MEXICO: Ferocious Fimbres

Bigger than all New England is the Mexican state of Sonora. Biggest news of the week in Sonora was a ferocious scheme, calmly announced by the great landed proprietor Francisco Fimbres to put to death a whole tribe of Apache Indians, braves, squaws and papooses. Local papers praised Ferocious Fimbres. He claimed to have every assurance that the Mexican Government would not try to stop his private massacre.

Mounted gunmen hired by Ferocious Fimbres recently located the Apaches—a small tribe said to number only 25—on an almost...

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