America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors . born in 18:J7, and, havingobtained a good common school education, he accompanied his father toCalifornia in 1852, during the gold excitement. Here he learned to speakEnglish during thetwoyears thathelived iuXevada county. In 1854 a partyof Frenchmen in San Francisco organized a filibustering expedition to Guay-mas, Mexico. Young Cajemis love for adventure and danger prompted himto join it. The Mexicans defeated the e
America's war for humanity related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty, and the glorious heroism of America's soldiers and sailors . born in 18:J7, and, havingobtained a good common school education, he accompanied his father toCalifornia in 1852, during the gold excitement. Here he learned to speakEnglish during thetwoyears thathelived iuXevada county. In 1854 a partyof Frenchmen in San Francisco organized a filibustering expedition to Guay-mas, Mexico. Young Cajemis love for adventure and danger prompted himto join it. The Mexicans defeated the expedition a week after its Cajemi got away to sea and escaped the immediate executions that theFrenchmen suffered. A year later Cajemi joined the Mexican army andserved in it for twenty years. He was a captain at twenty-one andacolonel attwenty-eight. He would have been a general but for his undiplomatic andindependent ways. He was deputed to go among his own people in theYaqui country and act as a governor there for the republic of Mexico. In1875, after he had served as governor for three years, he was suddenlvordered to return to his resfiment at Yera WHITE DEER-SKIN DANCE. A WEIRD CEREMONY AMONG THE YAQUI INDIANS. (From a Photograph.) OUR INDIAN ALLIES. 127 He refused to obey the order, and proclaimed the Yaquis a free nation,with himself at its head. Immediately General Pesqueira, Governor ofSeuora, sent an army against him. Cajemi met it with 1500 men, and,although defeated, inflicted punishment so severe that the Mexicans couldnot follow him. In 1878 another Mexican army was sent against force he met with 4000 men at Capetemaya, on the Mayo River,and succeeded in stopping the advance of the Mexicans. In 1880 Cajemiled his tribe to victory in a fight in a little valley near Caliente. There theMexicans, with four men to one of the Yaquis, lost three hundred soldiers,and the Yaquis only one hundred and fifty. Cajemi was now at the height ofhis
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