Official Notice of Assessments 962-967. SERIES F. OFFICE OF ASSOCIATION, ROOм 803, SOCIETY FOR SAVINGS BUILDING, To the Division Secretaries L. E. M. L. and A. I. A.: } DEAR SIRS AND BROS. :-You are hereby notified of the death or disability of the following members of the Association : Six Assessments for payment of these claims are hereby levied and Secretaries ordered to collect $1.50 from all who are insured for $750, $3.00 from all who are insured for $1,500, $6.00 from all who are insured for $3,000, and $9.00 from all members insured for $4,500, and forward same to the General Secretary and Treasurer. Members of the Insurance Association are required to remit to Division Secretaries within thirty days from date of this notice, and the Division Secretaries to the General Secretary and Treasurer within ten days thereafter, on penalty of forfeiting their membership. (See Section 25, page 80, of By-Laws.) Secretaries in sending remittances will send same to and make all drafts, express money orders or postoffice money orders payable to M. H. SHAY, General Secretary and Treasurer. Secretaries located in Canada will please remit by draft or express money order. We will not accept packages of money sent by express, unless charges have been prepaid. The JOURNAL closes on the 18th of each month. Claims received after that day will lie over until the succeeding month. 49 75 41 911 O. J. Jones..... ...... Killed...... 45 576 Sept. 15, 1901. Mch. 23, 1905. 51 929 Nap Gadbois.... 53 934 A. P. Clayton.... 31 10 June 25, 1869 May 7, 1905. Intermittent fever 301 Dec. 18, 1904. May 21, 1905. Left hand amp'ted 66 June 11, 1874. June I, 1905. Bright's disease.. $3000 Mrs. Lizzie Jones, w. 4500 Mrs. S. A. Gowan. 1500 Self. 3000 J. H. McMullen, son. 4500 Self. 3000 Mrs. J.M.McGuire, w 1500 Mrs. J. Palmer, w. 750 Mrs. E. Barfield, w. 1500 Mrs. Louise Davis, w. 1500 W.Cox.gu.for MCox d 1500 Mrs. M. Allphin, w. 1500 Jacob Eich, brother. 1500 Mrs. M.A.Cottrell, w. 1500 Self. 3000 Mrs. E. McChesn'y,w 1500 Mrs. E. Dressen, w. 45 Nov. 17, 1887. June 3, 1905. Cirrhosis of liver.... 1500 Children. 25 Sept. 4, 1889. June 4, 1905. Paralysis 1500 Mrs. M. Warner, w. 4500 Mrs. Carrie Bliss, d. 1500 Mrs. J. Snyder, w. 18 Aug. 11, 1874. June 8, 1905. Asthma 48 48 46 54 Oct. 29, 1897. June 12, 1905. Cirrhosis of liver... 3000 Mrs. F. Karg, w. 3000 Mrs. M. P. Adams, w. 3000 Mrs. Lyda D. Gratz, w Total number of claims, 57. Total amount of claims, $139,500. Acknowledgments have been received from the following Beneficiaries for amounts stated in settlement of claims paid: force of arms. Every effort was made to capture Cajeme, but he was successfully spirited away and escaped. Many Indians lived in Guaymas where the prisoners were taken, and an old squaw seeing her son among them, immediately offered to give information of Cajeme's hiding place for the boy's freedom. This agreed to, the Mexican authorities were greatly surprised to learn that Cajeme was there in the city, where he no doubt could hear the wailing of mothers whose loved ones he had slain. Yet it was true; Cajeme was among friends being nursed and was almost ready for the front. He was easily taken and marched back to his last battle on the Yaqui River near the three crosses. We became so familiar with some of the numerous skulls we gave them names, and used them to blaze the way to camp; also in telling of our day's experience we would give locations by mentioning a certain group of skulls. In 1897 a treaty was signed by the Yaqui Indians and Mexican Government, if we admit "To the victors belong the spoils." All they asked for was peace. In return for this good will they would be allowed to return to their native resorts, and would be given land and all the necessaries to take advantage of the excellent agricultural resources such as the THE SPOT WHERE INDIAN CHIEF CAJEME WAS KILLED. ground on the Yaqui River; led back over an Indian trail, now used for a military road (picture number one) winding through the Mosqueet forest with the bleached bones of a thousand warriors strewn on either side, until he came to the crosses shown above. There he was shot. The remains were taken to Corcorit for burial. The three crosses in picture number two mark the spot where Chief Cajeme was shot; not ambushed as many writers have stated. In 1895 the writer, with a few friends on a hunting trip, camped several weeks Yaqui River valley is noted for, and where they wished to reside; also stock, goats, sheep and chickens. It was not known as to the number that might take advantage of these liberal terms and surrender, though it was generally supposed there were about 700, judging from the small war parties and raiders that came down into the valley from time to time in the last few years. Consequently, it was no little surprise to the government when as many thousands came in and were registered. There was not enough land to go around without purchasing from private owners. This was an enormous unforeseen expense, but it was secured and the contract cheerfully carried out, and the Indians were immediately allowed to go upon the land and settle according to their own wish; and in a few weeks when the brush was cleared away, you could see houses up and down the river so numerous you would think you had just dropped in on an old settlement. Indians were everywhere-and busy, for they were good workers. Perhaps there are no people in the known world that can surpass the Yaqui Indians in successfully raising good crops every year on land overflowed by the river in the rainy season. As the water recedes they plant, and with the one irrigation they raise corn, beans, wheat and garavances (chickpea). Though the many were satisfied, things did not go smoothly with the Indians. Tetibite, their chief, who was given the title of major in the army, and a hundred Yaqui Indians well armed as a bodyguard, under whose guardianship they were to live in peace, had them all under his charge, and had from time to time to shoot a few of the unruly ones, broncos they called them, a few who came in under the protection of the treaty grudgingly. The killing of these few irritated the good feeling of those more content with their chief, which eventually grew into mistrust, and many complaints were made against him, whose only answer was a threat of like treatment if they rebelled, but as there were but few, the many were too busy and too happy with future prospects, and for a time did not listen to the few. and these made complaint to the proper authorities who requested them not to complain, as they were at peace and would soon go back to work; a time of feasting was necessary after such a harvest, but the broncos used the time to their utmost advantage, and the fiestas were transformed into war dances and councils. Both old and young warriors who had come into the fold half starved and naked, were now full, fat and strong. They donned their beads and quills and danced to the music of the tom-toms until their blood got warm, then orated with gesture of war clubs. They were filled with a new life, as it were, with strength and hope of a new future, and not under the coercion of their chief and under military discipline. The true situation was not known by the authorities until a large body of warriors were secretly organized and ready for revolt. In fact, such was MEXICAN YAQUI INDIANS SENTENCED TO BE SHOT. The Time moved on with its unerring pace, and the harvest came, and such a harvest. All were abundantly supplied. forest was full of goats and sheep, browsing and grazing the rich buds, foliage and grasses. All that an Indian's imagination could wish to fill their hearts and souls were theirs. They were intoxicated with their creation. There was no thought of tomorrow or anything else except an endless chain of fiestas. They did nothing but eat, sing and dance. Citizens visited these fiestas with much pleasure at first, but later on they were pushed to the background and eventually ordered off the reservation. The broncos were the cause; they went from one village to another with evil forebodings, and soon had many followers; as they wandered from one village to another they killed cattle belonging to citizens, the confidence of the government that they were allowed to retain their arms and their successful creation of more than enough for a good living increased the confidence that they would never again take chances of being driven back to the desert plain and barren mountain trails. Having learned to their sorrow and distress that too much confidence in these wild and untamed people had been misplaced kindness, they forthwith called a council to take place in Bacum, headquarters of Tetibite. A committee of citizens was sent so as not to look too formidable, to learn their grievances and adjust them, and above all to disarm them if possible. When the committee arrived they were requested by Tetibite to stack their arms as an evidence of their peaceful intentions, then he would order his Indians to do the same. The committee did as requested, but when the Indians |