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Death, however, did not come to him, last week. Lucky, he received only flesh wounds. As everyone knows, he was equally lucky, some months ago, when another would-be assassin put bullets through his flesh near his home at Cajeme, Sonora...
...Embassy made formal protest last week to the Mexican Government at the murder in Mexico during the past month of three U. S. citizens: George Holmes, slain in the state of Chihuahua; Edgar M. Wilkins, killed in Jalisco; and Frederick C. Combs who was done to death in Sonora...
Mexican peasants are quite apt to see an apparition of the Blessed Virgin almost anywhere, and forthwith convert the spot into a shrine. Even a chalet de nécessité became by this means a place of worship in Sonora. Last week a group of workmen were interrupted in preparing to dynamite a large rock near Guadalupe, by a mob of peasant women who insisted that the Mother of God had once sat upon that very rock. Agnostics, the dynamiters were unimpressed. Passionate, the women clung to the Virgin's rock, defied the workmen to blow them...
Strapping cannibals who communicate with each other by "modulated grunts" were reported to dwell on the Island of Tiburon, off the coast of Sonora, Mexico, by the Director of Education, Sonora, last week. Director F. F. Dworak declared that these cannibals, the Seris Indians, have thus far made away with "most of the investigators" who have visited their isle. "The Seris," he continued, "are a people of enormous stature with particularly long legs. They go about unclothed, and prefer their meat or fish either raw or in a partially decomposed condition. We shall attempt to educate the Seris...
During the week General Obregon held a grand council of war at Guadalajara. His intentions, as announced by subordinates: 1) to confiscate all lands held by the Yaqui in their principal stronghold, the State of Sonora; 2) to distribute the Yaqui themselves throughout Mexico on small units of land, thus definitely finally breaking up the tribes as a national unit; 3) to employ in accomplishing this stupendous task every weapon of modern warfare, including poison...