The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10

Havana, Jan. 9.-The trial Of Luis
Someillan, naturalized American
citizen, who is charged with conspiring
against the Spanish government. was
continued at l o'clock this afternoon.
Official duties prevented Consul-Gen-
eral Lee from being present, but he
sent representative to watch the
proceedings in the interest Of the ac-
cused. After the witnesses had con-
Guided their testimony, which con-
tanned nothing material to support the
charge against the prisoner. the prose-
cutting attorney made a long speech
that was full OF patriotic Spanish sen
timent. He said he despises those
citizens of the United States who had
enrolled themselves under the flag of a
great and noble nation for the sole pur-
pose of protecting themselves in their
conspiracy against a power with which
the United States was friendly He
declared that if the material changes
against Someillan had not been clearly
proved, there was Il moral conviction
that he was guilty and was, therefore,
deserving of being imprisoned for life.
With much Vehemence, he urged the
judges to remember SPANS honor
above all other considerations and to
viction.
The court then adjourned until Mon
day when counsel for the defense will
be heard.
The report that Domingo De La
Cara, Mexican citizen, had been
murdered by Spanish troops in Guiana
bacoa on the occasion of the demon
stration there in honor of Colonel Fon-
deviella, the military commander of
that town, is untrue. The Mexican
consul here says that De La Cara
was killed in a drunken brawl and
that no political significance can be
attached to his death.
General Arolas has arrived in Ha-
vana from Pinar Del Rio. 1t is said
that he had been ordered to proceed
to the Central trocha, which extends
from Jucara to Moron, in the province
of Puerto Principe.
The queen regent has conferred upon
Senior Don prudencio Rabell, promi-
nent member of the refornliSt party
and managing director of Diario De La
Marina, the title of Marquis Rabell
She has also conferred the great cross
for naval merit upon the mayor of
Havana, Senior Don Antonio Queseda;
the great cross for military merit upon
ZSenOr Don Jose Maria GalveZ, chair
man of the autonomiSt party, ana the
white cross for military merit upon
the correspondent of a certain New
York newspaper, whose dispatches al
ways favor the Spanish cause. The
latter has created a decided impress
sion in his favor among the military
commanders here, who urged General
Weyler to recommend to the queen re-
gent that he be honored for his serV
ices in the interests of Spain.
Marquis De ApeZteguia, head Of the
constitutional party here, who has
sought to have General Weyler re-
called to Spain, will sail tomorrow for
Spain.
The correspondents of the Madrid
impartial and Heraldo. who were re-
Gently ordered by those journals TO
proceed 20 Porto Rico, and await fur
Their instructions there, will leave to-
morrow. Their leaving Cuba is due to
the fact that the papers they repre-
sent were recently seized by the Mad
rid government for exposing the NAL
administration on the island and de-
manding Weyler's recall. 1t can be
stated. positively. that although the
authorities here officially deny the
statement that the Mexican, Domingo
De La Cara, referred TO above, was
killed by soldiers in Guanabacoa, and
that they have obtained the acquies-
cence of the Mexican consul to the de-
mel, the man was brutally murdered
by soldiers for no other reason than
they thought he was a Cuban.