The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-18
THEY SAIL TODAY.
The Montana Volunteers Jubilant To Ges
Awsy-Kessler Will Command sne
PhiIadeIphia-Deatho OF Private.


special Dispatch to the Standard.
San Francisco, July 17.-To-morrow
Camp Merritt will send out soldiers
enough to fill another vessel for Manila,
and for the first time Montana viii send
forth her sons to do battle in a foreign
land. The 1st Montana regiment OF VOL
unteer infantry has been ordered to en-
bark tomorrow morning upon the
steamer Pennsylvania. The Pennsyi-
yania will go to Honolulu unaccompa-
MED. 1t is considered unnecessary to
send the transports in fleets now that
the Hawaiian islands have become part
of this country and may be used as a
rendezvous.
The LIST California recruits and the
Montana regiment were ordered last
evening TO pack all their belongings ex-
cept what they actually need for one
more day in camp and to place them
upon the steamer not later than o'clock
this afternoon.
The capacity of the Pennsylvania ID
given as 50 officers and 1.25o men, while
the 306 California recruits. the Mon
tana's AZ officers and 965 men and two
officers and Is men of the medical corps
make a total exceeding by 36 men the
present accommodations.
Montana men. from Colonel Kessler
down. have been in a jubilant mood all
day. delighted that they are to get away
from the fiIthiness of Camp Merritt.
and their great hope now is that war
will last long enough to give the
Dons in Manila taste Of the fighting
qualities of the sturdy men from Mon
tana. In view of the embarkation OF
the troops tomorrow the following
named privates of the 1st Montana In
fantry were, upon recommendation OF
the chief surgeon. transferred to the
hospital corps for active duty: Charles
Stuart Patterson. Company L: Daniel
A. McMillen and Warner Jennings, Com
pany B; Alexander G. Ralston. Com
pany G.
The following named medical officers.
hospital stewards and privates of the
hospital corps are. upon recommends
ton of the chief surgeon. assigned for
duty with troops about to take passage
on the steamship Pennsylvania: Major
S. o. L. Potter. brigadier surgeon u. s.
volunteers: Major F. J. Adams. assist
ant surgeon: s. C. Drumming and Leroy
southmayd and three hospital stewards
of the 1st Montana volunteers.
The recruits of the 1st California vol
unteers, who are to embark on the
Pennsylvania tomorrow. have been as
signed to the commanding officer of the
Montana volunteers. who will assign a
like number OF officers of the Montana
regiment TO have charge of them
during the voyage to Manila. Colonel
Harry C. Kessler of the Montana regi-
ment i'll be the commanding officer
on the Pennsylvania, reporting en- route
to Major General Otis at Honolulu IL
that officer is found there.
The Montana troops will embark at
, 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. but there
will probably be little delay in setting
sail for Manila via Honolulu.
Montana has just lost another man.
He was Frank A. Camp of Bozeman, a
private of Company c, and his death
was caused by empyaemia. a pus form
, alton in the pleural cavity. resulting
: probably from a cold on the lungs. He
5 died in the French hospital yesterday
! afternoon.