Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-20
THE REVOLUTION
IN NICARAGUA
WAS CAUSED BY THE ARBITRARY
ACTS OF PRESIDENT ZELAYA.

Chicago, Feb. 2O.-A special to the
Times Herald from Mobile says: The
fruit steamer Sunnva of the Bluefelds
Banana company. arrived from Blue
fields, Nicaragua, with the following ad-
vices up to Feb Is:
Gen. Mena has been for three days
above Rama with 700 insurgents. 1t is
reported that the liberals are coming un-
der IreOn Estrada. Formis Diaz, lib-
eral leader, and wounded and captured
with fifteen followers above Rama by an
insurgent force under the rough rider
scout, Sansen A battle is expected here
in few days. Gen. Reyes boats have re-
turned from Greytown to defend this
place. The manof-war San Jacinto is
also here. Three hundred Americans
from Cuba are due here to join the insur-
gent conservative forces. Mltrailleuse,
Gatling, krupp and Hotchkiss guns are
also expected here as additions to the in
Surgent arms.
Greytown was surrounded by the rough
riders when the gunboats left. A force
of liberals is due at the port Col. G. W..
Winchester, chief of police at Puerto
Barrios, has joined Reyes. Four hundred
men are awaiting Reyes arrival in
Granada to flock to his standard. The
conservatives are volunteers and engage
in their ordinary tasks during the day,
bugle call. If a choice We're given them
they would prefer Clarence, the exiled
cheftain, to President Zelaya, The for
egners here support the conservatives.
Order is generally prevalent. The Nor
wegian and British craft that were i'm
pressed by the insurgents to carry troops
have been released The Imperial Espin-
osa says the revolution will last only a
month.
i Among the passengers on board the
steamer Sunniva was Adam Espinosa OF
Bluefields, nephew of Gen. Guam P.
Reyes, the revolutionary leader. Senor
Espinosa states that his uncle, Gen
Reyes, had proclaimed himself provis-
ional president of Nicaragua, had armed
the Indians of the Mosquito coast and
with the aid Of Americans in the Blue
fields, has probably an army of 900 or L.
900 men, The government at Managua
EspinOsa learned, has sent 500 men to at
tack Reyes at Bluefields. The troops un-
der Reyes had gone up the river to Rama
20 miles from Bluefields to meet Zelaya's
force and it was probable that battle
had already been fought. SenOr E,spinosa
says the cause of the discomfort against
President Ielaya is widespread and well
grounded. His uncle had heretofore been
an intimate friend and supporter of Ze-
laya, but recently he had not been able
to approve nor support Zelaya's conduct
as president.
! In addition to levyirg the tariff taxes
on the eastern coast, Zelaya has caused
to be summoned the leading native capi-
talists of the country and declaring them
to be enemies of the republic had caused
them to be mulcted in fines, in most in
stances equivalent to their entire avail
able capital. If the departmental finan-
cial agent failed to collect the fine the un :
, fortunateS We're committed to the peni-
tentiary without trial or form of law
placed in chains and kept incommuni-
cado, in many cases denied food or wat
er, until the fine was paid, which, in all
cases purged the prisoners of their de-
clared treason. Espinost says these facts
have estranged the good people of the
republic from Zelaya and that Reyes con-
fidently looks forward for support from
them and for the active aid of the con-
servatve church party of the republic
Espinosa says he learned before leaving
Bluefields that the Honduras government
has dispatched men and arms from Tegu-
cigalpa to Zelaya's aid. The Honduran
allies We're said to be commanded by Gen
Surra, a general under Borilla