The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador Thompson .
Washington , July 30, 1906.
Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 121, of the 12th instant, on the subject of Mr. Henry Love Clarke’s desire to have certain definite information regarding the measures taken by the Mexican authorities against the marauding Yaqui Indians in the State of Sonora, during certain specified intervals, with relation to the murders of the MacKensie party and Mr. Albert W. Sayles.
The department concurs in your view of the case, and thinks that it will be inadvisable to take the matter up at this time with the Mexican Government.
Copies of your dispatch No. 80 and of Consul Hostetter’s letter of February 3, 1906, to the governor of Sonora, together with a copy of your No. 121, have been furnished to Mr. Clarke.
At the time of transmitting to you Mr. Clarke’s letter of May 24, the department had not received your full and satisfactory dispatch No. 80, which makes any further inquiry of the Mexican Government at present seem inexpedient.
I am, etc.,