San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-24
NICARAGUA NEWS.
ENGLISH OUTRAGEs NEARLY ALL
PAID FOR.
An American to Plant Big Colony
in Eastern Nicaragua Deep
Water Harbor Contemplated
American Capital offered.


MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Sept. "a.
Especial correspondence Of the
Associated Press. ALI but $1,000
OF the $77, 800 which Great Britain
exacted from Nicaragua in May
last for the expulsion of Consular
Agent Hatch and other citizens of
Great Britain who had been accus.
ed of intrigues hostile to the inter-
ests of the republic, has been paid
over to the men who were expelled.
Edwin Hatch received 500, 900, L.
w. Cuthbert $12,500, John Brown,
Henry Brown and John o. Thomas
$500 each, Hubert Boda, S. H.
Hodgson, John Taylor, Washing
ton Glass and MARYLAND Taylor,
$1,000 each, Capt. Barnard $1,000,
g. P. Hall and Mr.. Moody 1880
each, and Messrs. Sykes and Gale
$500 each.
These men were all residents of
Bluefields, Rama or Pearl Lagoon.
Cuthbert was for many years the
chief Of the organization Of Jamaica
Negroes and mulattoes in the Mos
quito reservation, who practically
ruled the territory, defying the
authority OF the Nicaraguan gov
eminent.
F. L. Drew, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
has bought for company which
he expects to organize $4,000 acres
of land on or near Indian river, in
the southeastern part Of Nicaragua,
near the caribbean sea terminus of
the canal, which is suitable for
bananas, plantains and India
rubber trees. Mr.. Drew contracts
to pay 81 cents an acre for the
land within two months and
agrees that the land shall be sold
to actual, colonists and by them
cleared and cut cultivated.
An offer has been made by cap
italists in the United States to
take at ninety cents Nicaragua's
80 year 6 per cent, gold bonds to
the amount Of $6,000,000, the bonds
to be secured by mortgage on
about 375 miles of national trans
Isthmian railroads to be con-
structed and equipped with the
money derived from the sale OF
bonds and on 100000 of national
lands. The conditions upon which
the Nicaraguan government in
sisted caused the capitalists to
withdraw their offer at once.
The government has set apart
$150,000 for dredging the northern
mouth of the San Juan Del Norte
river, the expectation being that
the work would give depth Of
water at,Greytown sufficient to adj
NIT large ocean steamers to the
wharves. Engineers assert that the
sum appropriated is not more than
one-tenth of what would be re-
quired to defray the cost of the %
or 30 miles Of dredging contem-
plated.
There is also much doubt ex-
pressed by hydraulic engineers as
to the feasibility Of the projected
work. In addition, it is said, that
were the scheme practicable, its
accomplishment would involve a
controversy with Porto Rico, be-
cause Of the diversion OF water
from the Rio Colorado, in Costa
RIGA, and make the navigation of
that stream impossible.
Senior Don Jose MadriZ and Senior
Samuel Maceorga have returned
from Guatemala and Salvador, to
which countries they were sent
recently to ascertain the disposi-
ton of the governmentsl there re-
garding the boundary dispute be-
tween Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Although nothing is known with
certainty as to the outcome OF the
mission there is reason to believe
that the ENJOYS obtained pledges
OF neutrality In the event OF hostil.
tiles breaking out between the two
countries concerned. In the latest
correspondence between Nicaragua
and Costa Rica on the boundary
question which has been made
public, Nicaragua accuses Costa
RIGA Of bad faith in proceeding to
to survey OF the boundary In the
absence of representatives OF Mic
aragua, while on the other hand,
Costa Rica alleges Nicaragua has
persistently endeavored to evade
compliance with the decision rem
dered by President Cleveland as
arbitrator.
THEW