The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-02-02
PERTINENT FACTS.
ABOUT GEN. WALKER

ST LOUIS, Mo-. Feb 2-J. G.. Jamison.
of Guthrie, o. r., has taken exceptions to
the promises of S. S. Stewart, of Colorado
Springs, to exhibit the remains of Gen
VIM. Walker. the Nicaraguan fiibusterer
at the worlds fair.
Jamison is one of two living survivors
of the Walker expedition. Stewart he
pronounces an imposter.
The other survivor, ,Jamson says. is W.
K Rogers (Wm. Kissom), of California.
In a statement issued for the informa-
ton OF the worlds fair board ,Jamson
says:
The man Stewart is either a crank or
has wheels in his dome, for the thing he
proposes is among the impossiblities. and
besides his letter betrays total ignorance
of Gen Walkers advent into Nicaragua
and his exit therefrom. He was not, as
Stewart says, sent there by the govern
ment with ships and men in 1857 but
went there of his own volition leaving San
Francisco after midnight on the morning
of May 4, 1855, on the brig Nesta (which
he had purchased with SO men, and ar
irving at Reajejo Nicaragua, June IS,
1855, and did not, as Stewart says, go there
in 81, for he had been there all the time
since June Is. 1855.
He was not captured, as Stewart says
at Fort Castillo on the San Juan river,
for no such fort existed there, the only
fort near that place being Fort San Carlos
on Lake Nicaragua
Gen. Walker surrendered at the City
Of Riyas to Capt. Davis, commanding the
United States soop-of-war st. Mary's, on
the afternoon of May l. 1857, after being
besieged by the allied army of more than
5000 strong from January q to May l.
when this great allied army bes;eged
Rivas it is an interesting fact to note that
the official report of the forces under
Walker mustered for active duty in the
field only 5lS men and officers. and when
the surrender took place, May l, l64 Off
GERS and men We're able to do active and
effective duty in repulsing the enemy.
1T is fiction of Stewards own creation
that Gen. Walker took with him to Me
aragua a cast-iron coffin or any other sort
of coffin.
when he surrendered to the United
States war sloop st. Alary's he was the
regular and lawfully elected and installed
president of the republic of Nicaragua
and his second expedition and invasion Of
Honduras was to reach Nicaragua and re-
gain the government which he felt he had
been dnjustly deprived Of by foreign inter
ference.
ION his second expedition he landed at
Truiillo. Honduras, captured the city and
the old Spanish fort, but va forced to
evacuate both by the British navy. He de-
clared his right to make war upon Hon
duras because she had participated in his
capitulation and deposition at Rivas.
shortly after this he was forced by
Capt Salmon, of the British war vessel
Iearus, to surrender to him. The next
day, in violation of all precedents in war
among civilized people, this British officer
turned the general over to the Honduran-
can commander and he was shot December
u 1860, upon the sand beach in fl, MT of
Truiillo, and his body, without shroud or
coffin, tumbled into hole dug in the sand
and covered up by brutal soldiery.
In 1866 at the instance of Tennessee
state officials, 1 wrote to an old citizen
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