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FOR STRIKING A BOY.

Warrant Issued For the Arrest of
John Renshaw.
A warrant of arrest for assault and
battery was issued yesterday for John
Renshaw. who lives at III U street The
complaining witness is A. f. Judd, who
alleges that Renshaw struck his
(Judd's) son Robert and otherwise
abused him without propagation. Young
Judd says he was standing on the side
walk near Renshaw's. last Tuesday,
when Renshaw approached and de-
manded: Is your name Judd?" The
boy responded yes, and with that, he
says, Renshaw struck him.
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LARGE ROOMS on second floor well
furnished. $1.50 per week up 70 State.
ROOMS; RUNNING water. hot and
cold; use of parlor and piano; home COM
fort; $1.50 per week up. The Globe. 265
Main.
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DEWEY DAY.
Excursion to New York CITY

A special and select party will leave
for New York City Saturday and sun
day evenings via Rio Grande Western
Ry If you want a cool and delightful
ride and the best dining car service in
America, you viii travel via the Rio
Ticket Office. Dolly block corner. for
rates slessNMz car arrangement, etc.
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WANTED.

John harrington wants the public to
try his fine driving horses. The finest
drivers in the city. Stables, II and 10
West South Temple.
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A FEW of our many bargains for this
nice cozy house, 5 r. and 4x1O-rot

BEAUTIFUL 5-room cottage water in
house large lot. snap, $500; good 7-room
brick house. west side. close in, $1,000. For
bargains see us. Hoffman & Miller, SO w.
2nd So ST.
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m, No. 81 S. Twelfth East street, upright
piano. fine oak and leather upholstered
rockers, music rack, piano lamp, lot books.
velvet and brussels carpets library table,
square baseburner, steel range, refriger-
ator, extension and other tables, fine hair
mattresses, lot bedding. toilet sets. fine
lot china and glassware, silverware.
French clock, linoleum, floor rugs, por-
there's and poles, pictures and bric-a-brac,
folding screen, graniteWare,. tubs and
wringers. kitchen utensils, wheelbarrow,
garden tools. ETC., etc.
K. A. ANDREWS, Auctioneer.
Office SO Main street.
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DIED.

SANDER-In Salt Lake City. Sept. %. of
paralysis, Walter c. Sander, in the 66th
year of his age.
Funeral from the late residence, Capitol
hill, north of reservoir, Nineteenth ward.
Monday the 18th inst, at p. m. Friends
respectfully invited.
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Fall Opening.

of the finest tailoring establishment in
the city. A full line of exquisite ma
terials of the very latest importation
Your early inspection is invited.
JOS. BAUMGARTEN
122 Main street.
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PLUM BlNG AND HEA ING.

Geo. G. Doyle & Co.
PLUMBING. HEATING and iobbing.
I'll South State street. Phone 162
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Funeral of Walter Morris.

The funeral services of Walter, son
of Richard P. and Florence Morris, will
be held at the family residence, 205
North Seventh West, at o'clock p. m.
Sunday. Sept. q. Friends invited.
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WATCHES AND JEWELRY.

w. w. HALL, 259 South Main street.
expert watch-repairer; Utah souvenirs.
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COLLEGE NIGHT SCHOOL.

Sept. IS to May 10, Five Nights
Each Week, at p. m.
Penmanship, arithmetic. GRAZ,
bookkeeping, shorthand, algebra. rbet,
oric. drawing, etc. Tuition. SOC ner
year. single month, 81. Lateral,
Saints college. Templeton building.
]. H. PAUL. President
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School Of Embroidery.
LESSONS FREE All kinds OF stamp
ing done. Mrs. NJ. A Miles. 262 Main.
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YOU and your wife will be happier in
a nome of your own. 1t is as easy as to
pay rent, and the only way to save
money. Why pay rent when rent will
pay for a home?
$50 per rod near 18th East and 1st So.
Sla rods, corner, E. Sth South. ......$ 500
rods, Sth and K streets. ............. 800
2 rods. 10Th East near 1st South. GOO
5X10. NJ street. Observation-Disclosures. l. 400
40x15o,, near Knutsf9rd. 2OOO
AZ rods and Broom house, E End So. 1890
p. End South, Broom house, snap. LOGO
E.; side, Groom modern brick lot
212x10l fine fruit, only ............... ], $50
blocks r. of State. St, Groom
brick, east front, 212x10. $50
Bird South. 6 and 7th East, 7-room
modern brick, chandeliers, etc.. $500
Close in. S-room modern brick. 5000
An elegant two-story modern brick,
near Brigham, 8 rooms, large lot,
place well worth $4,000 our price
only ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3,UUO
We have ten more equally as good
at same price, five now being built.
"One of the finest, a beautiful
home Of s rooms, mod. brick, Magee
furnace, brick cellar, laundry, brick
barn. place well worth $1,000; can
We have seven others AZ 60, ms ,;ricc s'0V0
Special.-A new S-room modern
brick just completed. will sell at
less than cost of building, forced
An ai eieg pa1re R Hany on First ST. ''Oo
rooms. with furniture. only. $500
An elegant home on e. End South,
Groom modern brick. barn, fine
lawn, completely furnished. all for 5000
An ideal home on e. End South, 10
room mod brick Magee furnace,
$500 barn, corner lot, for. $500
Forced sale, modern Groom brick, lot
21sX20 rods. 6 blocks east. 4, 500
7x10 and 1ox1O corners, Brigham st.
McGurrin & Co., SO W. End South.
Real Estate Department.
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| ROOMS in Board of Trade and Den
halter Blocks.
Houston Real Estate Inv Co., IA Main
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HAVE YOUR WATCH REPAIRED al
Surbaugh's. 10 Mccormick block.
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WILL PAY highest price for cast-off
clothing. Call or address, Is East First So.
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$500 TO DENVER,

Colorado Springs or Pueblo and Re-
turn via Union Pacific Railroad.
On Sept 20 and "a the Union Pacific
announces the very low rate of SIS.
Salt Lake and Ogden to Denver, Colo
RADIO Springs or Pueblo and return.
Particulars at companys office, "Old
Stand POI Main street.
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THE NORMANDY, p East Third
South. managed by Mrs. NJ. e: Bour-
gard, has just been retitted for the COIL
est home boarding house in the city.
FURNISHED ROOM, nice location,
quiet house. Enquire 255 West 9Th South.
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LOST

DELIVERY book of Cable Piano Co.
Return and be rewarded.
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COMMENCING TUESDAY, SEPT. 18th.
at 3 o'clock p. M, L will sell, with
out any reserve. the entire stock of fine
Haviland china, crockery and glassware,
plated ware, fine jardinieres cutlery,
carving sets, lamps of all kinds, bric-a-
brac. etc, ETC., all comprising the stock
of NJ. ]. Alff, 140 So. Main st. The sale
will be continued from day to day until
closed out, and the goods will be sold in
lots to suit customers. e. NJ. ONION,
Auctioneer.
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BONES by car lot. Utah Junk company
6s65 East Eighth South. Salt Lake.
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BUILDING STONE.

Bubble or dimension at Kyune Gray-
stone company, Gunner block. TeIe-
phone 511.
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STOVE REPAIRS.
PLUMBING AND nm WORK

THE DAVID JAMES CO., plumbing an
cornlce work. NO. " Main street.
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Utah Commercial and Savings Bank.
General banking business; interest
paid on savings deposits. w. r Ar,,ot
strong, president; ]. L. Game. casbiar.
"a East First South street.
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method OF filing teeth is painless. l62
Ealn street 4Auerbach building.
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CASH REGISTERS.

>-~-O-O~~~-~-~-o--O~O-O~~~-
NATIONAL CASH REGISTERS Oscar
Groshell sole agent Utah, 221 Main. Ex-
pert cash register repairing.
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ON THURSDAY, Sept Is. at 1880 a.
M, No. 261 E. First South street folding
bed and mattress, rockers, lamps. extern
springs and mattresses, fine cook stove.
lot dishes and glassware, .Vapor bath. cost
IS; three heating stoves. lot kitchen uten-
silS, tools, wood, ETC., etc.
K. A. ANDREWS, Auctioneer.
Office. So Main street.
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Utah Steam Dyeing and Cleaning Co.,
81 Richards St. Hign-clasS work; mod
crate prices. Call and be convinced.
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ROW AT THE PALACE.
De Kreko Gets In Mixup With a
Guard.
BATTERED WITH A CANE
JUDGE CoLBoRN ACTS AS THE
PEACE-MAKER.

As Result he Was Placed Under
Arrest By Deputy Sheriff Dyer
Streets of Cairo People Threaten
Suit For Damages Unless Their
Demands Are Complied With
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Utah Coal.

Castle Gate and Winter Quarters
lump, nut and slack; anthracite ai
sizes. D. j. SHARP, Agt 81
rs South Main, Telephone No. 400
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EDUCATIONAL.
salt Lake Business college.

Salt Lake BusInesS CoIIege,
&c West Second South street, Salt Lake
City. The leading commercial school,
Fall term opens Sept. 5. 1899. Young peo-
pie OF both sexes thoroughly prepared for
good paying positions. Remember that
the famous Ellis Cabinet system of book
keeping is used in the Salt Lake Business
college. Private instruction for backward
students. Write today for Iull informa-
ton Box 761.
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PERSONAL.
OPTICIANS.

GERMAN OPTICAL INSTITUTE, 6s S.
Main. Latest and most approved method
in examining and correcting ali compt-
Gated cases OF eyesight, free of charge.
Removed to II E. 1st So. Lowest prices.
THE UTAH OPTICAL CO., under Walk
er Bros bank Examination by artificial
night free. satisfaction guaranteed.
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CLAIRvoYANTS

MRS. P. FONTYN. Clairvoyant ana
Trance Medium, 267 South West Temple.
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ON TUESDAY. Sept. IS at 1890 a. M.
niture, fine ladies' writing desk. plush
couch, child's folding beds, three brass
trimmed beds, springs and mattresses,
nne s1deboard, extension table and chairs
center and other tables. two chiffoniers.
refrigerator. 3-hole oil stove. carpets. art
square, two heating stoves. lot dishes
glass and silysrware. lot fruit jars, buggy
harness, good as new: garden hose and
tools, child's cribs, kitchen utensils. etc.,
ETC.. X. A ANDREWS. Auctioneer.
Office, So Main street.
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THE AvON-Neat, cool; special rooms
for transients. 1923 South West Temple.
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THE GLADSTONE, 119 Main, has been
refurnished and is under new manage
ment. Rooms, $3.50 up. Mrs. Bond. pro-
prietor.
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SCAVENGER.

SALT LAKE SCAVENGER co. Office
under Walker Bros bank. Telephone 27s
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STEAM HEATING.

e. G. HARRIS, with the David James
Co., steam and hot water heating, No. 81
Main street.
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NEWLY FURNISHED modern rooms
large and airy, in the Union block. 26l
South Main.
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

IF YOU are looking for a good money
making business, see me. j have the very
best proposition in the west today; a few
hundred dollars will handle it. Particu--
lars at Interview. Address Jones.
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Ladies, and Misses, Iacke+s.

The finest display in the city at z. c.
M. / Cloak department opening this
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LUMBER DEALER

PARKER LUMBER CO.. wholesale
dealers in Windows, Doors. Mouldings,
Building and Roofing Papers, Mill WORK
estimates given Send for our prices and
discounts. salt Lake City. Titan.
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DON'T LOSE, but buy certificate in
THE Investors Fund and draw a semi
monthly income. 1t is the only safe plan
ever offered for trading with moderate
capital in Stocks, Wheat or Cotton.
Write for particulars. sent free. C. E.
Mackey & Co.. 20 Broadway, New York.
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MEDICAL.
WARMING AND VENTILATlNG

P. ]. MORAN.-Steam and hot water
heating and ventilating apparatus, NO. ~
w est second South.
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AUCTION SALES.

FURNITURE. carpets. stoves. sewing
machines, piano, baby carriages and
whole household outfits on easy payments.
5000 on $1,000 $4,000 On $1,000. I. < L.
furniture Store, As e. End So. ST.. Tel.
AS. p. A. Sorensen, Prop.
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FURNITURE. CARPETS, stoves; high
est price paid. Nebraska Secondhand
Store. 216-2iS State.
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YOU and your wife will be happier in
a home of your own. 1t is as easy as to
pay rent. and the only way to save
money. Why pay rent when rent will
pay for q hnme2
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CLEANING AND DYEING.

UTAH CLEANERS and Dyers. First
class work promptly DONE Repairing. IA
East First South.
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FURNISHED ROOMS.

NICELY FURNISHED front room on
Main street, to couple ladies'; references.
Stein, with r. L. Tracy, 232 Main.
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WANTED.

SECONDHAND furniture and stoves
wanted. /. x. L.. As e. End So. St.
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ELECTRICAL

FOR GOOD, RELIABLE Electric Work
of an kinds, chandeliers, globes. shades.
and telephones, go to e. G: Holdings, -
West First South, next 10 Calders. Tele-
phone call zO3, rings.
THE SALT LAKE Electric Supply
company makes a speciality of electric
fixtures. fans and house wiring. We are
agents for the Dayton fan; they are the
best: will run longer than any fan on
the market. When you want anything
electrical call on US at 10 West First
South street.
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ELEGANT FURNISHED rooms with
board at New Normandy, 240 State street.
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SEE Houston's Sale Signs.
All parts of the city.
All kinds of property.
All prices. u
All bargains.
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UMBRELLA REPAIRS.

UMBRELLAS AND Parasols covered
and repaired. Mckenzie. us W. 1st Sou.
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reorganization Of the former six Spanish
civil departments. thus curtailed to four.
giving each of the secretaries present his
special instructions. The curtailment will
mean the discharge OF many civil employ
ees when the actual reorganization IS ef-
fected. These will be paid their salaries
from Jan. 1 until the date of their dis
charge
MURDERERS CAPTURED.
Major General J. II. Wilson. military
governor of the department OF Matanz3s.
telegraphed to Chief of Police Mario Me
nOcal today that two men had asSassi-
mated former major of Spanish gueril-
las after rObbing him. The. police chief.
Inspector Pareda and two Cuban majors
met the train from MatanzaS at Regla
station tonight and arrested Juan Godoy.
Ramon CabeH and Jose Perez on susDi-
ciOn of being connected with the crime.
Documents belonging TO the murdered
man were found upon them. together with
5000 in gold. They had deserted from
the Spanish Reina regiment
General Menocal and Superintendent
McCullagh are examining today 800 appH-
cants for positions on the police force
here. About eighty patrolmen have been
accepted SO far and OF this number thirty
men are SDaniards. Menocal is acting
fairly towards the Spanish candidates. If
ard. they are accepted. Some former
Spanish officers are among the applicants.
Two Eeutenants accepted appointments
as patrolmen on Saturday last The
out many applicants, including a lot of
MenocaTs men The force viii be Sc
lected in the main by the end of the
week
CLEANING THE CITY.
The colossal task of putting in sanitary
condition every dwelling in Havana be-
gan today. Surgeon Major Davis hired
lGO resident physicians for a house-to-
house inspection, to compel obedience to
the new regulations. All ceSspoOlS under
houses are to be closed and sealed Gar
bage is to be removed daily. 1t is ex-
pected that the city will be in a fairly
sanitary condition within three months
without underground sewerage. The old
residents regard the new health reguIa-
tionS as unnecessary and meddlesome and
even some well-tO-dO and Well-informed
persons when making their objections
describe themselves as healthy enough -
Today a thousand people are engaged in
the work of cleaning the streets and pub
lie buildings.
There are two more cases of smallpox
in the One Hundred and Sixty-first In
diana regiment. making five in ALL and
there is one case of suspected yellow fe-
Yer IN the First Texas regiment. The
man has been isolated. A favorite trick
or the soldiers when escaping from the
camp without leave is to hire Cuban uni
forms SO as to pass the Sentries. Some
times the. clothing has been exposed to
Nevertheless, there is so little sickness
among the United States troops that
twenty female nurses out of the original |
100 employed have been dismissed.
Senor Eduardo Zayas and his son, while |
lourneying from Las Tunas to Puerto
murdered by bandits.
The easement in the artillery Quartet i
chosen for Major General Ludlow's office. |
near the palace, proved SO foul that the
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FIGHT AGAINST QUAY
Pennsylvania Senatorial Contest
Will Open Up Today.
BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT
ANTI-QUAY FACTION HOLDS A
CAUCUS.
Fifty-two Republicans Have Pledged
Themselves Against the Boss,
Which Will Defeat Him-Senator
Martin Resigns the Office of Sec
retary of State-Quay's Claims.

Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 1.-THE battle
for United States senator viii open in
earnest tomorrow. with the taking of
the first ballot in the senate and house
The two houses will vote separately at
3 o'clock in the afternoon and in joint
assembly ON Wednesday.
The fight is between Senator Quay
backed by the 109 senators and MEM
bers who took part in the Republican
caucus; George A. jerks of Brookville,
the candidate of the Democratic eau
Gus, and a half dozen "favorite sons"
nominated by the anti-Quay Repub-
lican legislators. With the Democrats
and anti-Quayites voting for their can
didates, the indications are that there
viii be a deadlock.
State Chairman Elkin and Senator
Penrose are directing the Quay cam
paign from headquarters at the Lochiel
hotel. They said tonight there was no
doubt of the speedy reelection of the
senior senator. Neither side will give
any figures to show how they propose
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FREIGHT STRIKE AT PRICE.
Contractor Threatens to Put On
Teams Himself

L.
Price Utah. Jan. 16.-V. II. Pease rep
resenting w. E. Travis of Salt Lake. VINO
has the contract for the carrying of the
mail from here to Vernal and Fort Du-
chesne. also the hIuling Of the govern
meut freight TO White Rocks. Ouray and
Fort Duchesne- will be here tonight and,
unless the freighters who have been on
q strike for a week for a higher rate on
freight hauling, that is. from 50 cents to
S2 a hundred from here TO Fort Duchesne
resume work. he viii put on teams and
do the work himself. 1t is thought this
action on the part Of the original con-
tractor viii have the effect of breaking
the strike of the freighters who have
tied things up here for a week Not q
pound of stuff has been moved The
strike has been against \. Bartholomew,
the sub-cCnractOr. who also haulS the
Indian freight from here 10 the TWO Uln-
tah agencies. White Rocks and Ouray.
There is a shortage of OATS in eastern
Utah. and the feed TO supply the Ninth
cavalry at Fort DUcheSne is being sent
in here from Nebraska points. the con-
tract price being $1.50 per 100. The origin
al contracts were taken by the merchants
of Vernal who, on account of the short
age of the Oat crop. are buying in this
market, and are losing money Fifteen
thousand bushels were received here to-
day for the post.
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MONEY FOR cUBANs.
United States to Advance Funds to
Pay Insurgents.

New York. Jan. 16.-According to Briga-
der General Jose Miguel Gomez. mem
Der of the Cuban commission in WasnInS-
ton, the Cuban army is sure to receive the
three years pay to which il is entitled;
S40,0o0.000 being advanced by the United
States. with the custom house OF Cupd
as security for its repayment.
Brigadier General Gomez who has Iust
arrived in this city from Washington, IS
grateful for the way the commission has
been received. The negotiations. it Is eX.
pected, viii be completed by the end OF
this month. when the commission viii re-
turn to Cuba. General Gomez last night
said: Our hopes have all been reaiizec-
At first, however. things looked very
most pessimistiC member of the commits
sion. He had little hope for the success
of our plans when he left for Washington
Inc rest OF the commission argued, now
ever. that as the Americans had taken
charge OF Cuba and thus prevented US
from raising money, we mad right 70 re-
quest loan with which 10 pay on our
men.
General Garcia asked for only 500 for
each man. The other commissioners pro
tested because of the small amount. Inen
came the generals death. and for the
time being negotiations were suspended
AT our next meeting IL was agreed that
an official list of the men in the Cuban
army would be required before any agree
ment could be reached. Accordingly. L
left for Cuba. whence I returned on Jan.
with the required document.
There are 1900 men to be paid in the
Cuban army. The amount We have re-
quested is $4,000 coo, TO be turned over
to Us either in one or three payments. We
viii give as security the custom houses in
Cuba. Should the government not care to
lend us that sum. We are willing TO take
one-third of it and later pay the men the
rest.
AS affairs now stand, however. ! think
we viii receive the amount in three pay
ments. This. however. is not decided yet.
The late Mr.. Dingley was in favor of
giving us the amount in one payment"
Speaking of the present condition of