The copper era., 1908-02-13
Mexico Campaign Against the Yaqul
Indians.

IuulduS.
A campaign to rid Sonora of the
numbering bands of Yaqui Indians
had been begun anew.
Stirred by the depredations anG
massacres committed by the Yaqu
Indians, the Mexican government has
again gone about in earnest the task
of capturing all the Yaquis and exil
ing them to Yucatan, says the El
Paso Herald.
General Bravo will be sent from
Mexico City to take personal charge
of the campaign and he will round up
the Yaquis in large numbers and can
be sent to Guaymas from which place
they will be deported.
General Bravo, according to the
Hermosillo gossip, will be rewarded
for his labors by being given the gov
ernorship of Sonora.
Governor Torres will, it is stated,
be made ambassador from Mexico to
Italy, which would leave vacant the
governorship. Governor Torres stands
high with the Diaz administration
and his appointment will he, it is
said, an appreciation of his services
in Sonora.
The Mexican officials have at pres
ent the biggest bunch of captured
Indians at Santa Ana, where 1900, in
Guiding women and children, are cor
raled. These were captured in the
mining districts of that section and
will be deported.
1t is stated also that the Mexican
government is now negotiating with
the United States in an endeavor to
have the Yaqui Indians on this side
of the line deported to Mexico so
they can be captured by the Mexican
government, which has long contend
ed that there are several Yaqui head
quarters in this country from which
supplies and ammunition are furnish
ed warning bands in Sonora. Wheth-
er anything will result from the
negotiations could not be learned.
The Yaquis, according to Arizona
papers, are extending their field of
attacks and are causing more trouble
in Sonora than before, according to
mining men who haye just arrived
from that country.
During many years the field of
Yaqui depredations in Sonora seemed
confined to two or three districts
GuaYmas, Hermosillo and Ures; but
during the last two years they have
make hostile excursions outside the
regions they invested, and committed
depredations where least expected.
About the first outrage committed
beyond the usual range of depreda-
tions was in 1906 when a marauding
band killed the Blanco family at La
Juuta ranch, at the junction of the
Moctezuma river with the Tepachi
arroya, in the Moctezuma district,
and mutilated a man they caught on
the road between Tepachi and Lam
pazos, several miles east of La Junta.
Since that time, while just as active
as ever in the Guaymas, Hermosillo
and Ures districts, their range of
operations has extended eastward
and northward into parts of the
Alamos, Sahuaripa, MOctezuma,
Arizpe and Magdalena districts.
The recent killing of sixteen at
the Dolores ranch, on the Dolores
river, was in the Magdalena district,
at point not more than fifty miles
south of the international line and
but sixty or seventy miles from No
gales by the circuitous route one
would travel going in that direction.
The recent killing OF Mark Perkins
and party OF eight others occurred
in the Alamos district, away east
ward from the Yaqui river, and more
than $50 miles distant from the scene
of the Dolores massacre. The Per-
kins massacre occurred about month
later than that at Dolores.