Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-18

and local company b was distressed
several hours Monday in fitting him
out. He Is anxious to measure hiinF If
with a Spaniard, and said If II was
necessary he would go to the front
without any clothes on at all.
The women and children are still
fleeing from Casper as though panic
stricken, says the Laramie Boomerang
They are going In every direction, any
where to save their children from the
terrible disease now raging there. 1t
Is meningitis epidemic and usually
attacks children between the ages of
4 and Is years, and so far not one case
out Of twenty RECEIVERS. The physicians
admit their inability to cope with the
disease. 1t is not known what is the
cause. but the doctors say 1t Is in the
atmosphere.
The underlying facts in the recent
deal In Hawaii Commercial and Sugar
stock, by which its market price has
been forced down from sS5 to s17. are
coming out, says the San Francisco
Chronicle. C. A. Spreckels and Ru-
dolph Spreckels have drawn the fire of
the brokers by accusing them Of being
responsible to the public for the losses
sustained by the depreciation of the
security, which is termed n natural
one, and by charging them with an at
ton, to declare a dividend and unload
when their stock has been well worked
up. These statements have naturally
aroused the ire of those attacked. and
they retoin by assertions supported by
letters to show that. on the contrary,
they and their customers have been
grossly deceived by the Spreckels
been to abase the price Of the stock so
as TO freeze out the mass of investors,
with the idea of buying 1t back at re-
duced figure ridiculously below its
market value.
Major General Il. S. Otis, who has
been ordered by the war department to
proceed to the Philippine Islands as
second in command to Major General
Wesley Merritt, has arrived in san
Francisco, accompanied by his staff
He will not talk for publication regard.
dng his future movements, stating that
the orders he has received have al
ready been made public Two bat
talions or nearly 700 volunteers from
Oregon will arrive in San Francisco to-
day wednesday, and Will pitch their
tents at the preside. A hospital corps
for the first and second battallons will
be completed today. 1t is being made
up of a number of scholarly young
men, among whom are several drug
gists and dentists. Branches of the
Red Cross society are being established
throughout California, and it is pro-
posed to call convention to organize
state society. a company of light cav
airy is being formed In Oakland and
an infantry company of colored men
Will be organized in the same city,
Both viii tender their services to the
government.
San Francisco Chronicle special
from Victoria, b. C., says: ]. Stuart
Jones, the Manila sugar king and mer-
chant prince, has arrived on the EN-
press of India, en- route to London, his
alleged mission being to represent to
the British foreign office the hopes and
wishes of the Philippine commercial
community. Jerome Jones, his travelling
companion from Manila. says that
business on the islands must stand still
until assurance Is given that some
strong foreign power Will assume con-
troll of the destnles of the islands, the
residents If successful In throwing of
the yoke of Spain being too incom-
petent and unstable for effective self
government. A strong party in Japan
Is said to be trying hard to force
Premier Ito intoi the affairs of the
islands. making community of inter-
ests and contiguity of territory an ex-
cuse for Intervention. 1t is declared
however. that Ito declines to inter-
fore, and threatens to resign If pressed
too far. Residents of Manila who have
arrived in Victoria declare that weeks
before the declaration of war the Phil