The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-13
Special to The Tribune.


Camp Meade, Middletown, Pa, Oct.
12.-Lieutenant Colonel C.. G. Mates,
of the Thirteenth, informed The Trib-
une correspondent this morning that
his resignation of his position in the
regiment, which was forwarded a few
DAYS ago, was favorably heard and
that he was notified late last night that
IL had been accepted. He is getting his
affairs in order, and will be ready to
leave here tomorrow or the day after.
When asked what are the present
prospects of the regiment in regard to
going abroad Colonel Mates stated
that from what he had learned during
the past few days the Thirteenth Will
hardly see Cuba before the middle of
November, if II will go even then.
Major +. w. Stillwell is acting col
onel and Captain Robling, of c. is act
ing major of the First battalion.
Colonel Coulsen is expected to arrive
In camp tomorrow
Lieutenant Thomas Murphy, of G.,
who has been confined to his quarters
for a few days with an attack of ma
larial fever, is improving
The latest development which is
causing much comment here is the
quick, determined action of Major Cen
eral Young, the commanding officer OF
the First division, in dealing with run
away soldiers. After pay day month
ago, it will be remembered those who
We're absent without leave were treat
cd very literally and in only two cases
We're steps taken in the Thirteenth to
apprehend such offenders. All the 9TH
ers were unmolested, and We're given
the fullest limit, returning at their own
option and of their own free will This
time. however. it is different, and Gem
eral Young is determined to take a de-
csive step which is shown by the fol-
lowing order:
THE ORDER ISSUED.
No time was lost in putting this or
der into effect and sending a detail to
Scranton.
Ileadcuartcrs First Division,
SeCou Army Corps,
Camp Gee. ge G. Meade, Pa, oct. 10, lS9S.
Special order No II.
The Cummandirg officer Thirteenth
Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry will
send guard TO- consist Of . sergeant and
four priyatcs from Camp Meade. Pa, to
Scranton, Pa, for the purpose Of arrest
ing certain men Of that regiment who are
now absent without leave. and are report
Tho quartcrm3 department. Will
furnish the necessary transportation for
the guard from Camp Meade to Scranton,
Pa.
As soon as the sergeant in charge Of the
detail learns the number of prisoners that
he is able to secure he will telegraph this
information to the adiutant general of the
division, so that transportation can be
furnished for the return trip. The detail
will return to its proper station aS soon
as the arrests have been made aud trans
pOrtation received. Expense of the trans
portation will he charged against the
anon arrested on the next muster and pay
roll.
by commond of Major General Young.
f. $, Strong, Asst. Adj. Gen.
Acting ReGimental Adiutant Davis
reports that there are now absent from
the Thirteenth, without leave, forty
two men, but not over dozen of those
are reported to be at their homes in
Scranton. This is n comparatively
small number, If the census of run
aways after last pay day were to ba
taken into considerations Many of
those who have left are guilty not only
OF a serious breach of military disci-
pline, but aleo of downright irgrati-
tude. for they have run away even
applications for a discharge which
were approved by their captains. This,
together with the fact that a favorable
answer may be received any day, has
caused the men here to have very little
sympathy for those who under those
circumstances, did not have sufficient
moral stamina to stick to their posts,
and to appreciate the situation pro-
perly.
GENERAL MTX-UP.
There was a general mix-up here
yesterday. It looked not unlike a prac.
tical joke Of which the Thirteenth reg
irnent was the victim. The provost
marsha! and the men under him, who
are doing duty in and near the town of
Hiehspire, became suddenly con.
scionce-stricien, and began enforcing
orders with vengeance. Several men
were arrested, being found without
passes; but, as details OF men, under n
corporal who went back and forth
through Highspire to the main COM
missary and always rode in tho Wag-
onS, were never required to have a
pass before, they started off Yesterday
for provisions without any lIuoWlcdgr
of the new regulations and without n
suspicion of what awaited them. On
arriving at Ilighspire they We're held
up, and when their passes We're asked
for they could only answer that they
had none, but were a detail going to
the commissarY
This would not do and twenty-four
men-three from each company-were
placed under arrest, and the three cor
porals sent back to their quarters also
under arrest. The matter was renort-
ed to headquarters, and Lieutenant
Colonel Mates lost no time in straight
eninE 1t out. 1t was considered n good
joke, but gave rise TO much trouble
and inconvenience. The provost guards
are also making even the details OF
men to walk when the wagons are
loaded. These new regulations are not
receiving many benedictions from the
men, especially in the case of the
Eighth and the Thirteenth which are
farthest away from the commlssary.
Private John Dunkerly, of c, and
Private Hodgson. of d, are temporarily
disabled to n certain extent Private
Dunkerly, in climbing a pole, slipped
and fell to the ground: the pole, sud
denly topping over caught him with
its end above and below the right eve
and on the right side of the nose. At
FIRST the wound looked rather ugly, but
when dressed and cared for It began
to heal rapidly. 1t was a narrow es-
cape, as it was by the merest good luck
that the point of the pole did not strike
the eye squarely.
This afternoon, while cooking over