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Show 8 BY PATH AND TRAIL. 1908, a Guaymas morning paper published this dis patch: " A special from Hermosillo, says 4,000 Mex ican soldiers under the personal command of Gen. Lorenzo Torres, are in the country in hot pursuit of the Yaqui Indians. All negotiations looking toward the signing of the peace treaty were suddenly broken off this afternoon. The Yaquis insisted on retaining their arms and ammunition, after having acceded to every other stipulation of the Mexican government. The Mexi can officers stood steadfast, and the Yaquis withdrew from the conference. Immediately orders were dis patched to the Mexican troops in the field to resume hos tilities. It is not believed that the campaign will last long as the Mexican troops have all the water holes in the Yaqui country surrounded. " For the past fifty years, on and off, the Mexican sol diers in battalions, companies and isolated commands have been chasing through the mountains these stubborn and half- civilized fighters. In the few last years the Yaquis have become more dangerous and daring, more cunning in their methods of attack, and as they are now armed with modern rifles they are a most serious menace to the progress and development of central and southern Sonora. Who, then, are the Yaquis f Back in the days when the race, known to us as the American Indian, was the sole owner of the two great continents of North and South America, an immense region, in what is now northwest ern Canada, was possessed by a great nation known as the Athasbascan, from which the territory of Athabasca and the great river flowing through it take their names. One division of this numerous nation are known to- day as Tinnes or Dinnes, and may have been so called in |