The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-05

Washington, June 4.-Chief Wilkie of
the United States secret service today
made public the letter which was re-
! Gently written by Mr.. Carranza, for
merly naval attache of the Spanish le-
CATION in Washington, now in Montreal,
| to a party in the Spanish ministry OF
marine, at Madrid, and secured by Mr..
| Wilkes operatives and brought to
i Washington. The officials here do not
know whether the senior to whom the
| letter is addressed is, but believe him
/ to be a high official. The letter was
! received here about one week ago, but
! for several reasons it has been with
/ held until today. Copies this morning
were furnished to the president, the
| secretary of the treasury and the Secre-
! tary of state, and it is altogether prop
! able that action will be Immediately
| taken to secure the instant departure
of the Spanish contingent from Canad-
ia2 soil.
/ The letter is of the most sensational
character. and discloses the very elab-
crate system of spies which has been
conducted in this country in the inter-
est of Spain Since their departure
| from the city, Chief Wilkes agents
| have been fully cognizant of every
move of the Apaniards, and for the last
! several weeks he has had agents en-
pIoyed in the houses where they lodged,
and nothing OF interest has apparently
| escaped their vigilance. The letter
! however, was secured by an operative
who called at the house in the capacity
/ of a health officer, while Mr.. Carranza
was at dinner. The letter was found on
| his table addressed for mailing. 1t was
| handed by this man to another in wait
| - ir.d rhn incf
started with it for Washington. The
party under suspicion in Montreal of
! having taken the letter, Chief Wiikie
SAYS, is entirely innocent, the man who
took the letter never having been in
! the house before The Officials who have
| had knowledge of Chief Wilkes move
regard it as one of the most clever
pieces of detective work ever done in
| this country.
The letter is as follows:
CARRANZA'S LETTER.
Montreal, Que, May &C. 1898. Topper
Street. 40.
His Excellencv, Senior Don Jose Go
meZ Imay:
MY Dear Don josef was my belief
that they would have appointed you to
| command the Cadiz fleet, and it was
my intention to have sent you a tele-
| you, to meet you in the Antilles, or
| wherever you might say. The case has
not turned out thus, however, and it
seems as though God were not ON our
side because the selection of Senior Ca
mara, / fear, will be fatal, although he
may have a good chief of staff. No
one could possibly suit him, because he
! is very caDricious, and besides, is not
J hard worker On the contrary, he is
lazy, and would pay no attention to
| the advice of any one. You will not
take this for flattery, but today no
one but you and Don Pasquale should
| have command of our fleet, and this
| is the belief of the younger element of
the personnel. Now there is no remedy
and may God shed his light upon him
| and keep him in his hands.
II wrote to the minister, and, with
| the confidence due to my special du-
| ties, l said to him, on sending a clip
| ping from a newspaper containing a
telegram from Cadiz. speaking OF our
| fleet and of it's admiral, that it was not
| Senior Camara, but you who should
command it; and that we, the lower
personnel. who travel about a little.