The border vidette., 1927-05-14
DO YOU REMEMBER NOGALES 80
YEARS AGO MAY l5, 1897 2
(THE BORDER VIDETTE)
NO MORE CRUEL WAR
The Yaqui Indians Sign a Treaty of
Peace With Mexico.

Mexican government is at last
settled by treaty of eace salts
factory to both sides.
Colonel Francisco Peinado, Of
General Torres staff. went to
Hermosillo Tuesday to make
final arrangements for ratifying
the treaty and be was met there
by Juan Maldonado. chief of the
Yaquis. who signed the treaty
for his tribe.
The papers of agreement have
all been arranged and Sunday at
Ortiz. the final signatures and
ratification of the treaty will be
made. Chief Maldonado of the
Yaquis will be there with be
tween four and five thousand
of his followers, two thousand
of whom are we'll armed, and all
the high state officials of Sonora
and the Mexican army will be
there with government soldiers.
It might not be out of place to
say that the Yaquis at Ortiz are
the best drilled men in Sonora
and they are hard fighters.
The Yaquis are to take their
land in severalty and promise to
be good. thus ending a war that
has lasted for eleven years.
The Mexican government had
tried for years to get the Yaquis
to take their land in severalty
but thy stubbornly refused to
do so and in 1886, large mum
Der of Mexican troops we're sent
down there to protect the set
tiers to whom the government
had granted land. The Yaquis
Immediately raised an armed
force and commenced to kill off
the soldiers, burned all the can
Oes, launches and boats, about
eight hundred in all belonging
to the Indians, to prevent them
from having fotlllas with which
to do battle on the water. The
government had about 6, 900 men
in the field in the Yaqui country
at that time and most of them
we're killed off by the nervy va
qui Indians.
There has been a guerilla war
continuously since until the pres
ent time, when the final AMIGA
BILE settlement has been made.
The land that has been in con
troversy is we'll worth fighting
over as it is the richest in the
world and it will be divided up
with about twenty five acres to
the family. The land will pro
duce almost anything planted
and the climate is healty semi
tropical climate. Fl the same
land was in the United States it
would readily bring $500 an
acre. Coffee. hemp, indigo, to
bacco and all such stuff can be
raised in abundance.
The settlement of this contro
versy will be worth untold thous
ands to the state of Sonora and
now the country will be more
rapidly developed.
Albert Steinfelt returns to
Tucson tonight.
The finest strawberries No.
gales gets are from Phoenix.
Julio Ullman is now holding
down cases on the Vidette.
f. G.. Earle, the Ell Paso ore
buyer is in town on business.
There has been some heavy
gambling at the fiesta during
this week.
A. Redewill, the Phoenix pi.
ano man will be in Nogales in a
day or two.
G. G. Wheeler, the Tucson
merchant, was in town the first
of the week.
Colonel and Mrs. F. H. Sey.
mour we're up from Torres this
week shopping.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Titcomb went
to Hermosillo this morning to
see the little children of j. Fl.
Palmer.
Carbon & Peck have bought
some fine livery horses and now
have the best turnouts in the
country.
Guillermo Mascarenas return.
ed from the Santa Barbara ranch
Thursday after spending week
out there.