Bisbee daily review., 1909-01-19
PEACE TREATY
 SAID NOT ID
 BE WORKING
Mexican Soldiers, Since Truce, Had To Surround Indians To Get To Them-Eye Witness Tells of Conditions.

Late information from Sonora is to the ec, ., tLat. deSpIte all announce ments recently made, the peace treaty between the Mexican government and the Yaqui Indians is not working as smoothly as is generally believed. The terms agreed upon on the eve or Chris mas at a conference held be- tween representatives of Mexico and the Indians were ratified all right on January 1. as reported, but not until fight had taken place between the Mexicans and Yaquis in which the Yaquis, previously surrounded by the Mexican soldiers, We're compelled to surrender.
 Ac;Jrding to a l'al-er published at Guaymas the prefecto of that city re- ceiyed from an offieial at Hermosillo a telegram, on Jan nary 4. in which the 1 following information was conveyed: We are told at this very moment l from La Pitihaya by Gen. Luis b. ] Torres. Lorenzo Torres and Rafaei Yzabal the following
 Today at o'clock in the evening | the peace with Bgie and his soldiers was arranged. About sixty Indians were disarmed and new remain under { the command of Bltie, but as an escort paid by the gove-nment- Buie will work in gathering together the other ! Indians. We will Natch him closely in order that he wiil comply" The Guaymas paper then publishes 1 the following. obtained from eye Wit ! nesses, which gives information not contained in the oficiai account of i4e 1 peace arrangement:
 On January 2. Chief Bule, 1S0 sol ! diers and fifty or sixty families arriy- | ed at Pitihaya. They encamped about 25O meters from the government camp, which was in charge of Com mander D. Luis Medina Barron. ! Nearby was Col. J. m Yillareal with 100 federal soldiers
 l During the same evening arrived | General Luis E. Torres and Rafael l Yzabal, accomI Ianied by Gustavo Tor i res, Dionisio Gonzales, Dr. Alberto c. NoTiega, Alejandro Lacy. Fernin 1 MeDdia and Max Marks. from Hermo- sillo, and Arturo Morales, Juan Zeni- 70, Carlos and Jose Nj. Maytorena. and Aureliano l.. TCTres, from Quay mas. The day was spent in arrang. ing prelimiBaries of tEe peace and in making preparations for emeT gencies.
 "On January 3. about II o'clock ID the morning, Gen. Torres, Lorenzo Torres and Rafael IZabal held their nrst meeting with the Indian captains
 O agree upon the hour in which the ! peace treaty should be entered mo and r., arrange upon the form 1t should ! assume These details were readily ayreed upon The Tbcians were repre- sented at this conference by Chiei
 Bule with forty picked warriors, all perfectly equipped with Winchester
 rifles and 200 rolnds of ammunition
 each. In the party Of Chief Bule were his sub-chiefs. xatus, Morris. SiI-
 vano Martinez, Dolres Sancoia anu eight governors of the villages of the
 Yaqui river.
 -AmCng the conditions stipulated
 was one from Gen. Torres in which ne
 offered s25. Mexican money. to the
 Indians. in consideration of when
 they should surrender their guns ! Some of them. disappointed with such
 "a proposition, fled the camp, only to
 h1d that the camp was besieged by
 soldiers under Lorenzo Torres. A
 fight of short duration followed Tn
 which one soldier. and one Indian were
 killed and four soldiers injured. The
 other Indians who had run were over powered. Meantiec the Indians at he camp, alarmed st the shooting,
 threatened Cen. Torres and the other
 Mexican officials Rith their guns. out
 Gen. Torres managed to calm them Bule then took possession of a little . hill and prepared to defend it. but
 seeing his forces completely beleag
 uered by the federal soldiers. he
 agreed to the peace terms"
 The Guaymas paper concludes it's
 narrative by saying that the signing
 of peace was celebrated with em-
 braces between the soldiers and In
 dians and music from two bands.