Mesa free press., 1898-10-14

commissioners are instructed to insist
that the United States may retain only
a port and coaling station in the Phil
ippines. If Spain is required to give I'D
sovereignty, she will demand the right
to sell any power what island territory
remains to her.
Important results are likely to fol-
low the extensive tour of inspection of
the military camps just completed by
Secretary Alger, especially in the mat
ter of recognizing the hospital service
in the field. The secretary conferred
closely with commanding officers and
medical officers at the camps, but es-
pecially with the fifteen colonels whom
he met, looking to the ascertainment
of their views upon the relative merits
of the division hospital and the regi-
mental hospital.
Fifty steamers and schooners of the
Great Lakes are being chartered by a
New York syndicate to transfer to At
lantic coast trade. OF this number fif-
teen have already been secured, and
will be on the Iseaboard within a
month. Outside trade, which is pros
pering greatly, has drawn away SO
many of the seaboard vessels that
there is a shrinkage in coast tonnage
just at time when the expected in
crease in Cuban and Porto Rican trade
has added largely to the emand.
Reports coming into th postofice
department show the volum. of postal
business done at Manila, in tA Philip
pines, Ponce, in Porto Rico, ant Santi-
ago, in Cuba 1t is believed the re-
ceipts will fully meet the expenditures
of the service. First Assistant Post
master-Gen. Heath received a state
ment showing that at Manila up to the
1st inst the United States postage
stamps sold amounted to over $4,000.
The amount of stamps issued to the
Manila postoffice through the postoffice
at San Francisco aggregated $50, $50.
The President has accepted an invi-
tation rendered by large delegation
the peace jubilee to be held in Phila-
delphia October 26 and q, and said
he would secure the cooperation Of the
army and navy in the exercises as far
as possible. Gen. Miles has been in
vited to act as chief marshal It is in
tended to have about 10000 troops pres
ent and to have several warships take
part in the celebration if possible, and
| Secretaries Alger and Long promised
to do the best they can in that respect.
| When the public schools in Greater
New York opened for the fall term it
was found that 10000 children were
unable to secure seats. But the board
of education of that metropolis, equal
| to the emergency, has recommended
the expenditure of over $7,000,000 in
providing suitable buildings for the ac-
commodation of the entire school pop
ulation. The speedy action of the
directors in bridging over the difficulty
is commendable. Pending the necessary
delay in construction of buildings, tenn
porary school rooms have been secured
in private dwellings and other suitable
| buildings.
| The notorious French scheme, the
Panama canal project, will be brought
up in Washington Immediately after
the opening of the next session of con-
gress, in December, and this govern
ment will be asked to abandon the
Nicaragua canal for Panama. French
men who are interested in the Panama
canal have been very active since it
became apparent that the United States
| intended to shorten the water distance
between New York and the Pacific
coast, and they are trying to induce
| this government to take under it's
| fostering care. the enterprise started in
Paris that developed into the most gi-
gantic swindle of the age.
Semi-official letters have been re-
ceived from Gems. Lawton and Wood
at the war department. These letters
give some account of the conditions
which exist and what these officers are
doing in the province of Santiago. They
say that they are getting along as well
as could be expected; the Cubans are
being treated well, and those who are
willing to work are given employment,
the more intelligent being selected for
positions in the government service
which they are fitted to occupy. The
letters encourage the officials of the
department to believe that the problem
of government of Cuba will work itself
out, and patience on the part of the
American people is required.
1t is made public that the prize fight
ers, Corbett and Mccoy, INDUCED in
the fooling of the public in their re-
cent signing of articles to fight. One
set was signed for the public, the 9TH
er for private inspection. The former
held the fight was to be for $4,000,
the winner to get all, and it was gem
orally considered that this was to be
the financial outcome of the proposed
contest. Yesterday, however, Corbett
stated that private agreement had
been drawn up by which, no matter
who won, the $4,000 was to be equally
divided, the division to take place be-
fore the fight Corbett, who is greatly
disgruntled since his encounter with
Mccoy at the Gilsey House yesterday,
announces he will tear up the old
agreement and sign new one for a
square fight on October Is.
If the President takes John Hays
advice, he will appoint Henry Adams
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