Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-06-09
YAQUIS end A WAR
lasting 120 YEARS
MEXICAN INDIAN NATION SUES
FOR PEACE AND WILL SET
TIE DOWN.
ALL TRIBAL RELATIONS
SOON TO BE SEVERED
Originally 10000 Of the Redskins
Fought President Diaz' Govern
ment-overcome in Struggle for
Rich Stretch Of Country.

Hermosillo, Sonora, Mex, June a.
After war which has continued inter-
mittently for more than 100 years, the
Yaqui nation, as a nation, is about to
suffer the throes of dissolution, to
sever tribal relations, and it's men,
bers are to settle down into peaceable
and law-abiding citizens.
Originally numbering 10000 or more
people, they have never yet acknowl-
edged the authority of the Mexican
government, but the end is fast COM
ing and the Yaqui nation will soon be
a thing Of the past.
Although Christianized by the Span
ish fathers, they steadfastly refused to
accept the dominion of Spain, and as
soldiers, in the revolutionary army,
materially aided in driving the Span
iards from the country, and in later
years, against the armies of the re-
public, they stubbornly maintained
their freedom
Never Gave UP Freedom.
When at peace they enjoyed all the
rights and privileges accorded to other
citizens of Mexico, but their fealty to
tribal relations was never broken. The
sovereignty of the "Yaqui country
they conceded to no one. If beaten by
armies in the field, they retreated to
the mountains of Bacatete, and waged
unrelenting guerrilla warfare. Quar-
ter was neither asked nor given and
the innocent on both sides suffered
with the guilty. When exhausted by
long struggles there have been inter
walls of peace, but under the then exist
ing conditions these could not be last
ing and the first overt act on the part
of Indians or the government led to
other bloody and determined strug-
giles.
To the Anglo-Saxon adventurer the
great possibilities afforded by the
country could not be overlooked. Old
Sam Brannen was given grant to the
valley, but the government could not
deliver the goods and he died of old
age without changing the status quo.
Brannen's mantle fell on other shout
ders, some American, some Mexican.
Deeds of violence that would shame q
pagan were perpetrated against the In
dians and they relied in like measures.
The national as we'll as state govern
ments became involved and then en-
sued the long struggle which is about
to end.
On May Z last Luis Bule, head of the
Yaqui nation, asked for a conference
by which peace could be arranged.
With 96 of his followers, he was met
in the Bacatete mountains by Col. Jose
Gonzales salas and other officers or
the Mexican army. The conference.
lasted three hours and 1t Is believed to
have paved the way to a lasting peace.
The Terms Of Peace,
These provide unconditional submits.
sion of the Yaquis to the authority of
she government; that the lives and
property of the Indians be respected.
and they be protected in all tho rights
and privileges accorded to Mexican
citizens under existing laws. provided
however, that for the time being they
must not go north of Tres; that OH
hands of the Indians be delivered to
the military authorities, that ennis
saries should be sent to- the different
| Yaqui bands, advising them to cease
hostilities and deliver up their arms :
| and that the government provide ALI
| necessaries for the submitting Indians
until such time as work can be pro-
vided for them.
Chief Bule, in expressing himself as
satisfied with the terms proposed, said
he believed his people would accept
them if enough time was given to
unite all families and parties so as to
| present themselves in body. He
| fixed June is as the date upon which
the united people present themselves
for ratification of the terms of SETTLE
| ment,