The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-04
Battling With Old Fsroclty. But Exact
Cause Of Uprising Unknown.
Waging q Bloody War With Set
tiers and Positive Evidence OF
Their Strengthening People
Marthall P. Wright, Who Just
: Arrived From Mexico, Gives
: Out an Interesting Statement
Relative to the Trouble.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3.-Marshall
r. Wright, son of the late Judge
Wright of Kansas City, Mo-, last night
arrived from the. City of Mexico, &C
eompanied by Judge Morales OF her
mosillo. Mr.. Wright is a mining en-
gineer, and owns valuable mining
properties eighty miles east OF Gnes,
in the heart of the Yaqui Indian coun-
try.
!, Neither Judge Morales nor Mr..
Wright believe the reports that the
old Indian chief Tahateta is dead, nor
that General Torres has been murdered
while leading his command against the
rebellious savages. They declare that
General Torres is too able an officer to
be caught by the crafty Indians, as he
has had too much experience with
their methods of campaign.
ANY doubt that the Yaquis are on
the warpath, and that they are III
deadly earnest must be dismissed by
the news that has been brought in by
couriers from the seat of war;" said
Mr.. Wright, in speaking of the present
outbreak. "They are battling with
their old ferocity. but the exact cause
present unknown. My information was
to the effect that they are waging a
bloody war upon all settlers, and there
is positive evidence of their slaughter
ing the people,
: He intimateS that from 1000 to
5000 Indians are under arms and en-
gagged in the conflict, but that this does
not represent the entire strenth of the
warlike savages.
THE entire country is in terror. and
the people are fleeing to the larger
settlements from the mining camps and
from the smaller pueblos." continued
Mr.. Wright. How long the war may
continue no one knows, as several
thousand Yaquis are working in towns
and mines, and their labors furnish
the fighting braves with the sinews of
war"
Mr.. Wright says that this outbreak
is surprise to General Lorenzo
Torres, who, after a two years Cam
paign, subdued the Yaquis in May,
1897 "At the time when the treaty
Of peace was being signed remarked
Mr. Wright, General Torres told the
Yaquis at TORN that if they ever
broke the treaty and caused more
trouble it would be taken as signal
for war. and it would be carried on
to the point of determination, as quar-
ter would be neither asked nor grant
ed, General Torres is much in earnest,
and look for a bloody reckoning be-
fore the final battle is fought"
Mr.. Wright says that General Torres
is now in the field, and that his policy
10 - Ixsx- ho 10, he
mountains The Twelfth Mexican Reg
iment and other volunteers have been
modified, and Colonel Kosterlitz.
formerly of the United States army,
is gathering troops near Magdalena,
and he will soon reinforce General
Torres. When these troops meet those
Indians there will be a hot time for
the Yaquis," concluded the mining ex-
pert
MINERS IN. IMMINENT DANGER.
DALLAS (Tex). Aug. "A dispatch
received here this evening from Casa.
Grande, 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
Yaqui Indians.
Thomas Harvell, one of the members
of the party, who formerly lived in
Austin, stated that there are probably
1000 American miners and prospectors
scattered through the Yaqui country,
and that their lives are in imminent
danger, as the Indians are getting
holder and more desperate each day.
Harvell said that the news of the
bloody outbreak among the Yaquis in
gthe 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
swill massacre every white man along
the river.
4 He estimates that there are 5000
SYaqui braves, and that it will take a
force of fully 10000 Mexican troops
Ito conquer them, if they are enabled
s to reach their former stronghol3s in
the Sahruapi Range of mountains.
During the two years the Indians have
been at peace they have been quietly
investing their earnings in arms ard
ammunition, and they are now better
equipped than ever before for long
and bloody campaign.