Salt Lake Tribune | 1897-01-01 | Page 3 | Cleared out for Cuba

CLEARED OUT FOR CUBA COMMODORE COMMODO HAS A CARCO rob FOR granted legal cogill clearance papers for a spanish port with arms mid and ammunition tor for insurgents jacksonville flo fla dee dec 31 the steamer commodore cleared at tho the customhouse custom house at 5 this a afternoon t with a cargo of 0 arms and aran ammunition U consigned to salvador cisneros president of 0 tho the cuban republic at cienfuegos cuba A crew of 0 twenty seven beven men were carried despite tile tho fact that the commodore Is ot of only ninety nine nina tons tona register most ot of these were cubans among tho the number w was as Stop stephen lien creme crane the novelist who signed as a seaman beeman at 20 per month the tha carpo cargo consists ot of the following ono one thousand pounds of dynamite two boxes of 0 electric apparatus rifles 2 cartridges machetes I 1 11 I 1 boxes ot of drugs and three bundles of 0 clothing clearance paper were issued notwithstanding a formal protest was madi by senor soils spanish consul for florida which was mado made in writing collector the spanish consul refused to NO so the clearance papers which isa necessary nece requisite in going to a foreign port for tho the reason that the regulations do not Perr permit vilt the importation porto por tation tion of arms upon the alio idland without a permit aud and this capt murphy did not have the Curnin odo cr went down uio this liver r about 8 art an officer from th the ec revenue cutter Bout weir ivell having been plated on board to see that no 00 one should be 1 taken on board while ahil e going down the taft river the officer was wag to if leave ave tile ba hoit lt at tho the mouth of oie me river it la Is riot not believed the commodore will awake nn an attempt to land its carpo cargo at cienfuegos but will malic make a landing at some convenient place along alone tho the cuban coliat chaat tho the steamer three Pr friends londs arrived jil in port today tho the boat will ho he held until it shall be libeled labeled by the district attorney who was ims out of the city today