Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-27
LIFE OF AMERICANS
 IN YAQUI COUNTRY
 TERRIBLE, SHE SAYS
Graphic Account of Reign of Terror By SaVageS Who Ex- tend no Mercy Is Furnished By Engineers Wife.

GLOBE, June 26 After eight months in the Yaqui valley, the last five of which were a continual reign of terror. Mrs. Herman c. Leuffer, wife of Herman c. Leuffer, engineer , for the Richardson tract at Cocari on the Rio Yaqui, few miles south of Esperanza. is visiting Globe friends. No one can realize what the white women in the Yaqui valley have pass ed through during the past few months" Mrs. Leuffer said For weeks we scarcely slept at night and only when we were so completely ex- hausted that we could not keep awake any longer.
 "The Indians are a real menace. There are 5000 of them, under the leadership of Chief Subulyama a giant negro halfbreed with iron arm who eggs them on all kinds of devilish schemes. One day they came to some of the Mexicans there and told them | if they did not move out of the coun- ltry they would all be killed. They say they are fighting for their lands. which they claim were stolen from them by the Mexicans and sold to the ! 'Gringoes. The Yaquis have no quar- l. rel with the Americans except that they occupy these lands which the In dians believe to be rightfully theirs.
 "The 'broncho' Yaquis are entirely savage. They wear overalls and a shirt. some of them, and rarely any shoes They are well supplied with splendid, wiry little ponies. which ! they ride bareback, and which carry them safely over the rough ground far into their stronghold in the Bacalete mountains, where for two years they have been storing vast quantities of ammunition for the expected and long awaited war on the MeMcans
 "They are a brutal, cruel nation They torture their prisoners. when they take any, which they do not of- ten do, for if any wounded are left of ! the enemy they generally kill them | When they fight they carry their dead away with them, so that it is difficult to discover just what their casualties ! have been.
 "I was in Cocari when the Indians attacked the settlers at the camp few miles from the town. We could hear the noise of the guns and every minute expected to see the Indians sweeping down on us The Mexicans | all fled from the country and now all ! that are left to battle against the In dians are Americans twenty-five of them-and a few hundred Mexican soldiers.
 | And the Mexican soldiers are no i protection. Last week the Yaqms at- tackled a large force of soldiers and killed twenty-five of them, putting them Go flight The Mexicans fight we'll, but they are mortally in fear of the Indians, and they have good cause to be. for a Yaqui never gives mercy or quarter to one o fthe race he hates the worst It is a feather in Yaquis cap when he can kill a Mexican, and now they are almost as greatly in- censed at the foreigners for killing SO many of their nation in the last few raids.
 They say Why do the Ameri.
 cans not leave the Yaqui country if they are in danger?' l will tell you
 They do not leave because they went
 down there with the grim determina- tion in their minds to stick. no mat ter what the cost. because they spent their money there and intend to re-
 main and fight for their investment They do not leave because they know that if they did, few of the harder
 spirits would still remain, to be killed,
 and they think that if anyone stays,
 all must stay. in order that one shall have as much protection as possible
 And why should they leave?"
 asked Mrs. Leuffer, passionately
 'Why should they leave their homes
 and all that they have when they have lstill a chance of winning out? What would the west be today if the early pioneers had given up and gone away
 because of their fear of Indians? What would Arizona be if the Apaches had
 been allowed to drive the early set
 tiers away? Why should these men
 in the Yaqui valley be condemned
 these men who are preparing a soft
 path for the footsteps of those who are to come afterwards?
 } My husband is at Cocari," she ad-
 ded, "and he will stay there They
 will all stay there-until they either
 win their battle or are slain in the ! attempt. They ask protection but whether they get it or not, they will
 remain and fight as best they can alone
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