Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — MURDERED BY YAQUIS [ARTICLE]

MURDERED BY YAQUIS

AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE - SLAUGHTERED. 4 ' —_ • Col. H. B. Maxson Arrive* from State of Sonora with Account of Killings Alon* Cananea Railroad— Richland Bank Bur*lar Caw*ht> Col. IL B. Maxson, vice president of the National Irrigation Congress and secretary of the board of education of Reno, Nev., who has been spending the past few weeks in the State of Sonora, Mexico, arrived in .Loe Angeles with the story of a massacre of Mexicans and other whites at the little station Of Lancho, on the Cananea, Yaqui River and Pacific. According to the statement of Maxson, his train stopped an hour at Lancho. While there rumors were received that the Yaquis were on the warpath, and that the few people in the neighborhood of the station were In danger. The stationmaster, Thompson, belittled the matter, and said he and his wife would remain at their post. The train bearing Col. Maxson and party had not been gone longer than an hour when the Yaquis descended on the little party of Mexicans and Americans and butchered four. Station Agent Thompson and his wife escaped by boarding a work train that pulled in at the time. The train appeared after Thompson and his wife had defended themselves back of the barricaded doors of the station. As the train arrived the Indians fled. The train bearing Col. Maxson and -party ran to a station about fifteen miles farther along the line and then, as signs of the uprising became more alarming, the party” decided to return. The train started back toward Lancho, and when' =4t- arrived -the stationhouse had been burned, and four bodies lay along the track. Fdur more bodies of Mexicans and Americans were discovered ’along the ( traeks a few miles away. The little band this jtgtion. ha<j[ been abtft_to .repulse the Yaquis with the loss of few of their number. The remaining members of the. company refused to leave on the Train, but said they could stand off tho Indians until the next day, when the rurales would arrive and summary justice would be meted out to the murderers if they were captured. NOTORIOUS CONVICT CAUGHT. John Allison Hnd Married and Was Leadlux, He Says, an Upright Life. John Allison, one of the notorious Richland bank robbers, who with Harry Slater and Larry Spellman, his pals, escaped from prison at Jackson, Mich., Aug. 9, 1904, has been returned to the prison to serve twelve years more. Allison was working at Moline, 111. There he had married a widow with two children and was the father of a third child. Allison takes his arrest hard. He says he had reformed and was living an honest life. His escape was one of the most daring exploits in the history of the prison. A year and a half ago Slater was shot by a police officer while resisting arrest in Lima, Ohio, and died from his wounds. Spellman is still at liberty. RAD OUTLOOK IN CHINA. Famine Mny Become Worse than Appalling One Thirty Years Ago. Reports have been brought by the Tosu Maru that China has decided to appeal to Europe and America for $1,250,000 for the relief of famine sufferers in central China, where 10,000,000 people are facing -starvation this winter. A foreigner who reached Shanghai from tlie famine district says that men and women almost naked are seen by the roadside starving. Refugees were met who had tramped from Huitan. The famine threatens to equal the appalling one thirty years ago, which devastated the northern provinces and caused hundreds of thousands of people to perish. Coasters Hit Freight Train. Four young persons between the ages of 16 and 18 years missed death by only a few inches while coasting near McKeesport, Pa. The party of seven was coasting on a bobsled and upon reaching the foot of the hill struck the wheel of a moving freight train. The boy guiding the sled was hurled under the cars, but retained his presence of mind and rolled out of danger practically unhurt. All of Rond's Coni Burns. The coalhouse of the Northwestern railroad in Pierre, S. D., with all railroad coal on hand, was totally destroyed by fire starting from the explosion of a lantern. Although the money loss is not great the present coal shortage over this entire territory makes the loss rather a serious one. May Proceed Against Rnilrond. Drastic action, which may mean seizure of a railroad. Is threatened by Gov. Gooding of Idaho in a letter to Interstate Commerce Commissioner Lane. The executive blames the entire coal famine in his State on the Oregon Short Line, which, he says, simply seeks big dividends. Thug'* Blow Kills Dutton. William Dutton, aged 62, world-re-nowned equestrian and circus man, died in bis suite of rooms in the Galt House in Cincinnati. His death was directly due to a blow on the head which he received about two months ago at the hands of thugs. Shot Kills Csnr'a Consul Colonel de Geimaun, the Russian consul in Liverpool, was found dead in bed. having been killed by a pistol shot Whether he was murdered or committed suicide has hot been determined. Tt is believed, however, that he took his own life. Crnay Man Runs Trains. For six hours a maniac ran the switchyards at Cavanaugh, Ind., a junction point near Hammond, where the Lake Shore and Elgin. Joliet and Eastern tracks cross, but finally was subdued by a train load of deputy sheriffs. Thinks Teachings I'n-Chrlatlike. J. G. Phelps Stokes has withdrawn his support from the West Side Young Men's Christian Association of New York because it has established classes in real estate and stock investments, declaring sueh teaching* to be un Cbrwtlika.