The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-04
been on the lines of claiming that the
United States would Intervene"
is SIGNIFICANT
Doing Away With the Mosquito
Reservation.

Washington, May 3.-The Nicaragu
government has recently done away with
the Mosquito reservation which has been
cause of trouble. and Incorporated il
as state of Nicaragua with the name
of the department OF delays, after the
president of the republic. This action has
been officially communicated to the state
department
The significance of the movement has
attracted littlt public attention, but it is
stated by officials that it involves greater
considerations than the armed occupation
of Corinto. Now that the latter crisis is
passed, officials are turning their atten-
ton to what Great Britain will do toward
Nicaragua course in creating the new
state. and thus indirectly terminating all
British authority or influence in the old
Earl Kimberly has already given notice
TO Nicaragua that this new question will
receive the kindly consideration" of her
maJesty's government alter the three de-
mands of the ultinlatum are settled. The
agreement yesterday practically settles
those demands, only one of them, the
British subjects, remaining to be executed.
kindly consideration of Nicaragua's
creation of the state of delays out of
tendency. 1t is stated that the decision
will settle what further reference Eng
land intends to exert in Nicaragua as the
recognition of the new state will give
Nicaragua complete sovereignty over all
her territory.
Importance of the New State.
The Importance of the creating of the
new state arises from the political strug-
giles since 1860 over the Mosquito country.
In that year England and Nicaragua
made a treaty by which Nicaragua was
given sovereignty over the Mosquito terri
tory but the latter retained the right of
so broadly construed as to include coming
money, collecting duties. etc. So much
trouble resulted that Francis Joseph. OF
Austria was called in as arbitrator in
mental. 1t allowed the Nicaraguan flag
to be raised IN the country and also al
lowed the Mosquito people their own
flag. The contention as to who governed
the country continued until last year,
when Nicaragua took forcible possession
and expelled British Consul Hatch, who
against the Nicaraguan control of the
territory This expulsion of Hatcn and
other British subjects has been the cause
of the trouble. Just settled. But while
the settlement has been pending. Nicara-
qua has been permanently entrenched in
the disputed territory and has established
a complete internal system of govern
ment
1t is an execution of the plan against
which the British consul was accused Of
melting rebellion, and for this reason
Great Britain will assent TO the oblitera-
ton of the old Mosquito country, which
was the seat of all British influence in
Nicaragua. The new state extends along
Nicaragua. The southerly portion is near
Greytown, the eastern terminus of the
Nicaragua canal, and this fact has given
the country its chief importance. NOW
that il is a Nicaraguan state, Consul
Hatch will have TO be accredited dlrect
to the Nicaraguan government and not 70
the Mosquito authorities. The return or
Hatch was one of the terms insisted on
by Great Britain.