The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-10
REBELS ARE ON
THE WAR PATH
MRS. j. l.. BARTLESTON OF CAIRO
RECEIVES LETTER FROM
CUBA.
CRISIS EXPECTED SEPT
President Palma Cannot Conquer
Rebels Who Demand A Reflect
ton or United States
Intervention.

Mrs. ]. l.. Eartleston Of S2l Twenty
fifth street received an inteesting let
ter Saturday from her sister Mrs. II.
r. Gates, who resides in ALgiete, Cllba,
(which tells of the ins urraetlon now IN
progress there in more graphic man
4 ner than the newspaper accounts,
Mrs. Bartleston kindly permits The
Bulletin 10 publish he letter here
/ with.
! Atriete, Aug 30, 1906.
We are all weell and so far have
only lost a kettle that the rebels hor
r3wed and did not bring back, 4
| Spanish sabre they took out of the
corn crib an old gun that won't shoot
few shot, and a matchete. They
came one day to take the horses but
Bert happened along and stopped
them. Another day they took nj
mare bnt he took her away from
them and put her in the pasture
Then they took Two horses which
they viii send back"-bnt when
anyway We will be paid for them.
From Mr. Allen they took a $lZ5
horse. saddle and bridle-then made
the cattleman get off his horse and
give up the saddle. Then wrote a
note borrowing a SIZE horse, then Dor
rowed horse for "one day That
has moi come 70 an end yet aad now
fifty-six hours have passed The horse
60 $500 and | didn't know how
much more he is worth now.
Our fences were cut, six cattle TAX
en-, one COW killed and eaten here
day before yesterday.
There camped right in our yard
and about here $500 men day before
Yesterday. They were very orderly |
friendly and j3ylal so We had regc
lar plclnc and met all oG- acqnaint |
ances. We have our flag up now and
the railroad company has the English |
flag on all trains and depots but the |
rebels hold up the trains Just the |
same.
Four of the leaders in this province
are friends of Bert's This morning
one came through with 500 men and
he says Come what will. if the war
doe not end by September II, they
viii burn everything belonging to ey
cry foreigner and force the T. S. and
other countries to intervene"
We are mol alarmed Mr. Allen.
family and ours are the only Am 81
cans right here and Mr. A. has helped
the people in the past war But there
are right acre that we know Of NOR
rebels than there ore soldiers in the
islanl. They will never give up nm
m the L. S. intervenes and If Prisi
dent Roosevelt wants to prevent
blood he'd the quicker he gets here
the better The rebels don't want tc
fight until September Is, but they
have plenty Of men and forces
&C, nstancia," an American ugar
mill, asked for protection and Pre- T.
dent Palma could no. give it because
be has not enough soldiers to guard
the principal cities.
Constancia Is worth several million
dollars. quite a loss II burned. 10 say
nothing of the other mills, sugar and
tobacco plantations and cattle. The
two sore in Arriete threaten to
close because rebels seized goods.
deeply sympathize with Cubans on
both siles and deeply as We may sym
pathize with Presiden; Palma h can
not conquer the rebels. Unless re-
election i, granted or the United
Stasrs interyenes before September
IL the rebel. will begin war in earnes'
and they so far outnumber the sold
iers and are 20 determined TO involve
the foreign countries-the conse-
qnences can scarcely be imag ned.
have Just counted mp and find
that 50 far the rebels have taken
SI025 worth of stock from Mr. Allen"