Arizona republican., 1914-10-28
MEX|CANS 0N STAND BLAME
 II 0N ORTIZ
Defendants in Conspiracy Case, Witnesses in Own Behalf, Declare Yaqui Only One With Other Than Peaceful Intent

If the testimony of four of the de- fendants in the Conspiracy Case is true, Miguel Ortiz, the Yaqui leader, who is at large, is the most crafty cruel sort of an individual, for, accord ing to the witnesses it was this man who did the plotting, and who attempt ed to get the peaceful Mexican Union to adopt the bloody methods of raiders and banditt.
 The prosecution rested after having questioned three of the peaceful In- dians and three of the officers yester- day afternoon. The testimony of these was mainly corrObOrative in it's nature tending to show that an organization did exist, and that the purposes of this organization were actually reasonable and in contravention of the law, the peace and dignity of the United States Of America
 Jose Pablo, Jose Miguel and Joachim Eschief testified to the relations be- tween the Yaqui agents and the Pima chiefs. According to Miguel, Ortiz ad Vised the Pmas to revolt because he said Superintendent Frank Thackery and certain less unciviliZed Pimas had been selling the Pima lands, and had made preparations for sending the flower of the Pima youth to Mexico to be killed by Huertista bullets Ortiz did not stop at warning the Pimas of these outrages. but actually planned q vengeance, said the witness. He told them to get butcher knives and clubs and other barbarous weapons, and pro- ceed to kill MT. Thackery and the four progressive Pima leaders-and the sooner the better. The five were to be the first to suffer from the reprisals of the wronged ones, then, their ef- forts were to be directed toward elim- mating other persons who might stand in the way
 Teodoro Cayetan. who is popularly supposed to be the authorized repre- sentative of Ricardo Flores Magon, the famous Mexican agitator was proved out of the case" by the testimony of fellow COnspirators, and then proceeded to contradict them flatly, apparently not understanding just what they had been saying Franco, Encinas and Luna, the interpreter were all on the stand, the first two flatly denying their houses had been the scenes of the two meetings, and Luna cOnfessing that he had translated in- cendiary things to the Pimas Cayeton, said both Franco and Encinas couldn't have been at the meetings because there were none. Padilla had stated Cayeten was there but that he had merely told the conspirators how little chance they would have if they started something" against the United States. This naturally left Cayetan in the clear But when he took the stand, he was positive that he had not even arrived until two days after he heard the meetings had taken place
 Sheriff Jeff Adams and Deputies Jim Murphy and Alberto Lopez told of having made the arrests and Lopez described bits of conversation he had overheard in the jail These talks, he said, bore out the fabric of the con spiracy revealed in round about ways in the testimony of the Indians and of Mr Thackery.
 Judge Sawtelle halted an inquiry into the political beliefs of Cayetan when he prevented the prosecution on cross examination from trying to show that the defendant witness was sOcialistic apitator