The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-02
NOT one 1OlK The SIS,
American Gold Did Not Tempt the
Cubans to Give Up Their Arms.
THE CUBAN OFFICERS SMILED,
The Scheme of Payment So Far ms
Havana I, Concerned r. Il Failure
Santa Clara Generals Surrender Their
Arms Eut Decline Uncle sam. bounty

HAVANA, May 2o.-Not n soldier has
ccive the SIS allotted each Cuban sol
der by the United States for the sur,
render of the arms and disarmament
Of the Cuban army
At three minutes of 20 this mora.
ing, the hour set to begin the payment
Of the troops. Major Francis S. Dodge
OF the p~aymastcr's department drove
up in a our mule vehicle with $50, Ooo
in gold and 5000 in silver. Six
guards accompanied him and details
Of men from the Eighth infantry were
under arms to preserve order among
the mobs which it was supposed would
gather. Colonel George NJ. Randall
Of the Eighth infantry was present as
commissioners OF the United States.
General Ruiz Riviera, who was in
Quoted into the Office of civil governor
of Havana to-day. was there to re-
ccivc the arms, with a representative
Of General Gomez. four or five Cuban
officers and fifteen reporters. Half a
dozen American clerks with the rolls
of the Cuban army sat at Il long table
at the headquarters of the Eighth reg
iment. a bag Of gold was displayed,
but there was no applicant for a share
of it.
The spectators spent the sine in
discussing why no Cubans appeared.
General Rivera said that though there
were 4,2l9 enrolled privates and ION
commissioned officers in the Fourth
corps, few of them lived in Havana.
He explained hat they were outside
the city and would probably appear
at other PAGES in the provinces aad
get their apportionment. Nearly all
the officers, he added, are in Havana.
The representative of General
Gomez, who has been acting with the
latter in the interviews with Governor
General Brooke. took a gloomy view
of the affair. He said the Americans
had made a mistaxe in stipulating
that the Cubans must give up their
arms, as this had caused a bad impress
sion among the Cubans.
Agroup of Cuban officers. who proved
TO be some of General Mayai Rodri-
guez's staff, had in the meanwhile as
scmblcd. They smiled ut each other,
twisted their mustaches and grew
confident as the quarter hours passed
and no soldiers appeared. Finally the
crowd jeered in "a quiet way at the
whole proceeding.
Towards IL o'clock an unarmcd col
ored man in a Cuban uniform came
across the dusty square, attended by
all the American spectators He was
shown to the paymaster, but turned
to be an assistant" or camp fol-
lower. The American military men
and as it was thought he
was not entitled to a share of the
50, 900, 900, and his name not being on
the rolls, he was dismissed. Major
Scott, General Ludlow's a%djutant, sent
word that a man named Harris, Il
Cuban American serving a sentence in
the p~cnitentiary, would be sent under
guard to get his S75, SO at least one
man was sure to take the gratuity.
About 400 men had been expected.
and possibly many of these will come
But the scheme Of payment,
ldT as IdVdud ID COIlCcIllcu, lOOkS
like a failure. Quite different results
are expected in the country districts,
the Cuban military assembly
and anti-Gomez infantry is not as
strong.
At noon General Riviera left, re-
marking that it was wasting his time
to stay there, and Major Dodge went
! - A. IJa4s1 ,H...l a. = ..-.
of the state of affairs.
SAGUA la GRANDE. Santa Clara,
Cuba, May 2n-The Cuban generals in
district met here yesterday,
~anti-Aomcz resolutions and
agreed to disband their commands and
to their arms to be surrendered
the alcaldcs, but to accept no
money for them.