The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-08-09

the Government. In case VI
the contrary. he may draw supplies
and money for expenses, and large
part NAV then find its way 10 pIlNdte
pockets without chance CT discover;
The only nation on which CaroU 80
think of making war was lne oqu'
then partly living on their resei 80,
nartlv distributed over Sonora, ArlZolia
and even New Mexico as WORKERS ~
the field and in the mines. Al lnal
time the YaQuis were governor Wy
chief called Cajemi, an nohesl ad
skiIlful man, generally estee1heu ali d
against whom no one hdu 90 fo,,I1d
any complaints. General cargo touliu
as a pretext that Cajemi had not tuio
filled the Mexican law regarding tne
partition of the land and prousnl
against him other trumped-up chdr see.
Without any right Whatever Cat ~
Yaquis, enc who was an outlaw az az
outcast from his own tribe. cargo
promised this man every help IL ~
could Dust Cajemi and bring ABOUT as
much disturbance as possible Inns he'
chief and desperate got together
small band of dissatisfied Indians ana
without warning surprised Ca0einl
wife and children and murdered lneL
in cold blood. Cajemi himself was ap-
sent from home at the time or ne
would have shared the tate oA MS
family. 1901,
Cajemi at once prepared to attack
the marauders. when to his and every
! body's establishment he found them
backed by the Mexican Federal 6oN-
eminent, through General Caroo.
Carlo put 1000 men in the helu
against Cajemi but was signally De
feated in two open battles. The war,
once begun, could not be stopped ana
ragged with more or less activity IoI
fourteen years. Cajemi was at last
enticed into palaVer with cargo VINO
! Cajemi shown himself before ne Wds
/ captured and shot and some Oh MS
principal men were slain with him.
This, of course, did not stop the war
Other chiefs took up the strife, only 10
/ pay with their life for their foolharuI-
/ ness And so the war dragged on II
! cost the Mexican Government mllhons
/ and millions of dollars and thousanos
of men. How many soldiers were killed
/ in the last war no one knows or ever
will know with any certainty, pul low
/ estimate gives the number as 1ooO SOL
/ diers laid low by Yaqui bullets every
! year. For fourteen years TINS Woulu
mean over 20, 900 men. The mexican
! Government was obliged to keep
standing army at San Marclal OF De
| tween three thousand and four thou,
| sand men, and comparatively rev oI
! these ever returned TO the otdte AioiAi
! which they came.
| on the other hand the Yaquis num-
bered at the beginning of the war about
/ thirty thousand men. When IN 1oS'
peace was made there remained only
! ten thousand 4aquls.
The tactics of the Yaquis are to attack
| suddenly and to ambush and 1mmedl-
ateIv after the assault to run back INTO
! the mountains where no one can Ioi-
/ low them. After a YaQui has fought Tor
some time he suddenly becomes a
peaceful Indian and leaves the terri
/ tory in which the war RACES: Inns nap
pens when his ammunition is all spent
! he must then provide himself with
more. This he does by working In Ar1-
/ IONA and New Mexico, as in these
[ places he can procure arms win MS
/ savings and return when ne mas
! enough. When he has accu1nui stl
/ enough he returns by passing from
| Arizona through the Sierra Madre
/ Wilderness where he is free from SOL
/ diers' bullets and from observing eyes
/ and when least expected he turns up
/ fully equipped with munitions TO carry
! on the war. ,,z.,...,.
/ boast that some reports have made him
! o,It to he He is brave, industrious and
! naaceful. he does not torture his prlS-
| oners. but neither does he allow them 10
! escape. The Yaqui looks upon the ma
| tive Sonoran as his friend and brother'
! and both Sonorans and Americans are
| raraIv the subject of his attack. But
! the Mexican soldier, who is always
/ drafted from some distant state, is al
Wavs the especial object of his hatred
| and considered as his mortal enemy.
In 1897 peace was mace with the
yanuis The Government promised
+ben certain sum of money and they
in trrn agreed to have their land sur
/ I,o1ed and partitiOned. During the
! last two years the Yaquis have quietly
! been working in the mines OF Sonora
and Arizona and have saved their earn
! inps in order to procure arms to renew
| ~ var Whatever will be the out
/ come of the war it Will be most ruin
o,s one for Sonora. II the 1aqu1s are
! exterminated as the reports tell US
! is the intention of General Torres, then
| the effect will soon be felt IL VII! mean
! the determination of the manual labor
| In Sonora: it will mean the Gripping
! of her wheat and mining industries:
/ Tho MEXICAN Government could we'll
| have afforded TO allow the 4aqu1s to
| ramain in possession OF their land as
| their value as laborers is many many
| times greater than the price that can
| he realized by selling their land. Sonora
! &c country with immense resources,
! with enormous tracts of fertile soil
where almost anything might be grown
proftably Such crops as wheat, sugar
| cane beans, corn, oranges; oates
neaches. apricots and many other fruits
are hardly surpassed anywhere. What
! Sonora requires is not the Yaqu1 terri
torv hut development of it's own irri-
cation facilities.
The present Governor of Sonora is
ono of the most farseeing and enlight-
ened and peaceful men in Sonora. and
it is a great pity that the settlement of
tho Ya0ui trouble could not have been
| left with the civil authorities instead
of with the War Department. Sonora
| can we'll afford to dispense with the
Yaoui country, but it cannot afford to
| kill off the Yaquis.
MhYnc MAY I0IN