Garcia, Calix To

Cuban soldier and patriot, was born at Bayamo, Cuba, Aug. 4, 1832. In the revolution of 1868 he was a generous contributor to the funds and took command of a body of volunteers, displaying marked military ability, and rising to the rank of major-general; had command of the Eastern Department, and under him the Maceos and other leaders learned the art of war. In 1873, being surprised, with only a body-guard, by a column of Spanish troops, G. fought desperately until all hope of escape vanished; he then placed the muzzle of his revolver beneath his chin, and discharged its last chamber. The bullet came out between the eyebrows, inflicting an all but fatal wound. After lingering between life and death for months, G. was sent to Spain as a prisoner of war, returning to America after the peace of 1879. In the same year he took a small expedition to Cuba in the hope of renewing the struggle. This failed, and he was again banished to Spain. Near the end of 1895 he eluded the authorities, made his way to New York and thence to Cuba, where, as a major-general, he has coöperated with Gomez in the Department of the East. Garden City, in Kansas , a city, cap. of Finney co., on A., T. & S. Fé R. R.; has manufactures of plows and wind-mills. Here are extensive irrigating works, this being the center of the irrigation system of southeastern Kansas. Pop . (1897) about 1,500.