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Show COSTA RICA WANTS PAY FOR CANAL ACT MANAGUA. Nicaragua, March 11. Negotiations between the governments of Costa Rica and the United States! relative to efforts by the former to se-l cure compensation for Its acquiescence i In the treaty for tho construction ofj an lntcroccanlc canal through Nicaragua Nica-ragua have been begun. It is said, in ud Ices received here from San Jose. A protocol by which the two coun-triea coun-triea agreed to enter into negotiations, negotia-tions, should it be found necessary to j accomplish the construction and pro-trdiee pro-trdiee for the ownership and control of such a Canal, was signed on December Decem-ber 1, 1000. So far as Is known, how-lever, how-lever, the United States has not inti-! inti-! mated any Intent to construct such a waterway. |