Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-08-31
CONSPIRACY IS GROWING
Havana Police Now Said 10 Be Affected by
Disloyal Spirit
HINT At QUARREL BETWEEN HIGH OFFICER
President said TO Suspect vice Presi-
dent az Friend of Insurgents
and bitter words Pass
between Them.


HAVANA, Aug. so.-Rumor Is busy today
with suggestions Of q conspiracy among
the police and open quarrel between Presl-
dent Palma and Vice President Capote.
Doth reports lack definite confirmation. At
the palace silence Is maintained.
In certain quarters Capote IL suspected
Of bargaining WITH the insurgents. In the
event of the fall OF Palma. however. there
is little likelihood that the insurgents would
make Capote president They certainly
would not without at least the Formally
Of an election.
In the reported quarrel at the palace
bitter words are said TO have passed, cul-
minating in Palma denouncing Capote as a
traitor. The vice president is said to have
replied that Palma was a president without
power.
A fight took place last night at Gaia
bazaar, Havana province, between nifty in
sursents and fifteen rural guards. with the
result that the latter retreated, with one
man wounded
An engagement between insurgents and
government troops is reported to have
occurred last night near Artemisa, province
OF Pinar del Rio. near the Havana bor-
der. The result is not known
Several exchanges Of shots have been re-
ported at various places westward of
| Guanajay. near the Havana border In
Pinar del Rio. As the place is poorly pro-
tected, achievements of fifty rural guards
have been sent there.
A portion of Pine Guerra's force il sta
toned at Puerto Cortez, on the south coast
near San Juan de Martinez. which the gov
eminent contemplates making central
point for sending men and supplies by
water to Pinar del Rio should communica-
ton by rail be interrupted.
A trainload of troops that left Havana
| this morning arrived safely at the city OF
Pinar del Rio. They were fred upon near
Taco Taco and encountered scattered shots
elsewhere, but the soldiers were unframed.
No News e -ieId.
| No news Of the ons of Colonel
Avalos commander he government
forces in Pinar lei Rio. mas been received
| here since he left San Juan de Martinez
yesterday in search Of the main insurgent
body. commanded by Pine Guerra While
| government circles continue hopeful OF his
success. new bands OF insurgents are re-
ported TO have been organised IN various
places in Pinar del Rio and elsewhere,
which gives the situation a gravity which
| there Is no attempt to disguise.
Vice President Capote visited President
Palma today and reiterated his denial that
he had consulted with Senator zsyas, presi-
dent OF the liberal party on the question
| whether peace could not be restored by
| President Palma's withdrawal from the
presidency. permitting Capote to succeed
him and giving certain posts to the lib
| erals. The Americans here criticise the
citizens OF the United States who had en-
listed in the governments machine gun
corps. believing that they should have re-
| manned noncombstants.
Americans Are MoIested.
| WASHINGTON, Aug. oo-According to q
dispatch received at the State department
today from one of the American owners of
the Constancia estate near Cienfugos,
| Cuban insurgents rsided this property four
| days ago, taking a number OF horses. The
| State department did not make public the
name Of the American who sent the dis
patch This In the first protest received
| from Americans OF molestation of their
interests. Mr.. Sleeper. the American
charge at Havana, was cabled to demand
OF the Cuban government adequate pro-
lection for the Constancia estate and all
American property similarly situated.
| Germany Denies Report.
1 BERLIN, Aug. 30.-The Foreign once
called the attention OF the Associated Press
today TO a New York dispatch stating that
the German representative in Cuba is ne
gotiating direct with the Havana govern
ment The Foreign once says Germany ID
at present without onicial representative at
Havana and that Baron won Nordennycht,
| the German consul general at New Or
leans, who will arrive at Havana septen-
Der 1, is without authority to make polit-
| ical representations. but will merely at
tend to the consular functions. The For
| eign once denies that any power has been
communicating with Germany with re-
spect to the Drago doctrine. as teiegraphed
to the London newspapers from home.
The Foreign ONCE also ridicules the Lon
don Daily Mails Teheran dispatches about