The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-23
New Ambassador Arrives From
Russia With Bouquet For
Uncle Sam.
GOODNESS OF NEGLECT
Will Cause Spain to Squrm Uneasily and BanisF
the Last Hope of Intervention--Casini Says
Russia Loves America.

I she is a dead shot, and although she doe
not know the munderer's name, she say
his face and could, If necessary, pick hin
out of a thousand.
She is petite and slender, and has TIL
most perfect type ofpatrician CubaE
beauty-features of classic mould. eyes G
enhancing depth and brilliancy, and lux
uriant black hair worn something afte
the style of La MISUNDERSTANDING with
out the severe ana rather monotonou:
simplicity affected by the Partisan beauty
Her gown, of the most fashionable cut
was of the richest silks and beautiful clor
ing.
Here are some of the facts RECORDING
her life, as related last evening by her.
self:
She was born near the city Of Pinar de
Rio in the west part of Cuba, where hel
father owned a tobacco and sugar plan
tation that made him a wealthy and in.
fuential citizen.
Although a non-com5a.ant, he had a sen
in the Cuban army. The young man
whose name was Valentine, was killed
about two years ago.
Because of his sons service in :he cause
of his native land, or for some other rea-
son, the Spaniards enterta ned a grudge
against Senior Masso, and any one IA
miliar with present history Of Cuba
knows what that means.
1t meant that early one morning the old
man was called from his bed by a party
Of Spanish soldiers, and when he went to
the door he was stabbed to the heart by
the officer in charge of them.
The house was then set on fire and the
poor girl, now a defenseless orphan, her
mother having died some years before.
and her only surviving brother beirg far
from home, fed to the nearest insurgent
camp, where she joined little corps of
army nurses.
While thus officiating as a ministering
angel, she came across a dying soldier.
who had a bullet in his breast, in the vi
entity Of his heart.
The girls beauty and gentleness so
touched the dying soldier that he cues
toned her somewhat about her life. and
learning that she had been brought I'D
in Pinar del Rio and knew almost every
foot of ground between there and Ha-
vana, he told her he was the bearer Of
important dispatches for General Maceo.
and he begged her to see that they were
delivered.
She promised to do so. and, by his d.
rection, thrust her hand inside the bosom
of his shirt and found the letters, which
were written on very soft, linen paper
The disposition which she made of them
shows her to be a very clever young
yvn TN1I
of handkerchief, she tied the handker-
chief around her head, as if she were suf-
fering from headache, and then, securing
horse, set out upon her journey to
Maceo, who was 100 miles away, and On
the other side of Weyler's famous trocha.
Her knowledge of the territory enabled
her-to pick out one of the weak points of
the trocha, which was in the midst of a
miasmatic swamp where the Spanish dare
not remain, even to do guard duty
At that point she crossed the trocha with
the greatest difficulty, the horse alter
nately foundering in the fever-breeding
swamp and stumbling into the bitches and
climbing over the logs that form the bar
rier Of the trocha.
Reaching the city of Palacios, she boldly
approached the Spanish sentinel at the
gate, after concealing her horse some
distance away, and. after stating to him
that she had walked long distance, form
the country and was suffering from hun
ger, she was allowed to enter the town
to beg.
Having secured some food she returned
to where she had left her horse, and,
mounting him once more, made a detour
of the city and kept on toward Havana
In the city of San Cristobel she was
able to secure food in the same manner
as at Palacios. She was three days reach
ing Maceo's army. from the day she first
set out, the journey being full of hard
ship and peril, as much of it was through
a wild and mountainous country.
When she reached Maceo's camp the
challenged by the sentry, she told her
errand and was conducted to Maceo's
chief of staff, who relieved her of her
dispatches.
She heard later that two days after
she delivered her dispatches. Maceo took
his band of patriots to the west Of the
trocha and had a fight with the Spaniards
that resulted disastriously for the latter
When Rosa found MaceO's men they
were encamped not many miles from Ha-
vana, the girl set out 20 walk to the cap
ital, and by good fortune fell in with
woman having wagonload of vegetables,
which she was going to Havana TO sell.
The woman took Rosa along as her
daughter, and thus she passed the guards
at the oity's gate, with 10 trouble al all.
After she had been in Havana a few
days, however. she became convinced that
she was suspected and was being shad-
owed, and she seized the first opportunity
TO escape TO this country.
She says thar az present she IS eRga ged
in nothing more serious than visiting diff
ferent American cities solely for sight
seeing, and as she IS chaperoned by
midIe-aEed woman. said to be a Mrs.
White OF Atlanta, Ca
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