Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-11-20
Barbarous Tribe Tx'sts on an
Island In the Gulf or
California.
PARTY DROPS OUT OF SIGHT
searehers Find Evidence Of CHASTITY
Feast of Band of savases.-aov.
ernor Talks With the chlef-Fish.
ermen Have Met Death at the
Hands of Hungry Heathens.

NEW YORK, Nov. f9.-Ziba Stock
e'' an irrigation agent on visit
20 the United States from the pov.
lnce OF Sonora. Mexico. reports the
presence In the Gulf of California
OIL a tribe of cannibal Indians as
lincouth, barberous and unrestrained
In their habits rs any savages in
darkest Africa.
lhere Is no record Of cannibalism
on any other part of the North
American continent. Theron Island.
upon which the cannibals-Serrls
they are called-live, is only 200
miles south of southern California.
1t Is only IL short distance from
Guaymas, on the coast of Sonora.
and Hermosillo, capital of the prov.
ince, each of which Is popuous
city. inhabited by Mexlcans of the
trading and manufacturing classes
and numerous Americans from South
western states. who have made So
nora their home since irrigation made
certain parts of it fertile
Killed BY the Indians.
Searching parties sent to the main.
land have been lost, and fear of
capture and death at the hands OF
the Indians, together with the fact
that no one knows the topography
OF the land or where the fresh water
streams are, have prevented definite
explorations.
Rumors about the savage Serbs,
their grotesQuc appearances and their
gross instincts have been afloat in
Sonora in the memories of the Oldest
inhabitants. Mr. Stocker says. Chill
dren are frightened with stories about
them. The supcrstitious attribute
every catastrophe, the slightest i'll
luck to them. and dread at any time
that they will invade the mainland.
Americans Succeed.
1t was only recently, however, that
an investigation WAS determined up-
on. 1t remained for adventurous
Americans to undertake the com.
mission. Three of them in a small
sail boat stocked with arms and pro
visions set sail for the island. They
told Their friends they would not 'bc
gone more than month at the
longest, and they promised to bring
back a detailed account Of what they
had seen on this mysterious island
and It's still more mysterious den
liens.
The band Of three was not heard
from at the end Of the month Six
weeks passed and the band never
having returned, searching party
was sent to investigate. The second
party got no further than the coast
OF the Island. There they saw a
sight which turned them back with
disgust and dread. They saw the
relics OF cannibal feast, with
charred bones, remnants of dccom-
posed flesh aud other stomach-turn-
Ing accessories. More ghastly still
was the discovery of remnants of
clothing that told Enthusiastically the
band of three had been the victims
of the cannibals.
Searching Parties Never Return.
The second party returned TO So
nora told their friends what they
had seen, aud the Americans and
Mexicans. incensod, formed other
parties. These either met the fate
of the first or else drea;ling that
they would become lost i'll tho island
or faniish there, even If they were
not ambushed, returned to the main
land.
About two months ago the govern.
ment took a hand, The YaauI In