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Show BY PATH AND TliAlL. 59 or shot. ' When I ventured the remark that the authori ties of Mexico said the same thing forty years ago, have been repeating it at measured intervals ever since, and that the Yaquis seem to be as far from annihilation as they were in Spanish times, he became restless, rose from his seat and his color heightened. I thought he was go ing to vomit. I steadied him by ordering up the cigars and a bottle of tequila. He then informed me in a confi dential whisper that " the Yaquis were, indeed, terrible fighters, but now it would soon be all up with them. Signor Pedro Alvarado, the owner of the greatest silver mine in Mexico and the wealthiest man in the republic, had offered to raise and keep in the field at his own ex pense, a regiment of Mexican ' Burales' for the exter mination of the Yaquis." On my way from Torin to Guaymas I called to pay my respects to the priest in charge of one of the inland villages where I was compelled to pass a night. After a very courteous reception and some preliminary talk, I expressed a wish to have . his views on the misunder standing between the Mexican government and the Yaqui Indians. I adverted to my interview with General L. E. Torres, and outlined the substance of our conversation. " Well," he began, " if an impartial tribunal, like The Hague convention, could examine the dead and living witnesses of both sides, and after sifting and weighing the result of the evidence, the scales of justice might pos sibly turn in favor of the Indians. It matters little now with whom the fault rests. The Yaquis cannot get a hearing, ' and if they could what would it avail them! It's a case of the ' race to the swift, the battle to the strong, and the weak to the wall.' When the American troops were carrying extermination to the Apaches in |