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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES. 



The bridge at Pulmillas, 

 New Matanzas province, is almost 

 Bridges. completed. The 270 foot 

 steel bridge over the San 

 Juan river, a few miles from the city of 

 Santiago de Cuba is nearly completed and 

 will soon be turned over to the government. 

 An appropriation of $72,000 has been 

 ordered by the government for the con- 

 struction of an aqueduct at San Juan de 

 Lebran, Santa Clara province. 



On July 21 appropriations 

 Government for $^0,000 for road con- 

 Road struction, mostly in the pro- 



Work. vince of Pinar del Rio, were 

 signed by Governor Magoon. 

 The appropriations include $80,000 for the 

 repairing of the road from Guane to the 

 Lopez Landing at La Fe ; $60,000 to con- 

 tinue the construction of the road from 

 Santa Clara to Camajuani and Remedios ; 

 $200,000 for the construction of the road 

 from San Cristobal to Pinar del Rio, and 

 $100,000 for repairing the road between 

 Guane and Arroyo de Mantua. 



Other post offices recently 



More established , are at Santa 



Post Maria del Rosario, Havana 



Offices. province, and at San Jose de 



las Lajas. 



A new pestoffice is open at the town of 

 Rio del Medio, province of Pinar del Rio. 



The postoffice department has announced 

 the establishment of money order branches 

 in connection with the postoffice at Cara- 

 ballo, Havana province, and at Arcos de 

 Canasi, Matanzas province. Both are now 

 open. 



A new postoffice has been opened at 

 Santa Cruz del Norte, in Habana province. 



A telegraph station has been opened at 

 Marti, Matanzas. 



The Director of Posts announces a new 

 money order postoffice in the town of 

 Sabalo, province of Pinar del Rio, as ready 

 for business. 



A money order branch, in connection 

 with the post office at Paso Real de San 

 Diego, same province, bas been established. 



Palmarito has been given a postoffice. 



The Department of State has authorized 

 Dean R. Wood to act as consular agent of 

 the United States at Nuevitas. Mr. Wood 

 succeeds John Hansen, who recently died 

 in the United States. 



Mr. George Enmermann has been au- 

 thorized by the Provisional Governor to 

 discharge the functions of Swedish Vice- 

 Consul in Santiago de Cuba. 



A new telephone line will connect Bara- 

 cca with Velasquez, Guanao, Sabana, Llano 

 and Jaruso, all in Oriente Province. 



The Date of the Last Occurrence of 

 Yellow Fever in Cuba by Provinces. 



The official date of the last occurrence 

 of yellow fever in Cuba is as follows: 

 In Pinar del Rio province, 

 Yellow eight years ago; in Havana 

 Fever province, January 10, 1908; 

 Extinguished, in Matanzas province, De- 

 cember 24, 1907 ; in Santa 

 Santa Clara province, February 18. 1908; 

 in Camaguey province, November 12, 1907 ; 

 in Oriente province, July 9, 1908. No case 

 of this disease bas appeared in any of the 

 six urovinces of the island, except at Dai- 

 quiri Oriente, since April, 1908, the begin- 

 ning of the present epidemic year. — Report 

 of Carlos J. Finlay, Chief Sanitary Offi- 

 cer, Republic of Cuba. 



On August 4, three new cases appeared 

 at Daiquiri but they have since completely 

 recovered. 



Dr. Barney, of the Sani- 



Bubonic tary Bureau denies that there 

 Plague are cases of bubonic plague 



Quarantine, at Guantanamo. The quaran- 

 tine established by Cuba 

 against Venezuelan provinces on account 

 of the plague was extended, on July 24, to 

 Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Trinidad. 

 Official orders are that all ships arriving 

 from any of the ports affected, will be 

 fumigated and the passengers and crew 

 submitted to' ten days' observation at the 

 quarantine stations nearest the port of 

 arrival. Arrivals from any port in Vene- 

 zuela at present are sent to Mariel and 

 this procedure will be 6»Dntinued until that 

 country is declared free of the plague. 

 Cuba Needs Immigrants. 



With a view to increasing the immigration 

 to Cuba, Gonzalo de Quesada, minister of 

 Cuba to the United States, sailed, July 17, 

 for Genoa. He will visit Italy, Spain, Ger- 

 many and other European countries, in his 

 study of immigration conditions abrqad. 

 Cuba, he said, is greatly in need of labor, and 

 while abroad he will endeavor to show the 

 many opportunities his country offers for 

 capable men seeking" homes. 



The Havana carnival of 1908 cost over 

 $90,000 according to the committee's report. 



The case of Corporal Cooper and Private 

 Gwinnell, tried at Camp Columbia for the 

 murder of two Cuban fishermen at Coloma 

 in March, is still before Governor Magoon, 

 to whom it was sent the latter part of 

 July by Colonel Crowder. On August 17 

 the soldiers were adjudged not guilty. 



The provincial government of Fla- 

 vana has allowed the contract for the 

 construction of the road between Agua- 

 cate and Madruga, Havana Province. 

 The cost of the road will be $9,180. 



