The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-04
|STHMUS NOW INDEPENDENT
Republic Of Panama Proclaimed and Colombian
Government Generals Placed in Prison.

places at Panama tonight independence
was proclaimed. The Colombian army and
navy officials were made prisoners. A
government was to be organized. consist
ing of three consuls and a cabinet. 7. is
rumored at Panama that a similar upris-
ing was to take place at Colon
Later the following official statement was
made regarding the news from Panama
"A number of confused and conflicting
dispatches have been received from the
Isthmus indicating rather serious disturb
ances at both Panama and Colon. The
Navy Department has dispatched several
vessels to these ports with directions to do
everything possible to keep travel open and
maintain order along the line of the rail-
road
The sensational advices from the Isthmus
or Panama were not entirely unex
pected in view of other advices that
mad come to the department
very recently The reception of the news
caused a sudden outburst of activity at the
Navy Department. Shortly before 10 o'clock
Lieutenant Belknap. the cipher officer of
the Bureau of Navigation, came over from
the Navy Department to the White House
bringing the message quoted heretofore. He
tary Darling. There was a hurried confer
ence between the President and the two
secretaries. following which Lieutenant
Belknap returned TO the Navy Department
in great haste. A few minutes after the
conference Admiral Taylor, chief of the
Bureau OF Navigation, called and was i'm
medlately admitted tC the Cabinet room
where the President was. The action taken
was the result of this conference. Thus
far no information has come to the govern
ment indicating that our naval officers who
authority m hop
landed marines. The Nashville was Sc
cretly ordered to Colon a few days ago on
lnIormatlon that trouble was brewing.
The White House conference broke up
about ii O'Clock, but not much beyond the
official telegrams received and orders given
wcu,a tin es stated by those partieipating in it.
statement regarding the location of the
United States ships likely to be called upon
for isthmian service He said:
THE Atlanta is now at Jamaica. the
Dixie is supposed TO be in the vicinity of
Jamaica, the Nashville is at Colon. Adj
miral GLASS; squadron, comprising the Mar
pulco, and the Boston is a little further
down the coast at San Juan del Sur Mic
aragua: The movements of these vessels" /"
added Mr.. Darling will be directed by the
Navy Department pursuant to requests
from the State Department"
Secretary Hay took part in all the con-
ferences at the White House, but his pres
ence was not known until the gathering
broke up, as he entered by the private way
DR.. Tomas Herran, the Colombian charge
received his first information of the
run at Panama from the Associated Press.
He was much interested, but not surprised
as he has been aware for some time of the
desperate feeling of the people on the
isthmus and had gone so far to warn his
government that some such occurrence wa 8
likely to take place. DR.. Herran exnects
to get information from his government
very soon, as in his judgment the revolution
will not interrupt cable communication with
Bogota. According to his estimate there is
less than 1000 government troops in the
state of Panama at the present time Rut
according to his latest information there
are three Colombian government warships
on the Pacific side of the isthmus and three
or four on the Atlantic side. The govern
ment has $1,000 troops under arms in the
interior and on the western coast and these
can be moved by transports to Panama or
vicinity, but could not be sent overland
Dr. Herran does not expect any speedv
recognition by the United States of gov
ernment formed at Panama, but realizes
that this government will keep the transit
open on the railway and may find 1t neces-
sary in so doing TO support any government
In the city of Panama that is in control.
which would be greatly TO the adyanta pc
of the revolutionsts.
about 250.000 people and Ii is declared is
really the poorest portion of the republic of
Colombia. There has been some sympathy
with Panama and trend toward inde-
pendence of those states west of the noun
tains on the Pacific side and bordering on
the Caribbean sea on the Atlantic side.
These states are also interested I'm the con-
struction of the canal and the people of
Panama think the canal Is a life and dea IN
issue.
DIR. Herran attributes the uprising to the
intense desire the part of the people of
the sthmus for the construction of the
movement IS more serious than the at
tempted revolutions heretofore.