Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-01-07
THE VENEZUELA DISPUTE.
British COlOniStS Dissatisfied With
SallSbuFy'S Policy.
They,Cinini TO Have Irrefutabio E.
dence OF British Rights 10 she
Disputed Territory.

New YORK, jan. Tho World
this morning publishes the following
special correspondence from Grey
town, b. g.:
The announcement that Lord SRlis-
bury has agreed to submit the question
OF boundary between British Guiana
and Venezuela to arbitration has not
been accepted by the British colonists
with satisfaction for the further pro-
loDgation VI negotiations Ia seriously
restricting the Investment of foreign
capital in development of the colonies.
That Secretary Olnsy has scored M a
diplomat in this matter, 10 readily ad-
mitted. But Lord Salisbury il ga
soundly rated for having yielded
to arbitration upon territory
over which the Dutch exercitoj
a Jurisdiction that has been
continued by the British since they
succeeded to the Dutch possession and
right. That Lord Salisbury's decision
has had for the time being at least a
detrimental effect on Investments n
the colony OF British Qua O Is proved
by stendy fail in the values OF shares
in the gold mining companies operat-
Ing within the disputed territory, the
numerous applications for an extern
sion OF time In decisions regarding
gold mine options and the almost
general inclination to halt in the
further development Of the gold iu.
Austry.
Still the colonists are satisfied that 1t
10 but question OF time wnen their
claims to the entire gold bearing area
north and west of the EsquibO, the
right bank OF tho Amacura river, Will
be fully established. retaining to the
colony the valuable properties on the
BarimR and Barama rivers and their
tributaries. AS to the Cuyuni the
evidences OF Dutch occupation are still
visible and the documentary proof OF
British jurisdiction from the time OF
the earlie.t settlement Is considered
here 10 complete.
The British government has had q
specialist searching the old Dutch
records in the archives of British
Guiana and two days ago q discovery
was maue which, In the absence Of
exact data defining the limits OF the
Dutch possessions, is regarded here as
conclusive evidence that the British
from their earliest occupation of
Guiana exercited jurisdiction over the
entire northwest territory up to anu
beyond the Anaoura.
There Is no documentary evidence
to show that the British government
not only claimed the territory and as-
sumed q protectOrate over the Indian
tribes, but that the Iudian chief made
periodical returns to the British gov.
urnment. Among the documents dis
covered Is the centus return OF 1917
nj n u IA ral antt ~ IA t..fs
Moruga, Wsini, Barima, MArauni anu
Cuyuni rivers. The population is
enumerated in the returns and the
number OF men in each tribs capable
OF taking up arms Is carefully de-
tailed.
There appears to have bean four
great Carib oenters-Pa wrooma, Moru.
90. VAIN and Bsrima, the chief
towns of which were Marips, C0Opa.
roore, Tocoopoima ahd Pewks.
In each was war captain respond.
bic to the Dutch anu afterwards to the
British government.
The Arkwaks, Scawoips and War
rows claimed the protectioni OF the
Dutch from the earliest settlement anu
afterwnrd the British, against external
and internal foes.
That the aborigines Of those days
were not like the scattered communi.
ties now In the interior Ia shown by
the fact that the cargoes OF tobacco,
cotton aud other products could be oh.
tanned from the natives at regular In.
tervale. 1t paid to send trading yes.
sele on such risky voyages.
While the native tribes refused 10
trade with the Bpanisrds anu rspelleu
tneir advances, the Dutch were early
on friendly terms with oil. That was
the reason why the Spaniards, and
after them the Veuezuelans, never oc.
cupied territory hs lar east as the
Amacura.