Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — MAYA INDIANS IN EXILE. [ARTICLE]

MAYA INDIANS IN EXILE.

Tocatmn 8»T*g«« Driven fro* Thais Home* by the Mexican Troop*. The former residents of Bacalar .state of Yucatan, are rejoicing over the oo> eu pat ion of that town by the government troops under command of Geo, Vega. Many of these people still hold title to valuable property in the Bacalar district although they were driven from their homes by the Maya Indiana many years ago. A large number of these persons are now residents of British Honduras and they are already looking up their deeds and titls preliminary to reclaiming their properties. The villa of Bacalar, which wan founded by the Spaniards, has bean besieged various times by the Mayas, and it was only after a desperate resistance on the port of Jose Dolores Zetent that it finally fell into their hands. There are still ruins of the an dent fort and rusty cannon employed In the last defense against the Indians. The latter, after taking it, did all in their power to obstruct navigation, felling tree* and casting huge bowlders into the streams. The water ways have been cleared during the present campaign, and there is now communication between the port of Zecalak Quabreado, on the coast, and Bacalar, by means of the bay of Asuncion, the Hondo river and the Bacalar lagoon.—» Chicago Chronicle.