The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-02
ARTILLERY AT GUAYMAs.
Troops Killed Forty Indians In the
Battle of July %.

Guaymas, Mex, Aug. 2.-The mail to
Potan from TORN was attacked by a
marauding band of thirty Yaquis and
fired on. The carrier escaped by hard
riding, abandoning the mail sack.
The same band met Don Lorenzo
Abeytia, wealthy haciendado and one
of the Oldest settlers of the valley, and
murdered him, mutilating his body.
Near Outagota, Captain Celso Aguilar
was attacked and badly wounded, but
succeeded in crawling off in the brush,
saving his life.
It is now known that in the second
battle General Torres lost fourteen SOL
diers, and the Yaquis forty-three The
wounded are being sent in to military
hospital at POtan.
The government considers its forces
at the scene of hOstiHties sufficiently
strong, and, although it has large gar
risons at Mazatlan and Acapulco, which
could be quickly sent there by sea on
the government transport Oaxaca, no
troops are being moved from those
points, nor from Durango or Chihuahua,
where there are also fair sized garri-
sons and which are the nearest points
to the place.
At Potan the citizens have formed
company Of eighty ninutemen to guard
the town every night. Wandering va
quis fired the outposts last night.
Almost the entire pOpulace rushed to
the defense of the outposts, easily driv-
ing the marauders back.
The mountain artillery and ammuni-
tiOn sent on the 2Sth from Chihuahua,
through Texas, reached Guaymas this
afternoon and was dispatched imme-
diately to Medano.
The force in the field at present is as
follows: Three hundred and twenty
men under General Luis E. Torres, chief
OF the military zone; 120 soldiers of the
national guard, and 125 volunteers from
Guaymas under General OterO. A de-
tachment of the state cavalry has been
sent to re-enforce Torres, who was fol-
lowing the Indians into the mountains
when he was reDOrte0 killed.
Reports confirming the murder of Lo-
renzo L. Torres, son of General Torres,
have been received, but the death of
Juan MaIdonado, alias Tetabiate, the
Yaquis' chief, lacks positive confirma-
ton.
The present trouble is the result of an
old difficulty between the Indians and the
principaIIy caused bV the constant en-
country is rich, and since gold has been
extensively discovered there, their lands
in 1896, when the Indians were pnt down
band of the YaquiS reached the mountains
located in Sierra del Bacatele, and defied
between the tribe and the governor of the
state Of Sonora, and the Indians returned
to their homes. They were given supplies,
oxen, etc. and seemed satisfied. Their
chief, Maldonado or Tetabiate, was given
command of a small body of soldiers. and
settled with the chief of the military zone,
Many young bloods, however. We're dis
satisfied especially in the Bacum reser-
walton on the Yaqui river, between Torin
and Concorit, where the trouble broke out.
Some time previous to July 21, the day of
the first difficulty, there had been dis
tprbanees in the -Bacum reservation. and
fighting between Indians and Tetabiate
was sent to Bacum to quell the distur-
bance- He has never been heard from,
but three Yaquis who were captured de-
clared he had been surprised and beaten
to death. Two of his Heutenants. Villa
and Espinosa, said he was killed while
trying, to preserve order, On the 22nd
one man and ten wounded. The Indians
have committed many depredations, but
no definite facts yet Obtainable They are
for most part poorly armed, many using
clubs and arrows.