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Show I Deposed Guatemalan Presi- I 1 dent Ruled 22 Years; Many I Attempts on His Life I XJSW YOI1K. April 22. Mannct Estrada. Cabrera, deposed president of Guatemala; who is reported to have I fled to Cuba following a revolution whih began last February. had the distinction of provorulnc the Central American republic for 22 years. ' Growth of the Unionist party in Guatemala, the members of which J j . favored an amalgamation of all the ""4 flf" Central American republics under ' one government, was opposed by Ca- j i brera on the ground that it was "re actionary" Upon his Inauguration as president in mi 7 he Issued a decree j overlnp relations between Guatemala and Germany. During- the three succeeding suc-ceeding years Cabrera's administration administra-tion had been marked by internal dissensions dis-sensions -and difficulties with Honduras Hon-duras and other countries close to the Guatemalan border. Numerous uprisings upris-ings occurred during1 his regime- and many attempts were made on hiS life. In 1007 he caused the arrest of I 1 GO men oil a-charge of conspiring to assassinate him. Nineteen of these j who, were tried and sentenced to j death, were executed. I Attempt TvHIlnjr Jlini Many other attempts had been madc to kill him. On one occasion a bomb . was thrown . under his carriage. Ca-I dets from the Guatemala Military academy, who acted as his escort, attempted at-tempted to shoot him on April 21, 1908, when he entered ,ihe national . palace to receive the American mln- i istcr, William Helmke. He suffered a' I bayonet, wound in the hand and es-1 , .' cap od death only by hl? bra- cry. ! Carlos Hprra. a financier, was; chosen provisional president nn April! 12, upon, the ousting of Cabrera wJjo j abandoned Guatemala City the next day, and announced that he and a; ' number "of troops who had remained j 1 loyal, would cut off the capital's water! i supply and food shipments until "the rebels begged for terms." Cabrera concentrated his quarters at La- Talma, Matamoras and San Jose and dominating Guatemala City, began be-gan to shell the capital, killing, it was, reported, many citizens.. Meanwhile j the revolt against Cabrera spread oyer the entire country. Cabrera's government gov-ernment was in many respects like that of Porflrio Diaz, who ruled Mexico for years with an Iron hand. I Ho was born in Guezaltenango on November 21. 1S57. and receive,! his preparatory education in the schools of that district, the second most important im-portant in Guatemala. Later ho attended at-tended a law school in Guatemala City from which ho was graduated in 1SS3. Enters Ijiiv Career PHly- l General Justo Ruflno Barrios, then wr ; , "Dictator," named him as Chief Jus- I tico of the Department of Rotalhulcn, P . jfci where ho remained until 1SS6, whew. he was.appointcd to the post of Chief' Justice of the Department of Que.al-lenango. Que.al-lenango. his native district. In 1SSS he was made a justice of the Court of Appeals and- later he became a member mem-ber of the national assembly. Cabrera soon , became a leader of the assembly. When he had achieved this place, Barrios was assassinated in the streets of Guatemala City in February. Feb-ruary. 1S9S, an election was called and Cabrera was chosen as Barrio's successor. suc-cessor. He assumed the presidency the following O'ctobor. It was then that the real development develop-ment of Guatemala began. Cabrera built one of the most magnificent capitals cap-itals in Central America. He was the fixst ruler on the American continent it is said, to adopt aviation for his army. He organized the West Point of Guatemala. Pie erected a score of modern hospitals and majiy schools. Ho opened up the country t. railroad builders and restored the National treasury. He promulgated a decree-of decree-of unconstitutional amnesty when he became president, thus bringing together to-gether all factions and yet he provod strong enough to hold them in check when hJs .enemies plotted to over throw him. until the issue of Central American unionism arose. |