Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-08-09
NO MORE THAN 200 RENEGADEs
YAQUI MINERS SAID To BE RETURN
ING TO THEIR MINES.
Another Dispatch Says Nearly 1000
Savages Are Mnssed at Bicam,
and That General Torres
Has Them Almost Com
pIeteIy Surrounded.

Ell PASO, TEX, Aug S.-Reports from
all sources in Southwestern Sonora up to
to-day indicate that the war with the Yaqui
Indians is confined to the immediate neigh
borhood where the trouble started south
and west of Torin, a month ago. Indians
engaged in the trouble are but few and do
not number more than 200. Among the
renegades are those who attacked the Gus
tom house at Nogales, Sonora, on the Ari-
zona line two years ago and were repulsed
with the aid of Americans in the Arizona
town of the same name. The killing of two
Americans by renegades near Torin three
weeks ago was in revenge for the part
taken by Americans in the Nogales affair.
The American mine owners and prospect
ors engaged in washing placer gold in nu-
merous streams now occasioned by the
rainy season on the headwaters of the
Yaqui river report that the Yaqu miners
are all returning to their mines and refus-
ing to take part with renegades. These
Yaqui miners, when the first heard of
trouble at TORN, all armed themselves and
went post haste to the Yaqui valley, sup
posing their people had been attacked un-
awares by Mexican soldiers. No Americans
on the Yaqui river, or along its headwaters,
have been molested. Many untruthful re-
ports from border points have been sent
out by newspaper correspondents. Official
reports from Hermosillo to General Diaz
are to the effect that renegades are being
hostly pursued and will be scattered or de-
stroyed by cavalry detachments in a few
weeks.
GUAYMAs. MEXICO. Aug. s-General
Torres has almost completely surrounded
Bicam, Yaqui stronghold where nearly
1000 savages are massed. On the arrival of
the artillery and the machine guns the
Mexican general will close in on the In
dams and precipitate the biggest battle
ever fought between the government and
the Yaqui.
The reports from General Torres regard
ing the killing of Remley and Miller say
their bodies were found handing from a
tree with the hide and feet cut off The
uprising reaches down the Yaqui river to
the sea, and 1t is not expected to extend
further north than the Sahuaripa district
The government now has nearly 5000 men
in the field. Two hundred volunteers left
Guaymas for Medano tonight On the
steamer Jalisco. A fight is expected on
entering the Yaqui river with a large band
of savages that last week attacked and
burned three sloops.
Business at Guayama and other points
in Southern Sonora is practically at
standstill in consequence of the rebellion.
freighting done with the Yaqua valley, but
has led many MeXicans of the city to re-
treat beyond the projects call for volun-
teers.
Peter B. Chisem, a prominent American
merchant at Guayama and one of the sign
ers of the treaty made by the Mexican
government made by the Yaquis in 1897. de-
ciares the Indians have been spoiled
through kindness. The government has
given them the very choicest strips of land
in the valley, containing 25O,O00 acres, en-
croachments on which have never been
made and would not be tolerated by the
government. Every man, woman and child
on the reservation5received monthly thirty
five pounds of corn and so cents in money
until they became able to raise their own
crops, the government furnishing 300 yoke
of oxen and all the necessary implements
and seed as a gift But instead of trying
to improve their opportunity, Mr.. Chsem
says they considered the governments gen.
erosity was extended through fear and
commenced to make unreasonable demands
backed by threats of war. A great many
of them have been drunk since June "a,
when their feast begun.
Mr.. Chisem declares it will require many
more troops than are at present ordered
to the front and vigorous measures to
CHTHUAHTA, MExICo, Aug. s.-There
Is much uneasiness felt in military circles
over the attitude of the Mayo tribe of In
dians in the state of Sonora toward the
Mexican authorities in the present upris
ing of the Yaqui braves. The fighting
force of the Mayo tribe Is much less than
that of the Yaquis. The, Mayos have for
many years been at peace with the govern
ment, but the younger braves are now
aroused by the warfare that is being
waged west of them and an open revolt is
threatened.
The Mayos have long been friends Of the
Yaquis. but they held aloof from them in
their previous war with the government.
The Mayos are almost white and are of
higher order of intelligence than the va
quis. Some OF the members of the Mayo
triIN thy hair tNTl
braces many thousands of acres of rich
land In the valley of the MaYo river