| Show agent Si limons details its open for american enterprise james simmons the consular agent of the united states at san josi ahk port of entry for guatemala is at the leland hole bound for on official business warding the political condition of the country be said guatemala is in a state oh gret if order and qui ettles president Barr ilias has adopted a policy proved very effective of bani abing alf perniciously active P rans driving ahem but of the country 10 w here alvy can do no barm all who are caught with arms in their bands directed against tarve r shut ahr months ago the Vicer resi dent vicentes castenada Cost enada proposed to the commander departs went of to d er the fortress and garrison and head a revolution the com ni ander spanish like agreed and when and eight of his officers ad a battalion into a de apartment part ment the commander com mauder made thew prisoners sonere and telegraphed to mhd capital costen da tas a friend of the president but he ordered them shot and in fifteen after the order was received cos tends and his friends were deed the president Pre in his proclamation the following day said that be ivaa grieved to be for the p ce of the wate to execute his fria alrid rho policy of relentlessly banishing ar executing plotters is having an excellent effect in mak ing a vei ry disorderly country an orderly one life and property ire as safe in as they tire in chicago A abort time ago on horseback from the pa tn abo atlantic a ten days el entirely such a thin g ai a bendit is unheard of ifa mali ride with his pock eta full f diamonds and lose one a native would follow him thirty miles to give it lp him 31 y brother in law rode safely unattended across the country with 2500 in gold in big pockets 1 I would advise all young ameri calls without ta pital to stay in the united states but an american with a little money say 2 can go there and roligh it live 06 tort nilos and beans and make a fortune in five years on a coffee plantation there are in that coun try virgia forests of mahogany spanish cedar rosewood they sell in parcels of for 50 the thief of course is to get out the wood transport it to the sea board and obia it there is a areat field in guatemala far ameci can products and americas Am erichs ought to take advantage but it seems our people wont look at things the trade is by english and germans one of ilia great difficulties is the enormous import duties aud the monopoly of the commercial agencies and pier companies compan iea in the discharge of cargoes the part ia an open road stead the vessels ge their cargoes by lighters and bunches it costs nare to carry a cargo from the steamer to the wharves than the freightage from hamburg freights tire not uni reason a ble and are lim cited by law these condition of things willbe remedied however by the opening of a new port six miles up abo coast where the vessels can empty 91 the docks americans are very ayel to the G overn ment I 1 |
