The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-11-10
STARVATION IS CARRYING
OFF CUBANS.
DEAD LEFT TO VULTUREs.
Hair the Rural Population Dead -Physi-
oians OF Havana Forbidden to Give
Starvation "a the Cause of Death
-Weyier's Friends Foment-
Ing Agitation Against
tho Governments.

HAVANA, Nov O. The annexation
lists have received. through the col
umns OF a newspaper of this city,
/ hint that it will be well TO abandon
their meetings The article IN ques-
tion conveyed the iutimation that the
club was to be proceeded against as
gambling institution, under which
| preteNt IL would be possible to cause
its members great deal of trouble
without going to the length OF accus-
ing them Of conspiracy These meet
ings have, therefore, been discon-
tinued
At the solicitation of sonora Emilia
! Quesada, widow Of Senior Artega Que
sada, Captain General Blanco has par
doned her son, Julio Quesada,
nephew of Senior Gonzales Quesada
of the Cuban iunta at New York The
young man was under sentence of
death
Seven insurgents were tried 10y court
martial here to-day and iifty-three in
surgcnts were sent to the penal settle
ment on the Isle of Pines.
Marshal Blanco has issued the fol-
lowing edict, officially described as
Expressing the magnanimous senti-
ments of the queen regent and the
firm determination of the national
government
II pardon in full all those who have
been prosecuted for the crime of re-
bellion. Rebels prosecuted for com
mon crimes independent Of rebellion,
such as spoilation, immortality and the
like, will be pardoned as ebels, but
| judged for other offenses committed
by them
Weyler has gone, but his purpose to
"eXterminate the breed" of Cuban
patriots is being fulfilled. Starvation
is killing the concentrates" by tens
of thousands. Hunger is doing what
| Spain's 200, 600 soldiers cannot accom-
plish Women and children, the weak.
the old, are dying like sheep; the rural
population concentrated IN the towns
has filled the gra veyards. and its dead
now lie un buried
The physicians of Havana are now
forbidden to give starvation Gnani-
cion) as n cause of death. When
women and children starvc. the re-
ports of their death are falsfed.
a correspondent in the town of san
Domingo writes in the Diario La
| Marina "a multitude of sick fall
dying upon garbage in the streets
here, and there they lie after having
served as ignominious spectacles for
some hours, they are collected and
hauled away in the OK carts used for
garbage TO the dumping grounds. If
/ a.
terry, they reach there only in this un-
seemly manner. The church ceme-
teries are full So most of these dead
bodies are thrown into the fields to be
eaten by the birds and dogs"
The birds of which this cores
pondent writes are vultures
Both the newspapers which sun
ported Weyler and those who opposed
him are now forced to tell half the
truth about the starving "concen-
trados
The hospitals here are as full as the
graveyards. Certainly not more than
90 per cent of the deaths among the
"concentrados" in this city are re-
ported. But from these official figures
it is easily learned that the deats rate
among the children of the concen-
trados in hospitals and public build
ings is 90 per cent; among the adults
so per cent And the death rate in
the smaller cities and towns, where
no meat is received from the United
States, is even larger than this dread
ful percentage.
MADRID, Nov. o General Weylers
political hackers, supported by his in
nuential following IA the army, are
fomenting an agitation in his behalf
against the government policy, and
are preparing to give him reception
on his arrival, which will, If they can
bring IT about, neutralizc the critical
latitude of the Sagasta cabinet. Sc
nor Romero Robledo, who Is leading
the agitation, will meet General Wey-
Ter on his arrival on the Montserrat
Meanwhile, he is organizing a series
Of public meetings TO protest against
the recall of Weyler, and he proposes
a reorganization of the Conservative
party upon the basis of the program
of the late Senior Canovas del Castillo.
a. to Cuba and the PhiliDpines