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HATI IlDAY, APRIL 0. IV'JI. GRANTS 1'188 DAILY IXH IUKK TAGE SIX forays and massacres, appear to have been turned to the fertile fields swept clean for the plow by the scythe of the machete and the machine gun. Ever sluce white men came to the new world there has Iwen trouble with the Yaqul. tliat branch of the great Ataplascan ! migration which halted—both actually in point of movement, and In point of Lay Down Arms After 400 Years progress In civilisation—In the moun tains of western Mexico mon« than ten on the Warpath. centuries ago. Discussion of the rights and wrongs of the quarn«l Is beside the question, now that peace tins been . made, but the first historical mention of the Yaqul Is In the Sixteenth cen tury, when the first band of Conquls Have Held Their Mountain Valleys tadores came Into what Is now Sonorn. and Villages In State of Sonora In After continuous small wars, the first Northwest Mexico Against All Com treaty was made when Dou Francisco era Ever Since They Arrived There. Ybarra brought my people, nominally, Long Before the Coming of the under the Spanish crown. "One hundred and thirty years Spanish Conqulstadores in 1520— passed, a long period of broken agree Sign Treaty With Obregon. rnents, and In 1*40 another treaty of ' peace was signed, and a battalion of The last tribe of Indians of North Yaqul soldiers. Incorporated, Just the America, and the last but two In the same as now. In the governmental new world, has yielded to the march of army, tried to bind the wild race to the civilisation and. after nearly 490 years royal rulers. This peace, however, did of constant warfare against the whites not last long, for the Yaqul demanded laid down Its knhes to pick up shovels absolute control of their tribal lands and hoes, and turned In Its rifles In ex « In the Yaqul river valley and. falling change for tractors and harrows. The ‘ to get this, again took the war path. tribe, which still numbers somewhat In 1768 there was an outbreak which more than S.<XX> Individuals, Is the ! exceeded any preceding It. and the war Yaqul, who have held their mountain . lasted three years, when both aides be- valleys and villages tn the state of I Ing exhausted and the forces of the Sonora, in the northwest corner of ! crown far from their base, peace was Mexico, against all comers, ever since You won’t be satisfied they arrived there, supposedly In the concluded, which lasted until 1781. “During this perhal of quiet, towns with a car unless you are Athapascan migration, possibly later, sprang up tn the Yaqul river valley, aud but certainly before the coming of the : plantations blossomed all over the satisfied with the battery. Spanish Conqulstadores, in 1520 for I lower part of Sonora. Gradually, the these Iberian adventurers found the Yaqul saw their lands slipping away The Willard Threaded Rub Yaqul a powerful tribe, whom neither from them, and once more they begun ber Battery not only gives the they nor their Mexican successors In war, without warning. Within the next right service to begin with, but the land of rnanana have been able to year they destroyed more than a score of towns and villages, virtually all of keeps on giving it, and actually subdue. Yet. this fall. H. H. Dunn tells the which, except Altar and Alamos, are outlasts the battery plates. Dearborn Independent, the Yaqul "el still In ruins, the white people having The plates are insulated— der men," led by Chief Morl, went vol feared to rebuild them during all the untarily to Hermosillo, the capital of 140 years which have succeded since not merely separated. And the the Mexican state of Sonorn and there that time. Threaded Rubber Insulation bound themselves by treaty, not only to Ths Twenty-Six Years' War. neither warps, cracks, nor punc forego their raids ou the Mexican vil "Up to 1832 warfare was Intermit lages of the coast and to permit ex tures, because unlike wood ploration of their country by geologists tent. but constant, not a year going by separators, it is not affected by and mineralogists, but also to send their without Its foray by the Yaqul. or an young men and women with such of the expedition against them by federal battery acid. older oues as may wish to go. to the forces by the many governments which Drive around. Ask questions. reservation set apart for them at alternately ruled lit Mexico. The tight the Spanish governors was We give authorized Willard Potam. Sonora, on which the Mexican against government Is now erecting buildings transferred, whole-heartedly, and with Service. for their use, and Installing the latest the unanimous consent of the trltie. to agricultural machinery for their u«e In their successors of the Mexican gov a farm demonstration School. Later. It | ernment. when the nation won Its Inde is announced by the Sonoran govern pendence from Spain, and continued ment. a general Industrial school will until the powerful Gen. Jose Urre.i be established there, teaching mechan patched up another peace treaty, which held until the French Invasion. Inter ical trades as well as farming. nal quarrels kept so many troops In the Tools of Peace. field that n<> further attempt was mad* In addition to this reservation and to take lands from the Yu<iul. and they school, the Yaqul have been given per remained quietly In the Yaqul river manent hereditary titles to all the do valley, mere watchers of the conflict main they now occupy In the mountains ' for state control on the plains ami It at the headwaters of the Yaqul and the valleys below. Mayo and Fuerte rivers, with prefer- i "In 1860, however, the Yaqul agali ence In the filing on any and till gov went on the war path, and stayed then ernment lands they may wish to take until after Mexico hail disposed « • • • • up. especially In the cases of those who Maximilian ami the Napoleonic drean • eoo as •• have no title or right to any of the of new world empire, and a govern«« • •• • a • • • tribal lands. The Yaqul agree to fur appointed by Benito Juurez had take: • sea ;.••• nish 200 young men annually for train his seat In Arlzpe, then capital of Son ing In the Mexican federal army, each ora. Gen. Ambrosio Pesqulera. wh> year's quota to be released from Its en bad almost as many 'ups-and-downs' a listment at the expiration of three , Francisco Villa, being one day dictatoi ITS AGREED ~ years' service. The government pledges 1 and the next day revolutionist, oh THAT OUR «SPEED- Itself to send no armed expeditions to talned a treaty with the Yaqul, but th« enforce any of Its laws, but to leave coming of Francisco Serna to su|>ei -IS A the policing of the tribe—except those sede Pesqulera ended that period o; FRIEND on the Potnm reservation—to the peace, and small combats continued INDEED • council of elder men of the tribe. until 1894, when the best-remembere« In return for the surrender of some of all the Yaqul outbreaks took place 2.000 Mauser and other modern rifles, to continue, to all practical Intents am which the Yaqul have taken In their purposes, until May, 1920. Through this period, however. tw< raids, the government furnishes hunt SPEEDS ing rifles and ammunition, not to ex men had been rising slowly to consider PLUMBING ,9 ceed 1.000. estimated to be the number able strength In western Mexico—Al of men and boys who will hunt. The varo Obregon In Sinaloa, and Plutnrc« government also agrees to furnish Ellas-Calle* In Sonora. The formei every adult male Yaqul head of a fam made personal friends of the Yaqu ily. who will agree to cultivate faith chiefs, and when he became military fully a tract of land, a team of mules, governor of Sonora let them alone, wagon, seed and such farming Imple merely repulsing their raids, sometimes You'll know that our speed is a ments ns he may need, at coat, the In swooping down on them Just as they good friend of yours when you dian to pay for them In long-time were preparing to «tart a raid, but are in need of a plumber to fix yearly payments. Some 300 Indians never molesting them while they re up a leaky pipe or do some already have asked for this equip mained quiet on their own lands.’They other repair work. At such a ment. began to respect Obregon, then to fear time you will consider it quite The story of .this surrender—which him and, finally, to admire him, as a fortunate that you remember carries the memory back to the days of man who, as you Americans say, al the Five Nations, and follows down to ways 'beat them to It.’ our phone number. We would Geronimo's last outbreak and arrest— i like to be of senice to you. Comei General Obregon. was brought to the United States by "Gen. Ellas-Calle* succeeded general the first Yaqul ever to come to this country on a mission of peace. He Is Obregon as governor of Sonora In 1917, ('apt Cajeme Morl, son of the ruling but. largely because the Yaqul did not 514 F Street chief of the Yaqul, who arrived tn New know him personally, he was unnble to PHONE 308-J Orleans, on his way to the agricultural arrange a peace, though the forays be demonstration stations tn the sugar came much les« destructive and fur cotton and rice districts of Louisiana. ' ther apart. Meanwhile General Obre and the Mississippi Agricultural and gon, who was even then preparing for Mechanical college, to study farmin* his own revolutionary movement. In methods and »he use of modern agri corporated a regiment of Yaqul sol diers Into his army, and Invited me to cultural machinery. represent the Yaqul on his staff. After Captain Morl, who has been for five three conferences with my father. Chief years on the staff of General Plutarco I Morl, In which Obregon came alone Elias-Calles, former governor of the ' and unattended to my father’s head state of Sonora, and one of the leaders quarters on the Upper Yaqul river, my S tomach - Kidney s- Heart - Laver in the recent revolution which estab father consented and 000 Yaqul youths, Keep the vital organs healthy by lished a new government In Mexico, with me, Joined the state army of largely Instrumental In bringing his Sonora at Herm<>>dllo. We soon learned regularly taking the world’s stand was father nnd the Yaqul tribesmen to •■nd ard remedy for kidney, liver, their knees to civilization, but he gave that General Obregon was, even then, bladder and uric acid troubles— all the credit for the peace treaty to a vital Influence tn Mexican affairs, and to us It seemed that he was des Gen. Alvaro Obregon and to Gen. Ellas- tined to take an even more Important Calle* place. Naturally we communicated Four Centuries of Warfare Ended. tills to the lenders of our people, with "The cry of all Mexico," be said, "is | the result that a series of conferences tAPS.Qçt» ‘Let im have pence.' It Is natural that I were held, culminating In the recent visit of my father to Hermosillo, where Th« National Remedy of Holland for the mass of the people, who have been j canrariaeand endorsed by Quean Wilhel at war among themselves for over ten ! the treaty of peace was signed." mina. At all druggists, three sisea. years, should he weary of war, but L-* fee th. C-U Med.l ea eewr Ua sometimes It seems Impossible for me Crazed Man Killed Four, Then Self. ace«*« no imitotioa Crazed by brooding over financial to believe that my people, who have been fighting some invader or another difficulties and family troubles In for four centuries or more, should have which an estate worth probably *75, made peace as they did, without a bat 000 was at stake, L. 8. Bigham, forty V THE ML ’MUID R1AN». A tle, solely on the word of one or two years old, of near Pamplico, S. C.. l.udl««! A*a. y«»’ip HrwwglH fr* AX /«,’, < M<hrs.t«p»l>!amon4llrsn-’/A\ shot his mother, sixty years old; his men In whom they had confidence. V/ tv — \z "But they signed It, and now the slater, thirty-five, and the latter'* two W .<*KWu many pages of Mexican history stained adopted children, nine and five years ’ C. /F KHAN» 1*1 LI.A, fr« M «nth deportations, small wars, raids. old, then ended lila own life. ». years Known as Best, batost, Always Re!tftb*l SOU Bl DRUiußTS LU.RYWNU4 I YAQUI YIELD. TURN TO PEACE TAKE UP SHOVELS AHO HOES Which Battery? H. S. DISBROW Willard Batteries gF :: gK k_______ fìlumbw B. S. Dedrick WATCH THE BIG 4 COLD MEDAL CHICHESTER S PILLS —r WILDERVILLE | a--------------------------------------------------- Rev. Rummell is expected home i the latter part of this week from u. visit among friends near Roseburg. The church service last Sunday i was conducted by Earnest Calhoun ' and Mr. Martin of Grants Itasa Both talks given were much appreciated ' by the people. The Hawaiian pictures shown at ' the church last Friday night were i enjoyed by a large crowd. A short l program consisting of tnuslc and readings were given. Two duet« were given by .Meedame* Jngals and ( Abel. Several piano selections were, given by Josephine Robinson and piano and violin music was furnished by Blanche Daws and Uoyd Morri son, readings were given by Mrs Rad Robinson and A. Sheehan. Ixincheon was served afterwards and the liadles ■ Aid cleared about *13 from ths even ing. The Dorn er home which is occu pied by Joe Langile caught fire last Sunday, burning quite a bole In the roof. The F. €. class Is planning a party for Friday night of this week at the Lovelace home. Francis and Lola being hosteases. C. F. Blundell and family attended the funeral of .Mr Dean In Grants Pass last Sunday, he being a rela tive. Dolly Conger la a guest at the home of her Uncle Emmett’s this week. Split Infinitive. A split Infinitive may he defined as in Infinitive verb separated from Its «Ign "to” by an Intervening word, us- «tally an adverb, as "To quickly ad- vance.” This use has been common among standard nuthors since the Sev- enteenth century, but Is not accepted ns projter by griimmnrlnns. Any book of grammar or English will give explana tion of this form of Infinitive. | I ; 1 * I Standard of the World For Over 60 Years The Pioneer Plow Maker, John Deen«, made hl* first steel plow by hand from th« Illudo of a *aw In 1817. The first slab of steel rolled In tie United blahs was rolled f««r the John licere plow* by William Wood*, of Pittsburg, in 1*40 An«l ever since those early day* Deere Plows have shown the way and maintained the lend In thl* . great national industry. Is It any wonder lliat the farmers of the j k world ex presa >h< ir verdict In the fumilivr phrase,—“If It’S* A k Deere -It’* Right.” J We make over 1000 styles of plow*, each as good as It S^k can lie mule,—the best that brains and |« rfe< t equip- ment can produce. No matter what your needs may be, wu can Hupply them from our line. We still have some very good Seed Barley and Wheat ALSO OATS AND RYE HANSEN AND BEARDLESS BARLEY Bluestem, Marquis and Early Baart Wheat. THE CALIFORNIA AND ORBGON COAOT RAILROAD COMPANY Time Card Effective Nov. 24, 1JU Train* will run Monday«, Wednes days and Fridays I^eave Granta Pass............... 1 P M. Arrive Waters Creek.......... 2 P.M. I «ave Waters Creek.......... 2:30 PM. Arrive Grants Pass........ 4 I’M. For information regarding freight and passenger rates call at the office of the company, Lundburg building. or telephone 131. MOLINE. IU. 1 JOSEPHINE COUNTY FLOUR MILLS Phone 123 Cor. 3rd and G Sts. ; I | I0B PRINTING NEATIY DONE AT THE COURIER OFFICE
