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MAGAZINE SECTION 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 THE AUGUSTA HERALD # CENTS PER COPY. (UNITED PRESS.) 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 W.sraV'* \ JyS ■Hr Jsf H A: " vyr™ - jhh Mil £t. Qajrv. Jdjyvr&tx'xxiru had to take an enforced rest until they can (trow a new coat of akin on the bot tom of their feet. And (f there's a hid den German mark left Jn all Samoa, it's burted mighty deep! Daughter of Taft College President ■ /hfjj-.n \ jp'/ TAFT 1 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 McCALL’S PATTERNS. J. A. MtILLARKY CO. Offering Values of First Importance i Special Inducements for Monday NEW DRESSES $25.00 Value* for $20.00. In white, flesh, navy and black. 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"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 ned foodstuffs will be held June 30th 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 adelphia. Baltimore. Newport News. At lanta, Chicago, St. Bouis, New Orleans, Fort Ram Houston, El Paso, Omaha and San Francisco. No offer will be received for less than a carload lof, and the sur NEW DRESSES Colorful dainty creations that are just right for the days of sunshine and blue skies. Stunningly new styles, some trimmed in organdie and lace, in fact in any style that is new, in organdie, voile and challie, from $7.50 to $14.95 Ideal Blouse Ideas $6.50 and $7.50 The satisfaction of the Mullarky Blouse is that their good looks do not camouflage poor service. We specify that all of our blouses shall be made in a manner and of such fabrics and trimmings that will give service. Their popularity is well deserved for the models are here in a variety, embracing the most want ed colors, including flesh and white. AUTOMOBILE SECTION plus existing in each zone will be ed for sale in that zone. 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. 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