The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1909-11-12

@ Magazne depicts scenes that no person could imagine
in twentieth century The November number deals
Yad Indians and the system of determination and depora
w. q these once peaceful people by the Mexican government The
% according this narrative civilized people when
invaded Mexico and had their fields adobe houses and crude
nrnens of agriculture lhey were not Warke people but
- o an independent and resisted INVASION finally being
d certain lands and privileges by the Spanish and
no under the for two hundred and nifty years IN peace and
oerv Then certain Mexcans of high finance wanted their
d and goaded them into The proud race has now been
d and only remnant remains in mountain Businesses carry
Guerilla warfare while the large majority have taken their
% as workers the fields of Mexico These are being gathered
m be rate month and sold into slavery in Yucaan for
II money that In Yuatan the families are broken up and
M women gven to Chinese and Mayas, who practically held
as slaves by the planters The story in its record OF barba would
he unbelievable if it were not subsanated by outside evidence
# YOU have not read these articles it your duty to do So We
present herewith brief extract:
The deportation of Yaqus Yucatan began about four years
400 # was carried small scale at first then on larger
Finally in the spring of 1908, despatch was published IN
American and Mexican newspapers saying t2at FreSdet a m
d sweeping order decreeng that every Yaq wherever found
men women and children should be gathered by the War De
ment and deported Yucatan During Journeys IN Mexico
manfred many the authenticity OF this despatch and the
story was confirmed 1t confirmed by IN the public depart
nets of Mexico City 1t confirmed by Colonel Cruz che1 d
porter Yaquis And is certain that such an order
NAV have come FROM carried out complaints OF o
b Of Sonora indicate Yaqu wongmen were taken daily from
mines railroads old worngmen who never owned
rife in their lives children babes the old and the young
the weak and the strong Guarded by soldiers and fdeS e
travelled together the exile road More than that tee Wel
others besides Yaqrs who Travelled that road as ana
a U and unable to protect themselves we're taken tagged
Yaqus and sent away the land of heeque what became
them there? That what went to 4ucatan to ma out
The secret which lies at the of the whole Yaqu affair Was
revealed to me and the whole summed up in few words by
in the Mexican army in one OF the most TeiaIaOie III
eryiews which | obtained during my entire trip TO MEXICO
For the past years this officer has been one OF to
immediate charge of transporting all the Iaq eNle 70
was fortunate enough to passage the same steamer WIN
him re,rnino from Prooreso to Vera Cruz He stout COM
Portable talzave old campaigner OF about sixty years ~
ship people put the sateroom and as tne co nav ~ M
government passes which he hoped 10 SeH lHe' We W."
most confidential terms ..r . d.
In the past three and onehaf years. he told me i have d
Need just fifteen thousand seven hundred 1aqu guns III
Need mind you, for you must remember tat lne and
allows me enough expense money to feed them properly anu
from ten twenty per cent. die on the journey
~These Yaouis he sad sel in Yucatan for 500 apiece
women and children Who gets the money? Well $40 goes 10 me
my services The rest is turned to the Secretary c
This however, only drop in the bucket fo Know @ % bro
fac that every foot of land every building every cow e'G
everything left behind BY the Yaquis when they are carried away U
the soldiers appropriated for his private use by te oIG'i
oi the locality from which they have been removed
So ACCORDING 70 hs man who himself made at least qlo
900 out Of the business, the Yaqu are beng dePo ~ & nron
there in t-6rst the money from the apPropao u ~ III arfd
ry second the money from the sale OF ther Dole I+ se
TO me that the denortaons would stop until the last possible
dollar had ben squeezed of the business mere at the
prominent officials who stand together, ana eacn o
others get their share -, 1oods IN the
Yaqu Valley for his own Luis Torres ms Ooue, he s
the army in Sonora when he wasn't governor. Du' nov
governor. o1, r.,
WHO gets the exiled Yaqu repeated the colonel ] IN lg i
A OF my questions We'll that depeq Int Yaouis but
government officials All the henequen planters wan single
unless you friend of of these officials you e ali those
Yaq All those sent to Yucatan consigned to the 4ns al t
sent Campeche are consigned to the other ana ''
uelr friends have them they desire 40 merely as
These little conideces of the colonel were given l on
bits Of interesting gossip harmless foreign = au ,enioned
9 @ exposing the officials and citizens whose ored in it,
lie expressed no objection whatever to the SYSTEM T
"In the past six months the colonel told me = g i
mee thousand Yaqus-6ve hundred MONTH lldl It hope
Of the government boats between Guaymas and 9an D @ Given
10 see increased before the end of the year nave ret Them
orders to hurry 800 Yucaan as qucky , a. for my
me @ All yes ought to have comfortable oest 100 600 more
1aqus to comer' 80 % c,,av-
Yaq travelling to Yucatan after arriving at tn POI M mort Of