The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-09-24
CHAPTER xI.

peaceful and sleepy, was alive with
hurrying men when Bud and PM
reached town. over at the station a
special engine was wheeling and blow
ing after its heavy run and, from the
train OF commandeered ore cars be
hind, swarm of soldiers were leaping
TO the ground On the porch OF the
hotel Don Juan de Dios Brachamonte
was making violent signals with his
hands. and as they rode up he hurried
out TO meet them.
my gracious, boys" he cried, ITS
good thing you came into town! Der
nardo Bravo has come over the noun
tains and he's marching to take Moe.
! tezumav
why. that doesn't make any differ.
| ence to us!" answered Phil. "Mocte-
yuma is eighty miles from here-and
| look at all the soldiers. How many
| men has Bernardo got?"
We'll, that do not know" respond
ed Don Juan; some say more and
some less. but II you boys hadn't come
/ in | would have sent a man 10 fetch
| you. Just as soon as revolution be-
| gins the back country becomes unsafe
| for Americans. Some OF these low
| characters are likely to murder you II
they think you have any money"
We'll. we haven't" put in Bud; but
we've got mine--and we're going to
keep II, too"
"Aw, Bernardo Bravo hasn't got any
men!" scoffed PHIL Il bet this is a
false alarm. He got whipped out OF
his boots over in chihuahua last fall,
and he's been up in the Sierra Madres
ever since. Probably come down to
steal little beef
why. Don Juan. Bud and lived
right next to trail all last year and
II we'd listened to one-tenth OF the
reyoltoso stories We heard we wouldn't
have taken out an ounce OF gold. I'm
going to get my announcement papers
tomorrow, aud IN bet you We work
that mine all summer and never know
the difference. These rebels won't
hurt you any. anyhow!"
NO, Only beg little grub" added
Bud scornfully Come on. Phil; lett
80 over and look at the soldiers--its
that bunch OF Yaquis We saw up at
Aqua Negra"
They tied their horses to the rack
and. leaving the solicitous Don Juan to
sputter. hurried over TO the yard. From
the heavy metal ore cars. each a roll
ing fortress In itself. the last OF the
active Iaquis were helping out their
women and pct dogs. while the rest
talking and laughing In high spirits,
we're strung out along the track Ia a
perfunctory line
II the few officers in command had
ever attempted 20 teach them military
discipline. the result Was not appar,
ent in the limo they formed. but any
man who locked at their swarthy
faces, the haN klike protIles. and deep
set. steady eyes. would know that they
we're lighters
After all. straight line on parade
has very little to do With actual war
fare and these men had proved their
worth under IRE
To be sure. u was the tire OF Next
can guns. and perhaps that was Why
the officers were so quiet aud unassert
i've; for every one OF these big. up
standing Indians had been captured in
the laqui wars aud deporsed to the
heBeQuen seids ot Iucatan 10 die 10
the miasma and heat
But they had come from a hardy
breed aud the whirligis Of fortune was
dying fast Madero defeated PorfriC
. niaa: fresh revolutions broke on,
. against the victor and looking about
IN desperation :of soldiers 10 All hl.
. ranks, Nadero fvil uvon The Yaquts
b Trained warriors Tor generations 81
,. race SC fierce that the ancient "a
D tees had b0en 'aru~d aside b. them IN
{ their empire founding migration. the,
were the very men ca Nhip back ID,
= rcbcls, II he coglc bat ~in them to hi,
. side
p So Msaero had approached Chic
= bale, whom utaR had Jaksa under .
! fiag Of trUcs. sst soon the axrppmen
d vas made. iu return for faithful -erv
3 tee. Msyiro would Eiye back 10 III,
Indians the enc thing they had bee,
fighting q hunFdsd and sixty years q
attain, their land along the Rio Yaqui
and there tsey should BE permitted Il
live To peace as their ancestors Ia,
3 done before them
u And SO, with a thousand or more O
e his men. the crafty old var chief hs.
> taken service Ia the federal army
n though his mind. poisoned perhaps B.
Y the treachery he had suffered. was no
Q. entirely free from guile.
cTo BE coNTINUEpl