Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-01-16
cuBANs ARE VERY ACTIVE
Insurgents Continue to Harrass the
Enemy.
w~eyIer's story That Pinar Del mo
Has Been Pacifed Not
Rebels Are More Hope
full Than Ever.

So,, york Ian. l0.-The World this morn
Inc furnishes a letter from a speclal cor
rssnondent at Arroyo Arena, province ~
uaxana dated anuary 4. VINO says.
haye been fortunate enough 10 ger ihto
Havana. get out of It again, 10 nho an
lnsurgent force, all in just WE'VE 49,
This island is six miles from san i.uo'
where Maceo is reported to nave oeeh
killed. 40, pto
ar Is not true tina either Pinar gel MO
mr. Havana provinces have been paciheu'
The insurgents are not thinking Oh LIN
ing peace. They are more acuVe ~ hop
ful than ever. There never were !. O'vV
rebels I'm Pinar del Rio province. Ihey are
.t,n ,hare General wey.er, at the head OF
20 600 Spanish troops, did not
,hem An REPORTS from Spanish towns or
,orts ore utterly untrustworthy. Maceo
never fought I'm heavy columns. he never
had moro than 200 men with him. his plan
was m barass. tease and tire out the en-
envy. H.
..The situation here looks better Tor the
,os,,reents today than when l left Pinar
del Rio last August. Even the spahlarus
admit that none of the insurgents have
surrendered. / rode for four weeks with
the same force of insurgents, uhuer DAT
donero Acosta, eight months ago ana over
the same ground. Acosta's caValrymeh
are positively fat. Their horses' 100 loon
better fed. From these appearances at
least IL does not seem that the ihsursehts
In this district, ravished by the b4oouy san
Ouintin battalion and twelve guerrilla or
Plantations are being much harAssed' Cp'
onel Girujeda, the slayer o. Maceo, is the
battalion commander. He is really a very
energetic officer and keeps his infantry
and cavalry on the march constantly. n
ease with which the Cubans seem to haVe
avoided his combinations proves that
they nave improved in what was always
their strongest p~oint-ability TO Keep ana
get away
Three brothers, Jose. Cornello and
Pablo GOWN, SO, 80 II 2s years respect
lively, owned some cattle near Punta
Bravo. Obtaining permission from the
military authorities, they drove the
beeves TO Havana TO sell them. Ihey met
a party of Colonel Girujeda's force-the
same ones that were reported 10 nave TAX
en- articles from Maceo's body. A Span
ish soldier said to the brothers: You nave
two bachelor soldiers in the bush. You are
bad people-mala gente,' whereupon the
soldiers took them to the road of Rio Hon
do and stabbed them to death. This
butchery occurred within four days of an
| other instance. on December IA a single
insurgent galloped by the houses OF
Herrera Gonzales, three miles north of
Punta Bravo. Following close after came
the guerrillas of Ii Siza and some of the
Arroyo Arena band. The son, Enginon
Herrera, heard the noise, opened the door,
looked out, and dropped dead with a Span
ish bullet through his heart. All the peo-
pie hereabouts know it. Fourteen-year-
old Isadoro Herrera Orrora was also muir
dered in cold blood. The boy was hauling
the family water barrel, using n yoke of
oxen. A mile off there was some firing.
Then the guerrillas Of Pizaro came along
and put two balls through the boys chest
and a machete through his throat