The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1899-05-13
The Military Governor of the New
Department of Matanzas Dane
ing His Way to Favor.
H0WTOBACCO BUYERS BEAR The MARKET
Rural Police Unnecessary-Faint-
Hearted Bandits Government
Funds to be Banked-Banks Care-
full Of Loans-An Injustice De-
nounced-A Big Land Purchase.

every alcalde, Judge, priest, school
teacher, banker and important planter
in the localities he has visited. He now
intends to go on horseback to many of
the communities off the railway lines.
His experience has been to hold re-
ceptions for the purpose of his inves-
legations until ten or IL o'clock every
night, and then to dance until IL or
one. Everywhere he has been the re-
cirient of complimentary attentions.
Half a dozen balls have been given in
his honor, and the people of the prov
ince have evidently been greatly
pleased at his appearance among them
in this way.
A New Way to Bear the Musket.
At several points where he received
reports of ~brigandage he made it a
POINT to investigate these personally
or through members of his staff. While
he was near Calabasa he was told THAI
siy bandits had attacked the Los An.
geles estate and been driven off by the
police after a sharp interchange of
shots. He sent Col. Reber and the
Cuban general, Jesus Montegeaduo, to
make inquiry. They found that there
had been no bandits near the estate
and the only basis for the story vas
that Mr.. McCullagh, owner of the
UniGos estate, had seen flashes a
squad firing in the direction of Los
Angeles. The theory is that some
Spanish tobacco buyers had arranged
to have shots fired to give color to
rumOrs of the presence of bandits.
Sensational Stories Exploded.
Gen.. Wilson was told that two bodies
Of men evidently murdered, had been
found at one point, but it turned out
that the find was a single skeleton
with the skull marked by Il machete,
obviously a relic of the Spanish
regime. Nor was there any better
foundation for the stories of disorder
which had come to his ears before
he started on the tour of investigation.
Indeed, he found the province of Santa
Cara absolutely tranquil.
No Necessity for Rural Police.
Yesterday Gen. Wilson came to Ia
vana and conferred with Gov.-Gen.
Brooke, representing that there was
no necessity for rural police i'll the
rev department, and that it would be
a useless expense to arm 500 men in
each of the provinces merely to catch
a few chicken thieves. He said he de-
sired to use the appropriated 100000 a
month in other ways. Gen. Brooke
adopted his conclusion and the rural
guards in Santa Clara will be disbaEd-
ed. Gen. Montegeaduo, their COM
mander, will aid Gen. Wilson in every
way to keep the province quiet.
bandits appear and Retreat.
Tie local papers report that 20 ban
dts made theirappearance on the plan
tation of Co%nstancia, led by Il mulat-
to named M~urcOa, 4 former captain OF
euerillas. Warned by the alarm given
by the sentry. who called for help,
they reiterated, closely followed by the
Cuban troops under Gen. Ezpuerra.
Dispatches from Puerto Principe
ray that five mounted negroes made an
upcl "a AOl "iAN ~ tto
Tuig. and carried off $500.
The Care of Government Funds.
President Mckinley, through Adiu-
tant Corbin, has instructed Gov.-Gen.
Erooke to make the North American
Trust Co. here the depository of all the
government funds in the island, and
consequently the money nov in the
strong room of the customhouse viii
be moved to the bank. Yesterday af-
%ternoon 100000 was deposited, and to
day 81. $780, 900 will be transferred.
Denounced AZ Unjust.
a prominent Havana banker called
upon Gen. Brooke yesterday to report
thai the owners of coasting vessels
WHO have been asking recognition and
the right to vis~itforeign ports are will
ing to use the United States flag. The
Av:sador Commercial says the Ameri-
cans are reserving this privilege to
themselves exclusively. La Lucha, in
a long editorial or the subject, says:
whether intentional or otherwise
a more manifestly unjust arrange
ment could not be conceived. 1t should
be changed Immediately"
Big Land Purchase.
According to Il special from Puerto
Principe city, an American syndicate
las secured the electric lighting fran.
chise there for $4,000, and another
syndicate has purchased 50 cabal
lerias "a caballerias is about SO Il
acres of land) for 100000, and will
construct a sugar factory.
Proves to be An All Around Rogue
Boston, May "a man arrested las;
week on n charge of stealing S35 from
Police Capt. Warren's pocket in a par
lor car on the Boston & Albany rail.
road, was identified yesterday by
means of pictures and certified records
from New York and Chicago, as Ed
ward Harvey, alias Albert Ohileo, ALA,
Simpson. He was convicted of grant
larceny at Elmira, n. Y, in 1851, ant
with stealing a tray of diamonds in tn,
same city two years ago.
In Chicago he has been convicted oI
oharpes of pickinp pockets. /