The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-08-03

and ~ do not much ike all the Woou-
work il,SAle her. II she'll were to touch
'B Ut we hope,'' remarked the officers,
10 keep the Yankees at distance. Come
ana see our quick-fring guns.
fernandez del Campo spent upward OF
month between Cadiz, the dockyards
OF Carrara ana tile arsenal of San Fer
nando AT the latter place he went one
sunday to bull fight, when quarrel
LOOK place between soldiers and sailors
Inc army and the naval officers were in
Gnhed TO side with their own men, when
pernanuez del Campo. who had acqualpt-
ances Al Eoth services restored peace.
he was very nearly giving himself
away IN an Interview with Admiral
Aunon. VINO came down to Cadiz to see
| the squadron off. He confessed that he
was organizing corps of Mexican guer-
rillaS to harass the United States army
| in case ct war by flank movements. The
| Spanish Minister of Marine tried to get a
! further confession from his visitor, but
the latter, who felt he had already said
too much, would not be drawn. The best
things in the world pail by repetition.
Fernandez told his friends that he was
getting tired of Cadiz and wanted to re-
| turn to Mexico. "Do stop on few
days" pleaded the Spanish officers "To-
day is Friday, and the squadron-we may
| tell you in strict contidence-leaves next
thursday. uSTG WtbS, uOWGVCI, anOUu-
or reason for Fernandez's anxiety to de-
part. He had been rather extravaganza,
and found that he must retrench, his no.
| tel bill for a n Onth having come up to
| et00. However, he staid. In his last in
| terview with the Duke de Najera the lat
ter spoke of the iupudence of certain for
eign correspondents who had just come to
| Cadiz. Among them he mentioned the
names Of baron Won Perfall, correspond
emit of the Kolnische Zeitung; DIR. Oskar
Wolff of the Berliner Borsenblatt, and
the Daily News correspondent. He had
already sent DR.. Oskar Wolff an intima-
ton to leave Cadiz within twentyfour
hours, and was about to take the same
course with regard to the other two cor
respondents. "But you were just telling
me-" said Fernandez del Campo, "that
they have done little else but walk round
the town looking at thu sights and
changing impression" "My dear sir, :"
replied the Duke, s'you cannot be too eau
| tious. Surely if these correspondents are
| spies they will not tell us so. You have
no idea Of the ruses Yankees will resort
to in order to get information.
| Fernandez stayed in Cadiz for day or
| two after the departure of Admiral Ca
mara's squadron. He witnessed this
event on board one of the Admiralty
launches. "We keep on the other side Of
the bay" remarked one of the officers,
| because those channels you ZEE on our
port beam (pointing in several direotions)
are defended with torpedoes in case the
Americans come to Cadiz." One MORN
| ing three Spanish gentlemen were walk.
| ing up and down in front of the Hotel de
Paris as if they were waiting for some
body. From beneath movable shutter
Fernandez popped out his head, but With
drew it almost immediately. The three
gentlemen waited for an hour, and then
| for a second hour. The bells of all the
churches of Cadis rang for 70 o'clock.
The three gentlemen entered the hotel
ana said they wanted to see Senior Fer
nandez del Campo. "You should have
called an hour ago. said the waiter, t'he
is not here" 'sWhen is he coming back?
We have orders to arrest him. - He sent
all his luggage early this morning on
board the Tangier steamer, and after pay
ing his bill he walked out alone by the
back door. The steamer left her moorings
half an hour ago."
RECOGNIZED AT TANGIER.
was at Tangier week Or SO ago.
Shortly after arriving in Tangier I went
up to the terrace of my hotel. In front
of me man was looking through tele-
scope, examining the Spanish coast,
which that day could be seen distinctly
from Gibraltar to San Fernando, near
Cadiz. He turned round and recog-
nized the distinguished Mexican "Hal-
loa, Fernandez, what are you doing Eeref
suppose you are back to Cadiz by next
steamer" 81 am not going back to Ca
dr." "What is the matter? You speak
good English now, and you have caught
an American accent" 81 am an Ameri-
oan.'' ~ do not mean Americana. /"
Exactly. I am United States citizen,
an American officer. graduated at West
Point, and I hold United States COM
mission as captain OF the Second Texas
Rangers I was dumfounded. All this
was said in faultless English, with
genuine American accent about which
there could be nc mistake. As soon as I
was able to speak asked: e"Well, your
name is not Fercandez?" Eyes it is. I
am from an old Texan family. My peo-
pie have ranch near Brownsville, and
der, near Matamoros. So I speak Spanish
like my mother tongue. In fact my
family, If you trace it far back enough
is Of Mexican descent. But with a
wink I'm a good American. I have
been acting at Cadiz as confidential agent
of the United States government for six
weeks. CT have greened all the Spaniards.''
Fernandez then told me his whole story,
several points of which were afterward
confirmed BY q gentleman whom met at
Gibraltar t'What about your story of
the Mexican guerrillas you told Admiral
Aunon about?'' "It was Id lie. I
was compelled the last few days at Cadiz
to talk rather tall. played the game for
six weeks. But at length 1 felt that sumo
people were becoming suspicious, so 1
made everything ready to scuttle. What
ANNOYED me most WAS my American pass.
port. 1 required it for Gibraltar and
Tangier, and yet was anxious that in
1 hid it," Mr.. Fernandez told me the
hiding place, but as my business is not
to give information to the police need
not mention it. 1t was a most ingeni-
GUS manner of concealment. II really
did not need" he went on, "to see the
Minister of Marine, as he could really tell
me nothing did not know already. Ad-
miral Aunon said to me that the Spanish
fleet was in the highest state of efficiency.
| You unmitigated fool, l thought to my
self, you are trying to hoax man vino
knows just as well as yourself what to
think of the Spanish feet. am taking
the next steamer to England, and then
home. I have done good piece of bust
ness for nv country / sent information