STRANGEST HONEYMOON AN HEIRESS EVER HAS
rOLLOWIKG their marriage In St.
James church. Madison avenue
and Seventy- first street. Monday,
June 10. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Be*rci ley Wood left New York for the
bridegroom's camp In the mountains of
Ecnora, Mexico, where be has mining
interests. The strangest honeymoon an
heiress ever had -will be spent in a
stone fortresslike mansion, which her
husband baa had built especially for
protection of himself and bride, from
the Taqui Indians, notorious as the
raeet bloodthirsty of the race.
Mrs. Wood, formerly Miss Emma
lAicy Washburn, heiress to a pillion ,
dollar estate (part of the Richardson
•*«p{te house- fortune) and reared In
surroundings of luxury, has volun- ,
tartly elected thus to begin her mar
ried career.
Hidden away In the mountains of ,
Bonora, distant about 10 mtles from
Baroyeca, once the capital city of
Mexico's northernmost state, is situ
ated the camp of "Sid" Wood, as he
Is fcnown by all who have more than a
bowing acquaintance with the man.
The Wood mine lies In the bottom of a
canyon, only the shaft house and the
«ump piles marking its location 1 In
the midst of the tropical vegetation.
The mine is one of the ancient Span
lard's discoveries and was partly de
veloped centuries ago In the time of
the conquest.
Through the rank undergrowth of
the forest a path has been cleared for
a distance of : COO yards to a circular
open spacee COO feet In diameter, in the
ralddle of which stands a low roofed,
elate topped building of stone, its doors
and windows strongly barred. On
each side of the canyon tower up 1,000
feet in thh air the almost perpendicu
lar walls, their barrenness empha
sised by the luxuriant growth of the
bottom.
At four equidistant points on the
" outer rlo of the cleared space great
stone towers loom up above the tree
tops. At the base of each an iron door,
stoutly reinforced with Iron \u25a0 bands,
gives entrance* 1 to a series of ladders
built Into the Inner walL At the top
a thick walled parapet provides pro
tection for the guard stationed night
and day In each of the towers.
In the shadow of the walls of the big
house lounge constantly 25 Mexican
rural**, stationed there permanently by
the Mexican government? In a bar
racks at one. side of the clearing as
many more of the chronically somnolent
soldiers doze away their free time. The
euar<3 is continuous throughout the 24
hours, and each watch runs through a
lull half day. \
For four centuries the Yaqul Indians,
whose depredations In recent years
tuive laid waste many Arizona ranches
and whoee very name In Sonora in
cplrcs greater* dread than all the other
dreaded things of that wild country
combines, have waged relentless war
fare on the men they hold to be
usurpers of, their rightful property.
The mining wealth of Eonora has ever
been the casus belli through all the '
centuries of never ending struggle. The
Taquls hold firmly to the belief that
before the Invading hosts from Spain
epread through the country they owned
practically all of Sonora, a stretch of
mountainous country roughly 300 miles
long and; half as wide. ; The gulf of
California and the gulf of Mexico form
the limits of their; territory as' they
deem It to be. Four mountains, Samo
\u25a0 wachi, Saparoa, Tetecblva and Baro
yeca, are tb« Yaqui landmarks which
form the northern and southern .boun
dary lines. .
Dt&th has ever been the penalty paid
t?y arty Mexican with the temerity; to
Inrade Otis Taqui land— if *he came
alone and; failed to \u25a0 guard against am
bescade. The Yequls* hatred for Mex
ico and Mexicans Is a relic of. the days
centuries ago when Mexican .padres
occupied Sonora's mines and by force
compelled the Indians to work as slaves
f n extracting the ore which the Yaquis
themselves had uncovered. When, al
most 200 years ago, the Yaquis arose In
force «»<! deposed their masters/ the
Mexican priests, they regained •brief
possession of the mines. ' Later - Mex- ;
lean soldiers' won back in the series of
fights the: properties, and the' Yaquis
once more became little more than
slaves.
There, is no lorger any concerted
plan of action on the part "of.'tl
Yaquis.' AH their great chiefs are dead.
Of the S,OOO who less than five years
ago kept all Hhe country in a state of
terror only 3,000 remain in Sonora.
The other 5,000 have been captured and.
deported to the southern part of Mex
ico, where they are worked with con
vict laborers. •
But the Yaquis no longer act' In
unison. Raids are spasmodic and not ;
well planned. There is no unity' of
purpose In the Indians' procedure.
With one exception. the object of each
of the roving, bands are individual and
without relation to ; the others.- \ \ The.
exception: is "Sid" Wood. His life ls :
today sought by every Yaqul in Sonora!
To kill the American of the new
stone . house In v the canyon near'
Baroyeca Is the one common aim of all
the Yaquis.
But to be the most hated man in all
the country is to have achieved a dis
tinction which" few men, however ready
to die, would care ; to claim. And that \
is the position "Sid" 'Wood, bridegroom,
occupies in the minds .of the 8,000
Yaquis In the mountains of Sonora.
It is doubtful that a half dozen of
"Sid" Wood's \u25a0 friends realize the , true
situation. . Wood is not given to talk
ing about himself, nor of magnifying
dangers he has faced so often and : as
yet so disastrously— for his enemies
To one of tfis friends who had gained
an inkling of the danger Wood faces
from the time he enters Sonora unjll he
is far . beyond its^ bordtra tho bride
groom elect' replied to a question as
follows: . .
"Why do I go back there dnd • take
my bride? I go because I have to. Mrs.
Wood goes because she wont-l et me go
alone." . . . ,:[ W
Characteristic of the man was the
answer In its ..brevity/ His career, al
most from the day he was -first old
enough to be able to exercise any in
dividuality, has been similarly charac
teristic. \u25a0 . •.. ' . •
• "Williams college accepted Wood as a
freshman in the class of '1901. He was
then 19 years old,' Very silent to a point
of taciturnity and! apparently imbued
with a few of the' ideals and view)?
common to his classmates. Ho was
elected to membership. in the Delta Tsi
fraternity in his freshman. year. Mood
preferred long, all night tramps about
the hills encircling the little' Berkshire
town to Joining in the pleasures. of his
class mates/. It was common rumor be-"
fore the end of his freshman year that
'• Wood had built a half dozen. leanto's on
Summer Menus and Table Decorations
Eleanor M. Lucas
EVEN though l onV hasi not access
to a hothouse, decorations for
summer : functions can t>e" most
artistic ; and -beautiful; . as some :
of the so styled common garden-flow
.ers are most exquisite in effect if right
ly managed. \u0084
A quaintly '„ set tatrte was adorned
with deep blue bachelors' buttons-and
a lavish ot' the\ wee white'
blossoms of sweet alyssum." ' . .
In the.center.'of "the table-was alowr
green basket^ quite large, , in which
several pots of- growing alyssum-were.
placed. . It spread over and : partly, en
veloped . the- basket In cascades of
snowy bloom and ; green: foliage. ;- About \
the base the blue flowers, with \ stems
two feet long, 'were laid directly "ori the
' board,/; bo ? arranged?; that I- the fti stems \
- crisscrossed ,; . each . ; other,'-^ 1 forming ? ; a.
beautiful f network of A green t over,% the^;
-white damask, two blossoms pointipg
\u25a0 to; each- cover. ' - ; • \u25a0//"../-;.•'. *':• s^x
:\ XV- the * corners of the -table i tail,
clear glass vases filled with fa 5 f ew;blue"
- flowers ;, rose Z from /thick Id garlands"
f orn^ed , of s the ?11 ttle white « flowers . and i
their green foliage.- Over, the table, sus- %
-pended J from: the by J green
top of the hills about the town. He fre-.
quently disappeared 1 for . two 'days, at * af
time.* \ No one ever accompanied hinv on "
his. trips and none shared : the 'secret 'of t
his long jaunts. ' 'Jr'\*
invited one .of } his fraternity
brothers,: Stanley Washbur- - <«Vjrela- -.
tion to his bride),_to join hlih on a trip >
to British Columbia during .the .'summer.;.
of IS9S. Together the two boys— neither.^
was 21 years old— worked their way 'to '
the headwaters of the Saskatchewan
river. Their plan • had been" to .do pros- \u25a0
pectlng, but when they, learned: noTwhlte
man had ever braved the river, iii a boat,
"the- two boys' built- a raft and
on : the perilous Journey. Three i times
they were wrecked before they- finally.;
gave up the attempt.*: "After, having coy- •
ercd rnorc.tban 100. miles down stream,
naming unofficially ; several/;' mountains;
which have never since been -explored
by white men, r the*; two' boys "left the;
river, bought; a . pair of saddle .- horses?
from passlhgrlndlans- and; started over-;
. land 4 to ;-a'^ Hudson-/- bay.v tradlng./.post-.
known! as j. the? Rocky; Moun tain ','hbuee.-;
•Here : i they >f bund? the- prm-lsionsr, they/'
had; cached i there i three j months fca'rilcr?
cntlrel y.: destroy ed jby rats.' ;^ I tVwa's ;' t he ;
;Cjid '•• of f a|djsheartening? jourr^ejv of 14001 400 i
Im 1 les f across | co'un t ry, ,- 1 tie ]". las t\"s 0 : of ;
.' which "they, had come,on : foot,' both their;
hor«es)having given-out.^ ; ; .v \u25a0;;:'
. Both \u25a0-: young : men began • their . soph-;;
ribbonsV was a.huge ball of flbw-J
"ers."t The ' foundation was a large ; coarse \
Bponge' : which;hadjbeen'dlpped;in* l wateri
and ? had ) been > pressed "jalmost fdry^and i
in ;itg*coolfmolet^depths|lthe| clipped?
stems ; ofifollkge'Jaridf flowers I had; been'
- pressed v untir ; the sponge iwas? hid' from:
view/ bentath the! Bn^wyVflbwers.^^v^j;
*-?i On ' another: table blue ' larkspurs 1 were •
used." -; Blue %is '."especially^ gratef ul|forj
warm «. weather, ;jbut * most bl ue f, flowers t
lose i their * color J under^ artificial flight;';
On ; the ' bbard^quite' aylarge ; mlrror^out-|
lined* aYcircle7(in|theXcentef,tTestlng^on!
the'edgeslqfitoger'bowls placed r closelyj
together.; tbT<brm;a r :ring.f.ilnJthe|bowlsl
spikes i of -; the "?blue 5 flowers £ with |> their J
finely, Tcut ';' foliage"; were %In \u25a0
'. loose I clusters,^ the fi foliage g; drooping: '
ove r 4 to . hide . the ibowls 1 from 'view/ and ;
; reflecting Jin' a* mirrori as ;ln!s>^fern;bor-*
dered;pool.v ; ;:' \' ; '':^^y'-'{}''^ : r : j-\ : y' : <^ ;
The first; course at a luncheon '.may '
; consist \ ot g large Iwhite \u25a0
\u25a0j stems;? removed," \ s the^grapes % areTcare-1
\u25a0) fully; peeled,'* cut t In * half { and! the ? seeds j
,' taken* out,"! then \ placed on S lcel to fchfll *i
;'; ' TAt I serving I tinje *> afcouple^s of f»" dozen I
grapes \u25a0;. are | placed lin a small glass ; ;;a .
tablespoon each; of . orange V Juicer and
'• shavedv ieeT; »'"\u25ba dash* .'of lemon £ Juice.';.**
: : tabl e l spoon; of 'creme} de |men the \u25a0 and ta]
..yery^ little . powdered |" sugars areTadded;,
;'" When • thei mercury^ is i,vaultingi gaylyj
t upward an ; ice is ~<> the . dessert i that | pe-;
culiarly* recommendas*;itself,fibut the;
': housewife ''shrinks jfrom\the (consequent !
;"botheg.V^Ajj^tsJlt^^falckly^putlto^l
oraore,year ._;• together— rStanley:
burn*/, convinced ;-' that '4 civilization^', was i
best- f or, him~, thereafter j and' VSid"-;Wood
as I enthusiastically^, firm :i in" his r love*, for '
the' wild '«fcountry.i accordingly :
found r i it : ; to' start J alone .the"
:followlng'/Rummer '.when; lie ? announced'
toi his Smbsti' intimate >- friends *, that ,'.i he
i ntended [I to'} spend ,;\u25a0 his > vacation 1 ,; Jn •• In
\u25a0dian"tefritqry/;; r-. '\u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0 ''. -'^:r ''.'\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0'" \'V'.' . : '-,.' '•"-Vi."'
..-Frbrnf JopHnf,<'Mo.^Vhere,he\we»it "to
• Inves ti ga t« S the i zinc | mines ? for -.which ;
.the place :i«. noted, Wood started itp;ri<Je*
Sacros^^Jndianjterritory/^Jtiwajj^asJhej
• t raveled throu gh : ? the W lands >/. of/ t he.
; Cherokee ii nation J that*: he > met '•* aY man •
who ] professed ; to jbe a' half i.breed^ Yaqui ;
andCwho! H developed?lnj,^Voodtthe;desirp'
, to} give Lyenjt/j to his f surpluai«'nergy Hn£a'
cause r and i a way; wholly to ', his Ilklrigr."
)l gether.;and« isjfrozen'withbut .. stirring.
jinij f reezlng • one itneasure; office 'to.'
|salt, j rasfthejmlxture^must; be -
it f rozenjs,very£_slowly ito s.produce. produce • a jT fine x
t^ralned,|smooth*iceTiiStifiuntil|rheltedi'i
Swater.T*Boll|.without2stlrring^untilla^
iv;littleYdropped|intbi: r cold|.water/can^beJ
S gathered; lnto > a jsoft< ball- between^; the-i;
yl flngers.'^"'-;.C;^^ :..'.. V> ; '': ;^ ; i£ : .;^-' :: '---'- i ''^ v: .'^ 1 '\u25a0"'\u25a0
"I : ;i XAt t the i saucepan '% from •- the ; sto v e .»
J*' carefully 'and pouriln r a T flne stream over^.
|ibeatingioccaslonallysuntiHcold:i;wWbip|
f three rfqurths^bilai pint foflcreamiuntii |
a'stlff.tthenl fold! intijltb* *••«)•<»* I mixture %
% and I? whipj; thoroughly. iWAdd $ any I pre-|
1 1 erred^ flavoring: ia| dessert spoonful^ of %
I vanilla is agreeable to most palates.! Or>
i 3 tryXa t- corabinationtof Iflavors^as^f or^i
I Instance, : ' half , lemon '4 and vanilla, or fe
I : equal ; quan ti ties of \ almond, vanilla and |7
'roseV^a'Steaspoohfulfof^each^ft For^ar
%'veryf dainty^ conf ectloni'lthat f goes J-by/*
i the fname| of % mignonette J parfait,l; use.fe
"j§ twottableepoonfulsibf | crushed leandied ?j
•a mint? leaves,** two j teaspoons !o<^ orange j
I extract t and { one ,; teaspoon V of I rose ?e*rl«
,-, tract- After|mlxingtinitHelfiavorlß*."2
y pour k into) ai roold.^ place/over^ the i, top *
,% a! piece^of i waxedi paperlahd I prese^the |
stUd£onfse«urely.^Bury|in|lceiand|«ait|
sand fallow^ to remain for; f our s hours, fOn %
ith la^Sthereiare >& variations : %
| on c | can 1 add I af cupj of I put i meats,", al- -
"p rnondsgeut jj lnl!j narrPWjs strips, fl whole i
% hazer: nuts f or/ chopped j.wairiixts.*3£ Straw-J
: ! ; berries srOpj( raspberries^ may.ibe? served v
i , later," .wood .said in >,ten-;, ten-;
ling'jtbe ;story,t:rthat;my ; friend?had/no
iTaqui;blb6d : ;ln : his r veins i af.all. i'He.was
'employed iby/a* newspapers published '-In
St.;'- Louts; jand, circulated
\u25a0 throughout »-. i th'e* : TJhltc"d States. -among
, the. i Mexicans to V the \ Diaz: re
?ginieA; /; His V-; duty); > was" : '^tb; /eriliet:
; money- ';>and'; ."• volunteers; ,to i-help.
tho < -\u25a0; Yaquis ; ' in .'; a ," sr«^at . scheme Vto
win- back what Hhey. think \ is; -their.: own;
\u25a0"countryjf'f Back j; of \tlils; very; altruistic
\u25a0seeming, scheme was a* plot to cairry .the
(war t are i\ into 1 Mexlcp v Cit yj l itself, 1 Jover-
Ithrowj,th«pgov«rriment^andsbut1 throwj,th«pgov«rriment^andsbut of tho
frev6lutjbnlpul?"pewj ftieh'jlnfpower. : : l-Z\.
i "CX fall t. this ? plariT? of i course/ 1 - 1 * know
? nothing. f j -^ageht
"fired ' mctwithUales ; "of ;tlie;; wrongs -done
i the Yaquis janddwelt'on •the 7 ' Justice of
with ! the Ypeffajt'or- anV.'pref ef red If ruit,
V andiitiis'dainty) wlthlwafersionly, .;
>'S\Women{grow] old? throughlfwor'ry . and :
gdie{fTOm^worrV;\vThereXar'e^"rouUHudes_
eyery.years T attributed tojlys
ppepaia7: consumption I and ? heart; disease
their >jcause^-worry. ; '
induces f sucha*condltlon r of the
;! body,*; that f; ; 't-C readily T::x relieves , the
' germs ij' of iFdisease/v.; .Worry::: can \u25a0s be'
v cultivated;;; Vbeginningr, "with.; /triyial',
; : things «lt soon;^becoroesjithe j source :
'iiot Igreater^jcvlls/^) Housewives . : ,£ ot ten \u25a0
ljb'egin|the^work^in^a^statel > 6f*hurry :
J and : * wofry^foflfearltbey; will j not? get
• dbnes:in#avsUted|time:^Nbthlng*canj
(i. be « lef t^.undone t ori put f off h tor ;] a; few;
§ hours * eveiw^'Aud ? the ; remedy.?.^ Inltho '
p first? place^it S is| tool isb 1 to j submit nto
,* evils t that ; can;be avoided To r; remedied.
j; and" it fls > but j*i weakness \u25a0\u25a0% to j endure , :
them. - *. ~ .-vC"
JTp f »e# 1 th' • \u25a0 house work • not ; as ; an^ end
f. which ! -we-openiour; eyes .
fi ln^ the t, morning,' and^.wblch^/perf orce,"
|J claimsf thelKreaterl par t v of \ our^ day^
but as ,;a" means- to? a 1 happier 'and 'larger
y lif e^ Is %the * to | assume.^^This ,
| not I onjy£cheers/jbut • lessens ? labor-i Wye
things (do;
jrkbj.wrongi sometimes, 5 and ythel&wqrk;;
lla^attrlfle.^iThe^eyertolllhg'andiWor-
irylngi,w6man|inlthelyeryfstrengthtof,i
pyt | to % make | h«r£ home i a 3 suc^
cess § misses the % higher % aim !,=! ,= ln l^ home ;
f making,land s ,the>saddest* partf of I aims )
/: that i she 'i herself | suffers i mostJwBPHHB
She • hasj no] time ~\t or|cheer,f orj i'ref re'shjJl
wlthithe parfalt T 6r any'preferredifruit, "rnent -either "from .friends, books: or
V and'itis'dainty with: wafers 'only. ! 'nature. "It *>,would :seem "a -newldepar
'•>'S'\u25a0'-JVomenigrowj'ojd? throught worry, and ?.; ture ; : to :. such a ,-. woman s to : ssti t v- and
*;dieUromiworry7i;There|are>-"muUitude3^a
ii ot deaths^ e very years attributed to dys- ' awayj the time with ' flowers, •or to read
npepsiaTVcbnsumptlon ?ahd? heart disease isome^ uplifting words; ;but she f owes it
T for their ' cause— worry. 1 to heri»elf and her '\u25a0 best good tto doso.- ;
*<W6rry induces such a" condl tlon^bf • the ; \There >re i so s many,, ways . in \ which ; a
>; i body %thfU ? 1 1 C readily r::x relieves - the > woman ;. raay'^ save > herself , both from
"genn'si of 'disease.-' Worry/ v cen- f 'be'-* i worryjand-ifroni work.if she wtll*only
The S&& - rrancisco Sundax Gall*
Ihelr cause unlW I was convinced 1
could do: nothing else except give all
.my "services* might' be worth" to help
them wjn their fight. \u25a0-. _
:-- : -"My.' : informant told me . that the'
Bronco] Yaquis, the* 'bad' Indians, who
Vvere/acting as -the* ringleaders 1 in. the
plot. \. hadr, formed ;i a.' Yaqui Junta, or
/union,: '. with . headquarters 1- In .;.\u25a0 Tucson,
*Ariz.\ " It ; was there , I "was \u25a0 to^ meet the
;chlef ; of ; ; the Yaquis. : ; But an accident
prevented *> me .from making, the start
; that,; summer. ' \u25a0I ' was • breaking * horses
; with \ several , Delaware s Indian* one , day
• when my, bronco"; reared and ; fell ov«r
backward jwlth me. : jMjr *hlpj, and leg
y were*/ so : badly. 'crushed , I. was laid up
\u25a0 for; three "days ; in /Wagoner, in * the
Cherokee nation,' and I then ' was obliged
»"to Vcome " back . to ,my home* In Brldge
!port, v Conn." -\: -, :
. ; At the -end of his junior" year, In the
: summer , of .'190Q;":Wood started 'alone
once> -more -for. 'Arirona:: The Yaqui
. leaders, v*vho were awaiting, the young
\u25a0 collegian, reports of whose daring and
'readiness i;to" join ? s the«h ; had -', already
;: been 'much : discussed,' aa- much' adverse- ::
,ly as with credulity." wasted .little time
in .. putting * "Wood I through - a ;, series ; of
which might--. we11 .. have - discour-/
r aged \u25a0\u25a0' an '-'older 'and: 7 less enthusiastic,
•man.* •.' ~-; ~ ; ;.*"-. \u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0/ ;'• '..' ". • "•'\u25a0• -: .*.. ,
I x \u0084*r\Yiieh I : reached -Tucson." Wood ex
, plained, i"I .was'spcedily^introduccd to
-the '; old ;chlef, _ Caheme, \u25a0\u25a0 -;. who imm«- .
began-'. my "education'-in Yaqal
Oaheme,. years Vbef ore fa"; cap-".
» tain; in \u25a0 the Tarmy,'' knew i his
ment"eltherMrom *.triends, books:' or
t nature.; " It ; ,would ; seem J a-new ' depar
r: ture ; to :. such aj. woman -4 : to ! : si t '£' and
1 dream! idle,! pleasant .thoughts ;,to a while
awayj the \u25a0 tinie fwlth* fidwers.Tor to read
isome •; uplifting: words;^butshe ? owes It
\u25a0-•to herself and her! best-good tto do v s<>.' "
-There are:- soiraany^waysin; which *a
•LVoinan.; may ;; save "'. herself, " both . from
'wo rryj and 'j from work," i f s she ' will * only
:'make;a">studyiof : the, subject. , But: the
2 trouble) Js* that Jin ;;beri efforts \ to make
family.; coraf oftable ,; she* generally
clri i effacing •herself,; then' wbri
-rieYfovertheTeffect.; v> v 'v v
,; When -ceaseless /toil \u25a0is v forced* upon
C one because' of lack of means, It should
•3 be; accepted Iwlth'ahlgh /philosophy ./and
|with-ieuch?ekllljas2 one rcom-
"the j tasks < or
* : worrying i'ovej : them does v not execute
:'At l tHe r slrm'e 'time study , economy
;of time andVeneVgy.MTry x to ' find T- the
i easiest and [quickest way to do'a" thing,
",and always'doit that' "way.^fA void . wor-
, ry and j!rrltatlon j fas 1 the plague; never
i let \u25a0 them! enter- the" home,] for if . : they do
jthe \u25a0 sweetest J virtues ; roust -. needs \u25a0 make
vway/J Granted: it" is fas ;bad to • wear out
Jout, ilet u»: strive V for tho
£ golden : mean. , ,;.The*,busy f r wbnian must
soften -the ; effects ]of .wearing ' tasks : by
t a Judicious 2 amount of * rest— that* rest
is jVflttingS of \u25a0 self Uo ; its : sptere."
rAiißome i one; aptlyi expresses , it. 4,work
\u25a0«r k the artist that builds a splendid arch;
% wo*rry,*^theYen"emyj whlch^removes s^the
\u25a0 keystone.^allowlnsthe'structure to falL
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•nemy'as n#:oth«r T.n«"U»£*»«M b»"J
known It.; Of superior, lnt«fllgene« and
with a cunning I never- fathemed in au
xny • association with • him. - C»h«m« was
the master spirit of the. littl^.band of
10,000 he* had 11 to; call upon, and;wh«n
U is known" that half of this «*f*
were squaws, the overwhelming o*e»*
celt, of this leader must be realized.
T« begfn »; campaign as ambitious as
Caheme had planned, encouraged by
tb» revolutionary Mexicans, with such
a force seemed to me at first suicidal;
but • I -soon learned that the women,
whom I Quickly, discovered were fre
quently th» equals < of the men jia
height ' and - strength, .were even
keener for fight Not one squaw was
without a modern rifle, and all of them
could shoot and kill as - far as any of
the men. Later, in actual ski r mis n as, I
found them even' more * resourceful ' in
the -facer of i defeat. . Their ammunition
gone and with many of the men skulk-*
Ing back from the thickest of tbo fight.
the 1 women would /reverse their suns,
and. "using : them as v clubs, literally
pound their, way through the ranks of
the Mexican; regulars."
Wood returned to .Williams in tti«
\u25a0 fall of 1900 r however, to finish his
senior year. He had attended recita
tions less than a month, when a tele
gram from: Chicago informed him that
Caheme, accompanied by one of the
Mexican revolutionists, was on his way
to" New -York, where ho must appear.
The conference was held In th« Hotel
Imperial.- Wood listened, to the old
chiefs pleas that. he leave college an!
return to Arizona at ones. A concsrtai
movement . by all the Yaquia had been
- planned for early November*. The ulti
mate-object was the seizure of all
Sonora \ and .the annihilation of every
Mexican is the state.
Caheme declared he was too old and
feeble to lead the expedition succass
-'fully and beseeched Wood fo return to
his people, who were ready to proclaim
him chief. -\u25a0, But ? for th« first tlm« th«
college • man . refused to heed the call
of '.- the people whose cause h« had
championed, and the chief \u25a0 revolution
ary leader returned alone to Ariaoaa.
. . .After. leaving Williams eollegs In tha
year 1900 Wood started for California,
•where he entered the ' law school of
Inland ' Stanford university. After
studying there for two months h» loft
for Carson City. Nev., In th« spring of
1901.' where he entered tha law odee of
Earnuel - Platt, United States attor oar
for , Nevada." and began reading law.
In 1901 Wood went among th» Nar*
jes, in Arizona. Ho says: •
"I was with them for six months. X
discovered they owned a million sheep
on the reservation, and not on* Of 'em
was >~t«*J sheep. TJwy had been in
bred till' there wasn't any wool left oa
one. of them. It didn't seem right to
/In consequence Wood went $09 to
Washington :in .the.'. spring "of 13*5.
where he laid the matter of tha sheep
' that weren't "real sheep" before Secre
tary Taf t. : The next day ."Wood started
back to tbo Navajo reservation with an
appointment from' President Roose
velt as stock agent The following IS
months Wood was busy superintending
the introduction of n«w rams into the
reservation. At the end of this tlma
. the yield of .wool per sheep had Jumped
from " less • than two pounds Nto more
than seven pounds.
Killing the Yaquis
Although he had not" returned -t©
them since ' his dismissal from college.
\u25a0Wood had kept lin touch with the
.Yaquis, and. <-,had followed their fre
quent, always successful attacks to re
gain their foothold in Sonora. , Caheme
had been shot and killed from ambush
a year earlier while he was on bis way
to make- a. treaty with the Mexicans.
"It seemed time for me to get on the
ground and. see Just how things
\u25a0 stood." Wood. explained, "and so I left
the Navajos early in 1594 and headoti
for .Tucson, Mompoche was the new
chief, and. unlike Caheme. his policy.
; was to make a lasting peace with the
Mexicans. Under his leadership the re
' maining Yaquis had . b««n brought
' round to" favor the Idea.-' When I came
among them I was immediately com
missioned to meet General Torre*, head
of the ' Mexican, army In b'onora. and
effect a peace If possible. . .
' "General I<orcnzo Torres is In charge
of 1 5,000 -soldiers ftt Sonora and. und*r
: a' contract with the government, feeds
,anU cjothes them all.. On his- ranch**
-he j works .the soldiers beside peon
laborers. The peons are paid by Torres.
.The soldiers are paid .'by the govern
ment. ' Obviously .the more . soldiers in
Sonora the more provisions Torres
sells, 'the : more soldiers at work cul
tivating Torres', crops - the fewer peons
he need employ. With peace declared
between the Mexicans and the Yaquis.
Sonora , wouid not need • one-third its
present, military- guard.. It didn't take
me long to discover these very evident
facts and peace- began to look un
likely." . ••.-.- •\u25a0 - ' - -
- . ; Before '\u25a0 Wood .reported hl3 failure to
gain the peace Mompoche sought, and
as he was about to start back to Tucson
to admit the impossibility ot' ending
the -warfare, he was I approached by an
old Yaqul.lwhose life he had saved four
years earlier. The Yaqul. Juan Algardo
>by name, told Wood of an immensely
rich; deposit of ; silver near Baroyeca.
• Algardo explained that the' mine was
one; of those stolen from his trib« In
the -sixteenth, century .and iworked by
the Mexican padres then. It -was now
. owned ,by, four Mexicans, who knew lit
tle '/ of Mts value and who wyre not
working, it. . -' A.
"It seemed to me mor* important to
.investigate this story than: to : hairy to
report my. failure -to-frefpeace." Wood
said. "The' Yaquis .wanted peace.' and I
realized* l might not have J a chance to
look' over- mines In Sonora If I 'waited
to tell Mompoche I hadn't been abl« to
do anythiDg. So I, went to tho mine."
Before : Wood reached Tucson word of
his v failure had preceded him.. T© a
few of : the - leader* ; it had also become
; known; that Woid had begun nesrotia
* tlons to gain possession of one of the
ancient .Yaqui mines.' .Wood's descrip
tion of the result- of this information
on ;\u25a0'; the Yaquis' part is graphic. H«
said: . . - •
"Yaquis, like -other Indians, do not
waste time giving or - hearing 'explana
tions. had failed. I had started to
get \on« of -their old mines. ;< That was
enough. ;'-; A Yaqui and I after, that could
t onlytdo' business- behind ; the butt of >a
gun.-; So . when ' I found f oat i Mompocha
knew -- all I had <Jon« iUumed »outn
again and didn't try to wall: h\>*
'trouble.";;;-."".^ '. ; '.V.-/ '• "^ \u25a0',»:'•
, r It 3 1st: now' eight: months :since "Wood
received a ' ti tie to his mine. - Mornpo ch e
was . . killed :^ la 5a I. skirmish with the
. ru rale 3 ! less . than 10 miles '\u25a0 from Wood's
camp the very day : th« title was trass
f e rr ed. A t about the same time Wood
was i awarded ; a contract by th« South
\u25a0 erni Pacific } railroad *to - build .. 70 , miles
>f : track; from- the 'gult of California to
the Yaqul river, from Guayma;* . to Cor
crolt. Beginning in December of : last
year Wood% rushed "the ..work , through
v to s completion iby j May '-'Vi._;
T Forty-eight • Mexicans were killed by
the YaqtiU during .' the construction of
the railroad. Thirty-three of the guard
of 100:rurales were, also killed. ln tha
; five \u25a0 months of .the ; road's construction.
On one : occasion •> the " mul« 'on which
W^ood ; 7 was riding , was U shot dead
thjrough -the ?\u25a0 neck by- a Yaqul' tring
from ambush.