Evening star., 1898-10-29
OPPOSE GEN. RIOS PLANS.
Cuban Planters Want the Insurgent
Army to DiSbnnd.

A dispatch from Manzanilo yesterday
says: The United States gunboat Hist ar
rived here tonight with Gen. Leonard
Wood, commander of the military depart
ment of Santiago. General Wood visited
the barracks, hospitals, palaces custom
house and post office.
Colonel Petit reports that the Cuban
General Rios Is apparently making every
effort to prevent the disbanding of his
troops. The Cuban commander wishes all
the sugar estates in the neighorhood to tell
him how many men they employ and
will guarantee to supply all requested on
condition that only soldiers are employed.
The planters unanimously refuse to fall in
with such an arrangement considering
that 1t would be a trades union of the
worst possible kind, and would also tend
to keep up the Cuban military organiza-
ton, which, in the interests of tne island,
the planters are very anxious to break up.
In their opinion it would be better to have
no commerce than to attempt it on such
conditions
Manzanllo is in good sanitary condition.
Lieut.. Lucien Young, the commander of
the Hist, created more excitement on land
ing than even General Wood himself.
Crowds gathered at the wharf to see the
young commander, who with Lieutenants
Helm of the Hornet and Jungen of the
Wampatuck, defeated the whole fiotilla of
Spanish gunboats at Manzanilo on July /
last. The people of Manzanillo consider
Lieutenant Young hero and a terror and
think he ought to be admiral, for al
though the Spanish shore batteries in that
memorable engagement continued to bonn
bard the American gunboats, 1t is generally
admitted here that it was the shooting of
the Hist that caused people to fee 20 the
mountains. In many parts of the city are
still visible the marks of the Hists sneiiS
Lieut.. Victor Blue, who has been inspect
ing the wrecks of the Spanish gunboats,
considers it quite impracticable TO raise
them, but he believes the Spanish steamer
Purissima Conception, which the Spaniards
ashore, in the hope of saving her cargo
when pursued by an American warship, can
be raised. as she appears to be in good con-
dition. A local merchant, however claims
to have purchased the hull and its con-
tents from the Spanish authorities.
According to reports from the Cuban
assembly at Santa Cruz del Sur Gen. Cal
iXto Garcia has been chosen permanent
chairman of the organization. Gen. Maxi
mo Gomez is expected there tomorrow or
next day, and 1t appears that the Cespedes
faction believes it can count upon the help
of General Gomez to break the authority
of Garcia.
The Cespedes faction expect General Co.
meZ, to appoint cOurt-martial to try
General Garcia for offenses covering prac-
tlcally everything from murder to petty
larceny, but the prObab bity is that General
Gomez. recognizing Garcia's ascendency in
the assembly, will not force the issue.
Major Norman, surgeon of the I'D I'm
mune Regiment at Guantanamo, reports
that there is only one case of yellow fever
among the men. and that the victim in
this instance is already convalescent.
Mr.. w. E. Spicer of Boston, Mass, the
postmaster at Guantanamo died yesterday.
His disease was diagnosed as a type of yell
low fever