Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06

today has been followed by a cores bonding raise in bar silver here. Bar silver closed at , p. m. 293s bid per ounce.
 WASHINGTON, March 2S-The ultima tum issued by Great Britain to Mica ragus was given out here last night It is addressed to Senor Barrios, minister os Nicaragua, and contains, among other things, the following statement:
 Her majesty's government has careful ly considered the voluminous documents enclosed in your note of November 22d last, which you have communicated to me in justification of the proceedings of the Nlcaraguan government in regard to Minister Hatch, British pro-consul, and certain other British subjects who were arrested in August lssti in the Moe- quito reservation, imprisoned and ex- pelled from Nicaragua, not only without any form of trial. but without any con- munication to them of the charges against them, so as to afford them an opportunity of absolving themselves.
 Before proceeding to the examinstions made of those documents, l may observe that although Minister Hatch was not, strictly speaking, an officer in her msjes- tvs consular servlce, it might have been expected that the Nicaraguan authorl- ties ln the reserve, who carried on 8 correspondence with him, and made use of his services in & consular capacity, whenever and % long as 1t suited their convenience to do so, would, as matter of ordinary courtesy, have communicat- ed with her majesty's government be- fore resorting to so extreme a measure as the arrest of that gentleman"
 The document then gives a historical resume of the event, principally as print ed in the English and American news papers during the last SIX months. The doc ument says:
 "With regard to the conduct of MT. Hatch, her majesty's government is sat is6ed from the report of her majesty's naval officers, that 1t was perfectly cor rect during the time that he acted es British pro- consul"
 Continuing, the document says: ''I do not know that there are any other points in the documents which you have communicated to me of sufficient lm- portance that I should especially notice them. 1 have only to request that you will, without delay, inform the Nicara- guan government that her malesty's government cannot admit that any reliable evidence has been produced to justify the arbitrary and violent action taken against the Queens subjects. They hold the Nicarsguan government responsibie for these proceedings and they must require them to pay the sum of f5OO0 on account of their action in arresting, i'm mprisoning and expelliug the British subjects; further to cancel un- conditionally the degree of exile issued against them and agree to the constitu- tion of committee to assess the losses sustained by them in their property or goods in the reserve owing to the action of the Nicaraguan authorities.
 "Such commission is to be composed of British epresentative, a Nicaragua representative and a iurist, not a citizen of any American state, to be selected by agreement between the NIcaraguan gov ernment and the government of Her Ma jesty and, failing in such agreement, by the president of the Swiss republic. The findings of the commission is to be by majority and the awards to be final and to be paid within three months of the conclusion of their labors.
 Besides the cases of British subjects
 .- are those of others who have suffered at the hands of the Nicaraguan auth0ri- tIes, namely: Arthur E. Sykes of Shef- |, field, England, who had been working by authority of the Mosquito reserve as an engineeer and was serving in that capacity on board the Buens Ventura wen, on the night of July 30th, be was forced at the point of bayonet by Nj caraguan soldiers to get up steam and take party of them on the river to the Bluefeld bluff, and was on the arrival there fortunately released by the captain of the United States steamship Marble head; also Joseph A. Galea, Jamaican settled ID Great Corn island he, eerly ID 1894 was beaten with flat sword for re- fusing to perform a military service and then made to serve.
 "There IS further uuWarraDtable selZ- ure of the British schoouer Angela by the governor of Corn Island and the de tentiou of her owner and crew. For these outrages Her Msjesty's govern ment must also have satisfaction and they require that the sum of f5OO be paid as indemnity.
 "In prevlous letters which 1 have ad- dressed to you I have explained that Her Majesty's government IS not pre- pared to discuss any question with re- gard to the treaty of Managua and the recent proceedings in the Mosquito re- serve until the matter of arrest and i'm prisonment ot British subjects has been disposed. So soon as the demands which I have made in my present note be satisfied, I shall be prepared to re- ceive and consider in a friendly spirit any representations of those minor ques- tious, which the Nicaraguan government may desire to make to Her Majesty's government.
 II am, sir, with highest consideration, your humble and obedient servant,
 (Signed) KIMBERLY.
 COLUMBUS, Ind, March 28-A great forest fire le raging in Brown county The damage will be great as many farm buildings are burned.
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