The morning call., 1894-09-11
EZETA WAS TIRED.
Barry Baldwin Spoiled
His Day.
KEPT FROM THE THEATER.
Counsel Are Ready to Begin
Argument.
WILL CONTINUE FOR TWO DAYS.
The Steamer San Bias Will Arrive
To-Day With Interesting Ad-
vices From Salvador.

General Antonio Ezeta had bad day of
it yesterday. Things started off pleasantly
enough and for an hour or so moved nicely,
with not jog visible ahead. They ended
miserably and if ever a mans face ex-
pressed that tired feeling more eloquenty
than the distinguished Salvadoran's lit
has not been seen lately.
The general sat first for his picture in
! full uniform at the request of number OF
| friends, who wished copies as mementoes.
The sitting was successful and the gen.
eral was naturally wei pleased. Then he
took pleasant stroll on the sunny streets
p preceding tasty luncheon. which be was
pleased 10 announce he thoroughly en-
| j0yed. Then came the first unpleasa SAINT
ness. The teeth of the refugee began
! aching. Forthw ith he proceeded to a
| dentist and under the watchful eye of
Deputy Marshal keen pangs were shot
into his presidential teeth at large prices
per pang.
The general survived even this, and 1t
might have been noted with only the
minutest black pebble in the urn of his
memory Of thoroughly happy day had it
not been for Barry Baldwin. Baldwin
gave him pain, real pain, compared with
which the brief pangs in the dentists
chair were the verieSt limitations. Ii star
tied at first and throbbed, and the throb-
bings surged and brOadened until they
met and rushed in a river of despair TO
linger and ebo into that moaning sea of
misery that knows no bounds, for which
not even hundred doses for $1,000 offers
plummet The general had that tired
feeling.
For several days the friends OF the dis
tingulshed exile had planned that last
evening they should form a party IN his
honor and all should witness the produc-
tion of Friends" at the California Thea
ter. The general himself was quite
anxious to go, by reason of the fact that
he had never witnessed a theatrical pro-
0uction In this country, aud all of yester-
day his eagerness for the evening hour
was noticeable. 1t helped him in the ap-
probation of his luncheon and even served
to assuage the costly pangs in the dentists
chair. 1t added new Zest to the dinner
and there is not a doubt it would have
rounded off his pleasantest day so far In
San francisco, but for Barry Baldwin.
Dinner was hardly over when Marshal
Baldwin informed counsel fer the refugees
that, under the crcums stances, the theater
party would have to be abandoned. They
expostulated with him. but they might
just as well have backed against stone
wall The edct of the man who failed
recognize a parole of honor when he S,
It had gone forth. There was no remed,.
The same courage which had marked th,
Marshal as -e-r-O at Sacramento stoou
him in good stead to resist the blandish.
ments OF even such able c0unse ors as
EZeta's. The theater party was off.
That is why General EZ ia looked that
tired feeling, of the immensiiv of which
and the intensity of which his lips refused
tG complain. One moment before the sad
news was broken t. him he was as happy
as the vagrant Zapilote of his own land
The next he was as fOrioTn looking as a
man about TO be led folt9 to be shot, 1t
was the most striking living picture of
before and after taking" imaginable, and
furnished all that was necessary to give
the beholder genuine realization of what
that tired feeling must be.
And the general sat back in his chair
his mind naturally recurring to recent
gloomy days IN his native land. He
Frightened up, but for a moment only.
when he was Informed that advices mad
been received from Panama concerning
one of his dearest friends, Dr. Galipdo
The iron entered deeper into his soul than
even Barry Baldwin's throw had sent it as
he learned that the Gutierrez Government
was making things unpleasant, ever TO the
point OF persecution of the man whom the
general characterized as the broadest
minded citizen in that republic.
sit is driving 10 anarchy there now" he
said, hastily, land it most likely will be
chaos in November. Even should nothing
more occur between now and then, shud-
der to think of what will most likely be
the result of the clashing of so many all
consuming ambitions. Gutierrez will I'M
doubtedly be up for the Presidency of the
new Government, so will CastalaneZ, the
Secretary Of State of the present Proyi sional
Government At the back of CastaianeZ
stands the young Manuel Rivas with 5000
Indians ready to do and dare anything at
his slightest bidding. He is one of them.
their faith in him Is sublime and they are
fanatic in their devotion. Then Guate
mala has candidate for the Presidency in
General Alvarez. II his backing from this
source is as strong as his ambition, and it
most likely will be-, he will be prepared t.
insist on his claims. With these TWO can
pressed with the importance of his
claim to success in the late rev.
ulutioD, GutteIieZ may not find it all
plain sailing. There may be revolution on
top of revolution and then-anarchy."
''It would be rather hard" said Attorney
Quesada, who had been translating the
generals u terances, ito just state the up
shot OF such laundering chaos. No one
can safely predict
Yes. II is just possible" he continued,
reflectively, "that che people of Salvador,
done almost to death as thev certainly
would be, might as one man rise up and
demand the return sof the Liberals with
Ezeta at the helm. Till that time does
come, however, no one knows upon what
lines the destiny of the country may be
worked out
Counsel for the prisoners announced last
evening that it would take them but a very
short time to present their argument to
Judge Morrow. They will rely mainly on
the fact that the Government of the
United States continued TO recognize the
Ezetas as the rulers of Salvador until
long after Antonio sought a temporary
refuge on the Bennington. They will |
insist that all the other acts, the |
killing of Canas and the alleged robbery |
of the agency of the Bank of Nicaragua |
and Salvador, charged against the refugees |
as murder and robbery respectively, were |
the acts of military ruler, whose viii! In a |
country where state of siege had been
proclaimed was the supreme law. The |
hanging of HenriqueZ, they think the testi- |
mony shows, was the reckless act of an
infuriated mob of soldiers and women. AS
to the charge of the hanging of the four
men in Pulgas ravine toward the end of
MAY last, they characterize that as too in
definite to be considered.
Arguments will begin before Judge Nor