Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-13

tnelr fellow countrymen who have !. wantonly signed the lying document and cleycrly worded death trap that
 has been so carefully prepared ty
 scme of those in authority. If l have
 the qualifications to enable me to
 make statement of the real condition
 of things as have seen them, I have
 also the courage to declare aga:ast : American citizens who are weak : enough to lend their names to such outrageous purposes.
 Looking little closer toward home there comes an official order from Washington, D. C.. according to which
 American citizens going in and ont
 or the faqui infested zone ao so at their own risk and peril. l believe that l voice the sentiment If otter I Americans when ask, "Is that all the protection the United States citizen
 Is to expect from his goverument?"
 and Are not these same Crited
 States authorities aware that there is virtually no ammunition to De mad in
 the larger towns of the State of So-
 nora In the region of the Indian trouble?" and, further. Are not the
 faquis getting their rifles md am
 munition from Tucson and Nogales
 and other points about, and Lorth. of
 the United States frontier?"
 In answering such interrogatories
 our government will have to admit
 tnat there is no restriction placed
 ufon the sale of arms and ammuni-
 ton to the faqui people, and will have
 ID face the fact that our frontier habi- tauons support many Indians who are In constant communication with their fellows in the field. That they are
 Icing aided in defense of lands which they claim by right of possession. is poor consolation when one runs the FISK Of being ambushed at every turn Tn the road. Many Yaquis are still 1 employed by American interests in mines near the frontier.
 The daily importation of ammuni- ton (the Yaqui generally carries the | discarded arm of the Mexican army, a 45-90 Remington single-fire rife. with 1! peep sight; the guns that they are importing are Winchester 30-30's and | other modern weapons) along the bor- der line, the harboring of Yaquis or The American side, and the employ I ment Of Yaqui labor by American in- ! .erests on the Mexican side, can be {, verified in each respect by anyone who | wishes to inform himself of the Yaqui | question, and if he be in the mining | profession and he thinks upon the am- bush of mining men whom he may | nave personally known. he may well | stop to ponder as to how much the {. United States government is doing to | protect the lives of it's cftIzczs when | engaged in developing the mining in- terests of Sonora before he looks | seross the line to critize the govern nnent of a sister republic. He will !! fipd slim coGsQ!ation either way.
 I have talked with the Mexican gov erhment scouts, whose duty 1t is to | post the army authorities on the dis position, movement and numbers of l the several bands of Indians thar con- | stitUte the Yaqui people today. These 1 scouts can, and do, furnish the infor 1 nation required. but in the meantime fatalities are frequently reported in the form of the ambushing of a stage or of a coach party. or of Mexican fam . flies. or of the killing of a foreign traveler-sometimes travelling with an escort and sometimes without. It has all happened before and it wIm nap pen again. In the course of time it becomes the fearful gossip of a mourning, poverty stricken people but ne news is never published and infor- uration of it is quickly suppressed. The newspapers are under the ban. On the other hand there is the desert ed ranch and houses, roads unused, wells abandoned and cattle left to run wild with two-year-olds unbranded, l That is what the traveller will see to- day in going from La Colorado To Te. coripa, to San Javier, to La DuIa "a suaqui Grande and back 4eain. As 1t Is true of this sc.etfon. it is likely to pc equaIiyv true of the country In the , vv.Hranity, whether it be more infested CT less infested, and U there be any reader who questions such description as have given of the territory within i the bounds named, let him 20 few niles tr the north and northwest. to l Cohachi mountain and Mazatan noun tain, and he will find something still more interesting.
 | My final word to professional friends
 is to advise them to stay out ol sne Yaqui country until there is some bet
 ter assurance of security of travel
 and safety to life than anything that
 exists today. whether going under es- cort or otherwise.
 Under conditions involving so many conflicting statements concerning
 these Indian troubles, the man who.
 has business that takes him into the Yaqm country has been in the same
 position as the man who is cautiously
 watching the questionable maneuvers ] of dog that barks and wags his ts
 ar the same time. He is in no position , to know which end of the dog ro be-
 Eeve. To mining engineers who will ] take this word of warning I say that
 the tail of this beast wags deceitfully. : |