Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1892-01-30


morning stating that Daniel NJ. Burns
police commissioner of San Francisco
and we'll known state poiitiosn ha
been arrested under the mining lava o
Mexico, but the Evening Bulletin quote
Col. Frazer of this city as saying tha
Burns was liable both civiily and Grim
inal'y. Proceedings mark the beg unlns
jf the attempt to regain the Candelari.
mines which were iocatel in 1886 auo
1888 by Burns and in which he and CJI
Frazsr and CJl. Green, who is also iu
carcerated with Burns, are interested
and concerning control of which mines
Jy Barns there has been some disput.
on the part of others.
1t is charged that the location OF th,
mines as made by Burns showed tair
Irregularities constituting the validity
Of toe Mexican laws; that when Col.
Green went to San Dimas with a file o.
soldiers to demand the records Of the
court which were the outcome OF Burns
4 tOOhbADAo SAAC jugs SNdlSO SllIt tue IC-
cords had been destroyed. Green lai0
the matter before President Diaz.
The records were found and the judg,
| Df San Dimas court was sent TO jail, il
being intimated that he was bribed
| The minister IF interior iu decree da:eC
Dec. IL, 81, set aside the decision of Sar
Dimas court As to the location of the
mine. The Bulletin article 50 init
mates that governor of stats where the
mines were located was also IN trouble
I rs result of Burns negotiations.
WASHINGTON, Jar %. TIE presidents
message to congress, af.er summarizius
the correspondence up to a certain point
says the communications of the Chilean
government in relation 10 this cruel aud
disastrous attack upon our men as will
appear fromthe corresponding have lot
in any degree taken the form of a manly
and satisfactory expression regret, much
less an apology. The event was of So Sc
rious character that If the injury suf>
'ered by our nen had been wholly the
result OF an accident in the Chilean port
The incident vas grave enough to have
called for some public expression of
sympathy aud regret from the local
authorities, and it is not enough to say
the incident is regretted. The president
says that the Chilean government was
asked for any facts in its possession that
might tend to modify the unfavorable
impression Of Captain Schley's report
and that it is clear that before receipi
of this note the examination was re-
garded by the Chilean police authorities
as practically closed, but that it was
then recpered. The president says:
I'VE might justly complain Of this un-
reasonable delay, but 10 view of he fact
that the government OF Chile was sill |
provisional, with disposition to be !
favoring, and hopeful of q friendly term
nation [ baFe awaited the report, which |
was but recently made.
GIST OF THE CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.,-The ChIle cor
resrondence sent to congress today |
would ill hundred newspaper col |
umns. Nearly all cf it has been pub
llshed.
1t shows that While Egan ha0 failed |
in an ultimate triumph the Balmaceda |
relations between himself and the new /
when established, were Coz
dial until finall y interrupted 10y the tia
ia incident. Most OF the correspond
snce was given up TO the espionage of !
the American legation ard tho attack on
the Baltimore sailors. On January 16.
Egan reports an interview with the
minister of foreign affairs, in which he
" as told that in view of Blaine's indlca-
tion on the ground taken by the former
secretaries of state, Bunch6nan aud
Webster, that DO foreign port could I
make message of the president of the
United States basis for piomatIc p
or controversies. II gov
ernn ent will not have any CD. .ection to
1t.
Egan adds that the minister gave him
positive assurance that the Chilean
minister at Washington has been in
to express regret at all that
might ere te unpleasantness between
the two cove nments,
On the lSt= T. la replied to Secretary
b ane 4 a he had an il'erv!ew vi b
the minis er Of foreign aft iTs regarding
noie Of the l6th. TO the effect
that the with travail OF everything of d
iiscourteouss scharacter should be done
freely and in suitable terms by Chile
and that the minister appf ered we'll
ii posed and had promI ed to return aD
answer al the earliest possible moment
but could not take amy action without
On the Dist Egan SAID the minister of
foreign affairs had not yet granted the
promised interview, and asked if the
matter In the despatch had Teen with
drawn at Washington sat sfactorily 10
the president and Blaine.
Blaine telegraphed that the president
lad reached the conclusion that the as
sault was On attack having its origin i,
q feeling of hostility 10 this govern Mt.
IN the uniform Of the Uni ed States;
second. that the public authorities q
ValparaIsO had nagrantly failed IN their
iuty Of prot ecting our men, and that
some OF the police and Chilean soldiers
we're guilty Of unf roroked assaults on |
,ur soldiers. .
He thinks the pFeponderence Of evi
ience shows that Rig2ia was killed by
police or soldiers and that the pre- siGen 6
5 therefore compelled TO bring the case G
pack to the position taken by this gov .
,rnment on the % copy of which EgaD
vas instructed to deliver and ask that
Idequate reparation for injury done Y
be government be made.
Egan was instructed to assure the
government of Chile that the president
las not the disposition TO be exactlng, C
II to ask anything which this govern
nent under the same circumstances .
would not fully concede. The preei-
ent states that the conclusion If this
overnment, as submitted 70 Chile on
he Dist inst ard az referred to IN