Arizona republican., 1905-03-17


 therefore very bad, the soldiers fight ing, not for patriotism but because they have to. It is not the field of ficers seemingly that MT. Miller planes so much as the higher officials that so poorly equip them for the enterprises they are expected to pursue. For in stance when a crime has been commit ted General Torres sends a detachment after the guilty parties. The result is the arrest of a number of Yaquis who are seemingly indifferent. They re- fuse to talk and it would avail them nothing if they did talk. Somebody has to be punished and the Yaquis are the scapegoats. He says he has known Yaquis arrested in this manner to be tied with ropes at the hands and feet and stretched until their joints crack ed or until they confess to whatever the charge may be whether they be guilty or not, and after confession comes the punishment very often death.
 This sort of thing naturally makes the Yaquis wild and unpacified and ready to wreak vengeance on the gov ernment at every opportunity, while on the other hand the soldiers are a pro- lection to those of their kind who are busy in bandit roles when not actually
 
 engaged in organized field duty. He says that while his story sounds un- reasonable perhaps, it is true and the people of Mexico both native and American investors keep silence against the powers that be lest they may be dealt with either personally or by the confiscation of their property. He says however that himself and as- sociates, those who have money in vested there and the relatives of the men recently murdered, are moving in the matter of an effort to get the al- lOwance through the state department, of a claim somewhere near as adequate as money can repay them, for the mur- der of their associates and their fin ancial losses. Nor are they going to stop at that They propose through the publicity of the press. through of ficial representations and in every way possible to bring such Influences to bear against the higher authorities of the sister republic as will work re- forms both in the interest of human life. both native and foreign, and in the protection of investments. He says 1t is Q great country for the capitalist. if he could only secure protection. In pressing these things through official sources Mir. Miller says that J. A. Call | d United States official at Los Angeles, has taken the matter up and is prepar- ing a statement of the case, together with all the sworn testimony available for presentation to the state depart mcnt. As an eye witness to the mur- ders and one of the wounded victims of the ambuscade. MT. Miller has pre- pared a typewriter document of nine ] legal size pages. recOunting the actual facts Of that fateful journey and the l incidents of the massacre and the events immediately succeeding it. This he has sworn to and will present as a l part of MT. Calls brief in the pre- mIses. He says that the men who are interested with him in Mexico and the friends of those who were murdered hold intimate relations with a number Of American citizens who are presum ably able te secuTes fppFe than a formal hearing of matters presented through official channels; men whose stations il life suggest the-seFiOus consideration 1 of matters presented by them, and for that reason he is hopeful Of securing for all concerned in this immediate in cident, some measure of justice and incidentally some reforms that will benefit not only investing Americans but the people of Mexico. He men ] g Norton and sAIr. Schwab in this cate gory. He says he is aware of the en- mites he may make by his attitude Tn making these things public and in Egitating them. but he says his prop cry Is jeOpardized anyway and he is practically driven into a demand for reform
 In speaking of publicity he called at tentiOn to the news features of the Yaqui stories that are printed through the Associated Press. He does not blame that organization but says it is Imposed on. He says it's correspond ents in Sonora are natives and that they are bribed to send out their dls- patches with much of the truth with. held or colored so the wrong impress sion is made.
 Mir Miller had with him here, a copy Of his testimony above referred to and sworn to. Following are some excerpts from it being his sworn statment con- corning the incidents of the ambus- cade and the reasons he has for think ing the murders were committed by MeZicans instead of Yaquis After de- scribing the trip from La Colorado to the mines of the Liberated Mining & Smelting Co. three miles west of the Yaqui river. the two carriages in the Setl d Nelll anu lIit ildilcS OI lHOSe WHO occupied them MT. Miller says:
 "On this same date CJan IT and iu the same vehicles and with the same Mexican drivers) left the said mines on our return trip to La Colorado, and in the said carriages were the said John Kenneth Mackenzie, Dr. Robert Clark Coy Walter Stuebinger Morrill, A. Call, Charles E. TollertOn and my self, the said Mr. and Mrs. Foreshaw having remained at the Santa Rosa mines. We met or saw no one eX- cept ranchers at their respective ha- ciendas employed in their usual voca- tons until about , o'clock p. m. on 1 Jan. 19 when we arrived at a point about thirty-five miles east of our des- tinatiOn, viz, La Colorado. The first carriage was occupied by Mackenzie | Coy and myself, with a Mexican driv- | ing and the second by Call, Tolerton | and .Stuebinger, driven by a Mexican |