The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-06-25
HEUREAUx HUNTING JIMINEZ
Anxious to Kill the Man Who Dared to
Defy Him

CAPE HAYTIEN, Hayti, June 14.-Last
Thursday after most of this town had wit
messed the annual procession of the Fete
Dieu of Corpus Christi, the President of
the Dominican Republic Gen. Ulises Heur-
eaux quietly slipped into port on his shapely
war yacht, the Restauracion, having re-
turned from flying visit to Matthewtown,
Grand Inyua, where it is stated, strange as
1t may seem, he had fancied an opportunity
would be afforded him to carry off Jiminez,
the leader of the abortive attempt at revo-
luton on June at Monte Cristo. In the
midst of his exultation over the ease with
which this attempt was frustrated and the
completeness of the discontinue of the
conspirators, Heureaux betrayed several
times in conversation how great would
have been his delight to get Jiminez, his
former friend and longtime enemy in his
power, so that he could order him to be
shot before his eyes.
One of the most remarkable things about
the late disturbance in Santo Domingo is
the celebrity with which the nominal Presi-
dent. but real despot of the country, went
to the scene himself and the energy and
activity with which he pursued the con-
spirators and investigated their ill-laid
plans. Hardly had it been known hero
suppressed before it's was learned that Heur-
eaux. with two gunboats and a considerable
number of troops, was on his way from his
capital, Santo Domingo, to Puerto Plata
and Monte Cristo, and few hours later he
was here on his first call after the affair,
making inquiries as to the attitude of the
Haytien authorities in regard to the en-
barkation of revolutionsts on the Fanita..
The second gunboat, the Presidente only
paused outside of the harbor and then went
on to Porto de Paix, where the Fanita had
stopped before coming here. where also
some Of the preparations Of the conspirators
are supposed to have been made Everything
Indicates that Ulises, or Lii, as he is faml-
iarly called by friends and enemies alike,
would have made as enterprislng reporter
as he is-u rtsler. He worked up the story
OF the little instruction in the most thor
ough manner and told it afterwards with
lively zest and piquancy, and not without
clever establishment.
When the Restauracion first came into the
harbor of Cape Haytien after the Monte
Cristo affair, she did not have tlme-or else
the commander in chief Of the Dominican
army and navy did not have the inclna-
tion-to salute the Haytien flag. No doubt
Heureaux entertained good deal of sus-
picion of the Haytien authorities. This
may not even yet be allayed The ambition
of Heureaux Is not unequal to an attempt
to consolidate the whole of the island under
his sway, If even fair excuse and fairer
opportunity offered. Though a little
stronger in the armament of her gunboats
and In the paper strength of her army, the
Republic of Hayt is greatly inferior to that
Of Dominica in the warlike Qualities of her
people, as also in their capacity of culture
and industrial and commercial advance
ment. One of the notable traits of Heu-
reaux's conversation while in the port of
Cape Haytien the second time (Thurs-
day, the 9th) was his contempt not the
least bit concealed, for the Haytiens. New
ertheless, on this visit he ordered the regu-
lation salute of q guns to be fired, and 1t
was returned after the usual lazy fashion
by the Haytiens from the two or three
small field pieces of ancient type which
( constitute about the whole of the service
able artillery here.
Heureaux is man of mystery and of mys-
tification, as we'll as of promptitude and
blood. 1t was reported after each of his
departures from Cape Haytien that he had
been ashore in the evening in disguise, and
thus for purposes of his own had, made
tour Of the city. 1t is known that he hoped
by plausible messages to entice Jimnezs
son, who is in charge of the house of jim
inez & Co. here, dawn to the office of the
port, near the waters edge at night, while
the gunboat was at anchor, and 1t is more
than probable that had the latter gone
there, he would have been quietly seized
and taken to santo Domingo, where, II there