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IL. w. Sutuidu, WbO HdS Dccu iu Stu- cinnati for the past month under the care of an eye specialist, returned Monday.
 A. B. Herman, supervisor of the Grand Canyon forest reserve, made an official trip to Howard Lake north of Williams this week,
 Rabbit and Hare Skins-5O, 600 skins wanted during the winter months. Ad- dress Wood Mayor Co.,, AIS Ellis street, San Francisco, Cal.
 Fire insurance. The Arizona Gen. tral Bank represents number of old reliable companies, and will write your insurance at the lowest rate.
 After Dec. lst, from midnight until 6 o'clock in the morning, no lodging will be let to transients for p cents at the Hicks rooming houses. A.
 G. H. Rhamey has leased the build- ing occupied by J. W. WeatherfOrd's gents furnishing store, and will, about the first or the year open wholesale and retail cigar store.
 The Second Hand store has intro duced ), 10, ?, and 50 cent counters. The articles for sale are varied and useful and the prices far below what the same class of goods have heretofore been sold for here.
 In order to liqudate the present in- debtedness of the Flagstaff Mutual Tel ephone company, it has been deemed advisable by the board of directors to increase the rate to stockholders in the business district to $2.5O per month during the next three or four months.
 Chas. Canal has completed his tele- phone exchange al Williams, and it is one of the most complete systems in the territory. The telephones are first class and the circuit metallic one, and the patrons of the exchange are highly pleased with the excellent service
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Sierra Madres, lies q territory that is
theirs by right of their exclusive
ability to penetrate and when neces-
sary to inhabit it. This is the war
home of the Yaquis. Here in the con.
hicts of late years they have proved
invinc!ble, unconquerable. 1t is Q
: county OF rugged mountain sleeps,
of deep, furnacelike defiles and DESC
late, sweltering mesa lands-a coun'
try inaccessible, intolerable to any
thing human save only the Yaquis.
Such is the stronghold in which this
race of fighters is intrenched to-day.
The Yaquis derive their name from
their peculiar habit of loud talking
their verbal designation Yaqui meal
ing, "He who shouts" The Yaqul
orsHuaqui, is one Of the chief river
Mexico, being about 400 miles
9Th, and is formed of severe
ans, which rise close to the Ame'
boundary in the Sierra Medi
n ntains. The Yaqui has its outl'
il ne Gulfof California, about twent,,
five miles southeast of Guaymas, tb
principal Mexican seaport of the Gul
The State of Sonora, has an area |
about II, 900 square miles, or near
25, 900 miles more than New YoE
and population of about 155,OL
The assessed value Of the property
about S7,500,00O. 1t consists I
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Mexican Government has announced
q policy of determination against these
Indians.
The present uprising is the sixth in
their history. The Indians revolted
against Spain in 1735. The Hidalgos
we're worsted in battle, but they made
up for their failure in arms by their
artful duplicity. The Yaquis revolted
again in 1925, and again in 1882,
against Mexico, when, armed with
bows, battle axes and spears, and led
| by their celebrated chieftain, Bande-
ras, they made it lively for the Gov
ernment troops, but were finally over
come. They made another attempt
in 1841, and defended their mountain
Businesses with Spartan yalor, and for
years held the Government ut buy.
Order was restored by compromise.
The conflict this time will be to the
death. In their ten years war the
Yaquis were still using almost WHOLLY
their primitive weapons. To-day they
are we'll armed.
The Yaquis are fine people, and
rather deserve encouragement than
annihilation, writes an American Of
fcer who recently visited their coun-
try. They are the remnants OF a
brave and partly civilized people
whom the spaniards found in Mexico.
They have never henn conquered, and
have never forgiven their Spanish
enemies nor their descendants. Their
military organization is almost per-
feet, and consists of companies, regi-
ments and divisions.
The wife OF our chief blushed with
pleasure as one of our number hung
about her neck string of blue beads
as parting gift. She was truly
worthy of our admiration. So was
the grin on the face of her youngster
as he began to realize what sweetness
was concealed in lump OF maple
sugar which we gave him. Their
huts were our homes, the doors of
which would always have been open
to US had there been. any. At the
back end of each were two tiers of
hunks for sleeping purposes; in the
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roue{urUpptu

Oh iuiOppCo
-,sy, utterly exhausted.
..tAnd their %bedding isn't ill burned
up, though I wouldn't give much for
the things on the root, and [ don't
think shall wear this cloak to church
again. I wish was. safe at home in
bed; but thank God the children are
safe!''
There came a pa:ter of small feet
and shrill wrathtul voice johnny
had succeeded in freeing himself, and
returned in great Indignation. "Ill
tell my mamma on you," he declared,
loudly. "You boke door in, and you
dwag me off and you tie me up in de
fire. I'll tell my mammal"
You're Welcome" Louise said,
.1lryly. 2.lt5} :.
- s'ioou b'oke windows and burn
house. I'll tell my mamma" Johnny
reiterated .angrily. ..,y
Very cautiously Louise removed the
binding coat from her hors s head.
She pattett mid soothed him, and was
about to climb .wearily into the saddle
when there came flare OF torches and
lanterns over the western ridge. She
heard assswoman sobbiug wildly and
declaring she must and would go on
to her poor children, while men
seemed to be dissuading her.
&, Tbeuybouise heard Phips voice., full
|tof distress sShe would have been
| tfperfectly ySsefe where I left her, and
Prince .wouldu'trun away. Whatever
lspossessed her to g6'wandering OIL?
ben, won't you go and see if she has
gone home? I can't face them II she
isn't there ~, ~.
ooh, PHILIP the girl called, "Im
here all right. Is that Mrs. Wilson
CRYING? Tell her the children are all
bright and the house is standing. Bose.
/ Down, sir!x Don't you know yout
|!frientl ?" for the dog had bristled and
growlel angrily at Phil's headlong
rush down the hill.
/ .'Why in the world didn't You stay
where left you? Hastings thought
sure you bad tried to follow meland
BEEN caught in the fire. Next time
won't 5riugy you out. F."
+ "You needn't. I never want to see
/ mountain fire again. All the same,
Finn glad 1 came this time. 1cn are NJ
too, aren't you, Bose? You didn't
hear him. calling for help, did You,
Phil? His barking brought me, anf
if johnny had been half as sensible a:
his dog could have had the children
out before the fire caught us. Dom
be, angry, Phil. I couldn't stay there
and let them burn up without trying
/ to save them.
"Who's said anything angry? Only
didn't know you set mp for a heroine,
cit wasn't heroic" Louise an
aswered, simply. ''lt was the onl.
thing.to do;
But. somehow she never could make
the Wilson's agree with her, or Phil
either. -Yohth's Companion.
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IN A MOUNTAIN FIRE.
A Thrilling Episode of California Life.

-.ls - ~
BY ADA E. FERRIS.

+.r
him that, Lohise was friend, and he
ron before Eor barking loudly and
flung himself against the shanty door.
Louise sprang from her painting
horse. Sparks were flying in clouds
overhead, and the air, was, filed with
the ihutfted roar Of fire Hastings
canyon was all ablaze:; There #asht
moment to loose. She ratified the
rough door fercely. sge"t
A.frighteued little face showed it.
self. at the, window. "Please'm We
can't open the. door. ere locked in,
and papn and mamma haven't como
yet Amt it time?' .27S
Louise looked desperately around
for nm axe. to force 1.-THE door, She
could see elearly-it was sstoo light, in
deed, With all that ruddy glow from
the smoke clouds sabove. The great
dog was watching her: suspieiously.
Now don't be; an ngFyi boy, " "shsroaxed;
little Aerfonsls. ttWe'se got to
open the door, yoG. know, to get the
babies out, oryWe sGalI AL burn up to-
gether.' -.
Bose barked aud again flung his
whole weight against the himsy door
just as Louise found light .iatchet.
She attacked the door furiously. A
strong man would have made short
work of it, but the girl was neither
strong nor skilful, and though it shiv-
cred and splintesed it held fast for
what seemed terribly long time. At
last as sue and Bose together threw
themselves against it, crashed in, and
the dog bounded across the room to
where little girl about six years old
was trying to hush the screams of
brother Of three.
The shanty consisted of but one
room, with neither floor nor ceiling,
and the furniture was of the rudest
description. A few relics of better
days "back east contrasted oddly
with the homemade stools and bed
stead. i, Louise, gave one glance at d
fine, inlaid stand and handsome fam.
lily Bible, but with that terrible half
mile OF orerarched wood road to trnv-
erse, It was impossible to think of
saving anything but the children, n,.r.I
She caught the chubby youngster.
Come" she said cheerily, 'let's go
md meet mother" .Nl IN.
But the child screamed and fought
her vigorously. While she strove to
'oothe him, the little girl ran to the
loor, but one look brought her back
20 clutch Louise's dress. "'o-'t2 ."'I 80. !
"Ihe mountains Gre! Wn rl-'''
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Yaduis differ materially from tHs
numerous other. tribes inhabitihg this
section of the globe, says d writer il
the st: Louis Globe-Democrat: While
thoroughly partaking of the ferocious
nature of the Apaches of the American
frontier; and entertaining quito as
pronounced hatred for all people Of
more. civilized tastes; they arb char
acterized by a very distinct predilectlon
for intelligent forms Of government.
But that any restrictions or obligations
should be placed upon them by an
alien people, such as they have eyer
been disposed to regard all mankind
not Of their tribe, they ore disposed
to consider Gs unwarranted interfer-
ence with their hereditary customs.
and hence intolerable The Yaquis
have been constant source Of dread
to The Mexicans ever since the first
attempt at civilizing the northwestern
section OF the republic, to which
movement tho former have been most
sttenuously opposed. Like other
North American tribes, they hold that
the territory they inhabit is theirs by
right of Inheritance from their. fore
fathers, and every foot of land that
has from time to time been wrenched
from them has ultimately been paid
for by the life's blood of the invaders.
During past centuries the Yaquis
have been almost necessarily at war
with the Spaniei Is and their Mexican
descendants, and by degrees their
once powerful tribe has been reduced
until at the present day it numbers
less than 5000 members. Of their
iormer broad domain all tie posses
sions that now remain to the Yaquis
are few leagues of l"ra 80
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are nearly scared to death with all
this heat and rushing AID r6aring and
cracking rouhd YOU: But you are
safe here, tR8cks and gEnter can't
burn, nor this green stiff, either: Oh;
you little seamp!" 'fr"
She was justin time to catthJohnny
rs ho broke away froM Oracle: This
time she tore strip from his apron,
tied the restless ankles together; and
set him down beside tile pool; scream:
ing, but urnble to make more trou:
ble.. -
''There, now! Don't cry, Oracle;
didn't hurt him; ind we a-e safe here:
Step close Under the tree. Look at
Bose lying in the pool. He IN ows
how to make himself comfortable:
Tic canyoh Mas 'how u sea,6f fire,
Great flames seemed to reach and
eclipse the pale stars overhead. The
heat was intense; and the showers OF
sparks hissed in the water. and scorched
the ferns. Louise could see.the thick
foliage of the green bay shrivelling in
the hot wind.
''But rocks and water can't BURN"
she repeated, desperately. "And this
heat can't last long" ~ 3
She dipped Gracie's wrap and her
owl into the pool, but Johnny held
his SO tightly and screamed So loud
that she had to let that CO.. ~
:. A frightened rabbit flashed past
them up the canyon, and q snake
glided away AMONG the erucks. Louise
wondered if they would escape. She
dashed water over Princes saddle and
back, over herself and the children.
The heat was terrible. It seemed i'm:
possible to live except by lying fiat,
She tried to force Prince down; but lie
was too terrified to understand or
obey, and she had to drop down her:
self.
The flames seemed to shoot UP both
sides of the canyon now, netting
fiery bower against the sky. The
rain of sparks made little Graois, look:
ing into the mirror of the pool, Scream
in terror. ''The waters afire, tool"
she cried., 40 ~ .4sggt x +
Louise tried to feassure her, but she
found herself glaacinga up apprehen.
sively at the shrivelling leaves Of the
bay tree. They would soon cease to
be any protection. '..Lie fat, Oracle"
she said, and once more dashed water
over the children and horse. Then
she dropped, painting and exhausted,
on the verge of the pool, closing her
eyes-to the foe she could no longer
fight.
But scarcelya minute passed before
Oracle exclaimed, "The fires going ont,
aud our house isn't burned. It's just
going to, thought,
Louise sat up. The dry grass and
leaves had burned out, the canyon
was comparatively dark, aud the shanty
was but just smoldering into blaze.
The wet blankets and rugs had ',rc J
tActed IL -
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Tho talk II shs papers about sur

Tho talk Il shs. papers about sur
rounding them and sta..ing them ID
rot, for it cannot be done aS stib sea-
son of the year. At this time down
there everything is green and verdure
Is ut it's best. These Indians livejon
cactus, on kind OF brown sugar and
OH batehed corn and OF this they can
find an Unlimited amount at this time
of the year. It is just rs sensible to
put man in we'll and talk of killing
him by thirst as to talk of starving
these Indians now.
JUST south Of th6 ysqui indians is
another tribe which is Gbous As large
and which sympatbizes largely wish
the Yaquis. These are the Mayo In
dians and they are probably as fine
specimens of physical manhood as are
to be fonnd on the continent. They
are as numerous rs the Yaquis, and it
is the custom of these Indians to kill
nil their Old men and women long be.
fore they would die natural death,
aud they prevent the marriage Of
either man OF woman of the tribe
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Mayos Join them it will be long
drawn out contest.
How to Holl Money.

a well-known chemical expert in
England recently boiled si1pence
and watched it dissolve and pass
away in the form of vapor, just as any.
one might do with o pot Of water.
While lie was doing it he declared
that any substance on earth might be
boiled and made to become vapor, il
only you had great heat enough to do
it, not excepting granite rock.
In boiling the si1pence it was cut
up into small pieces, which were
placed in the hollow carbon of an
electric arc lamp. Anyone who has
examined the discarded carbons of an
arc lamp will have noticed that one of
the carbons is always pointed, while
the other carbon has small cuplike
hole in the end
When the lamp is lighted the car
bons stand one above the, other, the
sharp point OF one carbon Attting into
the coup" of the other IL was in
this little cup that the sixpence was
boiled. Probably it was the smallest
pot and the hottest fire in the wcrld.
He placed the pieces of coin in the
hollow end of one carbon aud f1e'l
the other pointed carbon down against
them. Then he turned on the electric
current. +'.
He had arranged the apparatus in
front OF magic lantern, so that the
whole thing could be seen on large
white screen. The carbons, the coin,
and in fact everything could be viewed
plainly. OF course, the electric cur
rent passing between the carbons
made them very hot, and the cup soon
became filled with white heat. It
was wonderful to see how quickly the
silver melted and simmered,. and
finally boiled.
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Emperor Upset the Plans.

Kaiser Wilhelm's restlessness has
brought about the retirement in dis
grace of the chief magistrate of the,
Metz district. When the Kaiser
visited Metz lately programme was
arranged according to which he was
to be entertained at lunch at a certain
bonr and wasalen TO make triumphal.
progress through number of villages,
where school children and societies OF
all kinds were to be arrayed on either
side to greet him. The Kaiser in
sisted on getting mp from lunch an
hour before the appointed time, which
unset tie arrangements, so that he
found the streets. deserted Oh his
Z Journey. The magistrate had to pay
for the fzzle.
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The Yaquis as race claim descent
from one of the original seven emigra-
tions from the North; having closely
followed the Toltecs Of the sixth cens
tury OF before, who founded their
kingdom on the site Of fula;. about
fifty miles north of the City Of Mexico.
They claim by tradition an earlier
origin than the Aztecs, who built
cities and possessed civilization
which was at its height in the time OF
the first expedition of Cortez. The
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front the family squatted, cooked and
lived. Mere justice demands shat I
should say I found nothing but clean
liness about their homes, persons and
surroundings, and the high opinion
which I then formed Of their general
intelligence, great bravery and in
trinsic worth stillremains unchanged.
They are not sayages.
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mines. cotton weaving, cha potter
les, cattle ranches and 9th branches
of pastoral industry. L valley Oh
tho Yaqui. which is the ,ne of the
present disturbances, arding to
American scientists and elorers EN-
braces about y, 900 slua miles. 1t
is one OF the most moupnous parts
Of Mexico.
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WARREN WALKER.


should patrone Southern people The publisher OF this paper
will arrange paints his subscribers who would like
order through the ADVERTISER This paint has thick heavy
body buyers add Lned oil and make the paint
further and save money will fifty cents gallon
Write company telling them what oors you want and how
muc price will given The paint contains the best material
goes with every barrel and package paint
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TYPES or THE FIGHTING YAoU1s IN WAR DRESS.

who is in any way imperfect or de-
formed. The result is they have a
tribe of magnificent specimens of
manhood and womanhood. The Me1i-
can Government will have its hands
full with the Yaquis alone, but if the
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FTENTION has
a gain b Q en-
called by the
present hostile
attitude of the
Yaqui Indians,
in. the mountain
d s t ts OF
N orth W estern
Mexico to what
ls perhaps the
1nostremarkable
tfibs 8t ab5rig;;
ipals kh6&n t8
history: F j 3
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Hastingses. @ :suo you?'
& lcdise din mind. but would not say
30; knowing how much the Hastingses;
neededTheipI SO q moment later shes
was aToheoi the STONY Knob. ALMOST
in the next moment, it seemed, she
found herself listening to the distant
barking of dog. Louise loved dogs,
and Recognized this, at once as the
voice Of a large one, frightened, angry
and appealing. 1t was up the canyon
eastward os the Hastings raviue. She
had been up that tail once with Phil
and Mina. ;. ...'..,.i . -
v There she had seea.a small, rough
sLanty, and two itt.etoddlers plnying
with n great dog, 'haIf:Eound, half,
bulldog, E4ich Phil informed her was
the terror of tue neighbors and the de-
veted,slare aud guardian of the chill,
. dren.e Was he now afraid of the fire.?
He had. reason. If it swept up Has
tings' canyon it could haedly fail To-
take Wilson S also.
Then Louise felt her blood run
chilly 9nlYnthabnmorningq she had
seen Wilson and his invalid wife drive
by on the:rE@ay TO town, '12 miaes
away. Mr.. aud Mrs. Wilson, but not
the children! Nina had told her that
when the Wilson's went to town they
lesttthe children locked mp il. the
house. mo wonder poor Bose was
barking franticallyE He scented dan-
ger in the air, and his beloved little
ones were unable to escape!
'tPhiu Philr Louise screamed in
voluntarily, but Phil'was far beyond
hearing, and already there was dull
- smolder Of fire in the dead leaves be-
sideeethe4<rpad, where Q spark had
fallen. e
She sprang fro u her horse and
crushed it ont, but that could postpone
the inevitable for but G moment OF
two; flames were showing over the
western ridge, and other smoldering
fires were visible. She could not
reach Phil-'Esre wa. no time to ride
for help-yet clearer than ever she
head the frantic barking. Oh, the
poor children, locked up in that little
shanty with its roof Of redwood
shakes, dry as tinder!
"Prince, we've got to try i'll" Lou
ise sobbed, springin back. into the
saddle and turning him to the east
ward. "Phil said Don't go nearer,
but we can't,stay. here aud-.let those
babies burn alive. I know they are
shrieking for help, and nobody to hear
but poor, faithful, helpless Bose. Now
keep cool, Prince!r We simply must
smash that door in and get the chill
dren back here before this canyon is s
furnace, and that may be in less thar
ten minutes. Quick, Prince, quick
It's,a race for life, now. Fly, Boy
Ayp
Prince suorted5as if be understood
and plunged, down steep cattle patt
to the narrow trail that wouRl upi tht
canyon. Half mile; OF this cayelih'
gloon, the crooked. trail so narrow
that her outstretched arms might toucl
the branches ou either side, aud now
indeed, Lou;sefeIs that she had lushet
into the jaws OF death. A few mo
ments' delay would make return i'm
possible, and she knew no other wa,
Now the canyon widened. She wa
under the frslit sky again, with Bos
bounding toward her, barking implor
ingly. eyes, Bose, yes,good doggie
we II save the babies. never fear," sh
called, breathlesslY, exten ling he
ian.l toward him, for she understood
the dogs tone. One sniff assure'