Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-20
TO FIX BOUNDARY LINE,
Panama Learns Of This Desire o,
Costa RIGA.

Ancon, Panama, July 19-The gov
eminent OF President Amador has re-
ceiVed unofficial intimation OF the de-
sire Of the Republic Of Costa Rica 10
bring the long-pending boundary dis
pute-which. by arbitration of Presi-
dent Loubet of France, has Just been
decided in favor Of Colombia, or, rather
In favor OF the Department" OF Pam
anna, as against the pretensions of the
San Jose government to territorial :
power over Bocas del Zorro and a large
part of the Chiriqui-Talamanca dis
trict-tO speedy termination, through
the appointment of a joint commission
OF engineering experts. to mark the line
fixed by the French arbiter. An
American syndicate, headed by Minor
G. Keith Of Brooklyn. has secured from
the Costa Rica republic authority to
continue the Costa Rica Northern rail-
road, now connecting the Nicaragua
frontier with Port Limon, to the Dor
DER OF Panama. Hence the import
ance of having this line fixed at the
earliest possible moment
Costa Rica, as we'll as Nicaragua
and the other states Of Central
America. is anxious. too, to arrange
with the government Of Panama, for
an exchange of kilograms over national
wires at some point upon the border
say, i'm the vicinity of David. the capi-
tai OF the Isthmian Province or
| Chiriqui. ="
| The American fruit trust. which
| operates a number of wireless signal
stations in the West Indies and along
| the Caribbean coast, has just obtained
| from the national convention Of the Re-
| public of Panama an exclusive conces-
sion authorizing the establishment Of a
| new wireless tower at Colon, and
| another near Panama. But this con-
cession Is held to be a violation OF the
pre-exist1ng and sole privilege. OBJ
tanned years ago, by the Panama Rail-
road Company here, which gave the
| railway monopoly Of Geographic COM
| munication, az well as Of TRANSPORTER
| ton. across the Isthmus. 1t NAV,
| therefore. call for protest upon the part
of the War Department at Washington,
through the railroad superintendent at
this end. Some years ago. when the
West India & Panama Cable Company,
British corporation, and the Mexican,
Central & South American Gable, an
American line, were both seeking the
privilege OF running a land wire from
Colon to Panama, as a feeder for their
submarine telegraphs, their petitions
were returned by the ten Colombian
authorities, with the comment that the
Panama railroads. monopoly preclud--
ed even the national government Of
Colombia itself from establishing a tefe-
graph line across the Isthmus. Now
each OF these companies will protest :
against the wireless permit. The Brit
ish consul, by the way, Ia emphatic in
his stand taken upon behalf OF the
West India and Panama cable, which
has long been trying to get an overland
wire Of its own from Colon into Pan
anna. The West India company has
another object In wishing to reach
Panama. having a call to supply daily
cable news service to a new American
daily shortly to be established here.
The New York Herald Service, sup
piled from Galveston by the Mexican,
Central & South American cable, Is
controlled by the Panama Star & Her
aid exclusively upon the Isthmus; and
the company refuses to break It's ar
rangement with the older paper In or
der to accommodate he new. The gen
tlemen interested IN the new sheet are .
crying Monopoly" But the Isthmian
government is powerless to interfere,
even II II so desired, to help the other
paper or its hackers.
The management Of the; Panama rail-
road telegraph system makes both of
the cable companies mentioned pay five
cents a word for the messages for
clients Of either. over the railway wire.
This Is also the press rate between
Colon and Panama. =, ,..