Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-19

eminent forces had defeated the Indians
with great slaughter, ard things would
simmer down to their state of normal quiet
TIL the GaquiS We're pcstered into whipping
the state troops again.
The Iaquis thrifty souls in the mat
ter of ammunition, and never shoot ofrhand
when they can shoot from rest, and they
never risk wasting cartridge on anything.
man or beast. at 100 yards if they can just
as well lay behind u rock and let their
quarry walk up to the muZzle of their gun.
Owing to their skill in stalking and trailing
they are usually able to bring this about.
l had Yaqui hunting for down III So
nora. He was employed az $50 a week and
given his ammunition. In two weeks he
used just one cartridge day and got
something, from an antelope to burro
deer, for every shot. He always used 10
carry two little sticks to use as a rest. He
would lay down fat on his stomach. cross
the sticks like a pair of scissors and rest
his old Winchester across the crotch. He
would spend hail DAY getting around
under the lee of a deer and then work up
the wind close enough to kill il with 4
rock. He would take anywhere from ten
seconds to five minutes to get a bead
drawn, but he knew just how much allow
ance to make for the way his crazy Old gun
would shoot around the corner, and when
he did pull the trigger ii was a mortal
cnch that he got what he after L
never had the patience TO watch his per-
Torrance bat once, and then with the and
of a pair of field glasses 1 saw the whole
performance from the tcp of an adjacent
ridge | don't think | ever knew of his
shooting at anything over fifty yards away,
and his prefert nce for much under
that range he could get From what the
Mexicans and the Indians themselves tClI
me, this is the general mode of both hunt
ing ana nShting among the Aaqui ard the
Fapago.
No Aboriginal Biu9 About This.
The Papago are. if anything. more ex-
pert truckers and hunters than the Yaqui.
An old Mexican rancher and Indian fighter
= m
could track man over hard ground by
moonlight and could follow n horse trail
by starlight. Any one can take that with
much allowance as they are minded, but
out once with party OF PapaSo trailers
who followed the track of a harcfooted
party of Seri Indians across eight miles of
desert that was hard i'll most places as
a concrete pavement and that showed no
more sign of footprint than a brick
sidewalk. That the trailing feat was not an
aboriginal bluff was proved by the fact
that the trailers brought up at a fresh fire
which the PARTY in question had just left.
The Mexican government has made
number of efforts to enlist the PaDago in
fighting the Iaqui, but the tribes are
friendly. They spring from the same Pima
stock and hunt and trade over the
country. There is not much likelihood that
the Papaso viii join the Yaqui in their up
rising, they a very good-natured,
peacefully inclined tribe, but they win not
fight against the Yaqui, and the chances
are that some of the younger bloods of the
tTiDe VIII slip away down the river ana
join the Iaqui fighters individuals for
the sake OF the excitement.
800 Serbs Are Plenty.
I'm view of the Mexican governments
present threat to extcrminate 1.-The Yaquis,
it is interesting to remember that they
have been for about 400 years threatening
to do the same thing to the Seri. There are
only about 800 of the Seri and never have
been very many more of them far as
rather unreliable official recor is state, and
there are some % 900 Yaquis Tia Mexican
government has sent numerous expeditions
into the Ser country, chased these agile
murderers into the mountains, and out to
their island stronghold of Tiburen in the
Gulf of California, but they are as prosper
Gus as and no nearer determination
than they were in the days of CorteZ and
ValeSQuez.
at is only justice to the Mexican troops
to say that in the present uprising the gov
eminent has thrown a considerable force
of regulars to the front and they NAV provo
a different breed of fighters from the state
guards. General Torres, the former COVER
nor of Sonora, who is at their head, is an
old and accomplished fighter, and worse
than all, so far as the Yaaui side of it goes
the government has called into requisition
the machine guns which modern military
science has proved to be invariably the
passing kneH of every sayapa foe"