El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-15
YAQUI WAR

The Los Angeles IfmeS-MuCI
Trouble To Send News By
Wlre.-Seven Thousand Yaqu
Warriors.
The line between the United States
and Mexico is imaginary in one sense
| bus in another it is clearly
drawn.
It separates today from tom or
row.
The moment an American crosses
the line he is '.up against it" good and
| hard. Today l have been trying &c
get to the Times news of the Yaqui
war.
| The Mexican government controls
the wires and thinks 'manana" is good
enough for newspapers.
No press dispatches can be filed at
all without consent of an official in the
City of Mexico and the railroad wire
may not be used for any but railroad
The government Office here is
kilograms are accepted after I
p. m. Try to file message at p. IN. 4.
local time, and you learn that the Of
| fee Is run on City of Mexico time, and
it is p. m. They will take your mes
sage and send it ''manana," but you
| the operator to get u move on him.
His first excuse is press of business,
s'muchos negocios." and he shows you
a stack of kilograms filed that would
keep an American bounding the key at
least fifteen minutes.
You jeer at that, and he says some
body else is using the wire.
Then he says the NoRales man has
gone to bed. You suggest sending by
way of the City of Mexico and offer
double rates, and he replies that it
will take forty-eight hours to get
through.
Finally he declares that the whole
scheme is impossible, aud tells you to
come around tomorrow. By this time
you are ready to admit that anything
like American "hustle'' Is impossible
in Mexico. and that the telegraph is an
anarchronism here.
Nobody can see any reason why you
should be in a hurry or should wish to
get news through before tomorrow or
day after. When you become explo
sive and say damn tomorrow" the Of
fetal shrugs his shoulders. To console
you, however, he tells you that Span
1sh gentleman sent some kilograms to
the City of Mexico last week, and got a
reply in four days, and therefore, IL
would do you no good If he should &C
oept your message. In fact, he cannot
see why it would mot do just as we'll
to write letter. He would oblige you
II he could, but you can see for yourself
that he has a vast amount of work on
hand, which he will begin to tackle by
and by, and your matter would have to |
take it's turn. These people are all
courteous and anxious to oblige, but |
they don't know what "git up and git" |
means.
The MevfcoD troons bod a 6rh< -;th
the aquis today. and have BEN try
ing to get hundred words over the |
wire. But I am in Mexico, and it is
impossible" Somebody in TORN is
sending the news, and that cuts out
the Mazatlan wire. Besides, it is
raining somewhere here and the wires
always go to pieces when it rains. At
east, the federal operator says so
and $40 piece won't alter his opinion.
Gov. Corral's request to strain a point
tails to move him. The railroad peo-
pie won't take any chances.
The official account of the battle sent
10 Gov. Corral OF Sonora by Col. Angel
Garcia of the engineer corps Is dis
;inguished by the magnificent inatten-
Jon to detail that characterized
Spanish war news during the late dis
,urbance of the peace.
Col. Garcia wires from TORN that
great battle was fought this morning |
It Ell Sehuita, a camp on the south
bank OF the Yaqui river between To-
in and Guaymas, and that "the enemy
defeated as usual and ran away in
yreat confusion" The enemy, he says,
dispersed, leaving many dead. The
lispatch says: "We have some wound
ID, but the victory Is complete. 1 fell
itate you on the glorious victory OBJ. I
aimed by Gen. Luis E. Torres.'
And that is all the governor knows I
bout it. In fact. nobody here knows
definite about the Yaqui in.
The nearer you get to the 3
Gene the less you can learn. In Ari- !
ona they cay there is a great uprising.
q Nogales they have heard tn at some
,aquis are out. Along the railroad
hey have heard there is trouble, but I
be Yaqui section hands are still at t
'ork on the line. q
In HermosillO, the capital, you have I
D dig for any news at ALL and then
GU can't send it out by wire until to-
borrow. Gov. Corral thinks there is I
ute crowd of Indians on the war l
ath, and he believes there are 1000 or
500 soldiers in the field with the can 3
on. The governor may know more
bout 1t when l see him tomorrow. '
YAQUI REGION. .
Thomas J. Rask, the civil engineer, n
no lived Tor many years In the region o
here the Yaqui Indians have risen
gainst the Mexicans, has drawn for r
he Times from the government sur q
eys map showing the scene of ope- Z
atoms. Mr.. Rask was the engineer 4
,r the contractors who built the great 7
Itch which takes from the Yaqui riv- T
r above COcorit enough water to ir. n
gate 500, 900 sscres of the land of the n
onora and Sinaloa Irrigation comp
Y. He is personal friend of Gen.
uis Torres, commander of the Mexi- "
In forces which are seeking to sup a
res the insurrection and of other n
adj n Or man of aSnntharn Sono.o o.a ~