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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 «
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up. especially In the cases of those who Maximilian ami the Napoleonic drean
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have no title or right to any of the of new world empire, and a govern««
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tribal lands. The Yaqul agree to fur appointed by Benito Juurez had take:
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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
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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
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chief of the Yaqul, who arrived tn New know him personally, he was unnble to
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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
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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
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< M<hrs.t«p»l>!amon4llrsn-’/A\
shot his mother, sixty years old; his
men In whom they had confidence.
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«nth deportations, small wars, raids. old, then ended lila own life.
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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.
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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.
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