The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-02

" against the government, appar-
emily of a serious nature, oc-
Cured last night at Regla, sub
urb of Havana. situated across the har~
Dor, when Gen. Guilermo Acevedo, a
revolutionary veteran, with eight or ten
companions, armed and mounted, took
the field. IT is reported that the party
was reinforced later by 200 men.
Before leaving Regla. Acevedo issued
manifesto denouncng the administra-
tion of President Gomez as scandalous
and corrupt and adjuring all patriotic
Cubans to rise and overthrow it. BE
declared that he would give Gomez fif
teen days in which to resign, after
which, if the warning was not obeyed
he intended to apply the torch and de
stroy property lndiscriminately unit
the whole island was reduced to ashes.
Setting forth from Regla, the insur
gents skirted Havana, seemingly bound
FOR Pinar Del Rio. They halted at the
suburb Of Luyan, where they seized a
citizen named Naranjo. demanding that
he net as their guide. Upon his refusal
Naranjo was shot dead. The party then
rode on,
Early today strong detachments OF
rurales and regulars were dispatched in
pursuit of the rebels. The country
where they are operating is thickly set
tied and it is probable that the rurales
will have no difficulty in following the
trail There are rumors that fight has
already occurred.
Acevedo headed an uprising in Pima,
Del Rio province a year ago. lie wa!
captured, tried and sentenced to life i'm
| Drisonment Last October he was par
doned. His followers arc believed Il
| include some Of the desperadoes who
attacked the rurales in their barracks
at Guanabacoa in 1906, massacring tn,
| garrison, which was the first overt act
of the revolution which oyerthrew
President Palma.
Brig. Gen Gernldo Macado, secretary
of the interior, in an official statement
| TO the Associated Press, said that Ace
vedo WAS accompanied by only four mer
and was believed 10 be surrounded now
| by rurales twenty miles west of tn,
| capital News of his capture was mo
mentarily expected.
On leaving Regla last night, the in
surgents proceeded to the nearby towI
of Guanabacon to obtain recruits, fail
ing which they started westward
skirting this city.
| Acevedo is an active partisan ant
! tHlS udo gwen iiSC " VHo tuiioi Ihd
| the uprising was fomented by Leaders
of the conservative party to make al
impression on Henry L. Stlmson, th
| American secretary of war, on his ar
| rival here.
No trace has been found tonight o
General Guillermo Acevado and the mem
bers of an hrmed party that took the
field at Regla late last night. after hav
| ing issued q manifesto denouncfnG th,
administration OF President Gomez az cor
rupt and calling upon the executive Il
resign, There Is some doubt whethe
Aceyado's force murdered Manuel Ma
ranjo. truck farmer In the suburb o
Luyano. who, II was reported was sho
| because he refused to act as the party
| guide. Naranjo's widow knows only tina
her husband was shot after an alterca.
ton with several strange men. who calle
him TO his door In the middle OF TIL
night
The government Is taking extraordinar,
measures to capture the fugitives
Strong bodies OF rurales and resula
troops have been dispatched In various
picketed, Acevado Is a man OF littl
prominence and small influence. Recent
ly he returned from the United state
and is reported To have boastcd that b.
obtained there promises OF financial sup
port for a revolutionary movement. an,
ton II ls believed his party Is supple
with dynamite cartridges. which nigh
prove Important in view of the passaG
In Accvado's manifesto In which h
threatens 10 blow up the railroad track
unless the company refuses TO transpor
COVE rnment troops.
, General Machado. secretary OF The IN
terror, informed the Associated Press to
night that there was no evidence of dis
!. turbance in any part OF the island.