The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-25
GREAT BRlIAIN'S CLAIM.
How the Money Paid BY Nicaragua
Has Been Expended.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua Sept. "a
Especial correspondence of the Associated
Press. l-All but $500 of the $77,o00 which
Great Britain exacted from Nicaragua
in May last for the expulsion CT Con-
sular Agent Hatch and other citizens
Isof Great Britain. who had been accused
of intrigues hostile to the interests of
the republic, has been paid over TO the
men who were expelled. Edwin Hatch
received so, 500; I. w. Cuthbert, SJ2,5 $50;
John Browning, Henry Brown aud John
Y. ThomaS $500 each; Hubert Boda, S.
H. Hodgson. John Taylor, Washington
Glass and MARYLAND Taylor $500 each;
Captain Barnard $1,000. G. 2. Hall and
Mr.. Moody ,25O each, and Messrs.
were all residents of Bluetields. Rama or
Pearl Lagoon. Cuthbert was for many
years. the chief of the organization of
Jamaica negroes and mulattoes in the
Mosquito reservation who practically
ruled the territory defying the authority
of the Nicaraguan government.
F. I. Drew of Cincinnati has bought
for a company which he expects to or
ganize, $1,000 acres of land on or near In
dian river in the southeastern part of
Nicaragua near the Caribbean sea ter
bananas and India rubber trees Mr..
Drew contracts to pay sixty cents an
acre for the land within two months and
agrees that the land shall be sold to
An offer has been made by capitalists
in the United States to take at 30
Nicaragua's thirty years 6 per cent gold
bonds to the amount of about S6WO,cOO
the bonds to be secured by "a mortgage
on about 375 miles of national trans-1s-
mithian railroad to be constructed and
the sale of bonds, and on 100000 acres
OF national lands. These conditlorS
upon which the Nicaraguan government
insisted caused the capitalists to with
d,-oE. tI,ai,- offn OF
The government has set apart $lel,0U
for dredging the northern mouth of San
Juan del Norte river, the expectation be
ing that the work would give depth
OF water at Greytown sufficient to admit
large ocean steamers to the wharVes.
Engineers assert that the sum approp1-
ated is not more than one-ten-h OF Whae
would be required to defray the cost of
the % or 80 miles of dredging contem-
plated. There is also much doubt eX-
pressed by hydraulic engineers as TO the
ACCESSIBILITY of the projected work. In
addition it is said thai. were the scheme
practicable its accomplishment would in
yolye a controversy with Porto RICO be-
cause of the diversion OF water from the
Rio Colorado in Costa Rica, and maks
the navigation of that stream ln1pos-
sible.
Samuel Mayorga have returned from
Guatemala and Salvador to winch coun-
tries they were sent recently to ascer-
tain the disposition of the govern
ments there regarding the boundary ais
pute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Although not having Spoken, with a., Ger ei,
tainty as to the outcome Of the NILSSON,
obtained oi5fa pledges of neutrality. in the
event of hostilities breaking out between
the two countries concerned: In the Ia
test correspondence between Nicaragua
and Costa RIGA on the boundary Ques-
ton. which has been made public, Near
aqua accuses Costa Rica Of bad faith in
In the absence of Representatives OF Nj
caragua, while on the other hand Costa
RIGA alleges that Nicaragua has persist
entity endeavored to comply with, the Gle,
cis:on rendered by President Cleveland
as arbitrator.