The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-22

I white charger, plunged right into the
midst of the light and Was killed. being
rfddied by lo1 outlets HIS son loAtoNeu
him and met the same fate
All the Central American states have
governments telegraph and telephone ser
vice, and the smallest villages can oe
reached by wire for 25 cents. The mails
are Is good as the transportation facilities
will allow, but almost ali the business Is
done by telegraph. oGe telephone line
runs i7J to 1s0 miles from Guatemala City
TO Qleza!tenango, the largest city IN the
best coffee district. There are no cooking
or heating stoves III the country ana the
natives still cook at furnaces somebody
might have brought from Spain 90 years
ago. The parlors have modern furniture.
and those of the wealthy are handsomely
and ezpensiveiy furnished, bnt you can't
get them warm IN the winter. Ii gets
very cold in December and January, or at
least one feels cold, because the hood gets
thin IN tina. climate, and the only way L
could get warm was to so 10 bed only
the Grand hotel, the best at Guatemala
City, and three or four other houses have
electric bells, but almost every house In
that city has its horses and carriage. they
have an opera house supported by the gov
eminent, which is well patronized. and
import company from France or Italy
once or twice year. to play nve or SIX
months.
srhe Guatemalans are all shrewd bust
ness peope, Indians included. They are
close traders. have their eyes open and are
not TO be taken In on a trade where they
know anything of values. They are en-
terprising If they have anybody TO give
them pointer, but they are not good at
originating scheme. They are very poor
mathematiclans, and have been repeat
eddy gwen wrong change at the postoffice,
the mistake being as often against the
clerk as in his favor. They are very de-
hberate in business matters and never con-
summate them in day as We do here.
The merIantile history OF the country IN
the last ten or fifteen years indicates that
they are very successful, for their failures
are few and they never have panic.
When revolution comes, the bushes men
shut their doors. cancel ali orders by cable
and quit selling until ii is over"
AUCKLAND. y. r., June d. Adviees from
Samoa, dated June Ii, reached here today.
The British warship Curacao and the Ger
man warship Buzzard visited the locality
OF the rebel camp recently and notified
them that If ten chiefs and fifty guns were
surrendered no attack would be made
upon them by the government forces. The
rebels were also informed that if they re-
solved to reject this proposition and tight,
tHSJ were at llbSIty 70 nave thSAA "oHhSh
and children on board the Curacao and
Buzzard. After some elaboration the reb-
els sent ten chiefs and fifty worthless guns
on board the warships. After the depar-
ture of the warships the rebels reoecupied
the forts and openly deied the government
forces. On the Sunday following the reb-
els fired upon the village where Chief
Malietoa was supposed to be attending
divine services. and advanced upon the
village Itself. The rebels. however, were
REFUSED by the government forces with
slight loss on both sides. Ii was the evil
dent intention of the rebels to attempt to
kill Chief Malietoa, but he was absent at
the time. When these, dispatches were
sent from Samoa skirmishes we're taking
place between the rebels and government
forces. but there had been no severe
fighting