Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-04
NICARAGUA.
DEVASTATING REVOLUTIONS.
BY Frederic J.Haskin.

and who. rowing young American.
went TO California during the gold rush
of 40 and became the editor Of a news
paper i'm San Francisco. The city of Leon
holds the distinction of having been the
first city of Central America to raise the
cry of liberty and Independence In 1873.
and IL Was TO this city that Castellon. the
leader OF the radical party. OF which
Leon was the seat. invited Walker 10
come and assist him in driving the con-
servatives from power.
In ls55 Walker succeeded in leading a
band of seventy Adventures I'm Califor-
MIA into Nicaragua. He soon captured
the town OF Granada and secured his
own appointment as general-in-chief in
the Nicaraguan army. Later he quar-
relied with his own provisional president
and had himself made president In 1856.
For two years he continued his filibuster-
ing tactics, finally breaking with Cor
nelius Vanderbilt. who had financed his
expedition. the cause % the rupture being
misunderstanding in reference to the
Vanderbilt overland route" across Mica
ragua.
Walker finally conceived the notion OF
establishing Nicaragua as an independent
government. with
Walker Plans to slavery as one OF
Establish Slavery. stones. II. At t,r.,
proposed that the slave should be OF
African descent. but finally came TO the
point where he was willing to enslaye the
Indian population OF the country. This
so aroused all OF Central America that
several OF the states came to the rescue
OF their neighbors I'm Nicaragua. ana
Walker was finally given a haven OF
refuge on an American man-of-war. Not
content with his escape with his life In
Nicaragua, he afterward led another
band of filibusters into Honduras. Here
the English government took him pris-
oner and afterward turned him over TO
the government of Honduras for punish
ment. The Hondurans condemned him 10
be shot. and the sentence was executed
at Truxilo, thus ending the career Of the
'gray-eyed man OF destiny"
The recent revolution started BY the
forces under Juan Estrada was one of the
worst that the country has ever ekpe-
rienced. The forces engaged and the
methods pursued were both calculated to
paralyze what little industry there was
in the country at the outbreak OF the
struggle. Each side issued large volumes
OF uncovered paper money. sometimes
resorting even to the trick OF Issuing
counterfeits OF the money printed by its
opponents, so as to make the enemys
money so deprecated that nothing could
be bought with IL. AS there were no
printing presses for making money In
Nicaragua, 1t was hoped that this could
create such q shortage that the enemy
would become bankrupt before another
consignment could be received from the
printers In New York
In the souvenir stores of Managua one
may buy pictures which reveal in
striking way the horrors OF war i'm Gen.
trail America. Dozens OF these views
show that no effort is made TO bury the
dead after a battle. as the ground or
every battlefield is strewn with the grim
ming skulls and dismembered skeletons OF
those who were killed i'm action. Little
who tramps over the surrounding coun-
try at Tisma and other battiehelds stum-
bles over many skeletons of those who
were wounded and afterward perished In
the jungle for want OF timely aid.