The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-10-28
.BLANC0 MUST GET GUT
M'KINLEY SETS A DATE FOR
EVACUATION.
No Delay will Be Tolerated by the
United States--December 81 is
the Time Limit Set BY the Presi-
dent.

the Time Limit Set BY the Presi-
dent.
Washington, D. c., Sept. 27.-The in.
structions sent the American evacuation
Commission at Havana Friday, prac-
tically amounting to an ultimatum t.
General Blanco, insist hat the evacu
alton of the island by the Spaniarie
begin not later than October Is and
that it be complete by December 81
next. What the result of this demand
will be is not yet known, but it is saiu
that the administration is determined
to tolerate no dilatory tactics on the
part of the Spanish forces in leaving
the island, although disposed to PERM;
reasonable indulgence.
The officials here are watching with
interest the progress being made by the
military commission at Havana. The
commission has been slow in making
reports to the war department, but
from the latest received it appears that
the body would like to AVE more deli
mite Instructions as to procedure.
1t seems that the Spanish sid has
said that they could not begin the
evacuation Of the island until the first
Of November, and that it could not be
completed before the 2Sth of February
next.
In view of the alarming state of the
Cubans, who are suffering from hunger.
q md tho rohi1ifHr in thu o1o~ ,,1oN
tain conditions for obtaining relief, Pres
idet Mckinley sent the instructions re-
ferred to in the foregoing.
Notice has also been taken of the ex-
pressed purpose of the Spanish Captain
General to remove from the island the
remains of Christopher Columbus, with
part of the surrounding monument If
a monument is not a permanent fix
ture, then it is hard to decide what is.
and it is possible that attention will be
called to the infraction of the terms of
the protocol, although this must be
done with haste, in order to succeed in
it's object, for the removal is aid to
fixed for next Tuesday.
PREPARATIONS IN HAVANA.
Havana, Sept. 2i.-General Maxine
Gomez some time since. arrived at the
camp of General Rojas in the Santa
Clara Province. General Gomez gives
emphatic denial to the published re-
ports that he has presented his resig-
nation a. commarder-in-chief of the
Cuban army. Brigadier General Jose
Luis Roban is encamped two and a half
miles from Sagua. The forces under
his command number LOO. Perfect or
der and discipline are maintained in
the camp, over which floats the Cuban
flag. The Red Cross society's banner
flies over the hospital. The main topics
of conversation in General Roban's
camp are the peace negotiations and
their effect upon the prosperity of the
island.
Yesterday evening the Spanish war
ship Marquee de la Ensenada arrived
from Caibarien, having in tow the
steamer Herman Cortez.
An American subject named Won Hol-
wenstein, who was sentenced by the
OpdI1SU SONS1 l11lS1 vi COIllpllClly III
the insurrection in Cuba, and who has
been confined seven months, has been
released by the order of Captain Gen
eral Blanco, n sailed today on the
steamer City of Washington for New
York. The American commissioner
paid his passage money.
General Blanco, under date Of Sept
%, issued a decree revoking certain
! plenipotentiary powers with which he
had invested the generals Of divisions
5 again assuming personally the direction
of all judicial affairs pertaining to the
military jurisdiction of the island.
{ The Colonial Cabinet met yesterda,
] evening to take the last decision in the
!, several matters which will be ,treatet
} by the peace commissioners at Paris
DR.. Congosto, the secretary Of the gen
eral government, assisted at the meet
ing. He will be the bearer Of the de
cisions of the local cabinet, and will
leave this afternoon on the City o
! Washington.
: Preparations have been completed TO,
the steamers of the Spanish Transit
lantic company to take the sick troop!
' and war equipment from Manzanillt
3 and Cienfuegos. This work will begin
at the end Of the present monitor tn,
Z beginning of October.
Cheyenne. Wyo., Sept. 27.-The north
bound Denver Pacific freight, drawn b,
|, engine 942, collided with light engin,