The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-18
STILL KICKING.
Spanish Papers Object to Americas
Friendliness to Cuba.


Havana. Dec. 1.-THE bulletin issued
by the government today regarding
engagements of troops is unimport-
ant.
A correspondent at Guananajay re-
ports that the forces under Major La
Costa have captured at Mosquito Beach
a Spanish deserter who belonged to the
Alfonso XIII. battalion. The prisoner
saws that he was forced to join Ma
ceo's forces in Pinar del Rio. He re-
peats the story that Maceo did not
cross the trocha on land, but went by
sea around the northern end of it.
After landing in the province OF Ha-
vana, Maceo met the forces OF Lieu
tenant asquez, who was waiting at
the Mosquito beach, between Mariel
and Banes. The prisoner complains
that he was ilI-treated by the rebels.
His story is considered suspicious, ana
he will be tried by court-martial.
The queen regent has sent a dis
patch to Captain General Weyler COM
plimenting him upon the result OF his
campaign against the insurgents.
Advices from the province of Pinar
del Rio are to the effect that several
Spanish battalions have penetrated to
the interior of the hills in places that
were considered imDregnable by the
rebels The insurgents had disaD-
peared, so the troops burned the huts
that had been occupied by them. A
number of horses and cattle were cap
tured.
The officers commanding in Pinar del
Rio have no idea of the present local
ity of the rebels in that province
Scouting parties have failed to learn
their whereabo but the military
profess to believe that their abandon
ment of almost unassailable positions
is proof of the Reorganization that has
followed the death of Maceo.
Indications point to rebel soldiers
having entered the province of Matan-
zas. Their trails show the direction
in which they had gone. and Span
ish column is following in their track.
1t is believed that a concentration is
intended in Santa Clara province of
rebels from the east and west The
government is watching the movement,
and so far as can be gathered from
outside sources it is doing little be-
sides watching to prevent the rebels
from carrying out their plan.
A colored woman named Francisco
Yerrara has been tried by court mar
tial here on charge of rebellion. The
prosecutor asked that she be sentenced
10 death. The sentence of the court
martial, if it has been passed, has not
been made public.
publish protests against the stories
printed in the United States regarding
the manner in which Maceo met his
death. 1t maintains that the rebel
leader was shot in open battle. In a
leader il says with an unconscious re-
Election on the Spanish character, that
the stories of assassination reflect more
to the discredit of Maceo, in accepting
the alleged invitation to parley, than
to diminishing the fame, honor and
chivalry of the Spaniards.
In this sentence the Diario de la Mar
ina shows Internationally that in its
opinion Maceo did not. in trusting to
Spanish flag of truce. show the in
telligence expected of him.
La Lucia bitterly comments upon
the news received from the United
States. and claims that the American
sympathy for the rebels is due to a
subsidized press. 1t says that the gov
eminent is responsible for not employ
ing the press the same as the insur-
gents. adding that if it did so it would
find the newspapers a powerful medium
for the defense of the Spanish cause.