Bisbee daily review., 1905-06-11

The Los Angeles Examiner prints another reference to the Yaqui incl dent in Sonora several months ago as follows:
 His excellency, Rafael Ysabel, gov ernor of the Mexican state of Sonora responded last evening to the Exam iner's invitation to make a reply to the charges published in yesterday issue by Herbert l.. Miller. in which MT. Miller alleged that Americans were murdered in Sonora by Mexican soldiers, that no attempt was made to punish the assassins, and that crimes alleged to be committed by the Yaquis. who are in revolt, were, in fact, done by Mexicans.
 Governor Ysabel is a man of great native force of character, of a frank, plain manner, and one who combines large physical and mental resources. In a long conversation last evening on the delicate matter of the rela- tions of the two republic, he main tained throughout a readiness and straightforwardness as refreshing as it is unusual in high officials of gov ernment
 We are having trouble in Sonora with the Yaquis. but not to the extent pictured by Mir. Miller" said the gov ernor. There are perhaps 5000 or 10000 Yaquis in the state; of these not more than 100 are on the warpath. The others are industrious valuable people. The fighting ones form in bands or a dozen or fifteen, attack travellers and then disperse. We are not exterminating them. On the con trary, 1 have a force of about 800 Ya- quis in the government service and Al. 1,T H. against the rebels.
 T have letters which Mir. Miller has written to friends in which he expressed himself as most grateful for the services Gen. Forest and myself rendered him, and in which he asks his friends to call on me and thank me. Then he attacks me in the news papers.
 Denies Miller's Assertions.
 He is mistaken when he says that I accused him of murdering his com panicns. I told him if he were not criminally responsible for their death he was responsible morally. When 1 was notified that his party was to go into the Yaqui country. I told them they would be safe as far as La Col arado by rail, but at that place l . them When this party reached La Colorado, MT. Miller refused the es- cort ready for them and persuaded his companions that the soldiers were not needed. The result was the am bush
 Right here in Los Angeles, such men as Epes Randolph, Fred Hart mann. Richardson Brothers and many others will refute every assertion Mr. Miller makes.
 His criticisms of Ambassador Clay ton are entirely baseless. If he has refused to advance Mir Miller's claim IL is because he found that there is nothing in it.
 T took the field after the Indians l had attacked MT. Miller's party and | found that there were twenty instead | of over 100 as he asserts. A number of these were captured and executed.
 There are several thousand Amer | jeans in Sonora who have lived there for years, not one of whom have ta- ken up MT. Miller's side of the case, and not one of whom accepts his statements.
 The fact that steel jacketed bull lets were used by the murderers of Mir Miller's friends dces not amount to evidence that troops were concern ed. I have in my time captured hun dreds of arms from the Yaquis, and I have found among them every form of gun from the flintlock to the Mau- ser.
 Tt is the policy of my government both state and national to invite i'm migration of Americans and all for eigners, and secure investment and | consequent development of the coun- l try. We guard the safety of foreign l CTS more jealousy than we do that of l our own people, for the latter are fa- l miliar with the conditions and the ! foreigners are not"