The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-25
PRINCELY INCOME IN
HIS DAYS OF POWER

MANAGUA. Nicaragua, Dee b
The magnitude of the personal SacTI-
nee involved in the overthrow. of Ze-
laya from actual power and , possible
flight from Nicaragua, is shown In the
statement that he derived from various
mouopolies and financial ventures rev.
cDuc Of $4,000. United States money,
per month,
In the building in the Champ de Mars
that housed the ministry of war, Zelaya
conducts the mouopolics OF alcohol, TO.
bacco, cattle, petroleum, hides. gum
bling, soap, candles, ice and drugs and
lumber for railroads. fuel and ties. From
these quarters he also has controlled
local monopohcs existing along the At
Aguordicntc. leaf aud manufactured to-
hacco, cocosnut groves, abattoirs aud
turtle fisheries.
Still Other Crafts
IN addition To these nc controls the
dock privileges at the piers Of Coriuto.
Granada. Sau Jorge Monkey Point, Sau
Mlguelisto aud FL Bluff and the lease
of the National railway and of The Ma
tional steamship lines
Through some peculiar framing of the
customs laws he also benefits from pre-,
miums on the expectation of coffee, lunI'
ber. gold hides and rubber and from
uuli"S OF from leu 90 MY pei "oht on
mportatious of all sorts of manufac
Lured articles.
Among his other known interests arc
the street cleaning of Managua. done
by contract; the sugar refinery of san
Antonio; tho planning mills and the sale
OF property to or hF the government
He 9lse cxacts a share in all concessions
granted by tho government III this man
ner. is . large stockhoider in conccs
tcI 70 h.. hSll
pany-Jamcs DiotrIck GuichorI. Sala.
Ear, Emery-and in 4 number of min,
ing concessions. The system is 50 per
fcctcd that no land owner can devote
his property TO raising su.arcanc or 10.
bscco without the authorization of trusts
created and controlled by Iclaya.
Widespread Interests.
ON the Atlantic side. zcIsva has opel-
atcd through the business house of
Lopez 6 Martinez. Lopez is cousin
of IcInva aud is now .iailcd BY thc
revoutiouists. Through this house alone
Zclaya has lust received profits Of Eve
or six thousand dollars. American
money. Railways Yud steamers of the
country arc managed for him hv his
partner, Mr.. Julie West. Swiss.
The contract for the construction Of
the railway from san Miguel to Monkey
Point, which he controls through West,
is TO cost the government $4,000.
United States money. per month The
country already has disburscd $500
900 in The last three years on this line,
aud only four miles have been built.
National finances also have been used
for his enrichment. The system has
been for Ielaya TO upderwritc govern
rhcnt bonds at II large discount, aud
then 10 dispose Of them 10 bankers at
30 per cent profit
Grabs Customs Duties.
1t l. couSerN aiivclv estimated that
he appropriates - per cent Of ali Gus
toms duties bv the simple process OF
compelling payment of customs duties
through compulsory purchases of gov.
crnmcnr bonds. of which he alone is sup.
piled, and which he sells nj 10 per
cent over par, after having bought
them at 40 per cent discount from par.
Then again. Iclaya operates II plan
tation in the Champ DC Mars. which
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