Bisbee daily review., 1906-05-13
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uation Of sonora, there is much that
 will be of interest to every prospector
 mining man and stockholder, who now
 has or expects to have mining prop erty in Sonora Richards article is
 as follows:
 From the standpoint of mining en.
 gineer who has been into other parts Iof the Yaqui territory before, and
 who has just now ridden over two hun
 dred and thirty miles of country ly, ing in and about the hot-bed of these
 Indians. and also speaking with the au
 thority of one who has recently dis cussed the Yaqui question with those in high authority-with prominent cit izens of Mexico as we'll as with the peasantry of the disturbed sections l am prompted to ask for space in | your columns to protest against what, in my opinion, is more ignominious than the scandal that attaches to the question in general; that is. that it should have been possible to circu- lite a proclamation denying the Yaqui danger, which proclamation is mani- festly designed to attribute to bandits such depredations as have been per l petrated, and at the same time intend ed to minimize the danger of travel in Sonora in respect of possible Yaqui attacks.
 It is scarcely to be believed that such proclamation as was in fact ad- dressed to the department of fomento, City of Mexico, that is. to government headquarters, and found the willing or unwilling signatures, as the case may be, of more than one hundred names including merchants of Hermosillo, Guaymas and Magdalena, native ana foreign alike. These were the names of business men, mine owners, mine managers, mine superintendents, bank CTS, storekeepers, etc., including even the name of the American consul of at least one of the towns named. ask the question, does force of c.rcunl- stances justify this written outrage on public credulity?
 Among the names of those who sign ed this malicious document was that of Don Pedro Mega, presidente of the little mining town of La Dura; ne mas paid for this the penalty of death, even though he carried an escort of forty soldiers, a fact which in itself gave the lie to the assertion thar the vsscni danger was exaggerated, ii 1t existed at all.
 A Los Angeles newspaper of March PC comes out with an article under the headline, Story of Massacre Fully Confirmed" and in describing the as- sassination and butchery of Don Pe- dro Mega, his wife and three grown girls, MT. Hoff and his wife, this news fvI I,,Ir ;-, ,-s,-; T false version of the circumstances of this horrible outrage.
 It was my chance to come upon the scene of the ambush two days after its occurrence and to look over, and take photographs of, seven partly burned bodies of the Yaqui dead. whieh nun. pered niRe altogether, and saw be sides fran fifteen to twenty dead ESfaes that marked the direction of the fight A day later we crossed tbe trail of this same baas of one hun dIed and fifty Yaqufs, who were car rying their wounded, as W knew 1iUn a quilt which they had Discarded, and from blood stains. The signs at this time were very fresh tand indicated, what was corroboraSsd afterwards, that we were very GRose to the band that had killed Maza and Hoff and their families.
 What we saw hsre. taken in eonsunc- ton with the fac1 that seven men and women travelling in the Meza rarty were killed and five of Meza's personal servants-constitutin his guard-0ne officer in command and two Soldiers Of an escort originally forty strong, proclains only too plainly the horrible truth No ground is left for dramatic Journalism under these circumstances, when the passengers are assassinated and the escort is saved. There is but the story of their brave part in this ingloricus episode.
 The party with which was travel ing went out under the direction of Gec-ss GecIssss M: Ryall of New Tor. city, who is a coficessionaire of some of the best mining territory contained within the Yaqui zone. It inctuc.ed, in all, five Americans under escort of eighteen rurales and two officers. of the rank of lieutenant. In coming upon the scene of the ambush below Otate pass, east of Suaqui Grande, we had followed for two hours the trail of the Yaqui band going in the same direction and had noted the sin gle mule-prints of the animal which was ridden hy their chief.
 These facts speak for themselves, but that is not enough. I raise my sirgle voice in unwavering protest against the many who in the signing Of the shameful proclamation have
 signed away the lives of tens. and lprobably hundreds. of men and de- lfenseless women who dare to venture
 outside the walls of their little towns iupon errands that make their rravei ! imperative. It is true that there have
 been American citizens murdered in
 ambush: and there will be more to
 swell the list if they gc out into the
 Ysqui country trusting to the misrep-
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