The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-22
WEEK IN THE WORLD.
Great Events and Movements Which
Are Making History.

one mule, a mule belonging TO senior
Irenco Salgado--was the chief object
Of dispute between Nicaragua and
| Honduras when they began the quar-.
rel which finally ended in the war that
is threatening the peace Of all Central
America, according To the official com
munication exchanged by the minis
ters of the foreign affairs for the two
republics, copies of which cOmmnnica.
tions have been received In Washing
ton. The controversy began when
Senior Augusta G, Coollo, the llonduran
minister for foreign affairs, wrote to
senior Jose d, Gamez, the Niearaguan
minister for foreign affairs, ON Janu.
AIRY 20, protesting against the theft Of
mule from lrenco Salgado by % Me,
uraguan eavalrymen, who were charged
with entering llonduran territory. In
reply Senior Cameo said the Nicarag
unns did not quite enter Honduras al
though they passed near to the little
town of Los Man0s in that republic,
The taking of the mule was not denied,
but Senior Cameo insisted in his letter
that Salgado was not a Honduran citi'
zen, but a Nicaraguan who had TO
leave that country because of the part
he played in a revolution two years
before. Consequently, Nicaragua
maintained that Honduras had no right
to hy to the defense of Salgado 5 mule
This note brought spirited reply from
Honduras, the minister for foreign at'
fairs. announcing that lreneo Salgado'
the Nicaraguan refugee, was living in
Tcgucigalpa, engaged in trade there,
while a man by the same name, a most
reputable and respected farmer, a Hon
duran of unquestioned citizenship,
lived at Los Manos and owned the
much.mootcd mule. Nicaragua re-
piled that Il was true that Col. Juan
/. Rocha. who commanded a party of
cavalrymen. took a mule near Los
Manos, but reiterated that the animal
was not taken in llonduran territory.
Dispatches grew longer as the contro'
versv waxed warmer. Other questions
arose. Then the arbitration tribunal
was opened and finally the break came
when President Zelaya of Nicaragua
withdrew his member of the board OF
and war between Honduras
and Nicaragua actually began.
The long looked for indictments in
the municipal graft cases were re
turned at San Francisco Wednesday
night. The grand jury filed with Pre-
siding Judge Coifey of the superior
court - indictments charging bribery,
which were found on evidence present,
ed 10 the grand jury after six months
probing into the municipal affairs of
San Francisco by District Attorney
Francis J. Hcney and Secret Service
Agent William j. Burns, and which re-
veal an amazing story of alleged graft
and corruption. OF the IS indictments
returned. 65 are against Abraham
Ruef, for years leading politician of
San Francisco, charging him with
bribing the board of supervisors to
grant franchises to the United rail
roads, the Home telephone company,
the San Francisco gas and electric
and the so-called "prize fight
trust. " Ten are against E. Y. Halsey,
former general agent of the Pacific
States telephone and telegraph com
panv, who is charged with having
bribed the supervisors not to grant a
franchise to a rival company. One in
dictmcnt against Ruef and four more
against Halsey, it is understood. were
also voted Wednesday, but were not
filed in open court. Several more in
Iictments, the exact number against
whom Henry and Burns refuse to di-
vulge until the accused persons have
been arrested, were returned by the
grand jury. but not filed. Heney and
Burns would not even trust the secret
file. Judge Coffey fixed the bail at
10000 on each indictment, or a total
Of 100000 for Reuf and 100000 for
Halsey.