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Show Prominent in Honduras, SAN Jose, July 10,-The postmaster general gen-eral of Honduras, Mr. Bertie Cecil, is a young American. He went there three or four years ago to assume charge of the telegraphic tel-egraphic and telephonic system of the entire en-tire republic. Being an energetic young fellow, as well as an admirable electrician, his success was immediate, and the appreciative appre-ciative government thought it well to place him also at the head of the postofflce department. de-partment. Another important foreigner, and after the president perhaps the most important person in the country, is Dr. Reinhold Fritzgartnor, editor of Honduras Progress, a valuable little English paper published at Tegucigalpa. This is a man with an eventful life; Prussian born, graduate grad-uate of Freiburg and Stuttgart universities, universi-ties, and serving in the Franco-Prussian war before he was 30. A little later h. came to America and engaged in scientific! work. Besides being editor, he is also gor-ernment gor-ernment geologist and inspector general of mines. Nearly all the latest valuable scientific sci-entific discoveries in Honduras have been made by him almost unaided. As a superior supe-rior linguist Dr. FriUgartner's services are continually in demand to interpret and ex-tilain. ex-tilain. He is besides the best informed person as to the country's natural resources re-sources in all the republic, as well as the most truthful and disinterested. |