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Show DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BOUND TO PROGRESS American Consular Agent at Sanchez Expresses His Delight in Bigness Big-ness of West. Jose A. Puente, American consular agent at Ban Chaz, San Domingo, is in Salt Lake for a few days, a guest 9t the SemToh hotel. Senor Puente is a native of Cuba. He was forced to leave there as a young man because of his revolutionary activity. ac-tivity. "Salt Lake is a delightful place," said the visitor yesterday. "It is my first trip to the great west, and I have certainly wondered over the bigness of things out here. The country out here is vast and expansive, so the people become be-come imbued with large ideas and do things ou a big scale without much ado. For pleasure give me Paris; for business the United States." Senor Puente is a personal friend of many years' standing of Juan Y. Jimi-nes. Jimi-nes. "president of the San Dominican republic, re-public, whom the United States recognized recog-nized after the recent revolution: also of General Mario G. Menocal, president of the Republic of Cuba. He said that the United States was seeing to it now that San Domingo behaves be-haves herself that is, that the restless revolutionists there quit their activities activi-ties and be good. President Jimenea, he thought, was .iust the man to head the government there, since he ia conservative con-servative and able. Senor Puente is also watching the European war, not only because of his familiarity with the nations engaged, but also because he has a daughter who is the wife of a German naval officer, Captain Conrad Westcop. |