The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-15

A,
WeyIer continues his exhaustive inves-
tigation into the conditions and re-
sources of his forces in Cuba, and in
making some experiments of methods
he intends to employ when he enters
a campaign. A crate of carrier pigeons
was sent from Havana, with detach-
ment of troops to Rio Blanco, situated
80 miles from Havana. and they re-
turned here in two hours, bringing
news of the safe arrival of the troops
at their destination.
General Weyler is apparently con-
WINGED that the force of volunteers in
Cuba is not large enough or as effective
as it can be made and he is deVOting
a great deal of attention to plans for
enlarging this arm of the service and
employing it
IN ACTIVE SERVICE.
He seems to feel that the familiarity
with the country which has been ac-
quired by long residence and the
knowledge of the methods of the in
surgents which goes with 1t
will make the volunteers especi-
ally effective against the pecul-
has indicated his purpose in various
ways to put the volunteers into more
efficient condition and to rely upon
them more for the active work of the
war. He proposes to mobilize the ma
tive volunteers in a very short time
and dispatch them to the field.
General Pando has gone to Villa
Clara by way of Sagua to take com
mand of the Second army corps, to
which he mas. been assigned Word has
been received here by cable that 5.400
soldiers debarked from Spain yesterday
for Cuba. to reinforce the army here.
The noted bandits Socorros and So
brado, who have become leaders among
the insurgents, are operating about
Bahia Honda, in Pinar del Rio. They
BURNED SOME HOUSES,
at Bahai Honda on February s, and
they are said to have been guilty of
sacreligious excuses in the neighbor-
hood. Not content with burning the
church and Decorating the church
yard at Las Pesas. they raided the
church at CiaguanabO and carried the
images of the saints outside. Here
the insurgents formed themselves into
a mock religious procession, some ne
groes dressing themselves in the
priests garments and carrying the sd-
cred emblems among their hilarious
companions amid shouts of libald
mirth. The fanatics masquerade be-
ing ended they cut the images of the
saints to pieces with their maChetes
and hacked to pieces the furniture in
the sanctuary and then burned the
church.
Another famous ex-bandit Olivia.
led a raid against the town of Rajaon
February ? and
HORRIBLE STORIES
are circulated in Havana of the out
RACES this band has committed upon
the defenseless country people, without
discrimination as to age, infancy or
sex. Robbery is said to have been
their pastime, while murder and rape
were left in the trail and they COM
mitted acts of such shocking sacrilege
that several inhabitants are alleged to
have been driven crazy by the mere
contemplation oH them.
Antonio Maceo three days later, en-
camped in the same town for a whole
day. General Echague came up and
overlook Maceo's rear guard as they
were leaving the town and twelve OF
them were wounded.
1t is learned here than Antonio Ma
Geo, after his engagement with the
SpSnldrdS at CayaJaooS. Hlade cHar-
acteristic countermarch going first
southwark, west of Artemisa, and then
eastward ahOng the southern coast.
passing south of MaDgas. Capas and
Guira. Canas is on the line between
Pinar del Rio and Havana provinces.
Maceo has thus passed out of the
province of Pinar del Rio and is close
to the trocha running from Havana to
Batabano, if he has not already passed
it to the southwark