The San Francisco call., 1898-02-04

| William Nelson and Charles Connolly, two New York carpenters, and a couple | of Germans, whose names do not re- | member, all bent on the same errand | I went to Samuel Lord, the local Con- 1 sul. and asked for a passport, but he | refused to give me one, claiming that | he did not know that 1 was an Amer icaa citizen. The first thing we knew
 we were in the little stuffy jail with | every prospect of remaining there for | an indefinite period if we were fortu- nate enough to escape being shot. The , fact that Dr. Bragg was an English man saved us. The Guatemalans were notified by the representative of the English Government that unless We were liberated within two hours he would bring English guns in plenty to bear on anything in Guatemala they could reach. and the doors Of the jail speedily swung open.
 50 notorious has it become in Gua- temala that an American gets no pro-
 tection from his Government that it is almost invariably the case that Amer jeans repudiate their own country in times of trouble and claim protection
 of England through her representa- tiyes When l went to Guatemala l
 asked Consul General Pringle for my
 papers showing that l was an Ameri-
 can He wanted 8 to make them out,
 and told him that he was paid by the
 Government to do that work and that
 1 intended to write to friend of nina
 named Mcguire, who happened 10 be In a little body called the United States
 Congress, and ask him about such q
 charge being permitted Prngie then offered to make them out for nothing,
 but I refused 10 take them and wrOta
 to Congressman Mcguire don't be-
 heye the letter ever got out os Una country.
 After being liberated at 0uezzste-
 mango we hurried 10 San Martins, hop
 ing to get out of the country. but ws were doomed 10 appointment &s San Martine they claimed they thought
 we were mixed up in the revalatIcs1y and they thre| us into jail Then and
 there I saw the last Of s5S5 tn coin, EwS
 good reyolyers and mule worth s8GB that had borrowed when l letr r1s plantation.
 Finally in October last the locks
 were left off our cells one night and
 We bolted- have always believed that 1t was the intention of the GqatemalanS to shoot us as escapes if they had the ! opportunity, but We chose 9 time when the guards were asleep or drinking fl | the saloons and got safely out of town. ! T made my way to Colunnbo, where ! the revolutionfsts were offering An1ert- cans s3099 bounty 10 join them. and ! there joined the rebellion. l wanted 9 l chance to get even for my sufferings { and loss at San Maritime and I enjoyed i plugging lead into the Government ! forces whenever I got the chance Knowing that to fall into the hands or ! the Government meant death with my. i face to the wall, my back as a target and without the formality of a trial, l concluded to get out Of the country l and boarded a steamer at the earliest ! possible moment At one point touched at on the way up the Government was ! in control and the soldiers tried to take ] me off The captain threw an Ameri- can flag over me and claimed me as an American citizen and dared them 10 ! take me ! His action had the desired effect and
 my life was saved l do not care to ! give the name of the ship nor her mas ] ter. nor any other particulars. for that l captain is running still to Guatemalah l ports and 1t might cause him trouble. | Ir fact he asked me not to mention the matter. The revolution in GuateInalt IS only ln it's inIancy ana | eApecs 70
 hear any day that the smoldering fires ] have broken out and that BaTrios has l been driven cut.
 He :s in constant fear and was pre- ..aring to leave when I got cut He held the steamer San Juan at San Jose 1 de Qua te3nala for weeks at an expense 1 of S11.000 day, being prevented from ] going abot I'd her by the fact that the l revolutionists held the country between 1 Guatemala City and the sec port men i ticned- Since I left another ship hes 1 taken the San Juan's place.
 The killing of Aparicio and other wealthy Spaniards has aroused such a hatred against Barrios among their | friends and followers that nothing but | the death or banishment Of the dicta- | tor will appease them In Mexico. just | across the line thousands of men ars ! 5riIi Srr. ! the signal to pour across the border. l They have 13.000 krag-Jorgensen rifles, | ten rapid fire field guns. fourteen Cat l ling guns and immense stores Of am- munition.
 There are many Americans ruined 1 and stranded in Guatemala through | the ravages of the war. Ernest Theo- | dore. an Oakland boy. was a prosper i ous contractor at Quezaltenango, but when the war broke out the Govern | ment took his entire outfit Of mules and wagons worth from $50, ,000 to s60- ! 900, and left him almost penniless. i Stewart & Cooney, owners of a large | livery stable at QueZaltenango, were 1 also cleaned out Of their belongings. l Stewart is a relative of one of the own
 CTS of the New York World.
 An instance Of how the English ! Government acts when any Of it's sub l jects are in trouble was shown not long ago ln the case or a man named l Jack Mccarthy at Guatemala City. Mccarthy was plasterer, and after l getting drunk cleaned out a dozen or
 so Of the police who tried to arrest | him. He was thrown into jail and was
 in fair way to be shot when the rep
 resentative of the English Govern ment heard Of his plight
 He demanded McCarthy's release | as an English subject, and when he met with lack of compliance with his 1 request sent a message to President | BarrioS that unless the man was re- 1 leased within one hour he would send word to San Jose de Guatemala to | have a British warship then lying in | the harbor fire on the town until Me i Carthy was free. The plasterer was ! out in half an hour"