The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-12

clinging to her breast. On her left side
was the corpse of a dead woman, holding
her son in a dead embrace. a little fur
Their on a dying woman, having in her
| arms a daughter of fourteen, crazy with
pain, who. after twelve or eighteen days,
died, in spite of the care she received"
FATE OF HANDSOME GIRLS.
Further along, the communication says
that If any young girl came in who was
nice looking she was infallibly condemn
ed to the most abominable of traff1cs.
The communication says that LOO per-
sons had entered the Fosos since August
and Of those but 233 were then living. II
places the number of deaths among the
reconcentrados at Il per cent.
ANTI-AMERICAN PLOTS.
On December General Lee sent to the
state department communication refer
ring to a cipher dispatch he had sent two
| days previous. in which he informed the
| department that he had learned from the
| United States consul at Matanzas Of an
| extensive and dangerous conspiracy IN
! der the ex-governor of the province di-
! rected against Americans, action against
them to be contingent upon the move
ment of the United States in the indie
| pendence of Cuba. General Lee stated
that rumors had been more or less fire.
quent regarding the riotous condition of
the dissatisfied elements against Ameri-
can citizens, and in other parts of the
island. Such demonstrations, he said,
must come from Spanish non-combatant
or from volunteer forces. He did not
think there was any danger from the for
mer, many of whom seemed to favor an
independence of the Cuban republic
81 am inclined to think" says he. chat
If General Blanco can manage the vol
unteers. as yesterday he said he could,
the trouble from that source is dimin-
ishing. The origin of the mobs in this
city in the past has always been located
in the ranks of the volunteers, who alone
have organization and arms"
WANTED TWO WARsHIPs.
In consequence of the assurances that
American life and property would be
protected General Lee said that he had
declined to make application for the pres
ence of one or more warships in Havana
harbor and had advised Americans who
had wives and children not to send them
away, at least for the present
II still think" continued General Lee.
that two warships at least should be at
Key West prepared to move at short no.
tice, and that more of them should be at
Dry Tortugas and that a coaling station
should be established there Such pro-
ceedings would seem to be in line with
that prudence and foresight necessary to
afford safety to Americans residing On
the island and to their property
A SPANIARD UNDBCEIVED.
Under the same date General Lee sends
another communication containing the
statements of Senior Canalejas the editor
Of the Madrid FL Heraldo, who had just
ruturned from Pinar del Rio province af-
ter the conflict between the Spanish
forces under General Velasco and the
Cuban forces under Diaz, in which Can
alejas was quoted as saying that the
Spanish forces had displayed their usual
valor but that the province was not paci-
fed; that out of 1900 Spanish troops
only between 5000 and 1000 were able To
operate, the balance being sick at hos
pitfalls, or in garrisons and towns that
he believed autonomy prema ture and was
inclined to the adoption of energetic mill
tary action for the purpose of pacifying
the province; that the truth should be
known in Spain, where public opinion and
the press had been deceived regarding
the humiliation of the war and the So
called pacifcation of the western prov
inces.
SPANISH RELIEF A MOCKERY.
Under December I, General Lee sent a
communication to the department. re-
garding the measures for the relief of the |
much of which is not /
made public.
In the portion given out General Lee
says:
81 see no effect of the governmental |
to the reconcentrados. 7 am /
informed that only sl2.5oO in Spanish sill /
yer has been dedicated to Havana prov /
ince out of the 100000 said to have been
set aside for the purpose of relieving |
the island and that reports from all parts |
Of the province show that 50 per cent |
have already died and that many of
those left will die. and most of these are
women and children.
81 am informed that an order has been
issued in some parts Of the island sus-
pending the distribution to reconcen-
trados.
THE condition of these people is sim
ply terrible. I hear of much suffering in
the Spanish hospitals for want of food
81 hear also that the Spanish mer-
chants in some parts of the island are
placing their establishments in the names
IF foreigners, to avoid having their pro-
visions purchased on credit by the mill
airy administration. In some parts Of
he island I am told there is scarcely anv
God for soldiers and citizens and that
wen cats are used for food purposes.
selling foS thirty cents apiece. 1t is
air inference to draw from existing con-
litions that it is not possible for the
governor general to relieve the present
situation with the means at his disposal.
December 13 came the following:
AUTONOMY FoREDOOMED
"Sir-I have the honor to make the
report:
The contest for and against autonomy
; most unequal. For it th.sre are five or
tx Of the head officers at the palace and
wenty or thirty persons here In the city
Against it are first. the insurgents.
With or without arms. and the Cuban
on-comhatants; second, the great mass
4 tho Spaniards, bearing or non-bsartng
Trns-the latter desiring. if there must
= a change. annexation to the United I
states
Indeed. there Is the greatest apathy