The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-21
WILL JOIN SAMPSON.
The Protected Cruiser Newark Is Ready
to Leave.

to Leave.
Washington, May 20-The naval
strategy board, rechristened of late the
war board. is to lose one of it's most
active and valuable members in the
person of Captain Barker. He leaves
Washington tomorrow for Hampton
Roads to take command of the fine
protected cruiser Newark, which has
Just been extensively repaired at the
Norfolk navy yard. 1t is expected that
the Newark will join SIMPSONS squad
ron in the West Indies as soon as she
can get there.
Another loss to the department will
occur Tomorrow when Lieutenant Glib
son leaves to serve as one of Captain
Barker's officers on the Newark. This
young officer has displayed the great
est energy i'm securing for the services
of the navy the various naval military
organizations of the states, and as in
cident to that work he was obliged to
put forth his best efforts to secure the
formation of new organizations where
none existed and additional battalions
in the states that already possessed
naval militia. The great value Of this
work is shown by the fact that many
of the vessels of the auxiliary navy
and most of the old monitors that have
been commissioned for coast defense
purposes are manned almost altogether
by the naval militia men.
Preparations go on steadily for the
Philippines military expedition. Gem
eral Merritt, who will command,
stopped in Washington this morning
on his way westward from New York
and spent most of the day in CONSUL
tation with the officials of the depart
ment arranging the details of the ex-
pedition. Another transport was Sc
cured to-day and the department is
showing disposition to treat General
Merritt with the utmost liberality in
the equipment of his force. 1t is ex-
pected that the advance guard on one
vessel. under the command of General
Otis, Will sail out OF the Golden Gate
Tomorrow for the Philippines.
The complaints of the shoeess among
the volunteers just brought into the
army will soon be silenced, as the war
department has just placed orders for
200, 900 pairs of soldiers shoes
A beginning was made to-day to-
wards the organization of the import
ant volunteer forces under the author
ity conferred on the president by special
resolution. The national guard will have
no part in these organizations, which
will be made up of engineers, immunes
and electricians.
The staff assignments are coming out
rapidly in the general orders issued daily
by the department. the appointments
being made generally upon the request
of the major generals and the briga-
dier generals yet to be provided for in
this matter.
The state department to-day an
nounced that the Polaria of the Ham,
burg american line, at Key West.
which was authorized to land certain
provisions in Havana, had declined TO
avail herself of the privilege, so that the
department is relieved of what prom
ised to be an embarrassing incident and
of the necessity Of establishing what
might prove to be a dangerous prece-
dent.
Officials here dismiss as pure invention
the story coming from Montreal that
former Minister Polo has succeeded in
securing for Spain a coaling station on
one of the French islands of ST. Pierre
and Miquelon, off the Newfoundland
coast