The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-30

Sf5,UUU IN SOlQ, WHICH sum was Q1-
vided among the eleven, and they
were allowed to resume their bust
ness at Bluefields.
But the other two men were
Americans, and it was their business
| interests that suffered most. They
got nothing, for the government of
Washington did not answer their
protest. It was in the days of Cleve-
lands presidency and he said that he
thought they had no business down
there.
But judging from the dispatches,
Zelaya is now nearer the ash-white
than ever before, and Estrada is win
ming. Be that as it may-only last
| week their minister in Washington
| turned in $4,000 as part payment
| to the Emery Co.. of Boston. for
stealing their concession, looting their
plant and failing the help.
1.-The Emerys have been getting out
mahogany down there on the Mos
quito coast for twenty years, and be-
cause they would not come across
for near all, the government took it
all.
arbitration machine going, a settle
been a good one, for it is said the
American attorney got a fee of $780,
900.
THE Mosquito coast runs up and
down the Carib sea several degrees,
and it is from there that we get many
have held it since history on the con-
tinent began, but Mr.. Zelaya took
their government away from them
Fifteen years ago they had a her
editary king, the only one on this
hemisphere, and I saw him in Kings
don. Jamaica, where he was then a
pensiOner of the British government.
He was fat, lazy, and liked gin, and
he cared nothing for the cares of
state.
THE country has a fertile soil, and
the rainfall would delight duck;
twenty feet of water falls annually.
The rush for land is bringing this sec
ton into notice, and now that it is
found that the se---esle cotton of Pol
ynesia, worth twenty-five cents a
pound, can be raised there, much ac-
tivity has sprung up.
1t is authentic that sea-isle cotton will
produce without replant1ng for three or
four years, and contains hundreds of bolls
and will produce three bales an acre.
The placer gold mining, with improved
machinery, gives promise of another Alas
on the upper creeks and rivers. and this
method. with little time or effort, runs
Labor is efficient and trading is keen,
but there are as many porch-climbers ia
ken proportionately down there as any
where else-in fact there are many of
just this character.
Story of the Sailed Mine.
''I heard a story of an American and a
native who sailed mining claim. The
ed so good, his partner could not with
stand It, and he bought the mine him
SELF
In the interior good coffee is raised at
an altitude of $500 feet. At Matagalpa. |
I saw a large and fine plantation owned
They were then, and I hear still making
good money from it. They receive %
cents a pound on the premises from
Germany, concern. Hamburg
and Liverpool are the worlds great coffee
centers.
1.-The coffee tree is from to 10 feet high,
and the berry grows and looks like
cherry, with two beans within the pod.
The native prefers chocolate or mineral
water in preference to coffee.
Hotels Are Awful.
1.-THE hotels are worse than Kansas-so
you know their status. stopped with an
expatriated Kentuckian in Grenada, and
wishing to catch my train for Managua,
the capital, he tremendously ordered me
hack, and sent me kiting off to the
depot a half mile away. All the time he
knew that the train had gone.
when demonstrated with him shrug
cling his shoulders he said: oh, well, we
don't have much patronage and we like
to have you stay here. It was at this
same town one evening I met a black
individual on the street who accosted me
evenin, I want to play the Wheel give
me some change. I'm a countryman of
yours"-and he was-from Baltimore. All
the worlds akin"
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