Tuesday, January 18, 2000

Thursday, January 18, 1900. Battle of Mazocoba.

The Battle of Mazocoba was fought in Sonora, Mexico between Yaqui rebels and the Mexican army.  It resulted in largescale Yaqui losses, but not conclusive tactical conclusion.

Frederic Remington's 1896 depiction of a Yaqui rebel.

Yesterday was our first mention of the Yaqui people and the Yaqui Wars.  Yaqui resistance to Spanish, and then Mexican, authority dated from 1533 to 1929.

Weyerhauser was incorporated in Washington state.

Pvt. Frank T. O. Walker would preform the actions that resulted in his being awarded the Medal of Honor.  His citation reads:

The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Frank T. O. Walker, United States Army, for most distinguished gallantry on 18 January 1900, while serving with Company F, 46th Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, in action at Taal, Luzon, Philippine Islands. Under heavy fire of the enemy Private Walker rescued a dying comrade who was sinking beneath the water.

Walker was a volunteer from Massachusetts.  He'd die in 1904, at age 26 and apparently as a civilian. 

The Delaware Supreme Court refused to admit Philadelphia attorney Carrie B. Kilgore as she was a woman, and therefore barred by a Delaware provision that attorneys at law musts be eligible to vote.

 L. Frank Baum and illustrator W. W. Denslow jointly copyrighted their new book, The Land of Oz.

Last edition:

Wednesday, January 17, 1900. Yaqui rebellion.

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