The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-22
URIBE IS NOT DEAD
COLOMBIAN REVOLUTIONARY LEAD
ER Is STILL IN THE FIGHT.
Cables for More Arms and Asks for
Cartridges 20 Fit RapidsFire Guns
Captured at san Cristobal.
INSURRECTION is SERIOUS
so ADMITTED BY THE COLOMBIAN
LEGATIONS SECRETARY.
Little Danger of Ecuador Joining
Forces with Venezuela and Maxi
ing War on Colombia.
LATEST FROM CONSUL GUDGER
HE SAYS THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE
CHANGE on THE IsTHMUs.
RevoIutionists still Near the Railway
-Gunboat La Popo Sunk and
Lives Possibly Lost.
Little Danger of Ecuador Joining
Force. with Venezuela and Maxi
ing War on Colombia.
LATEST FROM CONSUL GUDGER
HE SAYS THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE
CHANGE on THE IsTHMUs.
RevoIutionists stilI Near the Railway
-Gunboat La Popo Sunk and
Lives Possibly Lost.

NEW YORK. Aug. 21.-Dr. A. j. Restre-
po. diplomatic agent here for the Colombian
revolutionists, the Tribune will say to-mor-
row. received. a long cable dispatch to-day
from General Rafael Uribe-Uribe. The gen.
eral asks that more arms be shipped 10 him
at once for his army. and asks also for
cartridges for the rapid-fire guns captured
from the government forces at San Cristo-
bal. General Tribe adds i'm his message:
Enemy retreating into interior. Will pur-
sue. Have not time to write letters now.
Too busy fighting. Clericals severely
beaten in both battles"
The dispatch was sent from San Cristobal
by way of Maracabo DIR. Restrepo said
that he would Immediately ship 500 rifles
and quantity of ammunition for the cap
tured artillery to General Tribe. He would
not say whether the shipment would be
from New York.
Senior Thomas Herran. secretary of Co.
lombia's legation at Washington. who is
now in the city. admitted that the revolu-
tion in Colombia is becoming serious. He
has received a number of letters from vari-
Gus parts of his country telling of the situa-
ton in several of the states. 1t is the army
of General Marin which is causing the CO.
apparently This force which is operating
i'm the department of Totima. consists OF
about $500 men.
Senior Herran said Of General Marin: 1T
does seem though matters were getting
serious. General Marin is said TO have
quite a command. The guerrilla bands
have probably united and now form the
semblance of an army. outwardly. at least.
Colombia enjoys peaceful official relations
with her neighbors The report that Co.
lombia helped the attacks on the Venezue-
Ian border is ridiculous. Venezuela has q
frontier of nearly 1,COO miles, and IL is an
utter impossibility for government to
guard this TO prevent filibustering AS for
Ecuador, Senor Emiliano Isaza. Colombian
minister at Quito, writes me that he has
been very well received by the Ecuadorean
government. IL is true that most of the
trouble in the department of Panama has
come from bands of guerrillas who have
come from Nicaragua. But there does not
seem to be a likelihood OF a war.
In one of the letters received by Senior
Herran was the story of an invasion from
Ecuador into Colombia. The hlibusters
raided Tumaco in the south of Cuaca, but
General Palacios, with a government force,
defeated them, took many prisoners and
a quantity of supplies. The captured
rebels are confined on the gunboat Gaitan.
Senor Herran said that the Colombian gov
ernment mad no dennlte knOWledge tnat
this invasion was aided by the Ecusdorean
government, but the impression was that
the raiders had its help. The other incur
sions that were feared had not yet taken
place he said
Further information as 10 the move
ments of the Colombian revolutionsts is as
follows: A report has been received that
Colonel Andreas Marquee, with a flibuster-
ing expedition from Trinidad. reached
Boyaca by way of the River Orinoco,
Meta and Aranco, landing 5000 rifles and
half a million cartridges. General Vargas
Santo one of the commanders of the rebel
army, is now at Curacao directing the re-
organization of the rebellion. Despite his
seventy-five years he Will soon return 10
Colombia and fight.
According 10 further information. General
Carlos Alban. Governor of Panama. and
General Joaquin Nelez, Governor of Bolivar,
have had bitter quarrel over the policy
10 be pursued against the insurrectionists.
As a result, II * said General Nelez. who
has been considered one OF the govern
ment's best generals. has resigned his post
General Alban has taken most OF the SOL
diers from Cartagena and sent them 10
Panama. leaving the former port poorly
protected.