The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1899-11-08
RED BR0NCHO
MARES DEATH.
savage Indiana of Mexico Who, Pom
uiar Tradition Says, Are Ab1eto
Kun Down Decr- Race between
uorsaanda Human Greyhound

y. hhorsenudA Human Grcyho
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
"of course you have all seen tha
old circus fake OF the man runnin,
against horse on the quarter mill
hippodromc track" said man recent
~ returned from Mexico II want {,
tell you that less than month ago
saw race of Il man on foot agaiuS
n wild horse. where the man won, nm,
the race WHa ON the dead level, too. |
Mns down In Mexico on the edge of th,
Aaqui country where they are IuS
now pulling off their semiannual bar
gain counter nsurrettion was down
there loaking after the interests OF
solAo people who had money In the
Aaqui placcrs, and | wandered over
to the northwest To the edge of tho
Seri Indian country, where happened
TO acc the man who could beat II run
ming horse.
The Serl country IL about 30 mile.
northwest of llcrmoslllo. the capita
Of the state OF Sonora The Serbs mr.,
probably the most peculiar Indians In
the western hemisphere. They do not
seem 10 be related by language. Gus
toms or physical make M to any
other known tribe. They are race of
big, black ganta for the most part,
some OF them measuring q feet I
and nearly all OF them one or two
inches over SIX feet The women will
average taller than white men, SO that
the tribe as whole Is formidable
proposition. They have the pleasant
habit of killing Off all weAklng chill.
drcn, rs well rs the members of the
tribe Who are too old and feeble To
ahitt ror themselves, and the country
they live in Is SO inhoSptablc that the
tribe Is fine type of the survival of
the iittest In colar and features they
are more llko negroes than Indians,
ana sUme of their rites and supersti.
lions seem to hayc Il distinctly African
tingc. 1t Is a capital offense for Onc of
them to marry outside af the tribe
and the principal tenet of their re-,
llgion, according TO the ncighboring
| AeNieans. Is to Kill every one they
meet who Is not of their own blood.
".tll this don't bear on the horse
rnee particularly, hut Il will give You
some idea Of the sort of people the
Scris are and lend II color of probabil.
NY Ia an otherwise rather strong story.
/ kept hearing all sorts of pipe stories
of the Seris ms soon as we got any
where near their country. The Mexi-
cans are afraid of them aud cndow
them with almost Fabulous powers Of
| endurance ana desert cunning We
were told that Scri could train "A man
across country by starlight and that
| they never used horses except To Kill
and cut and that they could run down
II deer on foot The deer storN Naa re
pcated 10y everybody, hut never met
IL man who pretended TO have actually
eceM Il tih We stopped ut the Costa
ttiea ranch. owned by old rasqual En-
cinns, right ON the edge of the Scrl
country. Encinas H. the Daniel Boone
of Mexico, aud the man who solved
the Scrl problem for Sonora lie aol n
grant of land from the government and
| settled down flight IN Scrl territory,
surrounded himself with small
! N'fHJ W N''IbNt'" anu dIIiEb IN
dlans, as armed rctaIncrs, and fought
the Serbs To standstill Now they
arc thoroughly afraid Of him, and ncv.
or Kill his stock II they can find any
other brand on the range and never
shoot his vnaueros from ambush with
their poisoned arrows unless they hap.
pen To have some personal score to set
Tie. Az The old man and his followers
have planted some 800 Serbs In that
part Of the country II may be Inferred
that there arc still somo scores of that
sort outstanding,
"Old Encinas IL very fond of talking
over his coffee and cigarettes after
dinner out under the brick floorcd
vcrnnda Of the ranchhousc, and he as.
surcd me that he had several times
seen Serbs run down deer on foot. Ills
explanation was that they trail almost
ms well us dogs. running by eye, OF
course, Instead Of by nose, and that
they can go ut a lope and Keep decr's
trail through the hrush no matter
what sort of ground he crosses one
OF them VIII start out and scare up n
deer In the mesquite ana keep after
II at n swift wolf trot all day If neces.
sary, never giving it n chance to stop
FOR food OF water In the course Of II
day he will run 1t off It's feet ana kin
II with n knife
The ilrsi time said the old man.
'that ever saw n deer run down In
that way WIS soon after | got well
settled here The Serbs were nom
nally nj peace with us for the time.
and I had u lot of them working for
me. MS ! have off aud On an the time.
One afternoon one Of them came to
me and asked to get off to go hunting
II was well on In the afternoon then,
and said to him: "Nalga you do not
want to hunt You want to get drunk
on Antonio Mcguilcs mcscae and not
go 10 work tomorrow" But he sulLed
around and said wanted to starve
his Borrowing family and that there
were deer out IN the mesquite yearning
TO DO killed So told him to go,
knowing well enough he would go any.
how and probably take the whole lot
Of his fellows along With him If he
were crossed. did not think any
thing more about him iii after sunset,
when he came up Just MS we were
stopping work for the day. ! said to
him: "Wcll. you have had good sleep
In the brush. hope you are satisfied
Said he: Yes, | did have Il good sleep,
and | dreamed that | Killed deer. IF
the senior will look over there he viii
see my son bringing him In | looked.
and there sure enough vas boy
staggering IN with n doe on his back
with her throat freshly cut. The Serl
had nothing with him but knife and
I examined the doe all over. and there
was not mark on her except the slit
In her throat. / noticed that all four
OF her hoofs were off, and the Papagos
noticing this said: "Ycs, 1t Is true that
he ran her down. deer always casts
It's hoofs when run to death by Il man..
| find that that belief holds good
among all tho Indians, but have since
Noticed that In summer time, when the
ground Ia very hot and the deer are