The Advocate and news., 1898-08-17
War Notes.

ton or ShafterS santiago army Cney
would not have given up so soon.
Chairman Hull of the House military
committee thinks that a regular stand
ing army Of 100000 men is needed in
this country.
Private Zeits, Company G, Twenty
first Kansas, was struck by lightning
at Chickamauga, recently. AS a result
he is now blind.
The Kansas City Gazette (Rep.) gives
a list of seven blunders which were
made at Santiago which it charges up
to Secretary Alger.
Owing to poor health Captain Clark,
of the Oregon, has been forced to retire
from his command. Captain Barker,
formerly of the naval strategy board,
succeeds him.
The Twentieth Kansas has been
moved from its camp on the beach at
San Francisco to the Presidio, where
more healthful and comfortable quar-
ters will be found.
General Merriam says that the peace
agreement will not affect the transpor-
tatiOn of troops to Manila and that all
of the troops at San Francisco will go
as rapidly as possible.
The Third Georgia and the Third and
Fifth Mississippi regiments, all Of which
are made up of immunes, are being sent
to Santiago to relieve Skaters men,
who are coming north.
A telegram from Major A. M. Harvey
states that on the second days march of
twelve miles not a Kansas boy fell out.
That evening the Twenty-secOnd camped
on the Bull Run battlefield.
Colonel Sanmartin, the Spanish COM
mander at Ponce, Porto Rico, has been
court martialled and shot for handing
the city over to the Americans without
n fight. The second officer in command
has committed suicide.
Gen. Joe Wheeler and Colonel Roose-
Velt arrived at the new camp on Long
Island Monday. The remainder of the
rough riders were with them Both Of
ficers and men were in good health and
spirits.
Aguinaldo, the insurgent leader in the
Philippines, thinks that he could out
line his policy better If he knew what
the Americans were going to do. He
wants to know whether annexation,
protection or independence is in store
for his people.
The peace protocol, about which so
much is being said in the papers, is real
ly rough draft of a treaty of peace.
The general terms Of the proposed peace
are agreed to and the details are left for
future conferences and are included in
the final treaty.
Colonel Funston assumed command Of
the Second brigade at San Francisco on
Monday. Brigadier General King sailed
for Manila, and as Funston ranks the
Tennessee and Iowa colonels General
Kings departure placed him in COM
mand. Lieutenant Colonel Little is COM
manding the Twentieth Kansas.
In speech at Denver, Chaplain Nc
Intyre credited the Oregon with large
part Of the Santiago naval victory and
said that the reason vessels built on
the east coast did not make as good a
record was that the contractors who
built them, got the jobs through polit-
iCal pulls and did not care how much
they cheated Uncle Sam.
A. R. Thompson, private in Company
H, Twenty-third Kansas, died at Topeka
last Thursday Private Thompson is the
first soldier who enlisted for the present
war who has died at Topeka. He was
given military funeral and was buried
with the honOrs of soldier AS a pri-
vate citizen he bore an honorable record
and was respected by all who knew him.
Dispatches from Manila say that Agui-
naldo, the rebel chief in the Philippines,
asks that his forces be permitted to pa
rade the streets Of Manila when it is
taken and he also wants to reorganize
his army with American officers. He
writes Consul Wildman that his course
is unsettled because he don't know what
Americans are going to do. He adds
that IL thew are going IN take Manila no