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Show JU GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Feb. C General Leonldos Plaza, leader of the government troops In Ecuador, arrived here today on the cruiser Bolivar after af-ter pacifying tho coast provinces of Manabi and Esmeraldas. He appointed appoint-ed new authorities and captured several sev-eral rebel leaders, whom he imprisoned impris-oned in Punta Pledra fort, In order to avoid the ri6k of their lives if sent to the Quito penitentiary. Further details de-tails have reached here from the capital of the Quito tragedy on January Janu-ary 28, whon a mob broke into the ponltentlnry and lynched Generals Elroy Alfaro, Flavia Alfaro, Mendino Alfaro and Mendino Paez, Manuel Serrano and other rebel leaderB The generate were shot in their cots and their bodies were thrown into the street from the second story. j Tho bodlos were beheaded, mutilated, muti-lated, dragged through the streets ' and finally burned. The heads were carried on poles In front of a frenzied procession. The political pri6onors in tho ponl-tontlary ponl-tontlary were not "harmed The government gov-ernment has ordered the imprison- j ment of tho ringleaders, but so far I none has boon 'arrested. , The American minister to Ecuador, Evnn E. Young, will leave for the United States on Saturday, as apparently ap-parently peace has hoen restorod throughout the country. oo |