Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-03-17
TO DEFEND THE COAST
Army Officials Make Disposition Ct
Our Land Forces.
New Military Departments Are
Reconsideration Proctor Returns
and Is Observation-Disclosures sur
day i'll Washington.

and Is EntcrvievTcC-QW sur
day i'll Washington.
Washington, March 14.-The war de-
| partment Saturday promul gated it's
order creating the departments of the
gulf and Of the lakes and abolshing
the departments Of the Missouri and
Of Texas. The department of the east
! will embrace the states on the Atlantic
| coast to and including North Carolina;
the department of the lakes will include
Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana,
| Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, with
headquarters at Chicago, and the de-
partment of the gulf will comprise the
states of South Carolina, Gcorgia, Flori-
da, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, with headquarters at Atlanta.
Maj. Gen. John r. Brooke will COM
mand the department of the lakes and
Brig. Gen. William Graham the depart
ment. of the gulf.
Defense Of Pacific Coast.
Washington, March 14.-In making
preparations for the possibilities of the
future, the navy department has by no
means. overlooked the strategic defense
of the. Pacific coast. To guard properly
this important seaboard it has been
found. necessary to send dr. advanced
guard some. distance down the South
ern Pacific ocean. The battleshp Ore
gon, the sister of the Indiana, and one of
the most powerful vessels in the navy,
has been selected for this work. Sec
rotary Long Saturday telegraphed Or
ders to her commander through the
commandant of the Mare Island navy
yard, to leave San Francisco and cruise
down the southern coast: F. 49,:
-, NIass1n.; War Forces.
Sem Miles. has matured plans for the
massing of all available troops, Both
infantry and. cavalry; at stations aldn 2:
the Atlantic seaboard. His order to
this effect has already becil sent TO
Secretary Alger:i !. III. !: 49,.
/ AdYices have been sent. to command
| ing officers at interior bbirts to hold
themselves in readiness ito move at a
mome&t's NOTICE. 1T is s4apected that
withinI..a few days the"line Of defense
will be.1complete along the,sn tire coast:
Private concerns engaged in doing
governHa emit work in the fine of fur
niishing guns or ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS BEEN
ordered to finish contracts with all pos
'sible dispafch. q: = IS
Preparing to Move Troops.
Washington, March LITTLE govern
ment is. perfecting:its plans.to make the
| movements OF troops to the coast de-
"fenses, orders for which We're. ISSUED by
the war department on Friday and pub
lished at that time. * conference was
held here Sunday by representatives. of
the following railroads, to arrange for
the transportation Of light artillery1pen
and their accoutrcments: The At
lantic Coast line; the Southern railroad,
the Seaboard Air Line, and the Cheese
peake & Ohio: 1t was stated that COM
panies of artillerymen, consisting of
about 60 men each would be transferred
from Fortress Monroe, to the following
points: Fort Caswel!, on the Cape Fear
river, Ca; to Tybee, near Savannah: to
Fort Morgan, near Mobile, and to Shcri-
dams Point on the Potomac. It was
stated also that a company would be
moved 'fre,m Fort McHenry, Baltimore,
to some point on the Delaware river
near Philadelphia.
Quiet at the Capital.
Washington, March 14.-Sunday was
comparatively quiet. There was no in
formation bearing on the doings of the
court of inquiry into the Maine en-
plosion received during the day or any
other dispatches calculated to cause
conferences between the heads of the
various departments. There were q
number of the experts of the war de-
partment ordnance office at their desks
for a short time during the morning
to attend to some pressing matters,
while at the navy department the board
on auxiliary cruisers held final meet
ing. preparatory to the departure of the
special board to New York. Secretary
Long was at the navy department for a
short while. He stated late in the after
noon that there was no news of any
nature for the press, and added in re-
spouse to a specific inquiry that moth
| ing had been received from the court
of inquiry.
Senator Proctor Returns.
| Washington, March Ex-senator
Proctor, CT Vermont, and his compan-
ion, Col. Myron NJ. Parker, who have
been spending some time in Cuba, re-
| turned to WASHINGTON Sunday night at