Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-01-16
cUDANs ARE VERY ACTIVE
insurgents Continue to Harrass the
Enemy.
WeyIer's Story That Pinnr Del Hio
Has Been PaciAed Not True.
Rebels Are More Hope
full Than Ever.

New York. Jan. M.-The World this morn
ing publishes a letter from a special cor
respondent at Arroyo Arena, province or
Havana. dated January 4. who says: Il
have been fortunate enough to get into
Havana, get out Of It again, and 10 ma an
lnsurgent force. all in just twelve hours.
This island is six miles from San Pedro,
where Maceo is reported TO have been
killed.
ut is not true that either Pinar del Rio
or Havana provinces have been 'pacihed.'
The insurgents are not thinking OF max
ing peace. They are more active ana nope
full than ever. There never were but 6,vW
rebels In Pinar del Rio province. they are
still there. General Wey.er. at the head or
q. 1000 Spanish troops, did not
them. All reports from Spanish towns or
forts are utterly untrustworthy. Maceo
never fought I'm heavy columns. He never
had more thar 200 men with him. His plan
was TO harass, tease and tire out the en-
envy.
THE situation here looks better for the
Insurgents Today than when i left Pinar
del Rio last August Even the Spaniards
admit that none OF the insurgents have
surrendered. ! rode for four weeks with
the same force Of insurgents, under Bal
donero Acosta, eight months ago and over
the same ground. Acosta's cavalrymen
are positively fat. Their horses, too, look
better fed. From these appearances at
least II does not seem that the insurgents
I'm this district, ravished by the bloody san
Quintin battalion and twelve guerrilla or
Plantations are being much harassed. W.
onel Girujeda, the slayer of Maceo, IN the
battalion commander. He Ii really a very
energetic officer and keeps his infantry
- 49, -. Hah annaf NlH ING
ease with which the ubans seem to have
avoided his combinations proves that
they nave improved IN what was always
their strongest ~point-ability to keep and
get away.
Three brothers, Jose. Cornello and
Pablo Gown. SO, 80 and 2s years respect
lively. owned some cattle near Punta
Bravo. Obtaining permission from the
military authorities, they drove the
beeyes TO Havana TO sell them. They met
a party Of Colonel G~irujeda's force-the
same ones that were reported TO have a
EN- articles from Maceo's body. A Span
ish soldier said to the brothers: You have
two bachelor soldiers In the bush. You are
bad people-mala gente.' w~hereupon 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 or
Herrera Gonzales, three miles north or
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 II. F~ourteen-year-
old Isadoro Herrera orrora was also muir
dered In cold blood. The boy was hauling
the family water barrel, using a yoke OF
oxen. A mile off there was some firing.
Then the guerriIias OF Pizaro came along
and put two balls through the boys chest
and a machete through his throat"