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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Cienfuegos Admits Railroad. 



The City (. nmicil of Cic-nfiugos, which 

 recently lorl)a(lc the entrance into the 

 city of "the I'alniira, Cienfuegos & Cruces 

 Kailrt)ail, wliich is being built by 11. J. 

 Reilly, passed an ordinance, February 

 14, authorizing the use of all thorough- 

 fares necessary for the extension of this 

 line through the city. The railroad will 

 now be pushed rapidly to completion. 



The original action of the City Coun- 

 cil was annulled by President Gomez on 

 the ground that it was illegal. 



The chief engineer of Santa Clara was 

 officially notified on February 10 that the 

 Cienfuegos, Palmira and Cruces Electric 

 Railway Company cannot cross the new 

 road to Manicaragua with its lines. 



Senora Tomas Estrada Palma, wife of 

 the late President of Cuba, with her two 

 sons, Tomas and Rafael, and Miss Can- 

 dita, was in Washington, D. C, a few 

 weeks ago. The purpose of her visit was 

 to have an operation performed on her 

 young son. Rafael, who was suffering 

 from adenoids. 



The Supreme Court of Cuba on Feb. 

 23 confirmed the sentence of the audicn- 

 cia of Santiago de Cuba and increased 

 the amount of the fine imposed upon An- 

 gel Morales, editor of "La Defensa" of 

 Santiago de Cuba, charged with crim- 

 inally libeling Catherine Tingley and tlic 

 officers of the Raja Yoga school of that 

 citv. 



The Spanish War Claims. 



The treaty of peace which was made 

 at the close of the war with Spain, in 

 iHg8, provided in Article \T1I that "the 

 United States and Spain mutually re- 

 linquish all claims for indemnity, na- 

 tional and individual, of every kind, of 

 either Government, or of its citizens or 

 subjects, against the other Government, 

 tiiat may have arisen since the beginning 

 of the late insurrection in Cuba and prior 

 to tlie exchange of ratifications of the 

 present treaty, including all claims for 

 indemnity for the cost of the war. The 

 United States will adjudicate and settle 

 the claims of its citizens against Spain 

 relinquished in this article." 



The claims embraced in this conven- 

 tion were those of citizens of the United 

 btates residing or holding property in 

 Cuba, who were damaged in the Cuban 

 insurrection leading to the war and in 

 the war itself. 



A commission was ap])ointed by Pres- 

 ident JMcKinley to settle these claims, 

 and it has been constantly engaged until 

 within a verj^ recent date in passing u])on 

 them. The claims filed with the commis- 

 sion were 542 in number, and represented 

 the sum of $61,672,077.78. 



Among the largest claims were the fol- 

 lowing: Pedro C. Casanova, for $1,511,- 

 806; Central Teresa Sugar Company, for 

 $1,256,000; Constancia Sugar Company, 

 tor $4,177,698.85; Rosario Sugar Com- 

 pany, for $1,239,528; Francisco J. Terry 

 y Dorticos, for $1,109,265.86; Francisco J. 

 Larrieu, for $1,228,500; Patricio Ponce de 



Field work on cane plantations. Ox teams hauling the cane to the mill. 



