The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-12-22
THE POLITICAL
OUTBREAK ST|RS
UP COUNTRY.
No Direct News From vens.
zuela But Developments
Show Unrest
PRISONERS FREED and
PARIIsAAs IMPRISONED

Rumored That Venezuelan Delef atcs
Have Left Caracas for wiIlemstad
to Open Negotiations With Colonial
Government Looking to Settlement
Willemstad, Curacao, Dec. 22-Wil-
lemstad is still without direct news
from Venezuela but the report today
by the steamer Zula indicates that the
political outbreak against President
Castro at Caracas last week has been
followed by other developments show
ing continued unrest in the country.
1t is declared that political prison.
ers at Puerto Cabello have been set
at liberty and that several of the par
tisans there of President Castro have
been imprisoned. Furthermore it IL
rumored that two Venezuelan dele
gates have left Caracas for Willem-
stad to open negotiations with the CO.
lonial government looking to an ar
rangement of the existing difficulty.
The New Cabinet.
Port of Spain, Trinidad, Dec. ga
Vice President j. Vice Gomez, to
whom General c. Castro handed over
the presidency on his departure for
Europe has established a new gov
ernment in Venezuela. He has re-
placed the old ministry, the leader of
which was DR.. Jose DeJesus Paul,
the minister of foreign affairs, who
has been the one figure outside of
Castro himself in the negotiations
that eliminated in the outsing Of
Minister DeRues and the severance
of diplomatic relations with Hol-
land, with a new body of men who
represent various factions in the state
and who have figured prominently in
various ways in the political history
of the country.
Not only has DR.. Paul disappeared
from the councils of the nation. but
DR.. Baldo, who is now travelling In
Castro's suits abroad, also has been
removed from his official position Al
minister of education. General
Diego Ferren, the minister of war,
who also was war minister in the
cabinet Of acting president Gomez in
1906, has been superseded by Gener-
al Regulo Olivares, who took prom
inent part in crushing the revolution
lists six years ago.
The new cabinet is composed as
follows:
Minister of Observation-Disclosures AL
cantara. 2.
Minister of Foreign Affairs-Gon-
zales Guinaud
Minister Of Finances-Munox Te-
bar.
Minister of war-General Regulo
Olivares.
Minister of Fomento-Rafael Cara
bano Obras.
Minister of Public Works-Rober-
to Vargas.
Secret advices received here from
Caracas, where the strict censorship
is being observed, indicate that the
whole of Venezuela has been in
ferment ever since President Castro
sailed, and that the crisis was reach
ed few days ago when it became
necessary for acting president Gomez
to take decisive steps, which he did by
eliminating from his cabinet those
who were closely affiliated with
President Castro's rule and under the
Castro domination.
The establishment of a new govern
ment In Venezuela has been expected
from day to day and it is probable
that 1t was the outcome of the anti
Castro. anti-Gomez demonstrations,
which began at Caracas and other
places in Venezuela almost the very
day that President Castor sailed for
Europe.
Before leaving, Castro in proclaim-
ing Vice President Gomez his tenn
porary successor, said to the nation:
Surround him and lend your coop
Grafton in the fulfillment of his mis-
sion as If it were l, myself, and you
will have done your duty"
In the same proclamation President
Castro gave utterance to what might
be taken as farewell message: "The
Venezuelan nation is already on the
road to true prosperity and greatness
because of the strict fulfllment Of OBJ
legations and the sound condition OF
the revenues, and because of the state
of peace which we enjoy and which
1t Is your duty to maintain, that my
work may endure"
The changes Of the ministry was
effected and made known only after
the arrival in the capital of 1900 SOL
diers from the interior who are loyal
to Gomez. There is much military
activity everywhere and troops are
being recruited and armed with energy
in the belief that the men in the IN
terror loyal to Castro will fight.
Castro Surprised.
Berlin, Dec. 22.-The news OF the
appointment of the new Venezuelan
cabinet contained in the dispatch from
Port of Spain. Trinidad, came a. I
complete surprise at the Venezuelan
president, Capriano Castro. and his
associates In Berlin, and was received
with more or less apprehension. Tho
Venezuelans have had no confirmation
OF this intelligence and for this reason
they are inclined to discredit it a
they have other Venezuelan news That
Wa9 known to he authentic