The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-08-10
FEW BELIEVE THAT NEW
REPUBLIC WILL SUCCEED
Colossal Piece Of Graft At.
tempted in Sale Of Land
to Government

Washington. Aug. 10-ReHable i'm
formation received here Is that serl
GUS political con litlons prevail IN
Cuba, and that hencefor.h President
Gomez is going to have a pretty hard
time steering his ship of state Re
Gently tie entire Cuban cabinet re-
signed a new cabinet has been or
sanized, bur, according to the latest
Information. there will be sull more
changes.
1t is impossible not to detect among
officials here a note of pessimism con
eerning the situation IN cuba, and
here are very few who believe that
.he new republic will succeed No one
thinks that President Gomezs admin
'stration is going on the rocks very
soon. but there is distinct feeling
hat sooner O.. later there Will be n
crisis, Wobably leading to another in
.cnal CONFUSION and possibly anot9ler
nteWen ion on the part Of the United
states The government bere does not
want to intervene, and such action Will
be put off for as long a time rs pos
sible
The Cuban legation here and the
government i'm Havana are indignant
over the recent publication of certain
facts concerning the administration
3t affairs in cuba. A conspiracy of
the pless of the United States is al
legged and the Cub3ns are convinced
that some one with ultero motives Is
working for the downfall Of the new
republic Nei her the state depart
ment nor my one else in Washing
ton has been able TO discover evidence
Of a campaign against Cuba.
Resent Protest publicity.
The Cubans have resented the pub
lication Of the fact that the state de
par ment has protested against the IL
legal discharge of Mr. Page, the
American engineer appointed by Gov
ernor MagOOn to supervise the build
ing of the Cienfucgos aqueduct;
against the placing of machinery for
sugar mills on the free list ag inst
the purchase of arms abroad. against
The proposel trade Of property be
tween the government ANA the United
Railways Of Havana, against the non
fulfillment of the Mckinney -ROkeby
contract in Havna, and the non-pay
ment Of w ]. Oliver for his Pinar del
Rio road and the departments attt
iude concerning the sending OF Gen
cral Lionaz del Castillo 10 south
America as an emissa-y Of the Cuban
government. That the state depart
ment took the action specified in
these cases is a matter Of common
knowledge here, and that the facts
have bInn publishel is considered
outrageous by the Cubans
News has recently reached Washing
ton of an effort TO sell to the govern.
ment certain lands adjoining Camp
Columbia, a few miles outside of Hav-
ma. where The Cuban regular army is
established. involved in this attempt
cd sale which almost won't through,
was colossal piece of graft The
land is needed for the establishment
of a target range and a general en-
largement Of Camp Columbia
The piece of land changed hands
some months ago, possibly year or
two ago, for $145,S00. It is under
S ood that the owners are willing TO
sell for this price, but when the trans
fer was made to the goyernment-the
deal got as far as that-the price was
s445.S00, an advance Of 100000 The
sale was made by authority of a presi-
dental decree, which did not specify
prices, but merely authorized ihe pur-
chase. Before the government had
paid out the real cash, however, the
wre cked