsu suffered. Ioayesr
Cal .mi joined the Mexican army
ana served in it Tor twenty years H.
was p ain At 81 aud q colOne, at %.
He wou d b ave been general but for
bis undip lomatic and indep snd snt
W ,ys. He was depu,ej to 60 among
his o Sn people in the Yaqui county
and act as q governor there for the
republic of Mexico. In 1875. after he
had -erved as governor for three years
he was suddenly ordered to return to
his regiment at Vera Cruz.
He refused TO obey the orders and
proclaimed the YaQuis a free nation,
with himself at the had. Immediate
ly Gen. Pesqueira, governor OF Sonora,
8 ant an army aga nst hin. Cajeml
met it with 800 men, and although
defeat d, Inflicted puoisnmsnt 80 -e
we're that the M-xicsns could not fol-
low HIM. In 1878 anoth.r Mexican
-rmy va. sent against G jemi. That
force c .jemi me. wi b 1900 men of
Capste maya on the Mayo yer, and
suc:ee led in stopping the advances of
tn, M.xic4ns. 10 1880 C. j-mi led his
trIbs to victory in Ugh. IN tile
valley near CaIieute. Toere the Mex
leans, with four men to ons of the
Yaq1is, lost 300 soldiers and the
Ysquis only l50. Cal mi WAS now at
the height of his popul arIty among his
people. For the next two years h..
conducted q constant guerrilla war
ia-e.
In 1883 Csjemi intrenched himself lie
the San Mi kuel mpuutains aud foiled
every effort to dislo t9e or lure him o IT
into open battle Finally q priest, the
god father of C,jem''s 1il iren, W mt
to the mountains. as repres 9nted t. :
G .Jem' that Gen. Martinez, in con-
m and of the Mexican tr ops, va. d.
sirous of p sace and would m axe terms
9 satisfactory to the Indians. After
much PERSUASION aud under q flag of
Cajemi accompanied the priest t. the
vallev TO tie It with Martinez. Til
& ner Il, not koowinx how the Ysqui
Oh eff had cone there, had him arrest
ed. There vas q curt martial. ca jemi
WAS fou"d guilty Of ire ,son and he VA
shot. Fer several years afte ward
travellers along the road could ace the
cross ma king the scene of C-jemi'-
death, while little distance away
there was clea'iog IN the brush
where stood fifty other cro-ses marking
the graves of Mexican soldiers whom
he b % ambush-d.
The YaQuis were furious when they
learned Of the way ir chief had
been iured from bis stronghold and
put to des'h T ey chose 10 his pl ace
an eide ly sub-ch 'ef His fret cam
paigu to revenge the exc .ution OF
Cal mi is remembered with horror
among the Mexicans withio 100 or $50
miles of the limits OF the Ysqui
country. S veral hundred rauchm-n,
minerl, trave lers aud soljie-s were
backed to death. 1t is said in Mexico
that In their frst rage the Ysquis
spared no women and child rem, but t. 9
chief later called to accru,t every one
who participated in such atrocities.
The nav chief. Tetabiase, was more
than Csjemi. Oic> mis-
spies reported that a number OF Next
Gao sheep he d 'rs and vsqueros, who
had giv-n Ysqui secrets TO the armv
under Cen. Torres, were 10 the habit
OF swimming stream some seventy
miles suav from the Yaqui strong-
hold. Tetabia.e and thirty picked
men went there, 'rave ling secretly bv
night The Ysquis wsitei here days
and nights in a cbaparrsl, until sb nut