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VOLUME XXVI, No. 174
Who Are The Yaquis?
THEFT OF LANDS KEEPS
MEXICAN TRIBE FURIOUS;
PERILS AMERICANS
Armed Yaqui in the service of the
Mexican government. Yaqui babe,
whose clothing consists of a couple
of bracelets. With the sun, Mexican
sand and a litter of his favorite pup
pies all radiating heat he needs few
garments.
Nogales, Aria. —Recent reports of al
leged atrocities in Mexico and threats
against the lives of Americans and Mexi
cans in Sonora, again put this tribe in
the headlines.
Sporadic outbursts of these Indians
have for years demanded a heavy toll
of Mexican lives with its attendant
Behind the Indian revolt lies the old
question of land proprietorship.
The Yaqui question bids fair to be
definitely settled only when the bones of
the entire tribe, are ploughed under the
already rich Yaqui river valley lands
now permanently lost to this band of
fighting-agriculturist people.
The Yaqui has more intermingled good
and bad characteristics than any tribe
of American Indians. He is brave and
bad: faithful and treacherous; a tough
warrior and good workman; above all un
conquerable. For generations the Yaqui
fought the Spaniards and Mexicans who
sought to encroach upon his land in the
fertile Yaqui river valley.
Numberless expeditions against him on
the part of the various Mexidkn federal
troops have proven futile. Many promin
ent Mexican generals have met their
Waterloo in the fastnesses of the So
nora mountains to which the Yaquis al
ways flee when hard pressed.
For a time, under Porfirio Dfaz, the
Yaqui was undisturbed and known as a
hard-working agricultural Indian. To
people with whom he was on a friendly
footing he made an admirable servant
and a faithful friend: It looked like the
Yaqui danger had fizzled out.
Then came Ramon Corral. Diaz's rice
president, who dispossessed the Yaquis
from the rich valleys of Sonora, stole
their lands and distributed them among
Mexicans and foreigners at a huge profit.
This theft brought on a bloody war which
resulted in the deportation of thousands
of Yaquis. Great numbers were taken
to sea and kicked overboard.
Men. women and children were trans
ported to Yucatan and Quintana Roo
where they were enslaved. Few of them
survived v even six months.
With tne Madero revolution, the un
vanquished Yaquis joined in the war
against their despoilers. Diaz and Corral.
They expected their rich holdings back
but never got them.
Since that time they have been divided
into two classes—peaceful, and “broncho”
Indians. Many of the Mexican troops in
Children of Samoa Unearth Buried
German Riches on Treasur Island
The most exciting and successful treas
ure hunt, outside the pages of Robert
Louis Stevenson, Is Just coming to a
dose down here In the land where Stev
enson wrote the tales that hold every
American boy spellbound.
German agents burted the money dur
ing the war—howsheads of it.
And Uncle Sam’s ltttle nephews have
been unearthing it, with an Ingenuity
that would have won the admiration of
Treasure Island's author.
Forty chests of silver and gold, to be.
exact, were hidden away in the sands
during the dark o' the moon by German
officials who sought to flee the islands
Samoan children, treamrre hunters extraordinary to their uncle Sam, and
below Commander Strum, U. S. N». who directed the search for burled Teuton
-treasure.
L. W. Strom, of the U. S. nary, they pro
after the United State* Joined the allies
Questioned by Lieutenant-Commander
tensed to hare paid It all to Teuton
agents. But Strum knew a thins or two
about German wiles. Also he knew a
thins or two about hurled treasure, bav
ins been a voracious reader of Steven
son, Poe, and the exploits of KkW. Mor
gan, et al.
When his own men, after scouring the
Islands, reported failure. Strum called on
the school children of Samoa, deputising
them all as treasure hunters extraordi
nary to thetr Uncle Sam.
He tokl them to go out and shuffle
around In bare feet, and to report to
him when they found any loose soil with
hard ground around It.
Hundreds of kids hsgan to shuffle
around, both vigorously and well. In
fact, they shimmied all over the IMand.
Charley Jewltt, 11-year-old son of the
navy yard foreman at Pago Pago, made
the first strike. Runntng down Mil. his
bare toes had sunk Into loose soil and
came up with several German mark
pieces.
S'rum and some of hhi little deputies
followed the excited Charlie to the spot
and shoveled up enough coin to QU a huge
barrel.
The treasure had been Imperfectly seal
ed In long terracotta cylinders, cached
about two feet below the surface of the
ground.
The next gold plant was unearthed by
a native boy who was chasing a pig
home A little digging uncovered the
greateet cache of Germans gold found by
American agents during the war—bulg
ing chests of It that would have made
Captain Kidd faint with covetous Joy.
Since then the boys and girls of Pago
Pago hava been prospecting Samoa with
a thoroughness that putt to shame the
traditional Industry of ths fotty-nlners
or the Kiondyksra
They shuffle nlgtrt-aAd day. tone have
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Sonora arc Yaquis, but* the “bronchos"
live in the high Sierras and raid the
valley towns with regularity. Most of the
time they pay little attention to the Am
erican settler, but on occasions murder
him as relentlessly as the Mexican.
The “broncho” demands the return of
the Yauqui river valley to his tribe. He
steadfastly refuses poorer land allotted
to him. But the distribution of the rich
tribal holdings among foreigners and in
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den German mark left Jn all Samoa, it's
burted mighty deep!
Daughter of Taft
College President
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Another member of the Taft family
attain* m hoUatic distinction. Mina Hel
*n Taft la to be acting preaident of
Bryn Mawr College the coming year. She
haa been d«*sn for two yeara. The pregl*
dent, Dr. M. Carey Thom**, la to in* ku
a tour of the wori^
fluential Mexicans has placed the Mexican
government in a predicament which pre
cludes immediate extrication.
To hand back to the Yaquis what is
rightfully theirs would mean confiscation
of much land held by Americans as well
as Mexicans. It would give the tfribe the
richest portion of Sonora, and would bring
no Jess of a howl from American land
holders than from Mexican proprietors.
Science Mopes to Waken
Imbecile’s Mind To Get
Clue lo Horrid Mystery
Awa* •%.,
Mrs. Sura Coburn, widow of C»li
fornias “poor little rich roan,’’ and
the little Pescadero home in which
she was murdered. Inaet, Wallace
Cobam, imbecile step-eon upon whom
the unknown slayer nought to fix
suHpicion.
Pescadero, Cal.—The rnorrl**r of widow
Coburn, a« horridly myateriouH «« a Rue
Mocgu#* crimt*. h'-ape the final cum*- upon
the MccufK'd milltxrift of Horen Coburn,
California*! eccentric “poor little rich
man.”
Kndlefui litigation, neighborhood aquab
blea, family fnudi* and ur<happif»«-tm had
made a Use-king rnoekery of Coburn’H de
nlre to flaunt hla carefully arnaKH'-d rlchen
before thoae who had made hla boyhood
hard aud barren back in New Kng
land.
A few day* ago, In the little P<*eadero
home, Mrs Coburn* half-wit. at*T>-won,
Wallace Coburn, 64, waa found muttering
unintelligibly over her body Her beau
had been cruahed In with a blow aa nhe
lay nlec.ping. And before the door of
Wallace’* room Jay a blood-ntalned club.
Half the little town, a town that ha*
taken Intimate concern In Coburn’H money
and afTatra, Immediately jumped to the
ooncluaton that the imbecile had alain hla
atep< mother.
Alternately growling and xtamrmrlng
endearment*, th* man waa holding the
body when the crime wan discovered.
But examination of the premium quick*
ly convinced the police and detective* em
ployed by the family that the murder
wna evidently planned to fix auapielon
upon th»* Jialf-wlt who can neither ex
plain what he known nor defend hlm
aelf.
He and Sara Sattra Coburn, the alaln
widow, lived alone |r» the houae.
The myatery Ilea ir» the befuddled mind
of the atep-aon. It la almoat certain that
he wftro aaed the crime, the object of
which waa not. robbery, for mom y In the
houae waa untouched, but which police
believe la related to the fit r ly feuda
aprlnging out of Cohum'a wealth.
While the mint for clue* nt on- a
hunt handle app *d by the ta» lea of <1«-
tadlvea working for oppoalng family fn
ter««aUK-paychoiogy experta were ualng
every known experiment to awaken a
ITHE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMESTHE ONE PAPER IN MOS" HOMES— ~
Lllf'llOTA f>cnDr>i» oiimruv nnnnMiurt * r * * ' ■
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING,
BIGGEST ME .
OF THE WAR!
A Down-East Yankee Pulled It,
and It Made All Russia
Laugh
The biggest Joke of the war—anyhow
the longest—was pulled by a down-east
Yankee—Howard l>. Hadley of Platts
burg, N. Y., familiarly known through
out Russia and the far east os “Pop.”
The story of “Pop" Hadley's “See
chasers’ Passport’* is an American fun
classic.
]t wap a perambulating joke 7.000 miles
in length. It started in Turkestan, wan
dered through the wild Cossacks of the
Ukraine, puzzled the angry Bolsheviks
of Petroprad and Moscow, crossed the
yellow Volga, passed on eastward through
Tomsk, Omsk and Irkutsk, and finally set
the A. E. F. at Vladivostok in a roar.
Then it ambled onward to New York
and way-stations. The other day Hadley,
fresh from Asia, struck San Francisco
and bought a weekly magazine. There
was a picture of his passport staring up
from an article on the “superboobishness”
of the Bolshevik!!
The writer of the article had picked
up the hind end of the jest at Vladivo
stok. Hadley thereupon told how it
started.
“1 was in Odessa early in 1918. and ran
across a print-shop that had some Eng
lish type. Now. my dream was that some
day. after the world was quiet, these
fine live Americans whom 1 had met in
Russia would fore-gather at my little
mountain camp in the Adirondacks and
talk over old times.
“So 1 wrote out a.n Invitation fn the
form of a passport, and had it printed.
It looked like a passport, but when you
came to read it—well —it was different.
“One of the first chaps I gave it to
was a clever little Palish Jew from Kan
sas, named John Wolls.”
Hadley's “passport” was some docu
ment It was inscribed:
“Good for one first-class coupe in the
Wag-on-Bits from
WI l ERESO EVER - Y A U A RSKI
to
PBATTSBURG. N. Y.
“Provided you can get into it and hold
It against all comers; ‘Catch-as-Catch-
Can,’ Jiu-Jitsu,’ Collar-and-Eyebrows, ’
and Russo-Roumanian’ styles of wrest
ling.”
It further entitled the bearer to one
week’s board at “Seechasscrs’ Beach. Up
per Chateaugay Bake-in-the-Adirondacks
and a seat near the fireplace the while
you tell what little you actually know
about Russia ”
“Appended to the document was an
“emergency coupon:”
“If. in spite of the efforts of friend
Stevens and all other good scouts on his
staff, all the railways in Russia become
blocked, this coupon entitles you to hoof
it across lots to either Suez, Calcutta,
Singapore, Ceylon, Cape Town, Vladi
vostok, Port Arthur. Archangel or Jeru
salem;
“And authority Is h- reby granted to
i lash of intelligence in Wallace Coburn,
who wan a normal bf>y until sickness at
the age of 15 bereft him of reason,
Under observation in a sanitorium,
Wallace is showing flashes of remem
bering, ami the authorities hope that
he may yet be able to identify the slay
er and present the horrid picture that
lies in his fogged brain.
After Coburn's fortune had mounted
to millions relatives several tiroes at
tempted to have him declared incompet
ent. He won out after a bitter court
struggle but a short time before his re
cent death.
Under the terms of the “poor little rich
man’s’’ will, Wallace's Inheritance was
to go to Mrs. Sara Coburn, in the event
she outlived him. otherwise, certain
members of the family had agreed, the
hulk of the estate was to go to Asro
Coburn, a nephew At the time of the
murder Azro was out of the state
Misfortune and unhappiness have taint
ed the Coburn dollars. The first, wife
died while the fortune was In the mak
ing. At 16 the son, NVallace, became, an
Imbecile Coburn grew taciturn eccen
tric, hoarding what he had and unable
to buy what he wanted with what he
had
WAR ON DISEASE
A WAR ON SIN
(By THE REV. CHARLES STECZLE.)
Staffs Writer on Religious Topics.)
I'oater* announcing that “Hi.- govern,
merit has declared war on venereal dis
eases" arc displayed In conspicuous
places throughout the country
And It's a wholesome thing that. Ihese
hortlMe disease* are to I* attacked by
a rellahle, unselfish agency rather than
hy a fake commercial enterprise
There’s no douht that I’nde fkirn will
greatly reduce Ihe suffering doe to the
Immorality of hdh men and women.
But there’s a limit to what the govern
ment rnav do. If may establish ever so
fine a clinic or dispensary, and furnish
the most competent physicians available
but veneral disease will never he con
quered until men and women have learn
ed to conquer thernael' ee.
In the final analysis the war on ven
eral disease Is s war on sin- and sin can
not lie conquered by wholesale—lt Is an
Individual matter.
There’s a point where setencs halt a—
It'S the place where the will of man Is
arrayed against the will of God -and here
even God Is helpless unless man Is ready
to surrender to Him.
WILSON MEET* ECONOMIST*.
Paris. —President Wilson tnet the Am
erican members of the supreme economic
commission today to consider whether
that body should be discontinued The
commission was created for the period
of the armistice, which expires with the
sighing of the treaty. ~ ,
internationalise’ from time to time such
food, clothing, horses, oxen, mules, dogs,
goats, camels, elephants, ostriches and
reindeer as may be necessary and ap
propriate for the journey.”
Wolls had acted as Hadley’s interpreter.
He had no regular passport. When Ilad
le* gave him the “Seechaasers” document
- -duly stamped with a monkey rampant
in red sealing wax and bearing a snap
shot uhoto of “the exile"—Wolls laugh
ed. took it and shortly disappeared.
Six months later he showed up in Vladi
vostok!
With a perfectly straight face he hand
ed the absurd missive in at American
headquarters, explaining that he had
travelled on it from Odessa to Petro
grad. l.fiOO miles through Bolshevik coun
try; and thence to the Pacific ocean, 6,-
BftO miles further—as far as from San
Diego to Halifax and back again.
Whenever a Bolshevik challenged him,
he said, he would flash the passport.
Whereupon the Bolshevik would fall three
paces to the rear and present arms!
Wolls nut one over.” says lladley. “He
apparently convinced the allied officers
he could neither read nor speak English,
and had thought it was a real passport.
"If those officers could have heard him
laugh when I gave It to him In Odessa,
they would have realized he could not
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only speak English, but could get a Yan
kee joke.
“I have no doubt he did pull it on the
Bolsheviks. But if so, he picked his Bol
sheviks carefully. There are some wise
birds in that gang of Benme’s, If Wolls
had chosen the wrong one, his sould would
have gone marching on—not his body.
“Any time he shows up in the Adiron
dacks, that document is good for a week’s
board, and then some.
"As to the incident proving the Bol
shevik i to be 'super-boobs’—well, they
can raise hell in fourteen languages, and
that takes a certain sort of brains!”
WAR DEPT WILL SELL
SURPLUS STOCK JUNE 30
Washington—The public sale of can
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when sealed bids will bo opened for
'great quantities of corn, pens, baked
beans and stringless beans at the zone
supply office in Boston, New York, Phil
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AUTOMOBILE
SECTION
plus existing in each zone will be
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FOUR GEORGIA NAMES IN
LIST OF 88 CASUALTIES
Washington, D. C.—The following cas
ualties are reported by the commanding,
general of the American Expeditionary*
Forces:
Killed in action 2t
Died of wounds i.
Died of accident and other causes .... IF
Died of disease j-j
Wounded severely i*
Wounded (degree unde term ineef) ......BS
Wounded slightly ..34
Missing in action
Total „.8g;
Wounded slightly:
Privt. Jerre W. Clark, Columbus, Ga.
Corrections.
Killed in action, previously reported
missing: Private Fred E. Nettles, Ar
gyle, Ga.
Died, previously reported missing:*.
Private John O. Holt. Climax, Ga.
Returned to duty, previously reported:
missing: Private Charlie Edwards,,
Climax, Oa.
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