Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-09-08
PRESIDENT AT wlkoFF.
Cheered the Sick Heroes OF the San
tiago Campaign.

Cheered the Sick Heroes OF the San
tiago Campaign.
Camp WikoR, Montauk Point, N.
X, SEPT. 6.--President 9. Mckinley epent
FIVE hours In the camp today, bare
beaded most of the time, visiting the
sick in the hospitals and inspecting
the we'll in their cantoDments. He
made speech to the assembled in
fantrymen, reviewed the cavalrymen,
expressed his opinion Of tho camp to
the reporters, and issued an order di-
recting the regiments to return to
their stations east OF the Mississippi.
With the president were Vice Presi-
dent Hobart, Secretary OF War Alger,
Attorney-Gencral Griggs, Senator Red.
field Proctor, Brigadier-General Egan,
cornmissary Of the army; General Lud-
ington, quartermaster Of the army;
Colonel Henry Hecker, and Secretaries
to the President Porter and Cortelyou.
The ladies Of the party were Mrs. Al
ger and Miss Hecker. daughter OF
Colonel Hecker.
1SbSIdt UHSttcJp HIS htaHJ anu
nearly every officer Of prominence in
the camp met the president at the sta.
tion, except General Shafter, who is
still in bed, and General Young, who
feIr and broke his arm last night.
After greetings and introiuctions on
the railway platform, the president
took General WheeleI's arm and went
TO carriage.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, OF the
rough riders. was among group OF
horsemen nearby. Mr.. Mckinley saw
him and got out Of the carriage to
speak to him. Colonel Roosevelt has
tily dismounted and tnsseled with a
gauntlet for 10 seconds, so that un-
gloyed lie might shake hands.
Tie column Of carriages wound up a
hill, escorted by the Third cavalry reg
iment, and the mounted band Of the
Sixth cavalry. The party paused a
moment on the hill, and the president
looked out on the wide, andulating
camp, water bounding each side and
wliitened on the levels and hilltops by
the tents OF is, coo men,. laid out in
geometric lines.
MIR. Mckinley drove to General
Skaters tent in the detention camp.
The general. who was flushed and
weak from mild case OF malarial
fever, was in full uniform, sitting in
chair at the door Of the tent. He tried
to rise, but President Mckinley said:
"Stay where you are, general; you
are entitled to rest
The president congratulated General
Shatter on the Santiago victory, and
after few minutes rest, proceeded TO
the general hospital. The soldiers re-
Gently arrived on the transports and
detained in the detention section OF
the camp lined up irregularly on each
side OF the road aud cheered. The
president took off his straw hat then,
and scarcely more than put it on for
more than minute or two at time
during the remainder of his progress
through the camp.
Miss Wheeler. a daughter OF the gen.
eral, happened TO be in the first row OF
the hospital tents, and she showed the
president through her division.
General Wheeler announced in each
ward; Boys, the president has come
TO see you;" or, Soldiers, the presi-
dent of the United States.
Some of the soldiers slept nncon-
scious, some listlessly raised upon their
elbows, Others feebly clapped their
hands. Mr.. Mckinley gently shook
hands with many. and at every cot he
paused an instant. and if he saw the
sick man looking at him he bowed in a
direct and personal way.
In the second ward the president en-
tered. Sergeant John A. Alexander,
company d, First Illinois, who has
fever, was rather startled to hear Gen.
oral Wheeler announce the president.
The sergeant half raised upon his cot.
Mr.. Mckinley, attracted by the move
ment, took Alexander's hands and
said:
| am sorry to see you so sick. l
hope that you are getting better"
Thank you; ! think | shall get
we'll. I"
do you wish for anything?" asked
General Wheeler.
No, have everything good for me,
] guess, Alexander replied wearily.
''but wish were home"
:" hope that we may soon get you
there" said Mr.. Mckinley.
He had many such bits OF talk with
the men, and seemed to be in no
hurry. He almost outwore the pa
tience of all his party by his slow
going through ward after ward.
Ambushed by Indians.
Tacoma, WASH, Sept. 6.-The |
J. NJ, Coleman, which arrived !
ON the Sound today from st. Michaels. |