Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-07

and Klbourne. the paymasters at
camp Merritt. under command Of Ser
gcant Fortescue. Lieut. Kimball, II u
said, may come TO Salt Lake In day
or Two TO recruit more men.
The steamship Al-Ki and Humboldt
bring news that construction work on
a railroad across White Pass from
skaguay was commenced last Tues
DAY. PREVIOUS TO that time the rail-
way officials had been hiring all avail
able men and buying ~ every horse
they could lay their hands on. Tues
day they had six hundred men and
opened up two camps. They put sev-
eral hundred horses to- work and will
employ 1000 men II thst number can
be secured.
The. men who viii compose the Sec
ond Manila expedition are pleased that
Brig. Gen. Greene Is 60 be- their com-
mander. Besides being a splendid sol
der he has q record a. a diplomat and
manager Of regular enterprises. lie ~
m author of repute. has been decorate
Cd In Europe for bravery and IL an ac-
tive member " several scientific sDci-
eiles. II II surmised that his diplo-
mTilc experience Will boz Of service to
Gen. Merritt In the government of the
Islands The troops which VIII be I'M
der MS command are the First Colo
RADIO volunteers. the Tenth Pcnusyl-
vnnln volunteers part VI the Eirh-
tcenth and Twenty third United States
Infantry and either the Utah artillery
or the Third United states artillery.
The San Francisco Cali prints an In
tcrvlCw with Cen. Wesley Merritt. In
which after praislng the troops there.
he says. MY only complaint now Is
the delay la the furnishing " trans
ports. l have represented 20 the war
department that the transports are
coming In very slowly. After ! make
the ahlpment Of troops completed by
the three vessel.-the China. Colon and
Heslaniln-t viii have forwarded to
the Philippines but one-fourth Of the
command. The want ~ transports Ia
the crying want OF the expedition.
Twenty thousand men are 20 be- sent ia
Manila. The three vessels which I
have mentioned will carry only about
1900. There ARE now on the way
across the Pacific $500 troops. 50 you
can easily see the situation. do not
wish 60 be understood a. making any
complaint or any criticism Of the war
department. I am merely making a
statement % facts In reply TO your In
qulrics"
A special from Albernl. n. c.. says
that the bodies Of seven white men.
supposed 20 have been victims Of the
Jane Gray disaster. have been picked
/ up On the beach near the Kuyuquot
reservation by Indians. while a Jack u
clothing with an italian name on u
was washed ashore not FAR from Clay
oduot. Coupled with this Information
comes the news by the return Of the
steamer Willapa that considerable
wreokaFc from the lost schooner. In
elusive " four OF the boats. has been
discovered at different points along
the coast. The launch belonging 20
! Major ingram's mountain climbing
| party has also been found by Indians.
| n noated upright. although tho sea
had flooded Il. There were . number
Of books una papers In the boat but
| no bodies. and the natural suppoaition
II that the nix men who were seen In
the boat when Il left the sch ,oner have
ell been washed overheard. The Moot
/ ka Sound Indians picked NJ another
/ boat, the Dory, belonging 20 thc Jane
| Gray ana which was referred TO by
several N the survivors IN their atories
Of the wreck.
Monday was payday at Camp Mcr-
| rift. Word was passed around sum
| day night that the pnymnHter would
visit the camp Monday and thnt the
| long-lookcd-fOr money would be dis
| trihutcd The volunteers expected 20
receive their quota ~ the coin of the
realm along with that which the reg
ulara received. hut they were doomed
TO disappointment. The puymaHter
visited the camp carly Monday morn