Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-03-17
SCARED MOSQUITOES

Ask British Protection Against Invading
Nicaraguans-A Force of Blue Jackets
Is Landed To Preserve the Peace While
the Sea Captain Steams to Colon to Re-
port His Action and Ask for Further
Instructions-Ths British Occupation Of
the Mosquito Reservation Confirmed.
SAVANNAH, Ga, March l2.-The re-
port of the landing of the British at
Bluefelds in the Mosquito reservation
was confirmed yesterday by the arrival
of the steamer Elliot, Capt. A. Brown,
ut this port. The Elliot, which is a
British steamer, left Bluefelds Sunday
morning March 4, She arrived there
February 81, just one day too late to
witness the arrival of the Nicaraguans
at Bluefelds.
Capt Brown says the Nicaraguans
entered Blueflelds February a5 or 26.
lie did not know their exact numerical
strength, but says there was an armed
force of 400 or 800 of them at Blue
fields when he arrived.a They brought
no canaon with them. They Simply
entered under arms and without any
resistance on the part of the natives,
and hoisted the Nicaraguan flag over
the customhouse and over the other
public buildings. The flags remained
up during the time the Elliot was in
port. There was no fighting.
The Mosquitoes were considerably
terrified by the presence of so large an
armed force, as they were practically
without protection in the city. Capt.
Brown says the reports that reach this
country with regard to the name OF
the British war ship there are in error.
1t is not the Cleopatra, he says, but
the lamar. The Mosquitoes, he says,
fearing they might be attacked by
the Nicaraguans appealed to the
Tamar for protection, and Thurs
day, March /, the Tamar without
any authority from the British
government, as they had not had time
to get any such authority, sent three
boatloads of armed men ashore lie
did not know the exact number of men.
but between eighty and one hundred
were landed. They were armed with
carbines and cutlasscs. They went
ashore in the steam launch of the man
of-war and carried with them two gat-
ling guns and three field pieces.
The British forces did not land at
Blucfields, but at Bluetields Bluff,
about four OF five miles northwest of
the city There was some understand
ing between the Mosquito chief and
the officer in charge of the Tomar, the
chief asking that the men be landed
for the safety and protection of his
people. The British soldiers wentint
Bluefields from the bluff several
times while Capt. Brown was there.
They could not 90 by land, but had to
use the steam launch on which they
carried one of the gatling guns. There
was no fight of any kind between
March /, the day the men landed, and
March 4, the day the Elliot sailed
The Nicaraguans, of course, objected
to the landing of the British troops,
and charged the officers in charge of
the British troops with an open viola.
tion of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
Little attention was paid to this by
the British. The Nicaraguans wanted
| them to stick to the terms of the
treaty.
The lamar sailed from Bluefelds
Thursday night for Colon for the pur-
pose of cabling to England for advice.
In the meantime the troops were left
in camp at Bluefelds Bluff. The
lamar returned to Bluefelds late Sat
urday night. Capt Brown did not learn
the result of the correspondence with
the English department of foreign af-
fairs, as he was five or six miles away
from Bluefields, and did not land there
again before leaving Sunday morning.
| When he left, he says, the soldiers
were still in camp at the bluff.
News From Blueiields Through Another
Source.
New YORK, March 1.-THE little
fruit steamer Premier arrived here yes
terday from Bluefelds and other Cen
tral American ports. She brings some
interesting information about the
trouble at the Mosquito territory, a nd
the reported landing of British soldiers
| there.
When the Premier was at Bluefields
no British troops had been landed.
When the steamer arrived at Colon,
March ., the British war ship Cleopa-
ira was coaling there, and was to sail
the next day for Bluefields. One of
the police officers of the Cleopa-
ira visited the Premier and said
the war ship was going to
Bluefields to land troops for the pro-
lection of British interests in case of
trouble. The intention also was to
protect American residents and in
terests, if necessary, in the absence of
any United States war vessel. There
was no intention, he said, of seizing
any lterritory or extending British
rule. The troops would simply main
tain peace and prevent robbery and
bloodshed.
The Nicaraguan soldiers. according
to the story brought by the Premier,
were very anxious to capture Chief
Magistrate Hudson, who had ruled
Blucficlds and adjoining territory
The Bluefields Sentinel of February
% contains the proclamation Of Rig
berto Cabczas, intendente general OF
the coast, declaring that the Nicara
guam soldiers 'have come to protect
your homes and your interests and the
lives of the strangers lie then DEGREES
the military occupation of the city OF
Bluefelds and declares it in state o.
siege. lie ignores the authorities in
Office appointed by the Mosquito gov
ernment, and says; mo craft car
leave the city or port without pass
from my Office
| The editorial comment says: "Wha
Great Britain will do and what influ
ence the Monroe doctrine will have re
mains to be seen.'
The Nicaraguan commissioners pol
icy and programmc will be to protec
the Indians in their full rights.
| 1--WE have heard that the commits
sioner will give pensions and grants o
land to some of the honorable mem
bers OF the council; that the chief vii
be always respected as the chief of thu
| JuJ,ou, ,oJ bo will oloo Jra ~, 4, 1ib