The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-01-30
To Exterminate
YUQUA INDIANS TO BE
MADE GOOD
Famous Band To BE Wiped
Clear off the Face of
the Earth.
Special to Daily Leader.

\ termination of the now famous NaQul
\ Indians promises To become huge
enterprise Of the national government
+ Of our sister republic OF Mexico. Of all
the advices which have reached this
city arc true. The hostility of this
I tribe throughout the state Of Scaora
las long becn thorn in the side OF
Il President u.ae. Though ali of the
=, press dispatches which have been sent
out from the interior. OF Sonora con-
cerniug the atrocities accredited to he
Indians are not true, yet the state OF
affairs IN the mountain regions OF that
STATE IS alarming
II For years troops have fought these
hostiles. hut this far the soldiers have
been very uneucCessful 1he mode of
warfare carried on by tho Yaqui In
dians is unique in its simplicity. Occa-
sionally a cian viii suddenly disappear
from the ranch or mine where they
have been working peaceably. A few
days later word OF some robbery OF
murder comes from poiut miles dis.
tant The stranger part Of the war Is
that an American or an Englishman
is seldom harmed unless he te in some
way connected With the Mexican gov
ernment lhe Yaoui robs inIiscrimt-
Lately, but only kills Mexicans. Sol.
diers of ;ne republic are his greatest
Joy Usually Mexicans are horribly
tortured Sometimes ,neir cheers and
the sc'es Of their feet are cut of and
they are made to walk through the ter,
rihle Mexican cacti to ;ae nearest
town or battalion. OF sh m;ies distant.
It IS strange that the Yaqm seldom
stays on the war path ior longer than
one raid at a time Their fighting is
mot war ,t is robbery and pillage.
The writer knows Of one raid IN par
iicular where a ranch house and minc
We're raided. 1t was in Sonora. some 20
miles OF the Prietas-Mazagtan trail
100 miles from BeImosillo. the capital
Of the state rhe owner Of both ranch
and mine was an American AID his
employees a mixture OF ha'f breed va
uui and Merieaa poems. One Gay the
Yaqui ladrones swoored down on the
ranch AMI at the pciat Of the rife
with which they were most modenly
armed they appropriated every port.
able article of value. even to the
clothe or she backs OF the vnquotos
and miners They lid. however leave
the American owner a shirt and pair
OF trousers, but no shoes or nat.
What nse they made Of much of the
stolen goods can not be imagined
Nearly a whole day was consumed in
the raid, yet by the time that mes
senger walked to the nearest town.
Minas Frietas. and had gotten tela-
graphic communications with General
Torres. commander IN chief of the
army at Sonora. and ircops were on
their way to the scene Of the crime
the perpetrators had had plenty OF
time either to get away inlo the noun
tain fastnosses. where no iayman coull
10 low, or TO quietly appear at some
distant mine and go peaceably 70
work. F)r some ocountable reason
not a person was injured at this place,
although on the same day. at a poipt
Ut twenty miles distant another par.
ty or possibly a portion of the same
party, captured government correo.
or mail carrier. and after subiecting
him to most awful tortines they lett
him IN a dying condition by the road
side. His mail bags were found rihed
OF far away. but no attempt was made
10 ferret ont his as7ailants.
Thus far the war is carried on. Reg.
iment after regiment Of soldiers are
sent out TO run the Indians to earth,
but after weeks and months in The
Geld many tiIne0 feeding upon the half
Of thn very pocr rations furnished
them, the troops are forced a. return
10 their barracks through exhaus ion
Many times the writer mas seen corr
panies Of these poor fellows, WHO have
heen In the field fpr nioaths. come
sowly dragging back TO town, clothes
IN rags. feet bare and swollen out ol
IAN semblance by exposure 20 he burn
ing sand rocks and cacti poirts
|, While the YaQni Indian is umdouht
, edly barbarous in sorne of his Instincts
he is far from being u1clvnized a,
. civilization goes in his country. Wher
, hard pressed by soldiers, which is sci
D dom, he must needs only turn towar,
$ IA enountains along the Taqui river
2 from whose stream he never roam
! far 10 lose himself completely from a
I possible pursuit Like The Apache o
|. Arizona. the Yalul buck knows ever!
q rock and Granny Of the mountains O
his home land he knows every la
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