The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-02-07

months pay III advance-that is, $780,
600; we cannot meet this expense and
still take up that sight draft now
awaiting our attention in the bank at
Tampa.
in 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
it, 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 aggres-
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 secret rendezvous in the
mountains I have 1000 picked men
my fathers veterans. They are armed
with modern rifles and machetes. The
nitrate company, which has been suf-
fering from heavy export duties i'm
posed by Sarros, has loaned me all the
rolling stock Of the railroad for one
night. It will be modified at San
Miguel de Padua by next Saturday
night; my troops will arrive late the
same afternoon and entrair 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-
tons at San Bruno; a chain Of out.
posts will at once be established and
all communication with the capital
will be shut off.
"On Saturday night, also, the Con-
SOlidated Fruit cOmpany'S steamer,
LII Estrellita, will make port with 30
Americans in her steerage. These
men will be road-makers and miners
imported by Mr.. J. 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 LII Is
tre1lita Il clean bill Of health the very
night she arrives. Hence the ships
authorities will not be suspicious, l
hope, when we remove our men after
dark and house them in Lebers ware
house, where they will spend the night
nnpacking those spades, picks and
shovels of yours and getting the fac
tory grease off them.
at o'clock in the morning vari-
Gus citizens of Sobrante, with rebel
lion in their hearts, will begin to mo-
biliZe 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 by
which, having marched from San Bril-
no the night before, will have arrived
outside the city, and will be awaiting
the signal from me. I will attack
from the west-cautiously.
"Now, there arc 5000 government
troops in the city and in various cam
tonmcnts on the outskirts. These can
comments are to be rushed and set
atirc; I figure that the confusion Of
our sudden attack will create riot
isn't very popular as 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 find
themselves thanked by a fierce artil-
lery fire from the San Bruno cOntin-
gent; the troops from the arsenal, the
guards ut the palace and the FIT
tcenth regiment Of infantry, now sta
Toned at the Quartet de Infanteria,
next the government palace, will be
dispatched post haste to repulse the
attack, and 400 men, with the machine
gun company waiting in Leber's ware
house, will promptly move upon them
from the rear and capture the arsenal.
There are a few thousand rifles and
lot of ammunition stored there; l
miss my guess if, rs soon as the news
of its capture by the rebels spreads
through the city (and I shall have
men TO spread i), shall not have a
few thousand volunteers eager to help
overthrow Sarros.
"Oncc cut off from the arsenal and
the palace, Sarros must fight his way
out of the city in order to have the
slightest chance to suppress the rebel
lion, for he will have no refuge in the
city, And with the railroad and all
the rolling stock in our hands, with
out a cOmmisSary for his troops, with
out base of supplies, even should
the government troops fight their way
through, they leave the city in my
hands and III recruit and arm my men
and hunt them down like jack rabbits
at my leisure. Once let the arsenal
and the palace fall into my hands,
once let me proclaim myself provis-
iOnalt president, once let the people
know that Ricardo Ruey, the beloved,