The San Francisco call., 1896-04-12

cano that is liable to break out at any mo-
ment.
The whole country is armed. There are
so many sentries on duty that man is
not safe to venture forth at night.
DR.. Pena, who lives at Sonsonate, did it
one evening before he left. The wind was
blowing and he did not hear the shout of
the guards. The next moment rife ball
whiZZed past him.
The country is so perturbe d, SO the two
medical gentlemen say, that no doctor will
venture out after o'clock at night. This,
too at time when yellow fever is raging,
and when 80 per cent of those attacked are
dying.
The people want a new President, so the
two physicians assert
"They are very tired of Gutierrez said
DR.. Pena. "He has not fulfilled his prom
iSes. Gutierrez IS in such danger that he
does not dare venture out of his house day
or night.
-Four sentries are standing and keeping
guard at his door. His own army is ready
TO desert and to take up arms against him.
'lf General EZeta, who is lying by at
Panama, was only in the country be would
be President in fifteen minutes. The only
difficulty is that he can't get up there. If
he was he would have the army and every
thing at his disposal.
Editor EZeta or Alfaro will be the next
President. Gutierrez will have to go.
Alfaro is now Vice-President. He has
gone over into Nicaragua to adjust the
boundary difficulty between the two coun-
tries. Alfaro would like to be President.
lotto Muchmuier, the United States
Consul, who came there some time since
from Pennsylvania, has lost his wife,
| sister-in-law and all his children. He got
changed from the coast and now the fever
RACES where he is, and the revolution is
under full sway. He hated to see Us leave
there and, like others who desired all the
physicians possible to stay, offered almost
any money to remain.
1--WE couldn't do it. We preferred to
get out. 1t is wonder l did not get
killed when shot at in Sonsonate. l was
walking along briskly but owing to the
rustic of the wind l did not hear the chal-
lenge of the sentry. He never waited a
second, but raised his gun and fired
Luckily he just missed me.
at is this way pretty much in all the
towns of Salvador. Everybody is armed.
The grievance against Gutierrez is that he
has done nothing that he promised to do.
He knows his peril, too, or he would not
have four sentries on guard constantly out
side his door. He never ventures out either
day or night.
General Jeffers told me-" said DR..
Keith, that in his opinion the Govern
ment couldn't last over two or three weeks.
And he is in the service of the Govern
ment, too. He is an American and has
been down there for many years and has
been through many Of the wars of Central
America. He was in the war in Honduras,
and in many other wars there. He is a
shrewd military man, the best there is
there, and told me this the last thing he
said before we left.
ut is Ezeta's country. ,:.or Alfaro's just
whichever gets there first and asserts him
self. In any event Gutierrez can't hold on.
He has got to quit. Yes, the belief is that
he has been putting money down since he
got into Office till now he probably has all
the money he wants"
Dr. Pena and DR.. Keith are at the Occi-
dental. They intend to stay here for some
time. They believe that Manuel Casin,
who furnished the sinews of war for Ezeta
till his exchequer was exhausted, is now
in Mexico.
Casin was the bold mariner who has
made byplay OF fighting duels on several
occasions. The theater of his heroic
achievements has been in this theater for
part of the time. He was at the Palace
Hotel few years ago when he challenged
Senor Andrea to mortal combat. The
| senior was his old enemy in Salvador and
was on visit here. The two succeeded in
much horse play. but never fought. Casin
next blossomed out as the manager for
General Ezeta and sailed with him in the
Barclay Golden.