

i i r.A. 



10 killed on the put of the insurgent*. At last, 



v cr hi Immg odds wi brought to bear upon 



the CapUln General, he opened hi* autumn cam- 



; - .;,:;. .' ... \l ..-<, 



ing to starve and drive the rebels out. 

 Death of Xareo. Ihiring Macro's ooeup. 



ar del Id., he ha Iv been aban- 



doned by Gomez and the other insurant chiefs 

 east of tin- tnx-lm. l'>r month- tin- Cuban 

 non/ej had been looking f.-ruanl to some move- 

 ment on the pert of the general in chief to c,.ncen- 

 trate hi* force*, break awav through W. - 



:u and ioin Maceo or allow Mace., i.. join 

 him: iut i,. .thing of the kind took pla* 



Mail in Camaguey, which was |. radically un- 



rbed by a -i. <>n the part of 



Span loss sustained bv General < 'a- 



tillanoeal Saratoga: Ijwret's force bad 

 !..!;sh,d in Matanat, and Aguirre' 



near Havana, had dwindled down to in.-ignili' 



il -mall hands wi-i i thr-.u-h the 



western and southern part of Havana, and had 

 fought under tin- command of Colla/o. hut sepa- 

 rated u|Hn his death. Gen. Ilruno /ay as wa- 

 to take command of those detached hands, hut he 

 was killed U'fore In- roiild get them together. Ma- 

 cao, U|>on linding himself pressed by \\eylcr in the 

 mountains of 1'inar del Km dispersed his followers 

 through the rugged territory, and with a few of his 

 escort proceeded to the north roast, and there 

 crossed in a small boat the Bar of Muriel and 

 landed safely to the east of Weyler's costly if n<>! 

 formidable t'rocha. He Immediately -cut nut cou- 

 : all the forces "in Havana and 

 Matanza- province-, ordering them to eoneentrate 

 at a favorite camping place near Pimta Brava. 

 While he was waiting for this concent rat ion. on the 

 afternoon of Dec, 7, some of the bands having al- 

 ready come in, firing was heard upon the outpost. 

 Maceo, as usual, was the first to mount and ride 

 forward with his escort, hut this time he counted 

 without his fighting negroes from the east. The in- 

 surgent s who had already iri\.< 1 in response 

 ceo s summons proceeded to the attack, hut the 

 soldiers who had intrenched themselves behind a 

 stone wall, directed their fire at the chief who rode 

 out upon the slope of a hill to watch the engage- 

 ment. As he saw his men making an attempt to 

 surround the Spaniards, who were behind the stone 

 wall, he said, "It goes well." and then fell, mortally 

 wounded. I'pon seeing their chief fall, those at 

 his side fled precipitately, many of them being 

 wounded, and the Spaniards occupied the field. 

 As usual, they proceeded to strip the dead, while 

 the officer in command, satisfied with the victory. 

 returned to headquarters, little dreaming that Ma- 

 -. h"Mi they supposed Weyler to be pursuing 

 in the extreme west, had been their victim. The 

 of the dead chief fell to a native guide, who 

 recognized upon the naked body the wounds of 

 many a battl.-. While the soldiers were still in the 

 act of plundering the dead, Pedro I >iax. learning 

 that Maceo had fallen, came up with a force, and 

 a desperate fight ensued, which resulted in the in- 

 surgents getting possession of their chiefs body. 

 ''uban guide escaped with hi* booty, and. sus- 

 ME it to be the belongings of ju.n..-' important 

 he turned it over to th- inaction of Major 

 ( 'irujeda, commander of : 'then 



dawned upon the Spaniards that they had killed 

 Maceo, but as they could not conceive f th 

 sihilitr of Maceo's crowing the trocha they refused 

 it. Then came th- surrender of Dr. 

 Xatucha. Maceo's staff surgeon, who. Micving that 

 with the death of his chirf the -au-<. of Cuha 

 dom had ended, told how Maceo and a few of his 



followers had crossed the Mariel Bay at night in 

 all boat. 



I he Ke>o|||tion;ir\ ( . o \ e I'll lllc II t . ---The M -heme 



of the re\oluti. | civil 



iillielit in ' . \\ l! In. lit \\ail ii 



tlu- revolution to develop MilVicicnt force t.. 



thl'ou veriilllrllt. After the meeting 



n 111 < 'aiiiaL'U.-\ i hi- 



M-heme \sas carried out with the \ n.-ral'le' Sal- 



iieros as President, other leadi r> form- 



ing \\\> ( 'ahinet. No attempt u stahlish 



tins (,,, \eniineiit in a permanent locality, but the 



ient wit! unded hy an 



arm. 



U, where later they were join. 

 with liix invading army from ' 

 ma. After th. .iiion at La IJcforn... 



the determination to carry the war to t he west tin- 

 Government followed, with the in\ ading army as a 

 part of it - :.:)icix \\ ith 



the Spanish troops until arriving at a point <' 

 .nitration in the vicinity of Saiieti-Spirii u-. 

 II. re the army was reviewed, and a Mag emhrojd- 



l.y the I'teautiful daughters of "Tmima' 

 presented to Anton. ideiit. and 



the army proceeded on r march. 1. 



the PreM. lent and his ('ahinet with their es. 

 return to Caiuaguey. While no attention \\a 

 to this peculiarly formed Government l>y the Span- 

 ish military authorities, its existence was taken up 



irnit i<-n of the belli 



the Cul-aii- hy the t'nited State-, anil th.- ( u'l.an 

 luliitninffjt and new-paper e..rrexpondcnts it. 

 vana at mice located a capital fr it on the Cu- 

 bitas range 25 mile- from Puerto I'rincij 

 which capital they gave the name of Cubitas. All 

 manner of stories were circulated and published 

 about this \i>ionary capital which was generally 

 de-eribed us an impregnahle pox it n,n which could 

 not be reached by Spani-h artillery. It was said 

 to const it ute the c'hief storehouse and manufactur- 

 -tahlishment of the revolutionists, where were 

 Compounded dynamite, giant powder, etc. 

 withstanding the fact that the Spanish columns 

 marched through the range of mountains on sev- 

 eral occasions without being able to discover any 

 such stronghold or capital the story was pern-ted 

 in and accepted as truth in the United BU Ii 



ports were also published that a mail service was 

 established by this Cuban Government, and it was 

 claimed that it was the only postal -\.-t.-m in opera- 

 tion over two thirds of the island, and for its use 

 an issue of Cuban [>ostage stamps was printed in 

 the I'nited States. The writer, who has spent con- 

 -idcrahle time in the field with the Cubans, i 

 has been able to discover any of these stamp- in 

 actual use in any part of the island. The Govern- 

 ment organization did, however, map the island olT 

 into /.ones and formulate a plan to appoint a civil 

 governor with juri-diction in each /one. 

 were to be sulxlivide*! into di-trict- or // 

 with a magistrate pre-iding in each district, to he 

 known as the /// firfn. with the rank and pay of a 

 captain in the army. It was the s^-ciHc duty of 

 the Governor to appoint the prefect o- in his partic- 

 ular zone and see that they complied with their 

 duties as -pe.jficd in the decrees issued by the 



ient and his Cabinet. These duties finally 

 consisted in the prcfccto's taking possession of 



thing in his particular district, in the name of 



e Cuba," and appropriating it to the use of 

 and their followers as needed, 



the officers 



should give a receipt upon its delivery. K 



seems to have carried the scheme into t i 



of the island. Gomez used th- 



tem as it suited his convenience, appointing and 

 disposing the prefectos, and even executing them, 



