Warfare Over Payment of Bad Money to Prospectors Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 16. diamond-fields of South ca, which have been centres of disturbance ever since 1918, when a German prospector found the first gems in the Araguaya River region, leading to an influx of adventurers from all parts of the world, has been the two months of guerilla war calling the old-time Amer'can-Indian Sightiny Native diamond prospectors of Matto Grosso, finding they had been paid with counterfeit money for weeks of laborious prospecting in the fever-ridden jungles, decided to wipe out the boss prospectors. They burned down hamlets, acred the inhabitants, ambushed individual prospectors and committed daily robberies and murders, Th Governor of Matto Grosso led to control the situation with his State troops, who suffered a. disastrous defeat. Then Jose Mor-beck, nicknamed the "Cecil Rhodes of South America," rallied 10,000 adherents and overwhelmed the malcontents led by the brigand chief Carvel Hinho and drove 2,000 of them across the border of the State of Guyaz, where they have now been disarmed and permitted work in the diamond fid ter.
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