The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-03

it to sink daily deeper into the sof
mud of the harbor, making the task o
raising it the more herculean. Will
no outsider is allowed on the wreck
the patrol lines are not so rigid a.
formerly, and the boats of visitors ar
allowed to sail quite close to the mas
of debris.
NEGATIVE ANSWER.
The question is frequently asked
Are Americans in danger in Havana? 2
The only truthful answer, given by {
well informed resident or American of
fetal or layman, is, I'VE think not; W,
don't know"
OF course, Spanish officials who will
talk on the subject, deprecate any idea
of danger, but they are much in the
dark as the rest. A well informed Gu
ban of high social position and on gooC
terms with the government, said tC
the correspondent of the Associated
Press: OF course, in the low dives
and saloons there are constant boasts
by irresponsible persons as to what
they intend TO do to Americans, but
these people are only dangerous in case
riotous demonstrations come from other
quarters, such, for instance, as the vol
unteers."
In the ten years war the volunteers
shot many innocent people and were
controlled with difficulty, but it seems
probable that dissatisfaction is more
likely to be manifested later against
the autonomists or against General
Blanco and his staff than against the
Americans, since the impression is
daily stronger that only a short time
will elapse ere Cuba will be annexed
to or under the protection of the United
States.
There are no signs of demonstrations
against the Americans. and stories to
the contrary thus far are without foun-
| dation. SILL, Havana is no place lust
now for those who have no calls of
business or duty. This season is in
| clement and the variations of tempera-
ture are sudden and violent, causing
much sickness, especially the grippe.
CENSORSHIP.
All idea of censorship is so foreign
to the American mind that an Ameri-
! can can scarcely appreciate the diff
Guilty of sending news from Havana
The SpaniardS seem equally unable to
| understand why censorship is not exer-
cised in the United States. One expe-
| rience will serve as an illustration Of
others Of daily occurrence. A CORES
pendent prepared an early bulletin for
cabling, giving such routine facts as
could be gathered before eight in the
morning in a city where the official
business of the day begins at 10 or
later. Sickness happened to deprive
him of his interpreter. and he tried to
get the dispatch stamped" by the GEN.
sor in the original English. The regu-
lar censor happened to be i'll and COM
mandant Norena was acting in his
place. Norena, who does not know a
word of English. declined to give his
approval until the dispatch was shown
him in Spanish. The correspondent
hunted some one up whom he could
trust and finally secured a Spanish
version. Norena scrutinized it care
fully, crossed out sentences perfectly
harmless, but which appeared to him
to contain double meaning and after
emasculating the dispatch stamped the
Spanish version.
The correspondent took the English
and Spanish copies 70 the cable office,
where they were compared by opera
tors who are held responsible for their
perfect agreement. The dispatch fin
ally approved as butchered. was then
sent. Time consumed, two hours and
forty minutes.
Later in the day the same correspon-
dent may lose two hours of valuable
time in waiting for the censor who hap
pens to be at lunch, while at night the
censor may put in an appearance half
an hour before the cable office closes.
WELCOME, TO VIZCAYA.
Greater demonstrations of welcome
could not have been accorded the Viz
caya, had she been the most powerful
battleship in the world. Her officers
and crew will be the object of social
attentions. 1t has been prophesied that
her arrival would be a signal for dem
onstrations against this, THAI or the
other party or official, but as usual,
this was nothing but prediction.
A few shouted for Weyler, but not
enough to attract the slightest atten-
ton from the police.
News from the insurgents is scarcer
here since the Maine explosion than
usual. No official declaration has been
received from General Maxine Gomez
as to the Maine disaster, so far as is
known, but of course, his followers re-
gard the affair as due to Spanish
treachery.
The fight in Puerto Principe as re-
ported by cable was probably one of
the hottest since the opening of the
trouble. 1t is thought when the facts
are known the reverses will be Spanish
rather than Cuban. This is believed
here among the Spanish themselves and
the official reports admit greater losses
on the part of the government troops
than in any engagement of the war.
The insurgents could not have had
5000 men engaged, as the Spanish Of
they had a thousand or under.
DESTROY AND LOOT.
The insurgents continue to burn cane
fields and destroy plantations wherever |
the owners fail to pay taxes to Presi- |
dent Masso's government. They loot !
cattle from under the very walls of
Matanzas, Cienfuegos and other cities. |
Today it is reported from apparently |
reliable sources that General CaliXo |
Garcia is in Santa Clara province with |
8, 600 men.
Early on the morning of the 10Th two |
dynamite bombs exploded on the rail- |
way line near Holguin and 200 yards |
of track was destroyed.
Senator Proctor does not seem IN the /
least nervous over his trips into the !
interior. If he intends to see one or
more of the prominent insurgents he |
does not say so. In this, as in all other
matters, he keeps his own counsel and
observes closely.
COURT OF INQUIRY.