The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-06
THE ARMY INCREASE
Work of Organizing Regulars and
Volunteers to the Full Strength.
MOVEMENT OF TROOPS TO THE SOUTH
Camp Supplies Being Forwsrded-Immi-
hence of the Invasion of Cuba shown
by the Chartering of Eight Steam
ers for Transporting Troops

WASHINGTON, April 29.-Every en-
deavor is being put forward by the
war department to organize the volun-
teer army and increase the regular
army to its full war strength--meas-
ures which require q vast amount of
details and laborious work. 1t is the
confident expectation of the officers
that rapid progress will be made with
this work and that, in the course of
several weeks, affairs will have so
shaped themselves that the volun-
teers and regulars will be in fairly
good organized condition-almost,
if not quite, ready for their mobili-
cation at the more central points,
prior to their active work in the field.
Notwithstanding that the apportion-
ment of troops among the states and
the designation of their rendezvous
were made after careful consideration,
efforts to have them changed are still
being made, and Secretary Alger and
Adjt Gen. Corbin were yesterday again
busy considering applications in that
direction. Mastering rolls of the com
panies of the volunteer army have been
prepared in the war department and
sent to the officers who have been de-
tailed to formally induct the state
troops into the service of the national
government. With few notifications
they are the same as those used in
the late war. The question of arms
and other equipments for the volun-
teers is now receiving the attention of
N nd N ,Na
master generals department AS soon
as information is received as to the
exact number of arms needed for the
volunteers, they will be shipped to
their state rendezvous for distri ton.
1t is now thought that the war de-
partment officials will avail themselves
of the facilities offered by the cities
of Nashville, Atlanta and Chattanooga
for concentrating some of the troops
of the volunteer army. Washington
and Richmond are also places at which
these troops will be concentrated. The
probability is that other cities in the
south will also be selected for this
purpose, but it is not likely that any
steps in the direction OF mobilization
will be taken for some weeks.
MOVEMENT OF TROOPS TO THE SOUTH.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, April 80. is
now positively known that all of the
Ninth cavalry, the Twentyfourth in
fantry and the entire eight batteries
of artillery, now conferred at Chicka-
manga, will leave for the south as
soon as they can be loaded on the cars,
which are in readiness for them. By
tonight, 1t is thought, all of the trains
will be on their way to Tampa.
Shortly before ten o'clock bugler of
the Ninth cavalry with two companies
of the regiment, which arrived from
Utah yesterday afternoon, sounded
the assembly" and the few troopers
who had been given permission to
leave the cars hurried along the streets
to the railroad yards. News of the
ordering of the troops south drew a
tremendous crowd around the depot
and railroad yards in spite of the late
hour, and the soldiers were cheered
again and again as the train pulled
out.
CAMP SUPPLIES BEING FORWARDED.
MOBILE, Ala, April ga train
moved out from the government mill
tary camp near Mobile yesterday for
Tampa, carrying supplies, escort
wagons, ambulances, mules and hos
tiers and transfers 1t is reported
here that this is the first step of a
movement that will finally concentrate
all the troops now here at Tampa, and
also those at New Orleans. so as to
form, with the troops at Tampa, a
force of 5000, TO be the advance guard
of the army of occupation of Cuba.
TRANSPORTS CHARTERED.
WAsHINGToN, April 20. "A rather
striking sign of the imminence OF the
invasion of Cuba was contained in the
chartering yesterday by the war de-
partment of eight large steamers of an
average capacity of about 1000 tons
and able to carry from 80 TO 1000 pas
sengers each. These are to be used as
transports for the conveyance Of the
first mi litarV eXnpdi tion tn Cubn