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Show DKCLD SAH MY HAVE ' Little Latlii-American Country Is Cbargcd bj a Ba-; Ba-; nana Cpippany ; With PersccutipiL - ; MOBILE, Aia4 Jan.H.'-Tht American Ameri-can .. I&nana company, - through & it. McConnell of .Mobile, has asked the State department at Washington to intervene in-tervene la their behalf on account Of alleged interf erence by the Costa Rlcan Governments with the fruit company's planting;, railroad bulldlni- and ' other .operations in the territory now belonging belong-ing to Panama, hut at ont time under the jurisdiction of Costa Rica, and has asked for damages in the sum of $-210,000. $-210,000. r ' The matter is now before the State department. Tht trouble dates back to the summer of 1903. when the .Costa Rlcan Government, It la 'alleged. slightly slight-ly Interfered with the surveying: of the j company's railroad route, but when tht United States Government at that time Instructed its Minister to Costa Rica to use his good offices to prevent any fur- ' thef interference. "Costa Rica; it is un-derstoodV' un-derstoodV' disclaimed 'right of Jurisdiction Jurisdic-tion subject to . the rendering of the Inibet award on September 01, IS 00. Prior to that date the territory had for a number of years been In dispute bei" tween the republics of Colombia and Costa Rica, but under terms of a ipe-clal ipe-clal agreement' was under temporary Jurisdiction of the Jatjer. That dispute was submitted to President Lpubat of France for arbitration, and feit award fixed this territory as .Colombia's. CoaU Rica had. in November. 1W3, disclaimed , tht rirht of ' Jtfrladictfon. and under that disclaimer, Mr. MeCon- i nell contlnfaed' hi 'work by planting-fruit planting-fruit trees and preparing- for funding-tht funding-tht railroad and improving the port of Gadocan. Tht latter part of July, IS 04, ! the Costa Rlcan Government, it Is alleged, al-leged, sent an armed force to Gadocan 1 and Intercepted a Valuable 'carfro of suppliesj and after permitting tht dls- ! Charge f tht greater portion of- "tht cargo, confiscated tht portion so discharged dis-charged and stopped all railroad work i at Gadocan.' ' - c -v 1 - ' j '' Tht Costa Rlcan Government Is still In control of tht territory, and contln- I lies to prevent the work, it is said, al- ! though' the Panama . Government, which succeeded' to' this ' territory through its secession frora Colombia, has declared its sovereignty and right of jurisdiction; and has since in an" pfll-"cial pfll-"cial ' communication to MrV McConnell admitted" his right' of pogaeaslon. -. |