The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-04
ON THE WARPATH.
Yuqui Indians Begin a War On the
Whites - Several Killed

Chicago. Aug. "A special to the
Tribune from City Of Mexico says:
dispatches from Guaymas show that
the Yaqui instruction is constantly
growing in extent and all the Indians
in the towns along the river are rising
in arms and taking to the woods and
mountains to join their companions al
ready arrayed against the authorities.
Jack Ramsey, the famous frontier
character, and the American pnotogra-
pher, Ed Miller, were on the way to
AlamOs, when they were attacked by
the Indians and killed.
Three sloOps on the Yaquis river,
near -MedarO, were also attacked, and
Aurillo T. Paroles, who was in charge
of them, was killed. The vessels were
set on fire but were saved by federal
forces who drove the savages away.
The body of Paroles was found
floating in the river. One of the sloops
the AlOndre, was again attacked as it
was leaving the mouth of the river on
its way back to GuaymaS, but the In
dams were scattered.
1T is reported that the Romero fam
lily were captured as they were about
to embark on one of the slOops and that
Paroles was killed in trying to rescue
them.
Troops are pursuing the bands SUD-
posed to have the family. The tele-
graph line south from Alamos has been
cut. The Indians along the Mayo river
are quiet and do not seem to be in
clined to join the insurrection.
col. Angel Garcia Pena telegraphed
yesterday that Don Carlos Hale, the
noted merchant, had not been killed as
reported. Official advices up to Mon
day, however, state clearly that after
Gen. Torres forces took Bacum they
found ten dead of the troops from Co
corit and four of the body guard of the
Yaqui chief, MaldOnado. and the body
of Hale. They say nothing has been
heard of the chief"
Austin, Tex, Aug. A dispatch re-
ceived here last evening from Casas
Grandes, state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
states that four American miners had
just arrived there direct from the up
per YaQui river country. They were
driven out by marauding bands of va
qui Indians. Thomas HarveIl, one of
the members of the party, who form
erly lived in Austin, stated that there
are probably 1000 American miners and
prOspectOrS scattered through the va
qui country and that their lives are in
imminent danger as the Indians are
getting holder and more desperate each
day.
Harven said that the news of the
bloody outbreak among the YaquiS in
the lower valley had not reached the
upper part of the stream when he left
and that as soon as such news is re-
ceived by the scattered bands of In
dams in the placer mining region they
will massacre every white man along
5000 Yaqui braves and that it will take
a force Of fully 40, 900 Mexican troops
to conquer them If they are enabled to
reach their former strongholds in the
Sahuaripa. range of mountains. During
the two years the Indians have been
at peace, they have been quietly in
vesting their earnings in arms and am
munition and they are now better
equipped than ever for long and bloody
campaign.
There passed through here today on a
nOrthbOund express train for Indianap-
oils a gold hunter named Arnold, who
said that he was but recently from the
scene of the Indian uprising in Mexico.
He reports that he has not seen the
Yaqui Indians proper, nor near the
scene of action for a week or more. but
that Just before leaving that section
it was reported that the Yaqui Indians
had entrapped a force of several hun
bred of the Mexican soldiers into de-
file in the mountains and inaugurated
an time warfare in throwing rock
down upon them, with the result that
many of them were killed. He says that
the was is being conducted on a gueril-
la plan and that the Indians have suf-
ficient force to maintain the war for
months to come, as they are perfectly
at home in the mountain Businesses
and the Mexican soldiers are no match
for them The reports coming to the
mining camps to date are that the
MexicanS have lost number of sold
iers, while the Indians have lost COM
paratively few Of their numbers