The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-03
GUNS FOR CHILEANS.
A California Schooner Bound
for the Seat Of War.
UNITED STATES DOESN'T CARE.


Los ANGELKs, May 2-The schooner
Robert and Minnie, on the south side Of
Catalina island, has been boarded by Gus
toms officers. The cargo consists of Rem
ington rides and cartridges. A man
named Brus, in charge, declines to say to
whom the arms were consigned. He says
he chartered the schooner at San Fran
cisco, where she was loaded, and proceeded
to Catalina. He claims to be awaiting
orders before proceeding further, and says
. transport drawing 22K feet of water 10
expected to take the cargo. He claims
that he has not violated any law and will
not do 20. The customs officers ct San
Pedro have communicated the facts to
Washington City.
WASHINGTON CIrY, May 2.-Assistant
Secretary Spaulding has telegraphed to
the collector at Wilmington, CAL, that
there il no reason for interference in the
matter Of the transfer of certain arms and
ammunition from the American schooner
Robert and Minnie to transport for re-
shipment to South America. ut is not in
violation" adds Assistant Secretary
Spaulding, ''of the neutrality laws" The
telegram Of the collector asking the adj
vice of the treasury department IN the
matter is not very explicit as to who the
arms came from or for what ports In
tended, but it is supposed they are for tho
Chilean government or the insurgents in
Chile.
New YoRK, May IA letter from Sam
tiago, Chile, says: An insurgent scheme
to capture President Balmaceda and the
entire cabinet has just been exposed. A
ship and transports containing large
force vas to proceed to Valparaiso, where
an officer was to be sent with dag of truce
to the mayor of Valparaiso He was d.
rected to say that he and his followers had
resolved to leave the rebels and had come
to surrender to the government, and that
the troops on board the transports would be
landed and distributed at Valparaiso. A
cruiser, it was expected, would be sent
north to fight the rebels. As the rebels
would have landed bet9Sen 1900 and 8 900
men from the ship, thl cruiser was safe to
proceed northward. Hamaceda waE ex-
pected to arrive at Valparaiso Fehkhary
%, and it was then that the city was 10 be
surprised. The plan, however, has zbsen
frustrated by the capture of important
mails on board the steamer Valdiya. The
documents named the regiments OF the
garrison that would be most likely Ia re-
volt, as well as their officers.
News has just been received that the
city of Coquimbo has surrendered to the
insurgents. How many people have been
killed is not stated, but it is supposed the
loss has been great, as the rebels have
made up their minds to show no quarter
to the government forces.
PARIS, May 1.-THE Chilean insurgents
have issued a notification, which will DO
presented to the French government, to
the effect that provisional government,
composed Of the minister and congress
men opposed to President Balmaceda, has
been established for the administration of
affairs Of the eight Chilean provinces
which are now in the hands Of tho insur.
gents.
SAN FRArcIsco, May IA letter has
been received from Chile, giving particu-
lars of the trouble that two mining men Of
San Francisco have had at Antofogasta.
In December the largest stamp mill ever
made was completed by the Union iron
works and shipped to Antofogasta,
Chilean seaport, for the company at
Huanchaca. The construction of the mill
was superintendent by ]. H. Fisher, q
mining engineer in the employ of the
company, and when Fisher returned to
Chile he took with him Charles H. John
son, civil and mining engineer, who had
for years been in the employ of the Union
Iron Works, and William Brown, a man
conversant with mining operations. No
word has been received from johnson
ago the wife of William Brown
received letter from her husband
that he found some way to get to Amer.
eoo thnk - ~ L
and johnson did not have satisfactory
passports and were thrown into prison,
where they remained for some time before