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Show jjttle Postage Stamp Caught Santos Zelaya H SA 1 1 m By w- Purist Burroughs ' His Predecessor H Tffbile ago Santos Zelaya. 5 ttl reptile of Nicaragua W'1 f ,1. capital, Mnnnsua. and I E volutionary forces. whoso .".Vbccn accompanied with were pressing him hard. "S Indignant at the execution WAn hoy. a clamoring: for MtKoor of the United States Sftl Sraev General Knox was bc- fo account for his misdeeds, ?Z'Uy appeared to be in a L niithl. And evidently no one MScr than Santos Zelaya. M , j, Hsv! there "was much !' r where he had betaken Ia came the announcement BIfSatedX,S?nt 1Mb Identity K before the fugitive prcsl-frdr prcsl-frdr w thfow off his Hs-!HSftb Hs-!HSftb Wontlflcatlon was by an Lf. notii?a stamp. C.Sranire fate, the stamp upon ErtfficUire was prints was V??Mued In 1503 to celebrate the KSrtSS of life successful re-President re-President Sacaza. The is-f is-f waa due to Ze- Jnya's vanity well as to hit? desir in to withstand his enemies?' for t o 5 had begun to hear the nimble of an im pronching storm of revolt 1 Zelaya. like many another of his ilk lafd great stress upon hi political HirntJ eousness and sense of fati'S. Ono of I sun,l in nnnHmps ot h,s republic Is-nro Is-nro tiv Vnmo b0rc a prL' Ioture of a a careful iV5v "Pflenttng justice, but kw fnt ? of the figure shows that ya?l f: b,ir.uI J'Btlco and. smybollcal It 'r,Ia"'.lt, evidently had It eyes open a early ns jfiG-J. bore a picture of the arms of t0 Jmtl0I , u i c o no dUctlon of a group of mountains? on one of the penks of which Js perched a liberty lib-erty cap. Another mountain stamp of the land shows where tho feet of the giant Mome-tombe Mome-tombe meets the sen. Jn 1S92. when various new world republics re-publics were postally and other commemorating com-memorating tho discovery or America four hundred years before. Nicaragua fell In lln and got. out. n stamp picturing Columbus getting his first view of that Stamp Captured Fugitive President I Stamphat Caught Columbus's Diecov- Justice on Stamps, Whoro Mountain Bid Tor the lath- Land of Groat Alti-7 Alti-7 ' ery Qf Nicaragua. at Least. Meets Boa. mian Canal. tudes. ii Z(1 lin lo02 thnL tho explorer sailed along the mosquito const of Nl- the Tall'. 1nM,.S;'ir for tl,e f,rsl """'on cmlu'idl ;?,!? ex:ueVthnrc.lilero,stl,,'' Postage stamps cnnnl n,.mlCvH0 1,10 Proposed Jsthmlam of ti L mncf .,ca,rnru'' il ha1 been one nL r "J?"1. I,l?cloils dreams of the pco-Slnfp, pco-Slnfp, hLn ?ou,n,tr' "'at the United mni rL0Al,(, lec,c UI,on the Nicaraguan for,tll,J canal. And Zclnvs. for per-n""ln.? per-n""ln.? ?,";,,,a,; PQlriotic reasons, was loremost In Its nilvocacy. via,thdvi.i0J)s h0(J bcen l'lkc lo build actuallv hra,'Unn r.oute nml w",k llad suierne had found favor, and N'lca-mgunns N'lca-mgunns genorally comc to bolloyo that I theirs was the only feasible and logical location for the jrieal waterway from the I Atlantic to the Pacific. Various concessions conces-sions wore granted at different times, and although thn prospects for a Nlca-raguan Nlca-raguan canal often looked bright, the project was doomed to fall of realistar tJon. There wore many advocates of the Nicaragua n route In the United States, and commissions from this government that visited the locations suggested for the site of the giant waterway mads reports re-ports that In many respects favored the land of Zelaya. In congress the whole matter was fought out nnd the Nicaragua Nica-ragua u government had emissaries here to hflp boost the cause which meant so much to them and to their country. I3ut the long and the short of it all was that tho Panama route was eventually decided upon and everybody knows how valiantly work is going on now to complete com-plete the canal. i Nicaragua's canal "stamp was issued at a time when tt was thought it would be a faster means in spreading broadcast H the special advantages a route through that country wot-.ld afford the canal B builders. The stamp pre9dntod a may H of Nicaragua and showed by clearly do-fined do-fined lines now the canal could be cut from shor to shore. It availed nothing. Zelaya was much disappointed by the failure of this government to select th IH Nicaragunti route, as was indeed all his IH people. Tho canal "would have meant IH much lo the laud, and tho loss of the coveted possibilities did not leave a sweet taste in the Nlcaragunn's mouths for Uncle Sam. But It is fair to observe that Nicaragua's .stamps are as Interest-Ing Interest-Ing historically as the stamps of other countries. There seems to be a great store of learning and. useful Information jH laid up in all of them. |