La Junta tribune., 1913-05-03
MEXICAN ssssls :. cav,
Concluded from Nm. r.x..,


heads the bullets flew. Then another
:, tune on the dobes in Nsco. when The
bullets began to rinx ! fisttrn..i out on
Mother Earth and ! expect nv nnss,
prints would stiIi show wher. 4 clutch
ed the ground AS long a. ~. were
down below the crest Of the hin there
was not the slightest danger OF being
hit by rifl. or machine gun FIR. from
the town but I.intner and 1 took no
chances. The Yaauis frightened up
when the firing started and sntu. Of
them who were down at tk bottom
: oi tn. draw cooking. grabbed their
rifles and crawle,i up to the crest OF
the hill and into the rife PITS nnd be-
gan wasting a Few uienta -cuar.ntas or
3o-tO's.
A Yaqui likes to fight and drink mes
cal II he can do either he is satisfied
and II he can do both he thinks he II
In the Yagui heaven. He d.,esn't know
u any other way u having FUN He
isn't intellectual enough to take pictures
u battles or dead men or to write
stories for the newspapers of IN. hat
ties he has seen. but he wants to be
I right In IL himself and do some of tn.
killing az get killed. and> the Yaduis
: certainly got their wish between Tues
day. April sth and sunday, April 18th
when the firing CEASED In = f-N min
utes and | let go my death grip on the
earth ". went on down the lin. 10
tn. end Of the entertainments The
line stretched along the draw for
mile and a half south from the inter-
national boundary and there wcr. about
four hundred men altogether ai this
place. We had not gone very far
bcfor. We met F.rf.cto Dicguez lie
was sitting In IN. shade of a blanket
stretched over a couple II busheS eat
ing dinner with one Of his captains.
Captain klos introduced ur ani tn.
P-rfecto asked us to psrtAkc with him.
Their dinner consisted of = bir tortii-
Ia about big = football full Of
frijoles. corn and chill. H-gu-z IL on.
Of the biz men OF sonora and had
heard a sr-a, deal OF him. but this
was tn. nrst tim. that bad ever
met him.
All along this draw therre Were rifle
pits from ten to twenty-five feet apart.
on. for each man. Many Of IN. men
wer. In tn. shallow pits asicep. som.
NFNF flfhfiA ''i'iN Ehnh ana rbtne
we're cooking In tn. pits. Most Of
their cooking was done at III. bottom of
the draw however. four or five cook
ing over the same IRE. rnw one
man making tor,illss In hi. rine III,
and | took pictur. OF him. som.
of his 'companeros' laughed at him
when did that. bu, he never Iaid any
attention to me or them either but
wen, on with HE baking. I took
number Of pictures of the YaGuis. some
of them cooking and some II them ly-
ing around the side of a.. hill
Som. of them ar. dead nov. being kill
s<i sunday In that terrific assault
oj-ds's F.derais who lay - 'she In
trenchment- that milItary men said
could not be taken "xc.is with a..
aid Of artillery. Hut these s,m~ Yaauis
who lay around smoking ani who hok
ri u the, didn't hav. enough am-
bition to make their own cigarettes.
on sunday morning followed chief Hui.
through a storm Of rin~ and machine
KUN bullets and shrapnci HEht up to
tn. Gates at Hell and they drov- oi.sia
out OF his cuart.l tha, could not h.
| taken until It's walls Nsre battered
down by artillery sp miiitsrE men said.
and " tn" federal general and his men
hadn't don. some pretty god fooswofk
they would never hay. gotten across
/ tn. American liu. t. surrender To
American army ofnc.r. These Ysaui.
don't sabc military aciics the, arr
not disciplin.d nor dfili.d lat II
were Huerts ana hi- hroth,r murderer.
Felix pisE. would raih.1 nav. the
devil aH
chief hui- and his Naamz Bu, I AN,
getting ahead ot my story
Capt klos after showing rs all the
sights II the rebel camp toak ns tsrk
To- his own camp. ins father "a. Ger.
man and he himself ~ns siucat~d Ia
Germany and he vas tlckIsi aIu,ost to
death to meet SON. one ~ho could
talk German To him. though h. sp--aks
English. Russian and French a. we'll
a. spanish. iIuth.t l. German, In
fact h" speaks German better thaa I
do. 'N"," hN Ehitor-is ths meant foe
j"k"fb They had a great line talk
ms about IN" cafes and b,ui-varts "f
Berlin and l'aris and W. had a dickens
"i time getting svpS frum th~ artti.
l"fytnan. II ". had cot fotnis.Si him
10 com" out III" next day cure, he
never would have l", go ~ us Itfov~
We wen, b" in.d his men up. sesrk-
"d their rin.s and arranged Ia the ne.
c"utr-m"n'r and We r-ok a pictus~ ~
| IN. bunch
We s", tack I" town and ga s,y
story on tn. ~ir-. but Il sas tso
O'Clock by that tim. aud nv frt.uA vi,o
runs the little ham sna egg uf. saytas
station had run out ~ sy.f1thins to
cat and all that got Tor n, tuWch
Was cup Of coffee. bot xos,ksn't
have missed that Trip n hhds's 9ue
mS'hins Z" eat for ~"ck caSlsta
h'"' had invited Us To- hay. iun.h vteh
him but as I wanted Ia 60, hsrA 10
town To send my -tof, out in time
Tor h. Afternoon rsp~r- We lad r..
fused his Kind invitation. II - hsA
eaten With him ~- would have haA
frijo'".. t@tiliss and j-rk.d beef fAsrs
~"f" auit" o few 'vara. rrs,in. e,eaup
4" th" r'b'.i camp and ~. .aw estee
bit "f beef hung ~ ia dr., - ehe