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THE CUBA REVIEW 



RAILWAY EARNINGS, GENERAL NOTES, ETC. 



MISSING BANKNOTES FOUND 



Ramon Llano, a Spaniard, arrested in St. 

 Louis for attempting to pass two $10,000 

 bills of the $200,000 stolen from the Na- 

 tional Bank of Cuba, has made a full con- 

 fession and implicates a merchant of Ha- 

 vana. 



The Cuban government took the neces- 

 sary steps to procure the extradition of 

 Llano. 



The $200,000 were stolen from the Na- 

 tional Bank of Cuba last October. The 

 money, in twenty $10,000 bills, was given 

 in an envelope to a trusted messenger of 

 the bank to take to the postoffice for reg- 

 istry. The envelope was addressed to the 

 National Park Bank of New York, but the 

 money was never received in New York. 



THE CUBAN CENTRAL RAILWAYS, 

 LIMITED 



Weekly Receipts : 



THE WESTERN RAILWAYS OF HAVANA, 

 LIMITED 



Weekly Receipts : 



February 1 £5,282 Increase £329 



February 8 5,035 Increase 452 



February 15. ..,.. . 5,440 Increase 474 



February 22 5,078 Increase 86 



March 1 4,867 Decrease 91 



According to the Voice of the People, 

 published at Guantanamo, construction 

 work has begun at Caunanera on the new 

 railroad station. The old building will be 

 torn down to make way for the new one. 



The business men of Encrucijada, in 

 Santa Clara province, are petitioning for 

 the establishment of a branch of the Na- 

 tional Bank of Cuba in their city. A new 

 branch of this bank was on February 28th 

 established in Remedios, in the same pro- 

 vince. Sr. Arturo Berrayarza is the man- 

 ager of the new office. 



General Ernesto Asbert was officially in- 

 stalled as Governor of Havana province on 

 February 25th. Governor Asbert was re- 

 elected last November. 



CUBAN TELEPHONE COMPANY 



Cuban Telephone Company earnings for 

 January, 1913, were $65,891.85, with 11,889 

 telephones in use. 



A case which was on trial in the New 

 York Supreme Court on February 25th be- 

 fore Justice Pendleton, is an action brought 

 by Roland R. Conklin against the United 

 Construction and Supply Company and 

 Samuel M. Jarvis for an accounting. 



Messrs Conklin and Jarvis obtained a 

 concession from the Cuban Government in 

 1900 to construct and operate telephones 

 through the island. They organized the 

 Havana Telephone Company to operate in 

 Havana, and the Cuban Telephone Com- 

 pany for other lines. Then the United 

 Construction and Supply Company was in- 

 corporated as a holding concern. 



Messrs. Conklin and Jarvis later dis- 

 agreed, and now Conklin demands an ac- 

 counting. About $600,000 is said to be in- 

 volved in the litigation. 



R. E. Holoday, the United States Con- 

 sul at Santiago de Cuba has been trans- 

 ferred to Cape Natal, Africa, a much more 

 important post and pays $6,000 annually as 

 against $4,000 in Santiago. Mr. Holoday 

 was greatly liked in Santiago and his trans- 

 fer is regretted. His successor is said to be 

 a Mr. Fowler, of Oregon. 



The feeding of school children, a move- 

 ment started in Havana several months 

 ago by Dr. Carlos Garrido, began March 

 10th. Subscriptions already received are 

 an assurance that the movement will be a 

 success. 



Mrs. Jose Miguel Gomez, wife of the 

 President, and Mrs. Mario Menocal, wife 

 of the President-elect, have both given 

 their earnest support to the movement. 



Solis, the bandit, who has terrified the 

 inhabitants of Camaguey province during 

 the last four years, is becoming active 

 again judging from complaints received by 

 the government from American and Ger- 

 man property owners. These assert that 

 the bandit is sending out threatening letters 

 for various amounts, which must be paid 

 promptly or else they run a risk of assassi- 

 nation. 



Forty-five cases of diphtheria in Camag- 

 uey recently were traceable directly to the 

 scarcity of water in the city. The Public 

 Works Department claims that there is no 

 money in the Treasury with which to buy 

 a pump, which will cost $1,500. 



