Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-04-27
Demonstrated by Multiplication Of
Labor Strikes.
THE MORTGAGE EXTENSION
Decree Give. General Satisfaction Ia
Lucbs rfcbukcs Native Extremists
six NcIiow Fever Cases.

New York. April 25.-A dispatch to
the Tribune from Havana says.
Major Charles Fee. chief u stan to
the governor general and Senior Dos
vcrninc. secretary Of the treasury. In
the inaulnr cabinet. returned today
from Washington. and their appearances
at Ncdado was HlEnaiiScd by the pro-
mulgution OF the lonE.lookod FOR mort.
gage extension decree. The new order
II brief. simply announcing that two
years time from May let. will be grant.
ed for the payment OF mortgages on
realty now due or which may become
due within that period. General sat.
irfaction IN expressed nj the govern.
mcnta action In granting two more
years Of grace, though the land owners
were disposed to ask greater extern
sion and the radical scpartc politicians
are a little exercised over the idea that
the authorities at Washington should
give any legal or political guarantee
with two full years to run.
Governor General Brookc has not yet
received from the secretary of Iurtlce
the decree he ordered prepared. aboi.
ishinK the odioua legal customs OF In.
communicate. The decree when issued
VIII 40 further than the mere annui-
mont ~ this one conspicuous abuse In
the old Spanish criminal code. II will
eliminate many other seventies now
praciiced Ia the criminal ndminintfn.
tipn. and provide Tor the submission
~ open court Of all charges against a
prisoner
tn. multiplication OF labor strlk.a
I4fFtAmaNVaN... ~.
can IDEAS are taking In cuba. 4 week
or two axe the employees Of the United
railroad Of Havana struck for higher
WAGES. hut military exigencies soon
broke the tie up, In cicnfucros. the
ntoyadores pult work and secured
higher rate Of Wages.
~ all the piers except that used by
the quartormnrtor'H department In liza.
Nnnn, there have been half a dozen
minor labor disturbances which rocm
20 have eliminated In two ntrikea-one
BY the ionguhorcmen Mt the big Fan
Jose wharf and the other by the en-.
ployc. Of the Havana Watcrworkn com.
pnnN, In both eases the strikers are
holding out for material increase In
wages.
The cuban mail service IL also be.
coming highly Ameflcnnixed. Letter.
boxes OF the American model Htlli
fruHtrnte native efforts Go solve their
tH'CuAutAfut thn lettef cnfflofn are soon
To don uniform which will rival those
81 the customs house employees and Of
the municipal police. Early In May
another innovation " TO be trle,i-a
special mail car With all modern con.
vcnicnccs for collection and diatribu.
tion en- route. ~ present, the railway
mail clerk has TO do his work on tho
bench Of second clnHa car
la Lucia In Its spanish edition TO.
DAY, had n timely rcbukc for those ma.
tive extremists who arc now painting
the situation In unrelievcd black. No
other people, II says, have suffered a
transformation 10 absolute and com.
plctc ~ have the CubanH. with Tower
disngreeablc Incidents and fewer dis.
orders a country which. apart from
the capitals ana productive ccntcrH, has
since August last been left practically
10 itself, without any other protection
than It's Inhabitants could ifnpfoVlHn,
has given proof n Judgment and mod.
Grafton, since the political disorders
which have occurred are nothing
compared 90 what has happened In
other countries under analogous cir.
cumstanccH. The future Of cuba. Ia
f.uchA concludes. 90 far from being In.
secure and uncertain, appears both
hopeful ana fntcrin",
SiN eases OF yellow fever have come
10 light In the last ten days. but with
the continuance ~ cold dry weather,
no serious spread ~ the disease IL
anticipated, The death rate OF the
city continues unusually Hight.