Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-01
THE COMPETITORS CREW.
Trial Will Be Delayed, Unless The
Uaited States Interfere.
Stand Connnrment Much
Longer.

New YORK, July /. - A sispstcn
to the Herald from Havana ssyf:
The trial OF the Competitor crew
will not take place on July /, as has
been reported. 1t may not take place
for several months yet, unless the
UDiteu States presses tue matter. The
authorities here hesitate to bring the
men to trial for diplomatic rea. ons.
They realize the fact that the laws OF
spain mean anything and are not to
Us brought into disrepute, the sentence
q the Competitor filibusterers must he
a severe one. On the other hand spain
does not desire to aggravate any hos
tile feeling that may already txist in
tue United States against her. Ii was
just sbJut the middle Of June that
Consul General Lsv, by direction of
his government, pIeesed her Tor an
early trial.
He pointed out that long delay had
already taken place and declared II
ADJUST. To the consuPs letter Gene.
rsl Weylsr sent a moet iudehnne
reply. He began by excusing the
pact delay on the ground that proceeJ-
rugs on the part OF the prosecution had
c0nsu mod much time, and nov, he
said, the. lawyer who had been as
signed to the prisoners had been given
until the end oil July TO prepare his de.
tense.
In conclusion General Weyler
stated that it was "impossible 10 say
when the trial would be brought out"
This means that 1t has been thought
best lo uelay the trial Indefinitely. In
the meantime the Competitor crew
are lsnlu sning in prison. Some OF
them cannot stand confinement much
longer. They are not treated badIy,so
Tar as Spanish treatment of prisoners go
in Cuba. Americans cannot realizs
what the conf nement in CabanRs DUR.
ing these hot m Iutns mean.
When Mei.vn, Tor example, was
taken prisoner he was remarkably
fne specimen OF American. To-Day
he Is broken down beyond recovery.
HIS shoulders are bowed and his
frame wasted 10 skin and bone.
Disease among Spanish troop, in
Santiago de Cuba mas been 30 severe
that when Genetsl Weyisr ordered
The move into the interior against the
rebels the only soldiers available were
coDvalescents.
All over the leland disease among
the Spanish troops is increasing at a
fearful rate. Out of the thousand
men In she Ve2era battaliOn in Pinar
del Rio nearly 200 have been rendered
unht for service by malaria. The
hospitals In Havana are crowded to
OVERLOOKING.
General Ruiz Rivera Is dangerously
III. The prison doctors have per.
formed delicate operation upon him
and he Ia now Ia critical conultion.
The Herald Correspondent In Matan.
zas reports fierce engagement on
saturday last between Spanish troops
and large bouy Of insurgents. Be-
tween sixty and seventy SpaIiards
were killed and wounded. The rebel
lose 10 not known. General Meline vino
was near by with column OF meu
came 10 the assistance Of the Spa u ish
anu WAS badly wounded during the
engagement. There are in the vicinity
OF Matauzas 1900 Insurgents well
armed aud squipps Il.
The rebel leauer, Guaracha, captured
and killed two Spanish spies near the
city limits OF Msislzss on Sunday
last. The Correspondent also vouches
tor the statement that the Spanish
macheted seventeen pscificsf, men
aud women who had Jeff town for a
plantation 10 get ioou.