The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1900-05-24
THE AMOUNT IS KNOWN.
Defaicnfion In the Cuban Postal
Funds IL About fI25l looO-sev-
era1 Persons implicated.

nearly SS,UODOOD worth or StamI
have been printed there and sent fc
distribution to Cuban post Offices. ca
be regarded MS canard There
nothing here to show that anv sue
counterfeit stamps have been sent.
Is believed now that the whole stor
Is known and that the amount Of tn
defalcations will fall between 500. 90
and $125,OOO.
W. II. Reeves, deputy auditor OF tn
island, has made a confession an
gave up $4,000 which'was given to hir
by Nicely to perform certain service
the day he left. Gen. Wood and tn
post Office inspectors refuse TO dis
close the nature of the confession
barely admitting that one has beer
made, but those who know the situa
ton best say that the confession o
Reeves was the only link required il
the chain of evidence, although tn,
principal statements he has made vii
require investigation before they car
he acted upon, as it is generally be.
llcvcd that his accusation is OF such
startling character rs to render II I'M
wise 10 proceed before being abso-
lutcly sure of other evidence TO cor
roborate II.
Another charge against Nicely Is
that he has defraudcd the customs
out Of several thousand dollars
worth of duties by importing nomi-
nally for post usc large quantities OF
paper which was afterward sold to n
printing house in Havana.
The Cubans are now beginning to
talk n good deal regarding postal
matters. the main idea apparently be-
ing that the Americans, having found
so many Of their countrymcn impl-
,ated, will not proceed to extrcmities.
The Cuhans do not believe that Ncely
will be cxtraditcd With the confes.
'ions Of Reeves and Rich supplement-
ID by those Of the stamp clerks and
~ the statements of the Baracoa
postmaster. it is considered that the
vidence against Nicely is complete,
specially in view Of the assertion of
reeves that the stamps were not de-
troyed when they were supposed to
e. Packages which were apparently
lamps were destroyed. but It Is now
aid that these were so many bundles
+ paper bits.
The newspapers now begin TO ask
Or an investigation OF the engineer
,g department. They say that this
apartment has been more cxtrava-
antly conducted than the postal de-
artment.
Washington, May 19.-As there
,ems to be no law to extradite Nee I
,, the alleged embczzler OF the Gu
m postal funds, Chairman Ray, of
le judiciary committee, has intro /
lced in the house an amendment TO
ction 5,270. of the statutes, as fol-
ws:
provided, that whenever any for
gn country or territory or any part
ereof Is under the control or tenn
'rary government OF the United
ates, and the United States, by act
congress or through its military
'wer or otherwise, has established
authorized governmental control
er the same, in whole or in part,
y person who commits an offcnse
d fees TO the United States shall DC
rendered to the authorities of the
litcd States and returned and sur
ldercd to the authorities in control
such foreign country or territory !
: trial under the laws recognized
d in force in the place where such
me was committed"
With regard to the contention that
, enactment of law to cxtradtc
ely would be retroactive, Judge
y said:
AS I understand the law, it is
rely question OF procedure. Con-
'ss has the power to pass a law for =
extradition Of persons accused of !
me in Cuba since Spain surrcn- Y
ed sovereignty and the United I
tes assumed the governpent of the c
nd. Such law would not violate q
theory of ex-post facto laws. 1t s
uld not make q crime of anything G
an offense before the passage of "
law. 1t relates simply to proceed I
Ir. Terry, Of Arkansas, the ranking n
lority member of the Judiciary n
said the object Of the bill Il
to make 1t retroactive. II think s.
AN be made retroactive" said he. +,
violator of the law has no vested r.
1T as to the manner in which he e,
Il be caught. A law to extradite "
accused man, in my opinion. would Il
come under the inhibition against n
,ost facto laws" G
avana, May 1S.-E. p. Thompson. j.
suspended Havana postmaster
was arrested in connection with &c
postal frauds, succeeded in having n,
bail reduced from $4,000 to 81 900, NJ
ch was deposited in cash by the II
ish consul, Herr Culmet, a wealthy st
chant. ic
Refined Sugar Advanced. -
w York, May 22.-All grades OF ~, m