The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-29
SAMPSON
Will Return From Havana to
the United States
To Attend the Marriage of His
Daughter.
NOTHING MORE TO Do
Until the Spaniards Get Ready
to Leave.
Talk of a COurtmartiaI For Gen.
Garcia.

Havana, Oct. 29.-At this morning $
joint session of the evacuation commits
sioners of the United States and or
Spain, no conclusions were arrived at
evcept as to matters of detail and of lit
tie innortance Thus far all matters
of importance have been referred TO
Paris for decision by the joint peace
conference.
on November Is, the quarantine
against yellow fever Will cease so tnaL
steamers between Havana and Tampa
can carry passengers without immunity
certificates.
About this time Rear Admiral Samp-
son will leave for the United States to
attend the wedding of his daughter and
it is the intention of Major General But
Ter to go to Washington before the lat
ter part of the month.
Senor Atilano Colomo, one of the most
prominent and Wealthiest Havanese,
has placed at General Buffers disposal
for the remainder of his stay here, a
handsome carriage and pair, with
cOachman and fOOtman.
Colonel Lee and Lieutenant Colonel
Livermore, of the United States special
camp sites, have returned from the prov
ince of Pinar Del Rio, where they have
selected three sites from among which
the government will choose one. The
matter of a landing place is under con-
sideratiOn before the entire camp board.
ManZanillO, Oct. 29.-The United
States gunbOat Hist has arrived here
with General Leonard Wood, command
er of the military department of Santi-
ago. On landing General Wood was
closeted with Colonel Petit and his adj
jutant and he was subsequently re-
ceived by Colonel Pettit's entire regi-
ment.
General Wood then visited the bar
racks, hospitals, customs house and
Colonel Petit reports that the Gu
ban general, Rios is apparently making
every effort to prevent the disbanding
of his troops. The Cuban commander
wishes all the sugar estates in the
neighbOrhOOd to tell him how many men
they can employ, and he will guarantee
to supply all required on condition that
only soldiers are employed. The plant
ers unanimously refuse to fall in with
such an arrangement, considering that
it would be a trades union of the worst
possible kind and would also tend to
keep up the Cuban military organiza-
tlon, which, in the interest of the island,
the planters are very anxious to break
up. In their opinion, it would be bet
ter to have no commerce than to at
tempt 1t on such conditions.
There is practically no sickness in
Colonel Pettit's regiment, and yellow
fever has been unknown here for sew
eral years. ManzanillO is in good sani-
tary condition.
Lieutenant Lucien Young. the COM
mander of the Hist, created more ex-
element on landing than even General
Wood himself. Crowds gathered at the
wharf to see the young commander, who
with Lleutenants Holm and Jungen of
the Hornet and Wampatuck, defeated
a whole f1Otilla of Spanish gun boats at
Manzanillo on July 1 last. The people
OF ManZaniIlO consider Lieutenant
Young hero and a terror, and think
he ought to be made an admiral, for,
although the Spanish shore battery in
that memorable engagement continued
to bonn bard the American gun boat, it
is generally admitted here that it was
the shooting of the Hist that caused
people to flee to the mountains.
In many part of the city are still vis-
q
Lieutenant Victor Blue, who has been
inspecting the wrecks of the Spanish
gun boats, considers it quite impractic-
able to raise them, but he believes the
Spanish steamer Puerissima Conception
which the SpaniardS ran ashore in the
hope of saving her cargo when pursued
by an American warship, can be raised,
as she appears to be in good condition.
A local merchant, however, claims to
have purchased the hull and its con-
tents from the Spanish authorities
The Cuban general, Jesus Rabi paid
a visit to ManzanillO yesterday and was
enthusiastically received by the Cuban
element
According to reports from the Cuban
assembly at Santa Cruz del Sur, General
Calixto Garcia has been chosen per-
manent chairman of the organization
General Maxine Gomez is expected
there tomorrow or next day and it ap-
pears that the Cespedes faction believes
it can count upon the help of General
Gomez to break the authority of Gar
cia.
The Cespedes faction expects General
Gomez to appoint a court martial to try
General Garcia for Offenses covering
practically everything from murder to
petty larceny. The probability is that
General Gomez recognizing Garcia's
ascendency in the assembly will not
force the issue.
BLAMES MONEY KINGS.