The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-18

Mutations of our country before the
United States
Write on your flag. the flag OF
Spain, Defense of national honor. and
/ offer you my name as your candi-
date
After having commended during
two years 100000 Spanish heroes in
Cuba with a high title, 1 shall be more
proud of that of deputy from Havana
at the cortes of Spain.
by the way, have read these days
that the Americans are bordering
about sending one of their warships to
that city. During my command in
Cuba they did not even dare to dream
about it. They knew the terrible
punishment that awaited them.
Il had Havana harbor well prepared
for such an emergency. / rapidly
finished the work that Martinez
Campos carelessly abandoned.
IF the insult is made 1 hope that
there win be a Spanish hand to punish
il as terribly as it deserves.
''ValerinO is in better health than
his friends could have expected, and
Notwithstanding. how morally sick
feel, breathing this humiliating atmos-
phere. 1 am physically we'll Your
affectionate friend and servant.
(Signed) ''VALERINO WEYLER."
Madrid, Jan. s, 1898.
HE WAS SPOTTED.
Lame says that he read the letter
and pigeon-holed it. When the Maine
arrived he called at the office of the
Union Constitutional to see DiaZ. in an
effort to secure the original letter. Some
days after the Maine explosion Lame
met Diaz, who asked him if he re-
membered the letter and what it's con-
tents were about the American war
ship The American correspondent re-
piled that he did, and he believed that
some one had followed Weylers adj
vice. Lame says that he has since
found out that Diaz informed the chief
of police that he daine) had copy
of n letter written by Weyler which
might bring trouble to the Spanish gov
eminent especially as he was an
American newspaper correspondent who
was associated with Captain Sigsbee.
On March 4 Laine was arrested by
the chief of police of Havana His
friends were informed of his being i'm
priscned by a cabman who knew him.
According to Lame. Chief Paglieri said
to him: We'll, sir. we have you here
secured, and let me tell you that the
secret that 1 know you possess will
never be known through you by others,
as no one will ever know what becomes
of you
Lame replied: IF you think that you
can murder me, as were Asia and
Posas, the two young men who were
taken from here and killed at the Gerre,
you are mistaken
The colonel replied in a clear. but
stern voice: mo, sir, L am not mis-
taken"
You may not be mistaken said Lame.
'but l can tell you that at this moment
the French. as well as the American con-
sui. has been notified that L am here
This changed the chiefs attitude some
what but he persisted in trying &c secure
information from Iaine.
What / want to know now, and hope
you will answer me. in consideration or
the good it may bring you. is what IN
forma ton you gave to Consul Lee on the
2lst of February about your suspicious or
a plot suggested by the letter and the
placing of dynamite mines in the harbor.
with which fact you said you became &C
quainted during the period of your In
generation in the time of Weyler?
This was really surprise to me,
ence to the incident of the letter 10 Cen
eral Lee and had also spoken about what
l had seen during my Imprisonment IN
the CabanaS fortress. which lasted Tor
more than a year, during the most bloody
period of the reign of Wayler-
II had noticed for several nights mys-
the fortress. On inquiring from a soldier
whom l knew. what 1t was, ne informed
me that they were carrying from the
magazine of the fortress large quantities
of dynamite, which were being laid in the
harbor.
my investigation during my period of
Imprisonment was carried as far as poll
teal prisoners could do in Spanish for
tress. but il was sufficient for me to as
certain with certainty that the quantity
of dynamite placed in the harbor in diff
ferent places was two tons, and that the
wires os the mines were connected with
the Cabanas fortress and the Capitaia
Puerto, or a marine headquarters.