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The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
The President Begins His In
spectiOn at MOntauk.
Accompanied by Secretary OF
War Alger.
CANNONS BOOM FORTH
In the National Salute of 21
Guns.
Shafter is Sick and Wheeler
Does the HOnOrs.

Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, L. L.
Sept. 3-The president and secretary OF
war arrived at Camp WikOff at $40.
Major General Wheeler and his stair
greeted Mr.. Mckinley, Mr.. Alger and
their party on the station platform
Outside. a thousand smart troopers of
the Third cavalry were drawn up and
the converted yacht Eileen in the road
stead slowly doomed forth the presi-
dents salute of q guns.
General Wheeler met the president
because General Shafter has a touch of
fever and does not feel able to move
from his cot. Besides, General Shafter
is still in detention and it would hardly
comport with the discipline of the camp
for the commanding general to disre-
gard the detention rules.
General Wheeler arranged for the in
spection party to go through the de-
tention camp, past General Skaters
tent, where the president will greet the
commander Of the Santiago forces.
"This is Beautiful"
With the president, besides the secre-
tary of war, were:
Vice President Hobart, Attorney Gen
eral Griggs. Senator Proctor of Yer
mont, Brigadier General Egan, Briga-
dier General Ludington, Major Webb c.
Hayes, son of the late President Hayes,
Colonel M T. Herrick of Cleveland,
William Mex Barber Of Canton, O., NJ.
H. Herrick of Cleveland, Secretary
Porter and Assistant Secretary Cortel-
you.
The ladies of the party were Mrs. Al
ger and Miss Hecker.
Major General Wheeler was sur
rounded by number of his staff. The
carriages. preceded by the cavalry.
wound up the hill to General Wheeler's
headquarters.
There the president took a long view
of the wide, tireIess expanse, checkered
with regimentaI camps and hospitals,
great parterres of canvas amid stretch
of grass.
This is beautiful. Mr.. Mckinley said,
and then later: Il think never saw a
handsomer camp"
After a two minutes wait, the presi-
dent drove through the detention camp
to Major General Skaters tent The
general was in full uniform, but his
face was flushed with fever He en-
deavOred to rise from the chair in
which he sat as the president entered
the tent.
Don't get up, general" said Mr. Nc
Kinley, as they shook hands. You are
entitled to rest. How are you?"
"A little achy," replied the general,
but otherwise all right
Mrs. Alger remained in General Shaf-
ter's tent while the president, Secretary
Alger, Mr.. Griggs and others went to
the general hospital
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03

plan for the defense of Santiago, Pando
probably insisted on delivering the
funds direct in Madrid, rather than
through BlancO. Here again, secrecy
would be essential
It is worthy of note that on the Notre
Dame du Salut, besides Pando, were
General Figuereca and Sahedo, sent
home in disgrace by Blanco. Other
passengers included many cadets from
Spanish military schools and wounded
or i'll soldiers, provided with blankets
and other comforts by the Spanish Red
Cross.
Apropos of Pando's departure, per-
sons here have long been asking what
became of three other officers who left
Cuba when Pando did to secure vessels
to run the blockade, each of these other
three having carried away for that pur-
pose fifty thousand pesos from which
report says nothing has been heard
since.
Within the last few days the authori-
ties here Reconstructed the system OF
patrol boats about the Maine wreck
as maintained before the war, intend
ing to show the commission their de-
termination that American property
shall be fully protected and incidentally,
that they do not regard the cause of
the disaster as determined and intend
to give no opportunity for the manu-
facture of evidence such as would be
natural from their point of view.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03

Is, for Chickamauga Park
Colonel Studebaker said: This is
not the same regiment I took away
from Indianapolis last May.
1.-The personality is the same but it
is made up of different lot Of men.
They have fever in their very bones;
they are hungry and their strength is
wasted. 1t is all due to the cess pools
in which we lived in the south. When
the men left Indianapolis they were
strong and showed their hardness.
They were all right when we left Chick
amauga Park.
Il charge the condition of my men
to the camp at Port Tampa, it and the
conditions surrounding it. For eight
weeks we were in camp there, ex-
posed to the fevers and the unrelenting
sun of Florida. We have not been in
the shade of a tree since last June. 1t
was a happy day for US when we re-
ceived orders to leave there. But when
we moved we did not better our cOndi-
ton much. The fevers followed US
day by day, the regiment became
weaker. At Fernandina we had the
same difficulty to obtain proper food.
The United States authorities seemed
willing enough to provide US with what
we needed, but Fernandina is such an
out of the way place that it is difficult
to reach it. One railroad runs to the
town
when men who have been investi-
eating the condition of the Florida
camp say we have not been in actual
need of food and medical assistance
they don't know what they are talking
about. My men can not march in
straight lines on account of their weak
ness. They can not march any dis
tance without many of them having to
drop out of the ranks to rest. I think
that our coming home saved the lives
of hundreds in the regiment"
The officers of Colonel Studebaker's s
regiment hesitate about fixing on any
particular government official. They
are still in the service and court mar
tial might meet the man who talks too
much
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
HAIL TO THE QUEEN OF MIRTH.

newspapers announce Pando's depart
ure on the Philadelphia.
Before daybreak in the morning, when
few were about, General Pando and
suite were aboard the Notre Dame du
Salut, every effort being made to avoid
notice. Pando was no sooner aboard
the ship than he sent for Captain Pill
ard and entrusted 10000 900 francs to
his safe keeping, obtaining a receipt for
it. Pando then locked himself in his
state room and remained concealed un-
til the ship left the harbor about z
o'clock in the evening.
There are many plausible reasons for
General Pando's conduct, though ex-
actly which one moved him it is impos-
Sible to ascertain. Much depends upon
where the treasure he carried away
came from, but whatever it's source.
when the army is seven months in ar
rears and the civil list four months,
and while both cry out for pay, it is
obvious that a dangerous amount Of
discomfort will be stirred up if the
knowledge of the transportation of any
such amount becomes public.
Although Pando had the reputation
of having considerable private wealth.
it is prepOSterOuS to suppose any such
sum could be realized on his property
here under existing circumstances. If
the amount taken was paid by BlancO
at Madrid's order, army and civil list
conditions would make secrecy abso-
Iutely essential
If it was taken without Blanco's
knowledge, no matter from what source,
secrecy would be no less necessary for
Pando, because of the treasury straits
here. The funds may have been the
combined resources euphenisticaIly
called the savings of Pando and friend
ly officers. The sum may have been
and most probably was, largely made
up of subscriptions from Spaniards in
South America, Central America and
Mexico, which reached Pando in large
amounts during his visit to Mexico.
General Blanco having ignored Pando's
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
CHICAGO AN OVEN
Intense Heat Causes Suspension
of Work.
Suffering in the Tenement
Districts is Great.
SIMILAR CONDITIONS
Prevail Over All Territory East
of the Rockies.
Mercury Reaches 100 For
Three Days at Huron, s. D.

Chicago, Sept. 3.-Should the high
temperature continue unbroken until
tomorrow morning all Chicago heat
records for duration will have been
broken. The record today has been 1--WE
consecutive days with a maximum
temperature in the nineties. In many
places work has been suspended in
shops and where men are obliged to
labor in places exposed to the sun. The
suffering of the people in the tenement
districts has been intense.
For extent and intensity of heat Prof.
Cox of the weather bureau says that
the present hot wave is about as Sc
we're as anything he has observed. TT
covers" said he, practically the entire
country east of the Rocky mountains,
and has run as high as 102 down in
Kansas, while at Huron, South Dakota,
there have been three successive days
of 100 weather.
The report of fatalities and prostra-
tions from heat the past "a hours in
Chicago showed one dead-Mrs. H. p
Lindley-nine prostrated whose recov-
cry was doubtful, and thirty-one less
seriously overcome.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
SISTERS SAVED THEM.
Kansas Soldiers Received No Care
From Army Surgeons.

from army SuISSOnS.
Kansas City Star: Bring these boys
a couple of graveyards," said the keep
er of a Union avenue eating shop to
his chief waiter.
4 feel ready for one" said a wan
soldier, one of the boys"
The waiter brought milk toast.
Emaciated and weak, Privates Albert
York of Company B, Lewis Bossing of
Company I. George Brook of Company
A and Orvil Kimban of Company K,
Twenty-first Kansas volunteers, arrived
at the Union depot at 1920 o'clock last
evening over the Wabash on their way
to their Kansas homes from the horror
hospitals at Chickamauga.
1T was the doctors" said York, the
doctors. the grub and the water. Those
doctors are regular butchers. They re
brutes. We had no care. If it hadn't t
been for the Sisters of Charity, l
wouldn't be here now. There were
sixty of them in the division hospital.
They nearly worked themselves to
death There were not enough of them,
but tell you they saved lots of US.
THE one who saved me- said the
Kansan, fumbling at the throat OF his
shirt, gave me this rosary. 1 m not a
Catholic, but I'll wear 1t.
York's home is at Larned. He weighed
$50 pounds stripped when he enlisted.
Yesterday he and his clothes weighed
124 pounds.
You see,'' said York, 'Dr Turner,
the regular surgeon of the Twenty first,
got sick and went away, and poll
tician named NetteIdorph or something
like that took his place. He was
butcher. Five days he sent me back to
duty sick, and the last day my tenn
perature was 101. They carried me to
the hospital that night. This same
surgeon was detailed to the ward was
in, and he never came around to look
at US"
DIR. Turner used to come three and
four times a day when he was there
put in Bossing.
yes, he did" replied York. ''He gave
the sick attention. The other fellow
didn't; he gave US no medicine hardly,
and the only care we had was from the
Sisters"
Bossing lives in Lorraine, Brook in
Sterling and Kimba1l in Smith Center
They all left last night for their homes
to rest thirty days and hope they will
soon be mustered out.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
PERHAPS MURDER.
1t is Now Denied That Col. Hem
ry Committed Suicide.

New York Sept "a dispatch to the
Herald from Paris says:
Among the many wild rumors flying
bout is one that Colonel Henry did
not commit suicide. The Figaro says
that when the commissary of police ar
rived at Mount Valleren he asked for
Colonel Henry's valise and the razor
with which he committed suicide He
was told they had both been sent to the
ministery of war.
This extraordinary proceeding could
not fail to be commented upon here,
where respect for legal formality is car
ried to such a superstitious extent that
the people would leave a man hanging
rather than cut him down before the
arrival of the police.
The Eclair referring to this matter
says:
This controversy has shown US long
ago to what depths certain individuals
can descend, so we are not surprised
to read that the suicide of Colonel
Henry was perhaps murder"
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
OH, NO.
Of Course These Stories of
Horror Among Soldiers
Are All Lies, But 1t Looks
Very Strange
THAT ALL N. Y.PAPERS
Regardless of Politics Print
the Same Stories.
What the New York Mail and
Express Says.
THAT ALLN. Y.PAPERS

The entire press of New York city is
united in declaring that the outrageous
treatment of the soldiers at NIontauk
Point and other places is a disgrace to
the war department. AS these papers
all have dozens of reporters there, it
stands to reason that these reports can
not all be false. The New York Mail
and Express, which is not a so-called
yellow paper at all, but is extremely
conservative, contains the following:
If the members of the Eighth New
York live 100 years, none of them will
forget that ride from Chickamauga
Park to the Grand Central depot which
ended yesterday. The horrors of the
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
DEATHS AT CAMP WIKOFF.
There are Over 1900 Sick in the
Hospitals.

Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point. Sept.
3.-The deaths in the general hospital
yesterday were:
Edwin Eugene Casey, troop clerk
Rough Riders.
Abraham Robertson, company D,
Fourth regiment infantry.
Frank Hagerman, Eighth Ohio.
Hubbard White, Seventy-frst New
Daniel F. Conover, Ninth Massachus-
etts.
Ira Lebold, company F, Twelfth in
William A Shake. First Illinois.
Clarke Frazier, company D, Eighth
regiment.
II. c. Eaton, First Illinois.
Isaac Hottie, company D, Seventh in
fantry.
In the detention hospital:
Chas Genske, Thirty-third Michigan.
Morris Dolan, teamster, Third regi-
ment infantry.
Carleton Day, Thirty third Michigan
Albert Bennke, Thirty-fourth Michi-
gan.
A. B. Clay, Eighth Ohio.
Ray Pardee, Thirty-fourth Mlchigah.
William 3. Ryan, First Illinois
John L Shields, teamster, IWentleth
regiment infantry.
At the general hospital there are l.
Z76 sick; at the detention hospital 25O
One hundred men were furIoughed-
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03

easily supplied. Some regiments are
supplied by hydrants in front of each
connanv and some from carts.
Colonel Moore says there is an abund-
ant supply of this water which has
been analyzed and pronounced absO-
lutely pure. The sanitary conditions of
the camp are excellent. Precautions
have been taken to prevent any trOu-
Bile arising from the sinks and refuse
matter. Colonel Moore also reports that
the food is abundant and the troops ap-
parently well satisfied. President Nc
Kinley when at Camp Meade told Col.
Moore that he considered the place an
ideal one.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
COAL MINERS ON A STRIKE.
Operators Refuse to Keep Agreement
as to Wages.

Pittsburg, Kan, Sept. 3.-The miners
working for the Central Coal and Coke
company at Nelson quit work because
of the failure of that company to live
up to it's agreement made with them a
little over a year ago.
All of the coal companies, with the
exception of the Central Coal and Coke
company, posted notices that they
would for the next six months pay the
price of Sc cents for mine run coal and
971z cents for lump coal, the price
agreed upon for the winter months
The summer price has been 81 cents
and 8715 cents, and nearly all of the
operators have been working a full
force during the summer in order to
have large quantities of the cheaper
mined coal on hand to supply their fall
orders.
Some of the operators have how
ever, had so many orders lately that
they have not been able to accumulate
any surplus coal mined at the summer
price The coal operators expect a
busy season
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
DEMOLISHED.
All the Forts Opposite Omdur-
man Are Destroyed.

London, Sept. 3.-The Evening Tele-
graph in its three o'clock edition this
afternoon, publishes a brief dispatch
saying:
"Au the forts of Omdurman have been
destroyed. Great success. No casual
ties''
London, Sept. 3-The British war Of
fee at noon today received a dispatch
from Nasri on the Nile saying that a
gunboat had returned there and had
reported that there were no casualties
among the Anglo Egyptian forces, that
the right bank of the river had been
completely cleared of all forts, that
the forts on Tuti island. opposite On
durman had been demolished and that
the guns had been captured.
The dispatch also said the hOwitzer
practice of the Sirdar's force was ex-
cellent.
The war Office. later in the day, re-
ceived an another dispatch from Cen
eral Sir Herbert Kitchener, by way of
Nasri 1t was not dated and read as
follows:
owing to the wet weather the lines
have been broken and telegraphic COM
munication has been interrupted Am
sending this to Nasri to be forwarded.
''The march has been very favorable.
Practically none has fallen out of the
ranks or been invalided.
During the two days we have driven
in the Dervish cavalry and small par
ties, after slight resistance. From Jo-
bel Royan we marched to Wadel Oben,
thence to Sayal and thence to Surarat.
This morning we rached Egina, a mile
and a half south of Kerreri, six miles
from Omdurman. The mounted camel
corps with horse battery pushed for
ward to Khorshamba, whereupon the
entire Dervish force issued from ON
durman and were clearly visible. es-
timated his force at $4,000 men. They
advanced at IL a. M
The SirTadarra dispatch was appar-
emily sent after receiving KeppePs re-
port and the telegram breaks off at an
important point.
Further news is awaited here with in
tense interest.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
PANDO SLIPS OUT
The Spanish General Embarks
Secretly For Spain
With 100000 Francs In
His Wallet.
LEFT IN THE NIGHT.
Shut Himself Up In His State
Room.
Where He Got the Money is a
Mystery.
EFT IN THE NIGHT.

New York. Sept. "a dispatch to
the Herald from Havana via Key West
says:
Having successfully done everything
in his power to convey the impression
he was sailing to Spain via New York
on the steamship Philadelphia Thurs
day, General Pando instead secretly
started direct for his native land about
ten hours later on the French steamer
Notre Dame du Salut, it is said, with
$4,000, 900 francs
The secret was so effectually kept
that very few persons here have any
knowledge of it and all the Havana
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03

US like a herd of wild beasts.
Il saw one man, who was fearfully
i'll from malarial fever, taken off his
cot and stretched on the bare ground,
that the cot might be given to an Off
Ger. had a violent attack of cramps,
and Surgeon Lindheim gave me quinine
took the pills, but the pain did not
cease, so I went back to him and he
literally fired me out of his presence.
There would have been half a dozen
deaths on this trip but for the noble
work of women at various stations
along the route
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03

The Mail and Express reporter, who
was provided with a two gallon can of
milk, went through the last car dealing
it out He found at least a dozen men
unable to lift themselves in bed, and
two of them, Stark and NaughtOn, who
just managed to whisper their names,
were unable to drink the milk when the
reporter lifted their heads and placed
the cups to their mouths. TOO late!
Too late!' muttered Naughton, and
fell back Captain Baker came along
about that time and, with Captain
Hegeman, sponged down the faces of
the men and bathed their foreheads.
DeIiriOus.
st don't mind dying" shouted a man
said to be Demorest; but, oh, it's so
tough to die without seeing ones peo-
pie Why doesn't the train go faster ?''
And the train was doing forty-fve
miles an hour ali the time "Give me
air. shouted Flynn as he attempted to
fight his way to the rear platform. One
of the convaIescents sat on the plat
form of the fifth car doing thirty miles
of the trip sketching on a piece of pa
per, as he supposed, the scenery of the
Hudson as it went by. He had never
sketched In his life, yet in his delirium
he thought he could and should draw
One of the members of company H
of which George Livingston Baker is
captain, said that a general charge
would be prepared against Surgeon
Lindheim in a few days. wait until
we are mustered out" said this man.
"Then we will tell something that will
astOnish the people. Our captain did
all he could to help US, but that man
his name makes my blood boil. One Of
the surgeons attached to our regiment
used to be a corporal in the ambulance
corps and now he appears on the list
as a surgeon. The brutal treatment to
US all has not been confined to the
train At Chickamauga they treated
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
M'KINLEY A MOURNER.
Joins the Funeral Procession of a
Soldier

New York, Sept. 3.-While on its wav
70 the Fifth Avenue hotel yesterday af-
ternoon, the carriage containing Pres
ident Mckinley. Vice President fTober+
rand Private Secretary Porter. met a
delegation from the First regiment as
cortlng the remains of Corporals She'd
ana 1Inmen, who were killed in the
charge of San Juan hill. to the cena-
tery: With reverentiaI respect the
president and his party removed their
nats- - Ihe presidents head was low
SEeu ana ne seemed to be deepIv a
fected by the spectacle. The presi5er+is :
carriage followed the funeral corteea
SNA 1No pIocks down Fifth avenue. below
tt"eihIy1thlrd - ei street, and then returned
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
CAMP MEADE ALL RIGHT
President Mckinley Saw It and Said
So.

Washington, Sept. 3.-Colonel Moore
S,d. OF the quartermaster's department, has
returned to Washington from Middle
town, where he has been in charge of
work at Camp Meade. He has made a
verbal report to Secretary Alger of the
Sonultlons there He says that the
camp IS one of the finest farms in
Eehnsylvania, on high, rolling grO,111
rom $50 to 400 feet above the Suso1Ie-
mama river The water supply is abunf-
s1ilt 5L ana IS obtained from such a source
'-Iq,- Ia tnefe can be no possible danger of
PolluIon- Three artesian wells furnish
She supply. They are from 271 to 3S1
1eet oeep bored through solid granite
r9i ns ii some Instance and through $50 feet
Eeacned- This water is piped about the
camps and to tents where carts are
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
10000 MEM
Have Already Received mastering
Out Orders.

Washington, Sept. 3.-A statement
prepared at the war department shows
that SO per cent of the organizations in
the volunteer army have received or
ders looking to their being mustered
out of the service. This number in
cludes So regiments and a number of
minor organizations, such as batteries
of artillery Independent companies of
cavalry, etc, and probably represents
almost one-third of the approximated
22O, 900 men called for by the president
in the two proclamations issued by him.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
ALGER ACTS PROMPTLY.
Orders Adjutant Generals of the
States to Take Charge of the Sick.

Washington, Sept 3.-Senator Allen.
of Nebraska, was at the war depart
ment today looking after the interests
OF sick soldiers of the Second Nebraska.
He had received a telegram from Oma-
ha, saying that these soldiers were ar
irving there without provision having
been made for their care. Secretary
Alger at once directed that the adiutant
general OF Nebraska take charge of the
sick soldiers and place them in bOsnit-
ais, the expense to be borne by the
United States Subsequently a general
order was issued to the adjutant gen.
erals Of different states directing them
the same basis -
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
HORRIBLE SMASH UP.
Express Train DeraiIed by a
Loaded Baggage Truck.

London Sept. IA terrible accident has
taken place at Wellingborough railway
station on the London and Northwestern
railroad near Manchester. Two boys
pushed loaded luggage trolley the
track just as the express train was ap-
preaching at a speed of so miles an hour
The train was derailed and fearful scenes
ensued The wrecked railway carriage
caught fire, the engineer, fireman and two
passengers were killed and many others
were seriously injured.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
SUFFERED FOR FOOD.
Col Studebaker Recites the Hard
ships of the "Tigers."

indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 3.-Colonel
Studebaker's Tigers the One Hun
dred and Fifty-seventh Indiana volun-
teers have reached here from the south.
The regiment left it's camp at Fer
nandfna last Tuesday evening. This
regiment left Indianapolis Sunday, May
The Topeka state journal., 1898-09-03
PRISONERS ESCAPE.
Saw Out of the New Jail at Hays
City.

Hays. City. Sept. 9-Three prisoners
broke Jail here last night by cutting out
Of Of the cage with saw. They. then cut
through the chimney and wall and eS-
capped The jail is a new building, only
completed and turned over this week. The
prisoners are at large.