THE CUBA REVIEW 



11 



MINOR NOTES. 



The Spanish Treaty Claims Commis- 

 sion, which had closed its offices, is wind- 

 ing up its affairs, and will be finally dis- 

 solved about March. Commissioner 

 Swan has been hearing some testimony 

 during the month of January in one or 

 two cases, but the United States Govern- 

 ment is of the opinion that it has about 

 completed the obligations provided for 

 in the Treaty of Paris. 



The Guantanamo Sugar Company has 

 imported 50 Porto Ricans to work on 

 the sugar estate of that company. In 

 order to bring in this contract labor 

 there had to be an executive order issued. 

 The company could not secure sufficient 

 help in Cuba to do the necessary work 

 on the estate. 



The project to establish a tuberculosis 

 sanitarium at Sierra, near Cienfuegos, 

 was practically killed by the House of 

 Representatives refusing to make an ap- 

 propriation for the institution. 



An employe hired to care for a horse 

 in Havana afflicted with glanders, ig- 

 norant of its contagious character, be- 

 came affected with the disease and died 

 a few weeks ago. 



The court before which the case came 

 held the employer on a charge of homi- 

 cide, holding him in bail for $500 and 

 obliging him to file a bond for $2000 to 

 cover the civil damages. 



Cabinet decision and discussion during 

 the last few weeks were that Congress- 

 men, by being in the government ser- 

 vice, were incapacitated to bid on or ac- 

 cept contracts, although Secretary 

 Divino had recently decided otherwise. 



New consular nominations on Jan. 12 

 were: Nicholas Rivero Alonso, vice 

 consul at Marseilles, and Enrique Perez 

 Cisneros, vice consul in Belgium. 



The Liberals of Oriente Province 

 want Secretary of Public Works Chalons 

 retained in his office, and so informed 

 the President recently, through their 

 Congressional representatives. Rumor 

 had already placed Morua Delgado, the 

 President of the Senate, in that'position. 



At an election in January at Bancs, 

 Onente Province, the Conservative par- 

 ty secured the mayoralty and a majority 

 of the councilmen. 



Messrs. E. L. Sanborn and J. R. Bul- 

 lard have purchased the sugar mill Ar- 

 menia. The estate has an area of 4,500 

 acres on the United Railways, has a pri- 

 vate railroad of its own four and one- 

 half kilometers in length. The purchase 

 price is said to have been $500,000. 



That Havana is to have a new ice 

 factory with a capacity of 100 tons dailv 

 is practically a certainty. American cap- 

 ital is to be interested. 



A new industry has been established 

 at Manzanillo for the manufacture of va- 

 rious liquors and cordials. Sufficient cap- 

 ital, it is said, has been guaranteed to 

 purchase a large amount of machinery 

 and a large output is already spoken for. 



Colonel Orencia Nodarse, Director of 

 Cuban Posts and Telegraphs, resigned 

 his office on February i. 



A popular subscription has been 

 started by Sagua la Grande veterans to 

 erect a statue to the late Governor of 

 Santa Clara Province, Gen. Jose Luis 

 Roban, who died Dec. I2, '09. 



Former Cuban Secretary of the Inte- 

 rior Dr. Nicolas Alberdi, it is rumored, 

 has been offered the post of Envoy Ex- 

 traordinary in Central America with res- 

 idence at Caracas. This is a new post. 



The beef exports to the United States 

 from Cuba, which were of a very promis- 

 ing character, have ceased for the time 

 being. The dry season made feeding 

 more expensive, and very materially in- 

 creased the cost of the cattle and as 

 materially decreased the profits. 



Spain's Special Parliamentary Commit- 

 tee will soon present a report of its la- 

 bors on its existing treaties with Cuba 

 and with the United States. 



General Weyler's forthcoming books 

 issued in four volumes will be entitled 

 "My Rule in Cuba." 



Gibara has asked for a law making it 

 obligatory upon the State to pay for all 

 sanitary expenses incurred up to June 

 30, 1909. 



The adulteration of wines was a mat- 

 ter passed on to the National Board of 

 Health for a report. Special legislation 

 is indicated, as the adulterations are very 

 prevalent. 



