Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-26
VERY FAINT RAY OF HOPE,
It is that Spain viii Set Time to Settle Gu
ban Matters One Way or the Other.
EUROPEAN INTERFERENCE TALKED OF,


New York, March CA dispatch to
the Herald from Madrid says At
late hour your correspondent finds
that the Spanish reply to the United
states will not be anything like what
the sanguine optimists expected. and
the outlook consequently is decidedly
serious.
FAINT RAY OF HOPE.
4 special to the Herald from Wash
ington says the one ray of peace is
that Spain at the last moment may
offer II solution that Will prevent war.
This proposition which may be sub
mtted. is that Spain will agree to set
Il definite near date before which she
is to pucify the island by form Of
autonomy or, failing, will withdraw
her ships and troops and acknowledge
the independence of the island.
SPAIN HOPES FOR EUROPEAN
INTERFERENCE
European interference between Spain
and the United States is a growing
delusion OF the Spanish classes in
cuba, says the Havana correspondent
of the Tribune.
Apparently it is fostered from Ma
drid through government channels
The belief of these classes that the
nations Of Europe would side with
spain in case OF war has always pre-
vailed. 1t finds utterance in the many
pamphlets which have been published
since the beginning of the revolution
and the newspapers have encouraged
the idea. The way they put II was
that the United States was Responsible
Tor keeping the insurreCtlun awe DC
cause the tiliUustering was not stop
ped ana that Europe cannot interfere
IN this matter, but that the minute
hostilities arise. she would be arrayeu.
with the possible exception OF Great
Britain, against the United States.
AT u distance this feeling is haro
to understand. Nevertheless 1t is
widespread, not merely among the ls :
noranI populace, but with ohiclals ana
business men. The case Is one on
which the government can Always re-
IN when its own purposes call Tor Il
war sentiment, or for the strengthen
Ing of the popular belief that nothing
need be Yielded to the United states.
Al present this delusion is invoked to
ouiet the anxiety which is felt over the
report ON the Maine disaster.
MASSES IN CUBA BELIEVE 1T
WAS FOUL PLAY.
The masses of the Spaniards nave
an understanding that the American
court of inquiry will report against
the theory OF accident. They have
their own reasons for thinking that
the Maine was blown up through foul
play, and the attempt Of the spanish
board to make out an accident Will not
receive their confidence. Ihey are
somewhat concerned over the outcome
of the American findings. 1t Is here
that the Spanish government seeks
to reassure them with the promise
that Europe Is back of Spain. They
have already been prepared with the
knowledge that the Sagasta ministry
will seek to arbitratc the question OF
fact and they are duped with the be-
lief that II that is rejected the coun-
tries Of the continent will uphold
Spain forcibly in resisting the de-
mands of the United States when it
becomes positively known that the ad-
ministratiun at Washington will treat
the Incident as its own affair.
There is possibility that the delusion
of European aid will impel the ultra
Spanish classes to acts which will pre-
clpitate "A collision with the United
States. Either this will happen or the
confidence in Spain securing the sup
port of other countries will be shat
tered forever and the settlement of the
cuban question will become much
more simple.
NAVY UNDER WAR ORDERS.
Vallejo, Cal. March 26.-Rear Ad
mral Kirkland, commandant at Mare
Island, has received orders from the
secretary Of the navy to have the
cruiser Charleston ready for sea by
the first Of April. orders We're also
received to prepare the yorktown for
service with all possible speed and to
increase the force of men on the
cruiser Philadelphia to as great Il
number as could be employed
There are now nearly 2000 men at
work i'm the various departments, and
before the middle of next week ii Is
estimated that there win be $500.
Never in the history of the yard has
there been such crowd of men or
such busy times.
a rumur is current ON Mare Island
and in Vallejo that war had been de-
clnred ms far as orders to naval OIL
GERS were concerned. orders We're re-
coived to enlist 500 men. The orders
carry the instructions that only the
physical test was to be observed No
account was to be taken Of age
Admiral Kirkland states that the
Philadelphia cannot be prepared for
sea inside OF flfty days
NATIONAL GUARD CALLED ON.
Buffalo, n. Y, March 26.-I3rig. Gen.
Peter c. Doyle last night received the
following telegram:
Albany. n. Y. March 25.-Brig. Gen.
Peter G. Doyle, Fourth brigade, N. c.,
Buffalo, n. Y:
Hold your officers within call. None
should absent themselves without APP
prevail OF proper authority.
"(Signedl
&C. WHITNEY TILLINGHAST
"AdJutant General"
Immediately upon receiving this mes
sage Gen. Doyle notified the com
manders OF the seventh and Slxty-hfth
regiments in this city. the first separ-
ate company az Rochester. the second
at Auburn. the eighth at Rochester,