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THE CUBA REVIEW 



GENERAL NOTES 



BRUTAL SUPERSTITIONS 



It is reported in Cuba that the "voo- 

 dooists" have relations with politicians who 

 control their votes and protect them against 

 the infliction of punishment. The general 

 public now calls on Congress to find a 

 remedy. 



Public indignation in Cuba was intensely 

 aroused by the recent murder of a white 

 girl, six years old, in connection with a 

 mysterious method of healing a sick negro 

 woman to whom the child's blood was said 

 to have been administered. 



UNITED STATES CONSULAR CHANGES 



President Wilson has nominated Gustave 

 Scholle, a resident of St. Paul, Minn, as 

 secretarv to the American legation at Ha- 

 vana in 'place of Hugh S. Gibson, who has 

 been transferred to the legation at Brussels. 



Milton B. Kirk, the American consul at 

 Manzanillo, has been transferred to St. 

 Johns, Quebec. 



RED QUAIL MULTIPLYING 



The red quail, a species of pheasant, im- 

 ported about two years ago from Spain, 

 and set free in Cuba to populate the 

 fields, are multiplying rapidly and will in 

 the course of a few years form a part ot 

 the hunters' delight, according to a state- 

 ment of Inspector General of Fauna Juan 

 Federico Centelles. . . 



But 400 of these birds were originally 

 brought into Cuba. 



FIND GRAVES OF AMERICANS 



The remains of fifteen of Colonel William 

 Crittenden's Kentuckians, whom the Span- 

 iards shot in 1851, were found near the 

 ancient Atares fort in Havana on December 

 4th says the New York American. 



Colonel Crittenden and his men went to 

 Cuba on a filibustering expedition, expect- 

 ing to be joined by the Cubans; the coni- 

 mander and fifty of his men were captured, 

 court-martialed and sentenced to death. 



The bodies were buried secretly, and, 

 although Americans and Cubans have de- 

 sired to honor their memory, the place of 

 burial has remained unknown. 



COFFEE IMPORTS 



During the fiscal year 1912-13 Cuba im- 

 ported coffee from Porto Rico to the value 

 of $3,783,377. 



GUANTANAMO VALLEY NEWS 



Mr. J. H. Randolph, of the well known 

 firm of Latin-American contractors May, 

 JeckyI & Randolph, of New York, has just 

 returned from a short visit to his planta- 

 tion at Arroya Piedra, near Guantanamo. 

 While there he extended his property by 

 the purchase of 2,000 acres more land and 

 started the erection of a large and commo- 

 dious dwelling. Mr. Randolph expects to 

 hereafter spend his winters there. He has 

 imported some fine blooded live stock from 

 Europe and the United States. 



^Nlr. David Mattoon, of Brooklyn, has 

 l)een appointed Chief Accountant of the 

 Guantanamo & Western Railroad Com- 

 pany, with headquarters at Guantanamo, 

 Cuba. Mr. Mattoon previously occupied a 

 similar position with the Cuba Railroad, 

 but is at present the auditor of the Man- 

 hattan Line of the New England Naviga- 

 tion Company. He leaves for Cuba the end 

 of the year. 



Mosle Brothers, of New York, have just 

 shipped fifteen cane cars for the Santa 

 Maria Company, which owns the Santa 

 Maria Sugar estate, near Guantanamo, on 

 the Guantanamo & Western Railroad. 



Seven new coffee estates are being 

 opened up on the Marco Sanchez branch 

 of the Guantanamo & Western Railroad. 

 That part of Oriente Province is noted 

 for the fine quality of its coffee. 



THE ROQUE CANAL 



The Roque Canal is to be 51 kilometres 

 long, of which 41 kilometres represent real 

 constructive work. About 16 per cent of 

 the whole work is finished. The credit for 

 the canal is $1,574,512 and of this $779,904, 

 or about half, had been expended, leaving a 

 balance ahead of $794,607. President Me- 

 nocal, who recently made a visit of inspec- 

 tion, thinks the canal will cost at least 

 twice as much money as the original al- 

 lowance. 



Deer hunting in Matanzas Province may 

 be barred for a period of three to four 

 years by the government, owing to the 

 scarcity that is apparent at the former 

 hunting sites in order to prevent the ex- 

 tinction of that animal. 



Males and females in the municipal ter- 

 mino of Bayamo, Oriente Province, have 

 almost equal representation according to a 

 recent census, which gives the population at 

 33,810 inhabitants, 16,893 males and 16,917 

 females. 



