Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-09-03
DARK FOR PALMA
Insurgents APPEAR TO Be GAIN.
ing RAPIDLY.
Western End of the Island Over
run With Insurgents, and East.
ern End Is Also Becoming Dis.
affected--.P possibility of Inter-
vention Is Discussed.

Havana, Sept. 1.-The situation ia
far darker tonight than at any previ.
GUS time since the insurrection broke
out. News of an uprising in Santiago
province, while not yet pu blished here,
is spreading about the city and caus-
ing the greatest concern. When Mr..
Sleeper, the American charge d'affaires
here, was told the contents of the AS
sociated Press Santiago dispatch he
endeavored to verify it through the
state department, but was told that it
was absolutely untrue. Subsequently
the dispatch was verified from private
and newspaper sources.
The extent of the rising in Santiago
is not known, but it is the opinion
here that the worst calamity of all to
the Palma government would be an in
surrection in Eastern Cuba. The AS
sociated Press was informed last night
by two reliable eye-witnesses that
Cardenas, which hitherto has been
considered perfectly peaceful city,
was the scene Thursday of desultory
fighting between police and rural
guards on the one side and rowing in
surgents on the other. The only pro-
vince remaining perfectly peaceful is
Puerto Principe.
Railroad Trains Plundered
The Associated Press correspondent
at Cienfuegos telegraphed last night
that there are 5000 armed insurgents
in that vicinity and that all the small
towns in Santa Clara province are
controlled by insurgents, who attack
and loot trains and seize the property
of foreigners, as we'll as of Cuabns.
Trinidad is surrounded by insur-
gents,and the government appears pow
erless to protect the property of Amer
leans and other foreigners. Railway
trains are held up at will and passen-
gers searched. The Cuban Central
railroad has declined to assume re-
sponsibility for the safety of passen-
gers or freight.
The government continues to make
fine Roadway wherever there is open
fighting, but the troops have not yet
come up with Pine Guerrero, and
there is no present likelihood of their
doing so, as the troops might march
for years and all the while Guerrero
would be still just ahead of them in
the hills. If Guerrero cared to har-
rass the government it's troops could
be killed off by sharpshooters.
To add to the apprehension, the
American missionaries of Havana, who
are in general charge of the field, say
that reports from missionaries outside
of Havana are practically unanimous
in stating that the instruction is
sweeping all the country districts in
the Wetsern half of the island and
that they are unable to continue their
work and ride over their routes in
their several districts.
The increasing gravity of the situa-
ton has revived discussion of the pos
sibility of Intervention by the United
States. La Discussion, the semi-ofii-
cial organ of the administration, in an
editorial, calls upon Cubans to lay
down their arms and save the repub-
lie from the danger of intervention.
The article appeals to the patriotism
of the people, depicting the terrible
conditions which would result from
Observation-Disclosures officers
like Tasker H. Bliss, judges like Capt.
Pitchers, with their "ten dollars or
ten days." beer drinking American
ocffiers, with clanking spurs, masters
of all.