The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-27
LOOK FOR.
FIGHT.
The Venezuelan
Middle Coming
To a Head.
| JUNGLE SAM READY
TO TAKE A HAND
Attempt to Dispossess American
Pitch Company Holly
Resisted.

u of the Associated Press has just |
rsturned from a ten Gays stay in Cara
cas Veneznela where he went to lnVeS-
,,..+e the Venezuelan situation. The out !
look as one sees it at the Venezuelan
capital. is not good. There Is leeiiAe
of apprehension in the air. Inc Cas'io
government becomes more unpopular anu
hostility 70 it is talked rather freely anu
the substantial and solvent people oi 'iie
! community condemn the Government
attitude toward the New York and Der
imudese Asphalt Company. Inc Ne"
York and Bermudese Company, the cor
! RESPONDENT is informed, is quietly gain
ering a strong force of well-armeo anu
lwell-drilled men at the asphalt lake,
These men are under the command OF
Major Rafferty,, formerly OF the SEVEN
ity-first New York Regiment, brave a-u
efficient officer. They will resist all en-
croachmert whether made by the GOV-
ernment or evolutionary troops. me
limited States gunboat Scorpion has been
ordered to the pitch lake. with orders
not to allow the company to be dlspos-
sessed prior to the conclusion of the Ju-
ldjcial investigation or the case ~" p0
, ling made in Washington.
The Venezuelan Government is endeaV-
lorfng in every possible way to persuaue
the New York and BermudeSe Company
J Ito resort to the tribunals. The re1usai
, OF the company to adopt that course
based upon the knowledge that In VEN
ezuela the President or dictator changes
the Judges in night and imprisons
J them if they do not give the Judgments
they are hidden to give.
the correspondent talked with five
? Diplomats in Caracas. They all asserted
that the United States Government act
ed with great prudence and with a de-
gree of forbearance that almost ceased
to be virtue. They spoke highly OF
the skill and tact with which Minister
LOOMS had met a delicate and difficult
! situation.
/ The diplomatic side of this business is
most important and difficult. The Unit
ed States after receiving all the ofhcial
record and facts in the controversy be-
tween the Venezuelan government, de-
cided to make a thorough investigation
and sent for complete set of the laws
of Venezuela, some sixteen volumes
Pending the outcome of this inyestiga'
ition, they asked the Venezuelan Govern
ment as matter of courtesy between
friendly nations to kindly suspend the
operation of the decree dispossessing thu
New York and Bermudese Company un
til an investigation could be made. TINS
the Venezuelan Government declined Il
DO The request was repeated and again
refused 1t was then made third tim
h lin an emphatic manner by Ministe
}" Iooms: IN fact, it was put as Sor
of vigorous demand the third time, blu
the result was the same. Then pro
test was made and that was ignored b
r. the Castro Government, though 1t ha
ample power and authority to meet an
or all of these demands. If 1t saw fit.
The trouble over the asphalt Is onl
one of a. large number Of incidents !
ID which the Venezuelan Government ma
recently been guilty of grave offense
ha tat Three months
the consular agent Of the United State
at Barcelona was thrust into prise
without cause. The United States Coz
eminent demanded an apology, but he
on not yet received it. A year earlier II
same consul was arrested and threatent
. with torture if he did not pay lars
sum of money to local military official
- few months ago a German mercha1
at Barcelona was tortured by oficia
!; there for the purpose of extorting mo-
! ey from him. The German GovernmeI
! sent cruiser there at once and got So
isfaction and kept the vessel fol
months in Venezuelan waters.
The Italians have had men-of-war
/: Venezuelan waters most Of the time f
a year.
Guayara was attacked and his Ii
Threatened The United States Cover
: ment has never received satisfacto
Z reparation for that
UNJUSTLl IMPRISONED.
i? H. C. Bulls OF Asbury Park, N.
after having endured Imprisonment f
/ more than five months in Maracait
] Venezuela, has returned home to pre-
a claim for $4,000 damages through t
United States Government against t
South American republic.
{ Mr. Bulls was appointed mechanic
I and electrical engineer of the Maracai
I Electric Light Company two years al
: In a political uprising he was compel
! to climb telegraph pole and seek p
lection under an American flag, VIII
he tied to the pole.
4 The police last August found a quar-
ty of ammunition in the electric pls
with which Mr.. Bulls was connec
and he was arrested, charged, as he s.
lposed, with being in league with
revolutionists. He declared his in
Z leence, but repeated appeals to the Am
] lean consul were unanswered. The
thorities, thinking he had no frien
caused his removal to a military prs
where he was kept five months incomI
nicado. Mr.. Bulls struggled letter
the American Minister in Caracas,
twenty-four hours afterward the V
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