Bisbee daily review., 1906-02-17
THE YAQUIS ARE
 FIGHTERS
Have Been Warning With the aexiCanS. for 400 , oyma Years
Continued from page l.)

! lsJ
 lived in large straw cabins. They carried loads of 300 and 400 pounds
 on their heads. They eat bread 1 cooked in ashes. These men herded
 droves of mountain goats. The
 women Of the country wore native turquoise jewels. On the rivers the
 men maintained great canoes, which
 carried twenty TUwers. The houses | were often seven stories high and for ltified. And iJ was from the top of
 one of these places that the native
 women looked down and saw the
 Spaniards roasting 200 of their male
 relatives at the stake, because one of
 them Lad resented a Spaniard's at tack upon his wife. It was then that 1 the Yqagi first learned of the treach- )ery of the man with white skin, fair
 hair and blue eyes. The story has
 survived centuries. They tell of it lyet-the wrinkled old men that sit
 iD the sun at the foot of Santa Rita; | tell it as their grandfatbers told it to them; tell it to their childrens chil- dren, who will tell it to generations | yet unborn, and who will hand it on las a heritage of blood and Ireachery
 to the last living Yaqui.
 So the fight is to continue.
 A Yaqui is always against the Mex ican government, and is ready to
 fight its soldier. representatives in and
 out of season. Having no parental government to supply him with means
 of barter for munitions of war, the 1aqui is obliged to seek employment | in the mines, mills and ranches of his enemy. Here he saves his money and buys a gun. He has been doing this | for a century and a half. While an
 army of warriors is in the field au- lOther army will be peacefully at work
 in the eneny's country.
 As employees the Yaquis are well liked. They are strong, enduring, their wages to send back to their fel- lows that are fighting is well known, but just how the money gets back | is another question: s~.. It is thought, however, that the means of communication is by, their | women. Yaqui squaws are plentiful about the towns, villages and hacien- das, and they come and go at will. Ii | is said that the head men of the diff ferent Yaqui villages know the where | abouts of their able-bodied nens They know just where each is working
 down in the valleys and on the Hesas,
 at what mine or rancho, and not long after pay day squaws go and collect the money. 1T F On the other side of the mountains is the Gulf of California. with its 1 many trading schooners. The Yaquis
 control about thirty leagues of the coast line. It is an easy matter for a schooner to drop anchor of the mouth of a river and send ashore boxes of rifles and ammunition. It is said that more than one machine gun has gone ashore in this manner, and that among the Yaquis are American Iadventurers that teach them how to use the modern engines of war.
 It is also known that the Yaquis se- cure some of the rifles and ammuni-
 tion from Arizona cities. It is not
 believed the merchants sell to agents of the Yaquis- -knowingly.--Siv Yaquis supply the guns and ammunitions to the fighters, as soon as it is received
 into their country. They travel with
 a picked escort of fifteen Indians, and leave arms and ammunitions at va. rious points in the mountains As a result the Yaquis are armed with the latest fighting weapons and have plenty of ammunition.
 Their spies are everywhere If a body of Mexican cavalry start for a certain point where the Yaquis are
 known to be in force. even if over a hundred miles away, a mounted Yaqui will arrive hours in advance and the
 Mexican soldiers will ride straight
 into an ambuscade. They are willing to kill and plunder.
 But if the Spanish soldiery had
 never bothered the Yaquis it is req l sonable to believe they would now be
 as civilized as their white enemies. Said a chronicler of the Yaquis of
 the sixteenth century: The Yaqui women are we'll made and modest.
 They cover their whole body. They ! wear shoes and buckskins made of
 tanned skin. The women wear small
 cloaks over their under petticoats,
 with sleeves gathered up to the shoul-
 ders, all of skin. The priests of
 those people are called 'papas.' The
 oldest men of the community rule.
 The dead are cremated. ofygamy is
 forbidden. The temper of the people
 is good"