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. PLAINS, Ga., June 30.—0 n Monday
evening Mrs. Della Fletcher enter
tained very pleasantly in honor of her
Eon. Mr. Royal Fletcher, of Statesboro,
who is spending several weeks at his
home here. Conversation was the
feature of the evening. During the
evening cream and cake was served.
Those invited were: Misses Lucy
Kate Clark, Christine Spann, L. E.
Lowrey, Theresa Walters, Lucy Cham
bliss, Louise Webb of Sumter, Ella
Murray, Melba Lunsford and Emily
Walker; Messrs. Dean Ross, Hansel
Rawls, Tom Marshall Lowry, Mary
Chambliss, Dewitt Howell, R. B. Evans,
Roy Brannen, Cecil Walters and
Charlie Crawford.
Miss Ruth Britton's recital on Fri
day evening at the school auditorium
was quite a success. Miss Britton read
"Little Lord Faunteleroy” and from
start to finish she held the undivided
atention of the large audience.
Mr. and Mrs. Redford Bridges, of ]
Sales City, were guests of Mrs. Aletus
Wellons Sunday.
Mrs. A. R. Wilson spent Friday and
Saturday with relatives at De Soto.
Miss Ernestine Logan has returned
from a two weeks stay with relatives
at Bronwood.
Miss Josie Godwin, of Bronwood, is
spending some time with Mrs. Claude
Logan.
Ben Strozier, of Vienna is spending
the week with Rufus Ajisley.
Rev. J. J. Ansley and Mr. E. R.
Stewart left Monday to attend the
District onference, which is in session
at Cuthbert.
Little Kenneth McGarrah, of Wes
ton, is visiting Robert McGarrah for
several days.
Miss Louise Webb, of Sumter, is
spending the week pleasantly, the
guest of Miss Lucy Chambliss.
Miss Virginia Jenkins, of Griffin, is
the fair guest of Mrs. Nina Carter.
Miss Effie McArthur is spending
several wmks at White Springs, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Dodson, of At
lanta, spent Monday here, guests of
Mr. and Mrs. A. Dodson.
Miss Emma Kate Andrew’s and Mrs.
Boatwright, of Americus, were guests
of Miss Lucy Williams Saturday af
ternoon.
Miss Maud Mosley returned to her
home at Orianna Friday, after a pleas
ant visit to Misses Lula and Nell Ba
con.
Mrs. A. M. Monts and children, of
Cochran, are guests of Mrs. Georgia
Dean.
Mrs. Philip Watkins, of Doerun, i 3
spending several days here, the guest
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YAQUI INDIANS
CLOSELY
AMERICAN SETTLERS
IN MEXICO THREATENED
0! WARLIKE TRIBE
(By Associated Press.)
NOGALES, Ariz., June 30. —Altliougn j
the Yaqul Indians of Sonora are saiJ j
to have declared war on the United |
States at least as far as American
settlers in their region are concerned
—and United States warships have
been dispatched to cope with the sit
uation—information as to the process
by which this declaration of war was
made is still lacking. It is known that
the tribe retains a political organiza
tion. What appears to be an almost
mythical supreme chief reigns in the
hills above their valley and is said to
direct the actions of the minor chiefs
who have taken groups of the tribe in
to the Mexican warfare.
The Associated Press correspondent
during a recent trip to the west coast
! with Carranza learned this and a
number of other interesting things
concerning the Yaquis, about whom
little true material has hitherto been
published.
Although they have been in almost
constant warfare since the organiza
tion of the Mexican nation, tfie Yaquis
never have been fully conquered or
won over to European civilization. But
their struggle against the advance of
civilization did not assume threatening
proportions until the recent revolu
tionary activities gave them modern
war munitions and military training.
Previously this most warlike Mexican
Indian had confined himself to gueril
la fighting. The arming of the Yaquis
to take part in Mexico’s domestic quar
rel made possible their, tnore extens
ive military movements, threatening
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not only the American colonists in the
Y'aqui valley about Guaymas. but the
sovereignty of the Mexican race along
that rich portion of the west coast.
The Y'aqui region lies a few miles
inland from the important California
gulf port city of Guaymas. (The Indians
years ago lost most of their rich agri
cultural lands in the valley. Their
strongholds are in the hill country,
from which strong positions they
make frequent raids on the Mexican
settlers in the valley below. It only
has been recently that their assaults
were directed agiinst the American
settlers in. the valley, who had given
the Indians profitable employment as
laborers,
The Y'aqui was not considered an
especially dangerous neighbor until
the advent of the Constitutionalist rev
olution. With separation of the Car
ranza and Villa factions a struggle be
gan between those two parties in Son •
ora state. The Indians already had
been armed and enlisted as troops ir.
the Constitutionalist army, doing the
bulk of the desperate fighting in the
contests for the towns along the Ari
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zona-Sonora border. These Indians
were considered “pacofico,” or peace
ful Yaquis. But on opportune occas
ions they demanded the return of
their tribal lands, and only would re
main in the revolution service after
securing promises from the factional
leaders. For more than a year, how
ever, it has become evident that the
supposedly friendly Yaqui was work
ing in conjunction with his wilder
brother who had remained in the hills.
Arms and ammunition in large quan
tities given to the Indians enlisted in
the Constitutionalist army were smug
gled on the backs of Yaqui runners
into the mountain passes and there
were hidden. The enlisted Indians
would return after an insignificant
skirmish and demand more ammuni
tion. Their Mexican officers did not
dare to refuse it.
The situation became more serious
when Jose Maria Maytorena, the Villa
governor of the state, brought the
Yaqui troops into northern Sonora.
Previously they had been used only
against Huerta’s federal troops about
Guaymas. Maytorena’s Yaquis took
part in the attacks on the Carranza
garrisons at Nogales, Nacvo and Cau
anea. In former years under the Diaz
administration these Indians had been
driven into southern sonora by con
tinued fighting along the Arizona bor
der in which they met the federal
“rurales,” Mexico’s rural police which
was considered the most efficient fight
ing arm of the former dictator. The
forceful exiling into southern Mexico
of large numbers of Yaqui men had
failed to break the warlike spirit of
the race.
Rumors asserted that the Yaqui
leaders were controlling the Maytorena
government. These were denied offic
ially until the more recent develop
ments showed that the so-called “pac
ifico” Y'aquis were working in con
junction with their “broncho” or wild
brothers in their life-long attempt to
regain the valley farming lands now
developed to a high degree by the
American farmers. The American
colonists had bought the land from
the Mexican owners, who in turn had
secured it through government or pri
vate concessions in about the same
manner as the American Indian’s ter
ritory in the United States was colon
ized and developed. The state govern
ment found itself powerless to pre
vent the raids by the “broncho” Indi
ans on the American settlers since the
large proportion of Indian troops
would not permit warfare against
their hill tribesmen. This led to the
sending down the west coast of Amer
ican marines with orders to land if
necessary to save the lives of the
American settlers who though in
grave danger would not leave their
farms in fear of losing their crcops and
property.
The Yaqui’s rival, but first cousin, is
the Mayo Indian whose lands closely
adjoin the Yaqui valley. The Mayo
though of good fighting ability and
frequently victorious over the Yaqui
tribe, is of a more peaceful inclination
and has retained by diplomatic means
some valuable farming land. The
Mayo also entered the revolutionary
struggle. Large numbers of the Mayo
braves joined the Carranza ranks,
and have been assisting materially in
i the Obregon victories over the Villa
- army in ventral Mexico. This left the
5 Yaqui in undispted control in Sonora,
i The plan, formerly suggested, of play
• ing the Mayo against the Y'aqui could
- not be employed since the bulk of the
t Mayo fighting men had been, removed,
i The racial characteristics of the
- Yaqui of Mexico are similar to those
i of the Apache, who caused continued
i warfare on the early development of
I the southwestern United States. The
: Y'aqui is credited with direct relations
ship to the Apache. Like his northern
i cousin the Y'aqui has been guilty of
i all manner of brutality directed
• against his prisoners, and is known
■ to have employed modes of torture as
skillful as those of the ancient Chin
ese. This has caused a fear of the
I Yaqui which was not due entirely to'
• his military ability. The Y'aqui was
■ the first Mexican tribe to become fully
s armed with rifles, and to become skill
-1 ful in their use. Other tribes along
II the west coast still employ the bow
I and arrow for hunting and in some
• cases in fighting any alien invaders.
8 While retaining at riba] tongue and
• | savage customs, the Yaqui became
• skilled in military methods. He kept
• his skillful manner of guerilla war
• fare, but adopted to a large extent
■ some European methods. In the at
: tacks on the Sonora-Arizona border
> towns the Yaqui troops made resper
t ate assaults on the Carranza trenches,
■ charging the positions much in the
■ manner of the European soldier. It
\ had been difficult to make the Mexican
; troops do this.
I I The Y’aqui in his natural stage of
■ military development had used small
I drums on which he gave simple march
I ing orders. These drums took the
; place of the voice trumpet, and hal
' | the advantage by their peculiar noise
> ( of making it difficult for the enemy to
I ( locate the source of the sound. In
l military service with his Mexican
i neighbors the Yaqui developed a more
> extensive system of drum signals, un
■. til his officers could command large
■ j numbers of men to make all manner of
i movements. The Yaqui unlike other
, Indians always had marched in mili
i tary formation until deployed for ac-
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1913
tion. Many battles were w r on merely
by the noise of their Yaqui drums
which seemed to terrorize the enemy
' when the sounds of the beats appeared
to come from all directions. In some
cases a few Yaqui drummers would
crawl to the enemy’s flanks and by
beating out some signal make it ap
pear that the position was being sur
rounded.
No reliable information is available
as to the Yaqui’s actual numerical
strength so varying are the reports of
the Mexican military authorities and
American settlers. But It is known
that several thousand rifles mostly of
the military model, are in the hands of
the Indians, and that large amounts of
ammunition have been obtained by the
hill tribesmen. The Yaquis manner of
warfare a,nd familiarity with the
country would make most difficult, it
is believed by the valley settlers, his
complete defeat and disarmament.
Unfortunate State of Mind.
“To have a grudge against every
body, or even against nearly every
body, is a most suspicious frame of
mind to be in."
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