Aug. 31, 1912 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Through Unexplored Guerrero 
By PROF. WILLIAM NIVEN 
Chapter IV.—Crushing a Revolution 
twenty-two years, but as brave a lad as ever 
walked in shoe leather. At every village I 
noticed signs of the uprising. Men were arm¬ 
ing themselves and preparing for long-continued 
trips through the hills, while the women were 
engaged in parching corn, making tortillas and 
otherwise providing food supply for the warriors 
who were going out. 
We reached Otatlan, however, without seri¬ 
ous incident, save the insolence of three armed 
men whom I met on the trail, and who though 
they knew me very well, refused to raise their 
hats. I rounded them up, made them repass me 
and speak with great civility, after which they 
apologized, claiming they did not recognize me, 
which was of course a falsehood, their new¬ 
found revolutionary spirit having made them un¬ 
duly independent. 
At Otatlan I found every one wildly ex¬ 
cited with reports that a band of revolutionists 
were swooping down to attack the town and loot 
the district treasury, which they afterward did, 
getting $19.50, Mexican currency, for their 
trouble, and killing the Presidente Municipal be¬ 
cause there was not more money. Pushing on 
to the mine I met two Americans who, fright¬ 
ened nearly to death, struck off through the 
mountains shortly after my arrival, only to be 
met by the rebel band and robbed of everything 
they possessed. I offered them refuge, but they 
deserted Neale and myself to our fates, and 
their robbery probably proved a lesson for them. 
INDIAN OF PINTO TYPE. 
F OR eight years after my visit to the land 
of the mound builders I made several trips 
into Guerrero, mostly in search of the ex¬ 
tension of the vein of fabulously rich ore of 
which I had heard from the queen of the Tlapa- 
necos. I did not find this, but I found a good 
placer mine at Otatlan, and on a trip to this 
placer bed in 1901 I met with an adventure which 
came near costing my life, and in which I materi¬ 
ally aided the Government of Mexico in putting 
down a revolution which bade fair to overturn 
the entire State of Guerrero. 
Prior to T901 a movement was started 
against Governor Mercenario, of Guerrero, and 
he was compelled to resign at the suggestion of 
President Diaz. The revolutionary candidate for 
the governorship was A. Calderon y Castillo, but 
Diaz did not appoint him, naming instead Agus- 
tin Mora. This did not quiet the revolt, and 
hearing of uprisings throughout the State I be¬ 
lieved my presence necessary at the mine, and 
despite warnings that my life would be in dan¬ 
ger, I set out from Mexico City in the last days 
of April of 1901. 
I went on the railroad to Balsas station, and 
then outfitting with three men, including my 
trusted mozo, Jesus Mancilla, who had been in 
the army a number of years prior to entering 
my service, and who did not know the name of 
fear, and taking a long train of pack animals, 
I struck out on the five days’ ride to Otatlan. 
With me went Willie Neale, then a youth of 
JESUS SALGADO UNDER EM ILIA NO ZAPATA AND HIS STAFF AT OTATLAN AFTER THE FIGHT IN WHICH 
SIXTEEN WERE KILLED. 
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