Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-10
CUBA IS NOT YET rAcrFrED.
weyIer,s Statements TO he Taken with
seNcrnI Grnins of snIt.

wcyIcr's Statements to De Taken with
Several Grains of Salt.
Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press)
HAVANA (via Key wesD, Feb. 9.-The
various reports and statements Of Captain
General weyler announcing the paciication |
of the province of Pinar del Rio and the al |
most complete disappearance of the insur- |
gents in that part of the island are far |
from being borne out by the facts. AS In
timated in these dispatches when the Span.
ish commander made the remarks cited, IL
Pinar del Rio was as quiet as he alleged IL
to be, what has become OF the arms, horses,
ammunition, stores etc, OF the I,OO0 men
whom he admitted we're under arms thereY
As a matter of fact, the insurgent forces In
Pinar del Rio seem better of, more thor
oughly equipped and disciplined than at any
previous stage OF the campaign. In support
OF this assertion the following statements
have been gathered from the most reliable
sources:
''In the neghborhood of Catalina and Las
Cueyas are the insurgent leaders Varona
Riyero and Luis Perez with about 200 men,
well armed and having plenty OF ammunl.
tion though poorly clad. In the zone OF
Jaucia and Mula is the insurgent leader
Lazo, with 600 men. In the districts OF
Bayas, Rio del Medic. Maganacos, Pena
Blanca and Pan de Azucar are various
groups of insurgents with total OF over oo"
men under Videl Ducasi. At the heights
of Gobernadora and the Sierra Delrosarjo,
the insurgents are under the command OF
Brigadier General Ruis Rivero and the lead
ers Jose Manuel Barrio and Perico del Gado.
They consist of infantry and some cavalry,
and there are about 800. AT Soroa Is
force Of insurgents under Antonio Nunez.
Nunez however, is also said to be wounded.
| At the Iona Heights is the Torro BermudaZ
| band and at Bayate and In the istrlct OF
Punto Bravo the insurgents under Gar1
| raga and Lucas Martinez. The insurgent
leader FREDERICK Nunez, is az Las Mangas,
and near Arabia la Carlota and Artemisa
are insurgent forces under Lorau. These
| forces alone, those Of the known leaders oil
| the insurgents in the field are estimated to
number about 5000 men and yet the captain
general claims that Pinar del Rio is paci-
| fed
I'm addition to these forces Is a strong
| body OF insurgents which seems to have mys-
| teriously disappeared from the neighborhood
| Of Havana. The whereabouts of this force
| is exciting much attention and is known to
be causing the Spanish staff considerable
anxiety. The friends of the insurgents in
| innate that a big surprise is being prepared
for Captain General Weyler when he tries
to return to Havana"
DYNAMITE FOR A TRAIN.
On February / the insurgents destroyed
by dynamite culvert situated at a point
about lis klometers from here between Taco
Taco and Bacanagua Pinar del Rio. AT the
moment of the explosion, when train was
passing over the culvert, the engine fell
IL
and one passenger on the train was killed.
The engineer, two fremen, captain OF the
artillery, volunteers, Suarez and five sol
diern of the battalion of Asturias were serl-
ously wounded. Two of them have since
died of the injuries thus received. In addl-
tion eight soldiers were slightly wounded
They were sent to Palaces, as were the rest
of the wounded. The explosion caused a
panic among the passengers, who were
eventually transferred to another train. The
| II. ipfa tnI
Dionesio Ysarragerre, well known In
surgent. surrendered last week at Trinidad
He was Immediately liberated on the captain
generals decree, but was again arrested al
Union with a companion, Caciniro VlVas
Owing to the campaign Of Lalucha thousands
OF persons being vaccinated dali!
throughout the entire province In spite o.
this 1t is asserted about 5.0OO cases OF
, smallpox exist in Havana, and during the
last four days thirty persons, or per cent
of the entire mortality, have died from this
disease During the month of January a
Jaruco alone out Of 1862 deaths 317 were du'
= to smallpox.
, to Villa Clara capital of the province o
Santa Clara and it reported from Wiz
Clara that he will push ON to Placetas ant
Remedies.
Advices from Remedies say that Genera
+ | Maxine Gomez has moved from the distric
of Sancti Spiritus to Lasiguanea, whicl
caused rumors to be circulated of probabl
conference between the generals, and event
r ually the conclusion of peace. But thi
| | has since been denied from insurgen
Y sources. All the rumors published abou
| prominent home rulers and former leader
e of the ten years war being engaged In treat
e ing for peace are entirely without iounda
$ ton and are only inspired by the Diario d
y la Marina, and perhaps reproduced by som
: of the correspondents here.
+ AFTER SOMETHING TANGIBLE.
All the statements to the contrary, 1t ca
n be affirmed on excellent authority that tn
!, insurgents expect in the long run to WI
- | something much more tangible than the re
n FORMS proposed by the Spanish government
- 1t is recalled that the Diario de la Marinf
" during the captain generalship of CalleJs
o announced that the latter had the intentio
y of going great deal further in the drectio
| of giving Cuba home rule than outlined
e the cabled reports OF the CUBAN rel0rI
IS scheme just proclaimed In Madrid IN
i, Spanards here, 1t cannot be denied, ar
:, | heartily sick of the war, excepting onl
:, those who are making money out OF the reVc
~ luton. Then there is another class anxiou
"A for the war to continue-those who hope I
a. better themselves considerably shouid IN
ir insurgents triumph
in General Gonzales Munoz Is upon the pom
a. of returning to Spain on leave OF absence
His example Is to be followed by Generai
Basana Bernal. Pom, Figueron and Losa
in March These officers, the friends OF In
+ insurgents claim, see absolutely no chanc
" of glory in Cuba and considerable DANCE
~ of disgrace, to say nothing of disease an
=" wounds. Consequently, their enemies ad.
D., seeing that the insurgents must eventuali
- triumph by the machete or otherwise, the
N are adopting the policy of rats when tn
n latter become aware the ship is on the poin
In of sinking.
r, AS this dispatch is sent 1t has beconN
ne known that some of the most promner
-. of the home rule leaders, after consultin
a.. ~ together over the reforms projected fo
80 90 Cuba succeeded in sending cable mes
~ ~ sage to the Madrid government requestin
ne the latter to radically amplify the reform
" scheme. adding that under its present forl
a theI Is no chance of Its meeting the wishe
n of the lnsurgent leaders and bringing abot
ta the pacihcation of Cuba.
n. VENEZUELAN ABUSE FOR oLNE'
mtter Iuyective by TOmas Micheien
sc Published at Caracas.