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Show ILL US' TIE MUSE OF MR Strange Explanation Given of Strife Between Nicaragua and Honduras. Nlcaraguan Cavalrymen Appropriated a Mule While on Territory Claimed by Honduras, and War Was Required Re-quired to Settle the Matter. Wushlngton. Ono mult! a mule belonging to Senor lreno Salgado was tin chief object of dispute between be-tween Nicaragua and Honduras when they begun tho quarrel which finally ended In the war Unit Is threatening tho peace of nil Central America, according ac-cording to the olllclul communications exchanged by the ministers of the foreign for-eign affairs for the two republics, copies co-pies of which communications hAvo been received In Washington. The controversy began when Align to C. Coello, tho Ilondurau minister for foreign affairs, wroto a note to .lose 1). Gomez, tho Nlcarnguan minister minis-ter for foreign affairs, on January 28, protesting against tho theft of a mule from lreno Salgado by thirty-five Nlca-ragiinu Nlca-ragiinu cavalrymen, who wore charged with entering llondurnn territory. In reply, Snnor Gomez said tho NIc-nragiiaus NIc-nragiiaus did not quite enter llondurnn llondur-nn territory, although they passed nenr to tho little town of Los Million, in thnt republic. Tho taking of tho mulo wns not denied, but Senor Gomez Insisted in his letter thnt Salgado was not n Houdurnn citizen, hut a Nlcarn guan who hnd to leave that country lutlon two yeurs before. Consequently, Consequent-ly, Nlcarngua maintained thnt Honduras Hon-duras had no right to lly to tho defense de-fense of Snlgmlo's mule. Tills noto brought n spirited reply from Honduras, tho minister for for clgu affairs anounclng thnt lreno Sal gndo, tho Nicaragua!! refugee, was llv Ing In Tegucigalpa, happily engaged In trade there, while a mnn by tho samo name, a most roptitnblo and respected re-spected farmer, n llondurnn or un questionable citizenship, lived at Los Mnnos and owned tho much-mooted mule. Nicaragua replied that It was truo that Colonel Juan I. llochn. who com manded n party or calvarymeii, took a mule near Ioh Miuios, but reiterated that tho aulmnl was not tnken In Hon duran territory. Dispatches grow longer long-er us tho controversy waxed warmer Other questions arose. Then thu nrbl trntlounl trlbuno was opened nnd finally final-ly tho break camo when President Zo-laya Zo-laya or Nicaragua withdrew his member mem-ber or tho board of arbitration and war between Honduras nnd Nicaragua Nicara-gua actually began. |
