The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1921-02-18

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cal time for their use will have passed.
1--WE have a steamer chartered and
200 men, whose business it is to fight
under any flag at 50 gold per day
and no questions asked, are now mark
Ing time on the Isle of Pines, off the
coast of Cuba, waiting for our steam
er to call for them and land them,
with their rifles and ammunition aud
six 75-mllllmeter field guns and some
rapid-fire Maxims, at San Bruno, some
Is miles up the coast from here.
"The guns and munitions are now
in Tampa, having been shipped to our
agent there on sight draft, with bill Of
lading attached; the steamer is char
tered and en- route to Tampa from
Norfolk, Va, and we must pay the
owners $4,000 the day she begins TAX
ing on her cargo, and $4,000 before
she unloads 1t on lighters at San
Bruno.
1--WE must also pay 200 men one
months pay in advance-that is, $780,
coo; we cannot meet this expense and
still take up that sight draft now
awaiting our attention in the bank at
Tampa.
'ln return for this favor to the pro-
visiOnal government of Sobrante, you
shall have the note of the provisional
government, signed by the provisional
president. myself, and the provisional
cabinet, DR.. Pacheco. Colonel Cara
veo, and two other gentlemen whom
you will meet In due course unless in
the interim they should be killed. And
as a bonus for saving this country
from brutal dictator, who is pillag-
ing its resources for his personal prof
1t, you shall have. a deed of gift to
that mining concession you and your
friend, Geary, are so DESTROYS of work
ing; also the title shall be certified
by the government and the Supreme
court of Sobrante and absolutely Sc
cured to you against future agrees
sion in the event that the new regime
should be overthrown at some future
date. Also you have my profound
gratitude and that of my people,"
Tell me your plan Of campaign"
Webster suggested.
I'm a secret rendezvous In the
mountains have 1000 picked mem
my fathers veterans. They are armed
with modern rifles and machetes. The
nitrate company. which has been suf-
fering from heavy export duties Inn
posed by Sarros, has loaned me all the
rolling stock Of the railroad for one
night 1t will be modified at San
Miguel de Padua by next Saturday
night; my troops will arrive late the
same afternoon and entrain at once.
'In the interim all telephone and
telegraph communications with Bue-
naventura will be severed. The night
previous our steamer will have dis
charged her cargo Of men and NUM-
lions at San Bruno; a chain of out
posts will at once be established and
all communication with the capital
will be shut off.
ION Saturday night also, the Con-
solldated Fruit cOmpany's steamer,
La Estrellita, will make port with 30
Americans in her steerage. These
men will be rOad-makers and miners
imported by Mr.. ]. s., Webster, and
in order TO make certain that they
will come, you have already ordered
them by cable. We have arranged
with the port doctor to give La Es-
trellita a clean bill Of health the very
night she arrives. Hence the ships
authorities will not BE- suspicious,
hope, when we remove eur men after
dark and house them IN Leber's ware
house, where they will spend the night
unpacking those spades picks ana
shOvels Of yours and getting the fac.
tory grease of them.
AT 4 o'clock in the morning vari,
Gus citizens of Sobrante, with rebel
lion in their hearts, win begin to mo
billze at Leber's warehouse, where
they will be issued rifles and ammuni-
ton and where they will wait until
the action is opened to the south b1
the detachment from San Bruno,
which, having marched from San Bru'
no the night before, will have arrived
outside the city, and will be awaiting
the signal from me. will attack
from the west-cautlOusly.
snow, there are 5000 government
troops in the city and in various can
tonments on the outskirts. These can
tOnments are to be rushed and set
afire; l figure that the confusion of
our sudden attack will create a riot
particularly when do something that
isn't very popular as a war feature
down this way, and that is charge
and keep on coming.
"The government troops will start
to fall back on the city, only to fnd
themselves fanked by a fierce artil-
| lery fire from the San Bruno contin-