The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-03
CUBA TOOK THE
ISLE OF PINES
Under the Plat Amendment Un-
Gle Sam Was to Get 1t.
FUTURE BONE OF CONTENTION
DAUGHTER OF GERONIMO SAID
TO BE HANDSOME.
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w possessions which Spain turned
over to the United States when
she withdrew from the western
hemisphere is the tiny Isle of
Pines, which has suddenly be-
come a bone of contention between this
country and Cuba. At present it looks
very much as though the Americans on
tne island are in a Cuban jail. Eight
cuban soldiers and an alcalde, or
mayor, are in charge of affairs. 1t was
great surprise to the Americans when
tne CuDans- took charge of the island on
May "a The Plat amendment indi-
Gated clearly that the island was TO be
coded to the United States. General
Wood believed it was to be turned over
10 TINS government, and the Catholic
church transferred the island from the
Dlshop OF Havana to the bishop of
Florida
The alcalde who is in the island has
out little power. He is a sort of police
otiicer without any judicial authority.
The inhabitants are under the jurisdic-
ton of courts in Cuba, and it is I'M
satisfactory TO have justice so far
away. The treaty Of Paris provided
specifically that Spain was to transfer
to the United States all her islands in
the West Indies, and there can be no
doubt about the intention of the Plat
amendment to vest the title of the
island in this government. It stated:
'Tpe Isle of Pines shall be excluded
from the constitutional boundaries of
Cuba and its title will be settled by
treaty hereafter"
Just now the United States govern
ment has no representative in the
island. Two hundred Americans, most
or whom are voters, are there, and 200
more American heads of families have
holdings there, and expect to remove
to the island in a short time to engage
In the growing of early vegetables and
fruits. The representatives of several
large land companies are urging an
early settlement of the disputed terri
tory before the department of state.
In America we write it, Not worth q
DAMN but around Shanghai, China,
where the phrase originated, it is
spelled DAM" and does not lapse into
profanity. In that part of the world,
for the purposes of trade, are many
small coins. The smallest and one of
least value is the dam. 1t takes a
wheelbarroWful of them to buy a
cigar, and is undoubtedly the smallest |
coin in the world. Europeans over
there, when they want to describe |
something less than worthless say mot |
worth a dam" The coin itself is a |
copper alloy and the size of our 81 |
gold piece.
Explanation Is Simple.
What has become of the Martinique |
money! is the question which tickled !
the curiosity of the scandal lovers of |
Paris and Washington a short while /
ago. The executive committee appoint |
ed by the French government to dis |
tribute aid to the Martiniquers pub
1shed its financial report, but made no |
mention Of the $500, 600 said to have been |
donated by the United States. Forth |
with everybody wanted to know where !
the money had gone, whether to Mar I
Unique or TO Paris.
And the explanation is all so very |
simple. The executive committee afore- /
said had nothing 20 do with the Amer /
lcan fund. That went direct to the i
sufferers. To begin with, the amount |
appropriated by congress was $500. 900, 4
Instead of 100000. Of this amount /
fully $4,000 yet remains subject to the /
order of the president, who will prob
ably feel at liberty to use it for relief |
measures, should any similar disaster
occur at a time when congress is not |
IN session to enact a relief measure.
As soon as the extent of the dis
aster became known in this country
congress began the consideration of a I
relief measure The house passed a
bill appropriating 100000 to be spent
Ey the president for food, clothing
and rnedicul supplies for the suffer-
ers.
President Roosevelt sent a message
to congress the following day urging
the appropriation of a large sum to
extend relief. The senate Immediately
ADDED 100000 to the house bill, MAX
ing the proposed approximation $500
900. This was referred back to the
house committee on appropriations. Of !
which Representative Cannon is the
head, but before it was acted upon, re-
ports from Martinique showed that |
100000 would be enough to alleviate
the suffering of the survivors, Con-
sequently the S500,000 appropriation was
never authorized. the smaller sum be-
ing provided.
Geronimo's Daughter.
A large photograph of Lenna Geroni-
mo was received in Washington the
other day and IS now mounted on the
iesk of Colonel J. r. Doertsch the
thief of the division of education of
he bureau of Indian affairs, to whom I
was presented by Superintendent
carroll of the Mescalero school, where
he girl is being educated. The once
ierce Apache chief dotes on his daueh-
ier much after the fashion of the white
nan.
She is 13 years old, and the photo
sraph indicates that she has the blood |
# the old leader of the red men run
ling quick and fierce in her veins Her
ace and her dignified pose point 10
superior breed. Her hair is trained !
With an effect that would do credit
the most precise society woman.
Though an Indian, she would pass as
handsome girl.
Old Geronimo is now a prisoner of !
var at the Fort Sill abandoned mill
airy reservation, Oklahoma There. with
few Of his fellows, he has been a
iominal prisoner for many years. Some
II his band We're sent to Carlisle and
'ther Indian schools. It will ne re-
rendered that the .old chief and his
land were captured over a score CT
fears ago by General Miles, after they
1ad led General Crook a merry chase.
ind bloody one, OF several years.
through the maintains of the south
vest. Even within the past decade
here have been occasional rumors that
Geronimo had broken away and was
'aising another war party. such was
he memory Of the man.
STRIKE SETTLED.
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