The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-23

Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. 22.-General
Miles and his staff will leave for home
on the steamer Arkansas tonight. He is
now holding a final conference with
| General Brooke, who arrived on the
Saltwater this morning, and General
/ Wilson, whose headquarters have been
| moved here.
Senior Lopez, editor of the San Juan
Correspondence, is here. He reports
that Governor General Macias is push
| ing preparations for the evacuation OF
the island. The obstacles in the har-
Dor of San Juan are being cleared away
and ship loaded with dynamite has
been removed. General MaciaS, Senior
Lopez says, will return to Spain in a
few days, leaving the details of the
evacuation to his subordinates.
General Henry's men are badly in
need of provisions. 1t is impossible to
transport supplies over the mountain
trail, and it has been arranged to send
them to Arecibo, an open port.
The Sixth Massachusetts and the
Sixth Illinois regiments are without
shoes. General Brooke, who is to be
in command of the island, may leave
General Wilson in direct command of
the troops. while he General Brooke)
is attending the sessions of the com
missioners of Porto Rico.
STANDARDS RETIRING.
Ponce, Island of Porto Rico, Aug.
21.-General Miles has arranged mat
ters generally with Captain General
Macias, preparatory to the meeting of
the peace commission at San Juan.
General Macias, while maintaining his
outposts, is steadily retiring his forces
to the capital, preparatory to their en-
Earkation.
Mail communication between Ponce
and San Juan has been established, and
the overland telegraph wires, which
have been severed, will be connected
Immediately. All that will remain to
be done. General Miles says, will be to
secure an inventory of government
property there, and transfer it to the
United States.
Captain General Macias, in his va
riouS communications with General
Miles, has shown the best spirit. He is
to cooperate in bringing about
an evacuation at the earliest moment
possible and is placing no obstacles in
the way of the volunteers returning
home.
Colonel Ramery, the highest Spanish
volunteer officer in the island, reached
here last night from Amiboca. Other
officers have been coming through our
lines all day. Colonel Ramery says that
the Spanish forces at Aibonito were
short of ammunition and water and
entirely dependent for food upon Cay |
ey. They must have succumbed as !
soon as General Brooke struck Cayey. |
According to letter from San Juan, |
the Spanish residents there who had |
fed from the city have returned, and |
there is great rejoicing among them |
that the war is ended, feeling shared I
by the soldiery. Colonel San Martin,
former Spanish commander at Ponce.
who abandoned the city on the ap-
Droach of the Americans, and who. it
was reported, had been shot for for
;aking the city. is in the hospital sick
He has been stripped of his rank. The
Ponce merchants express their graft
ude at his course, because the flight of
lis command prevented the destruc-
ion of their property, and they are
'aising subscription for him.
General Miles will advise General
Brooke to embark the Spanish prison
RS here and send them Immediately to
san Juan. 1t is expected that Rear
Admiral Schley will be there in a few
lays. Most of the troops in the island
will remain stationary until the final
etails have been settled, and they will
hen march to San Juan, where they
will embark.
General Miles will consult with the
at Washington as to the
orce that is to remain. The volun-
GERS are anxious to so home.
Today Sunday the liquor saloons
Tere closed, and for the first time in
he history of the island there was
ublic Protestant religious service.
The officers and men on the monitors
t Guanica think it unnecessary to I
eep the ships there any longer I
These vessels are absolutely unsuited I
, a tropical climate, and the Puri- s
ms officers have sent formal COM
laint to Secretary Long.
At Aguoada, north of Mayaguez, the
panish troops killed two natives last