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POLITICAL ANNOUNCE
MENTS.
The Independent is authoriz
ed to announce the following
persons as candidates for public
office, subject to the action of
the Democratic party:
-Ear County Superintendent—
KJ. M. Baleh.
'Garland E. Land.
*A. J. Garner.
- Z. D. Barber
■ H. L. Thomas
^For Congress —
■ Wm. A. Hodges
it D. Davenport.
garbanzo. Storehouses where these
crops were put away for the winter
were looted and the Indians extend
ed their field of operations far into
the north toward Hermosillo, the
capital. Ammunition and rifles were
smuggled across the Sonora border
for them and a number of engage
ments fought between Yaquis and the
federals resulted in the routing of the
government troops.
The basic cause of the unrest
among these southwestern Mexico In
dians is the land problem. At one
time these Indians owned and tilled
thousands of acres of the most fertile
land in the republic which was wa
tered by the Yaqui River. These
lands were gradually confiscated by
the various governments and parcell
ed ou tto favorites of ruling powers.
The Indians claim they were given
j inferior lands in place of their orig
j inal holdings and insist upon the res
, toration of these tribal hodings. One
American company now controls
300,000 acres of land in the Yaqui
country, much of which is claimed by
the Indians.
The Yaqui tribes were originally
agricultural people with a bent for
hunting in the mountains during the
winter. They are stocky, sturdy and
possess many of the traits of the
American Indian. Fighting has late
ly been one of their chief occupations
as they have been on the warpath
either in their own interest or for the
various de facto governments for 15
years.
During the days of President Diaz
the Yaquis were dispossessed of
much of their fertile valley lands by
General Torres, the federal governor
j of Sonora. Large numbers were de
I ported from the state by boat to the
hot lands of Yucatan and to Tres
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For\County Treasurer—
W\ D. McLain.
Charles K. Coe.
For County Judge:
John A. Melville.
R. F. Tyer.
W. M. Tims.
W. A. Mink.
For Sheriff and Collector—
Terry Guin.
J. M. Ivy.
For Representative:
R. T. Simmons
THE YAQUI INDIAN
A TROUBLE MAKER
■ Associated Press Dispatch.
■ Hermosillj)i, Son. Mex., Jan. 9.—The
^Faqui .Indian has been the trouble
maker of northwestern Mexico for
generations and his recent outbreak is
but one of a large number which
have occurred during the administra
tions of Diaz, Madero and other lead
ers.
Starting with the Bronco Yaquis
along the Rio Yaqui in southwestern
Sonora early in September, the revolt
has spread to many of the allied
tribes, including the Mansos Yaquis
who have been peaceful in the past
and who derived their names from the
fact they worked with their hands.
In the rich Yaqui River Valley of
Southwestern Sonora the Indian up
L ing has had its center. The Indian
^Mvns of Potam, Vacum, Bacum, La
pHlodada and Suaqui Grande have
^■Isn scenes of various Indian raids
W' id Mexican federal troops have been
' 'side to make any great headway in
onquering these warring tribesmen.
§*J*>e revolt reached its height after
' ** ; fall harvests of corn, beans and
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This was one of the chief grievances
which caused the Yaqui war. This
war continued until the outbreak of
the Madero revolution when the In
dians joined with Madero against
their sworn enemies of the old federal
regime.
They did much of the hard fighting
i during the Madero and subsequent
|i evolutions, especially at Cclaya
: where they were General Obregon’s
I chief mainstay when Villa and his
] powerful army attacked the entrench
ed positions of Obregon’s Carranza
force. The Yaquis were given much
of the credit for this victory which
shattered Villa’s dream of political
power and drove him back to the
border. At Agua Prieta, Sonora, the
Yaquis again aided in defeating Villa
| and causing him to revert to his guer
; ilia campaign which included the
Santa Ysabel and Columbus, N. M.,
massacres.
General Plutraco Elias Calles has
undertaken a “mailed fist” campaign
against the Yaqui Indians in Sonora.
He has interned the peaeful Yaquis
reconcetration camps and has order
I ed all others hunted down and killed.
! Wholesale deportations to the hot
| lands cf Mexico have also been
; ihrcater.ed.
The Yaquis are divided into two
'classes. One is the “bronco Yaqui”
| which includes the fiercest of the
fighters and the sturdiest of the
tribesmen. The other class includes
the <<mansos” or peaeful indians.
Numbers of attempts have been
made to convert these Indians to
i peaceful ways. President Madero had
j a commission of Indians visit him in
Mexico City. Later he sent a com
mission to treat with the tribal loan
ers. But the Indians claimed they
were not given back their promised
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I lands and were soon on the warpath. ■
j The present uprising is said by Of
ficials of the Government to be the
most threatening since the days of
Diaz.
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Esq. John F. Smith of Jefferson
township, was here last Monday,
looking after business affairs.
W. A. Bowman, engineer for Road
District No. 4, was here most of last
week assisting the assessors in their
work.
R. H. Hunter left last week for the
City of Vapors, where he went with
the intention of taking a course of
baths.
Terry Guin, of Diaz, candidate for
sheriff, was looking after business
matters here during the latter part
of last week.
M. F. Moore looked after business
matters several days last week in the
vicinity of Marked Tree and other
part of East Bottom.
Miss Sylla Harvey, who has a po
sition as teacher in the Newport pub
lic schools, returned to work last
Monday, after having spent the holi
days at home.
Miss Sallie Choate left Sunday for
Sedgwick, where she resumed her
school work last Monday, after hav
ing spent the Christmas holidays with
Tuckerman homefolks.
Dr. K. K. Kimberlin was compelled
to remain in his room all of last week
I because of illness. He has been im
r.rovinsr durina' the Dast few davs and
expects to be able to resume his work
within a very short time.
Coe Smith left last Sunday on No.
4 for St. Louis, where he went to re
sume his studies in the St. Louis
School of Pharmacy. He will com
plete his course in that institution
within the next few months.
Rev. Z. D. Barber, of Beedeville,
was here last Saturday en route to
Battle Axe, where he is pastor of the
Christian church. He is an active
candidate for county superintendent
of schools and spent a portion of the
dry looking after his candidacy by
meeting some of the voters and
stressing his claims for the office.
We are pleased to learn that Har
v-y E. L. McCollum of Newport has
accepted a position with the Inde
pendent. He will represent the paper
in the field throughout the county,
and will spend much of his time in the
Tuckerman territory. Mr. McCollum
is an able newspaper man, a man of
pleasing personality, and has a num
ber of friends in Tuckerman and Bird
township.
MEN MAY BE DISCHARGED
Batesville, Jan. 8.—The three men
arrested as suspicious characters here
Saturday, following the claim that
some one had placed poisonous gas in
the stove at a school house near
Moorefield, have been questioned by
Prosecuting Attorney Earl C. Casey.
According to what he learned about
the men, Mr. Casey believes they can
only be held on the charge of vagran
cy*
In view of the absence of any con
victing evidence against them, they
could only be convicted of a vagrancy
charge and held in jail at the expense
oo fVinxr Vicixro nn ninnpv.
It is believed by Mr. Casey that the
proper course to pursue would be to
either convict them of vagrancy and
hold up the fine, or turn them loose
with the understanding that they
leave the country and not return.
The men give the names of Joe
Denison of Ohio, John Stevenson of
Pennsylvania and William Murray of
Missouri.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS.
Tuesday the First National Bank
held its regular stockholders’ meet
ing, at which all the officers and
directors of the institution were re
elected. A most pleasing report was
had concerning the current year's
business, which showed the institu
tion, a semi-annual dividend of 30 per
cent being declared. J. Collison, of
Bald Knob, was added as a director.
At a stockholders’ meeting of the
Farmers National Bank the re-elec
tion of officers and directors occured |
and a dividend of eight per cent w’as'
declared. The institution has experi
enced a most prosperous year, as
evidenced by the report of the offi
cers at the meeting.
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Efcsayage of all kir .will nailed
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FROM MR. VALENTIN.
Algoa, Arkansas,
Jan. 7, 1918.
Editor Independent,
Newport, Arkansas.
My Dear Sir:
I notice in last week’s Independent
that the farmers of Bird township
contemplate organizing a fencing
district. Would not this be an oppor
tune time to sound the citizens of the
entire county on enforcing a hog law?
Enforcing a hog law, in my opinion,
would do much to eradicate hog
cholera, and it is my firm conviction
that within two or three years Jack
son county would have more pork than
she ever had before, and that after a
trial of a few years of the hog law
the people could not be persuaded to
go back to the present method. In
addition to the direct benefits that
would no doubt accrue, there are
many other indirect benefits. For
instance, there are a number of old
fields thrown out in this vicinity, and
all parts of the county, that could
easily be fenced against cattle with a
three wire fence, and put into crops
of cotton, corn, or wheat, and in th .t
way would help very materially to
feed the nation in this time of great
stress. While on the other hand the
unusually high price of woven wire
makes it practically impossible to
put up a fence both cow proof and
hog proof.’ I believe it is our patriot
ic duty to seriously consider this
matter at once, at least for the dura
t ionof the war.
Very truly yours,
W. M. VALENTIN.
NOTICE.
The advertisement in this paper
advertising my meat market and gro
cery for sale was not authorized by
me. I have no desire to sell and will
continue the business as in the past.
Respectfully,
232d3t. I. II. DYER, Owner.
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