Word: sonora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
President Calles called upon all members of his Cabinet last week to curtail rigorously the expenses of their several departments. The State, he declared, must mobilize its every resource for the coming campaign to discipline if not extinguish the rebellious Yaqui Indians of Sonora (TIME, Sept...
...General, himself more than half a Yaqui, was en route from Hermosillo, capital of the State of Sonora, to Cajeme, his ranch stronghold. Prudent, he had obtained from Governor Alejo Bay of Sonora a guard of 150 soldiers for his private* train...
Near Vicam, Sonora, the Yaqui, 2,000 strong, besieged the train at 4 a. m. with many a war-whoop. Leaping pajama-clad from his berth, General Obregon personally directed and encouraged his soldiers as they sniped at the Yaqui from behind the drawn blinds of the sleeping cars. For 17 hours the siege continued. At last a portentous puffing was heard. A troop train sent by President Calles to rescue his friend, Ex-President Obregon, steamed up, commanded by Generals Bernal and Montano. Soon the Yaqui fled. General Obregon, his equanimity unruffled, slept that night at his extensive rancho...
Poppies, Churches. President Calles of Mexico decreed that all poppy plants shall be destroyed in the state of Sonora, the intention of the government being to wipe out the production of opium...