The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-05
UP THE CAMP
Wikoff Will Be Nearly Deserted
by October l..
AND CALAMITY
Roosevelt Praises His Men in a Farewell
Speech-Water Supply to Be Ex-
amined - Wheeler LIkes
the Camp.

Camp wikon, Montauk Point Sept.
4-This great camp will dissolve during
the coming three weeks and by OCTOBER
first Il will have shrunk TO slender pro
portions. The well men, according to
the war departments set designs. VIII
leave the camp as fast as transportation
can be conveniently provided, probably
at the rate OF 1000 or 1000 a week. h
convalescents from the hospitals, IN
stead Of again being sent into camp, VIII
go TO their homes.
The president, Secretary Alger and
General Wheeler had a ak about IL,
and although General Wheeler thought
the men would do well in camp untlI
October /. IL was determined 10 continue
sending them away. The regulars tax
en- from the post east of the Misslsslp-
nj will. according to the present dlrec-
lions, be sent where they were before
the war. The war department mas not
transmitted the order to General Shatter
vet. but it will no doubt be received
bv Tuesday. The Sth Ohio and LIST llli-
nois will break camp Tuesday. Inc
Rough Riders will muster out toward
the end of the week probably ana VIII
not parade.
The Rough Riders had religious SER
vices in their camp to-day. CORONER
Z Roosevelt. dllET II pldih
concluded, made a little speech, a sort
of farewell some of the men took II 10
be. Colonel Roosevelt commended the
daring and g~allantry Of the men, thelL
skill In managing horses and the use OF
arms. When the regiment was loInllhs
he said many men had offered them
selves. who said they were ready 10
storm the MORO or fight he'll" but
would not take kindly to camp routine
and drill. All such men had been reject
ed. The Rough Riders had all the
forces OF individual strength and in bat
tie were as coherent and effective as d
projectila
General Wheeler said that Lieutenant
Colonel Smart of the medical stan OF
The army had come to chemically exam
inc the water supplies to the camp. lie
was at the top of his profession ana
would IN two or three days be able TO
give an absolutely authoritative declsioh
as to the purity Of the water.
Women passing through the camp
were displeased by seeing hat some did
not have floors, and fancied that the
mon must sleep on the ground. Jhey
were wrong in supposing that. IN tents
without floors were wooden punkS OF
4. thick straw. AS for himself. Generai
Wheeler said he liked the camp better
every day and would like to live IN II
until October l.
The season of heavy gales is ap,
p1oachIng and the war department
foresees that the Long Island railway
: may not be able to move conVenlentlS
/, more than 1000 a day. Plans nave peer
: partially made to transport troops L
I New.York by water IL ii should be ad
e visable.
The troop ship Roumania, five day.
: from Santiago, came in to-day VIII
% company X and two OF the 9tn Massa
I chusetts and cOnvalescents from Varlou'
: commands, in all about 500 men. sever
died on the voyage and were buried a
DANIEL CoNNERs, sth Massachu
5 ORVILLE DEAN. United States en-
e Clneer corps. acute dysentery.
y TIMOTHY O'MALLEY, Company IL
/" 9th Massachusetts. acute dysentery.
I HENRY NJ. BLODDlCk, Compan
u X, 9th Massachusetts, acute dysenlerS
& PAUL FRIENDMAN, Company {
list New York. acute mania
JOSEPH FRANZ, Company b, lot
infantry. acute mania.
s The Trnionist also arrived from san
n tiago with $50 men. Fffty-three Wer
Is Of COMPANY Il. 1st Illinois infantry. tt
rest were teamsters ana carpenters -
p on board are well.
Those who died in the general hospiti
= to-day we're:
y SAMUEL OSBORN, private, Con
= pany l, 7th infantry.
u MICHAEL O'HARA, private, Con
pany e. sth infantry.
JAMES MGRATH, private CON
pany +. Sth infantry.
OF HENRY SAWYER, private 10th ca
=. airy.
he JAMES RYAN, private. Company
=. 7th infantry.
10 MATHIA Hills. Company F, Sd II
- fantry.
10 ELMER GREENE, private, Compar
r. eth United states infantry.
no HEZEKIAH BELL, private. Cor
pany c., 25th infantry.
Number OF patients in general hosI
tai, l,040. -.
No one died at the detention hospii
rs to-day. 1t has 275 patients.
OF Arthur FEEBLE, a private in Compal
hk +, "a United States infantry, Kill
M himself in his tent to-day by shootil
on himself with a KraG-Jorgensen riff
W He was recruited in Tampa, Fla, we
ho TO Cuba, caught the fever and was o
20 of his mind for some time.
The signal men predict a windsto
tonight. Warnings were sent throug
out the camp to peg down all tents.
Sc HOT IN NEW YORK.