The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1909-11-30
Congress to Assemble
And President Is
Unpopular
ANARCHY FEARED
Consular Officers Seeking Safety
Dispatches Declare That Cannon
and GrOce We're Officers of ReyOlu-
tionary Forces and That Zelaya's
Commander Protested ExeuetiOn.

AkI ASHINGTON, Nov. 29-The Unit
w ed States consul at Managua has
been threatened by President Ze-
laya and he has been granted permis-
sion to occupy the legation premises
as being more secure. The Nicara-
guam congress will assemble Wednes-
day, December /, and it is rumored
that President Zelaya will retire and
possibly attempt to escape from the
country at night by the Pacific coast.
Anarchy, it is said, may ensue. Per-
sistent rumOrs from various quarters
Indicate that Irias may succeed Ze-
laya as president of Nicaragua.
This information, it was announced
today, is embodied in kilograms de-
layed in transmission and received at
the state department from the consn-
lar representatives of the United
States in Nicaragua
The first telegram from Managua
states that Leroy Cannon was cap
tured on October q and Leonard
Groce on November 2. They were ex-
ecuted November IL and news reached
the state department of the execution
on November II.
Members of the Red Cross arriving
from Castillo say Cannon and Groce
were captured while they were lost on
the banks of the San Juan river and
that the captain of a ship called them,
promising not to harm them.
These allegations were in part con-
firmed by the Nicaraguan press, which
stated that the executions were for
an attempt to blow up steamers. The
exeuctions caused general Indignation,
which was shared by the commander
in-chief.
Nicaraguan lawyers declared the
executions were unlawful. The Nicara-
guam captain is in prison for having
refused to carry out Zelaya's sentence
that the Americans be shot
Another telegram from the consul
at Managua states that on November
"a placards appeared on the walls in
Managua favoring the revolution and
President Zelaya. One Of
the other consuls had information that
President Zelaya was prepared to es-
cape. Anarchy, he states, may ensue.
The consul asked permission to occu-
py the legation premises as being Sc
cure against possible vandalism and
this has been granted to him.
A later telegram from the consul at
says that Cannon and
Groce, respectively, were lieutenant
colonel and colonel of engineers in the
army and both we're
regularly enlisted under their own
Nhn Init nv 1naAnrS
declare that Groce, acting in the line
of duty, was with an output of 10 men
beyond the camp of General Cham
MORO, and Cannon, with two men had
been sent beyond to survey a new pO-
sition The outpost was surprised by
the forces of General Toledo and both
officers were captured.
General Chammorro afterwards
learned from an officer of the Zelayan
army that both Americans had been
put to death by order of President Ze-
laya and that General Toledo refused
to carry out the order and took them
both to Fort Castillo.
A dispatch from Corinto states that
it is reported there that 1900 troops
Of the revolutionary army are in Chin
1ragra and there is a rumor of a ris-
ing in the west in favor of Irias.
Sealed Orders to Navy.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.-It was
learned late tonight on authority
which appears thoroughly reliable,
that Rear Admiral Phelps, command
ant of the Mare Island navy yard, re-
,eived lengthy telegram from Wash
ngton today which is in the nature
Of a sealed order and which is not to
be opened until December and is be-
ieved to relate to the Nicaraguan sit
lation The arrival of the message
and the date set for its perusa1 in a
short message of instructions which