The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-01-07
REBELS NOT IN IL
THAT Is, If CAPT. GEN. WELLER ID
TO BE BELIEVED.
lie Says That Pinur del Rio Province
Is Pncifch and That There Are
Only About Five Hundred insur-
rents i'm the prOyiuce-Vhcre ~
Talk in Spain of Recalling the
Captain General.

| Havana. Jan 2.-Tne war CORES
! pondent of La Lucha, of this city. Sen
or Canarte, has telegraphed to his pa
! per the substance OF an interview
which he had yesterday with Capt:
! Gen. Weyler. whose column he joined
| at San Caistobal. The captain general
| assured the correspondent that there
, was only about 800 insurgents i'll the
| Province of Pinar del Rio, adding:
Il am able to say that the province
Is pacitied. Sickness. bullets and nun
| ger will terminate the revolution. L
! will treat the leaders with considera-
ton if they surrender all, or nearly all,
! of their followers. Nobody can con-
| slider himself the owner u ne cattle
in the mouI III, and woods which
were born. l. 1t year. and | allow the
! soldiers and the poor to gather them
together and G,, what benefit they can
I from them. / nave ats" prov i Tor
| the eStani' OF cultivated II
in order t. avoid famine, and | con-
! graduate myself upon the suppression
| of the revolution in Pinar del Rio. The
rebels are lacking in valOr and other
clements to make the uprising a sue
cess. With the assistance of the COM
mercial chambers | hope to establish
. cultivated zones in the Province of
Havana. between the two railroad
lines, but | cannot allow people to
build houses outside of h towns, as
they only serve as refuge for bandits.
I Rus Rivera is d~iSrcgardCd by the
, Cuban partiSans. and is lacking III the
! qualities reQui. ed to make an lnSur-
l gent commander. and neither Quintin
BanderaS nor ClaXitO Garcia has as
much prestige as Antonio Maceo.'
Talk of Recalling Neyicr.
Madrid. Jan. THE Dia, referring
to attacks of the H2raldo and Impair
! cial on Capt. Gen. Weyler, says it is
! possible that they may result in Il cab
met crisis and that many people be-
! lieve there will be Il change of policy.
\ meeting of Spanish generals was
held last evening to consider these
newspaper articles, Il full text of
which was not allowed to be tele-
! graphed abroad for fear Of causing dis
may among the troops in Cuba and en-
c%ouraging the friends Of the insurgents
in the United States. 1t is persistently
asserted that a decision has been
I reached to relieve Capt. GrI.. Weyler
Of his functions, but that the premier
has suspended the order. All the min
listers met ut the premier'S residence
last evening in order to discuss the
matter. \ feeling Of general public IN
/ dignatiOn prevails. 1t is asserted that
the soldiers are suffering from hunger,
exposure and lack of medical care,
while nobody seems to know what has
become of the money sent from Spain.
Gen. Riveren Loses His Life.
Havana. Jan. 2.-Gen. Ruis Rivera,
who succeeded Antonio Maceo at the
head Of the patriot forces in the Prov
ince OF Pinar del Rio. was injured in
an engagement, according TO advlces
received here from Artemisa. 1t is
stated that he subsequently died of his
wounds. 1t is I further stated that Brig.
Gen. Salvador Rios. who was wound
ed in an engagement at Peraleio. died
some time later. Private advices re-
{ ccived here from Col. Cirujeda say
that at the fight which took place near
Cayo Rosa the insurgcnt general, Sill
veriO SaucheZ was among the killed.
Arms for Cubnns.
Jacksonville. Fla. Jan. :. - The
steamer Commodore cleared at the
custom house at ) O'Clock yesterday af-
ternoCn with a cargo of arms and am
munitiOn consigned to Salvador Cis-
norOs, president of the Cuban Republic
at Cicnfuegos, Cuba. A crew of TWEEN
~ty-seven men were carried despite the
fact that the Commodore is only 90
tons register. Most of these were
Cubans. Among the number was
Stephen Crane. the novelist, who
signed a. a seaman at $40 per month.
The cargo consists Of 1000 pounds of
dynamite, two boxes of ,lectric ap-
paratus, twenty-five rifles, 100000
cartridges, 800 matchetes, fourteen
boxes drugs and three bundles Of cloth
ing. Clearance papers were issued
Notwithstanding that a formal protest
was made by Senior Solos, Spanish
consul for Florida, which was made in
writing.