Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-03-17
TO DEFEND THE COAST
Army Officials Make Disposition Of
Our Land Forces. ~ r.
New Military Depart1nen ts Are
Reconsideration Proctor Returns
and Is Observation-Disclosures sur
day in Washington.

Formed-senator Proctor Returns
and Is Entervieyved-Quiet sur
day in Washington.
Washington, March 1.-THE war de-
| partment Saturday promulgated it's
| order creating the departments of the
| gulf and Of the lakes and abolishing
the departments Of the Missouri and
ofsTexas. 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, eorgia, 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. overlo oked the strategic defense
of the. Pacific coast. To guard properly
this important seaboard it has been
| found, necessary to- send ar advanced
| guard some distance down the South
ern Pacific ocean. The battleship 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
down the southern coast: r -:
FL: ~. Mass1ns; War Forces.
| >. Sem Miles: has matured plans for the
massing of all available troops, Both
infantry nd.cavalry; at stations aiding
the Atlantic .seaboard. His order to
this effect has already beeii sent to
Secre tarys Alger-i j. pa ,3;. ,: 80. s>;~
/ Adyices have been sent, to command
+ ing officers att; at interior fb;arts to hold
thenlss elves: i'm readiness. IT. move at a
moments notics It is sxpscted that
withiHra few days the~line Of defense
will bescomplete along the,sntir coast:
Private concerns engaged in doing
goverhkle emit work in the fife Of fur
nis .li1 guns Or ammunitioq.haxe been
ordered to finish contracts with all DOS
.sible dispatch. 54@ :S:s.:*.5 ~ -
| Preparing to Move Troops.
+ Washington, March little govern
ment is ,perfecting: it's plans.to make the
movements OF troops to the coast de-
+tenses,; orders for which w,erelssued by
theWar:.depart1nent on Fridayan pub
I lished at that time. * conference was
held here Sunday by representatives, of
the following railroads, to arrange for
the transportation of light artillerynaen
and their accoutrements: 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
from Fortress Monroe, to the followin g
points: Fort Casweal, Oh 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'from Fort McHenry, Baltimore,
to some point on the Delaware river
near Philadelphia. - s.a H.
#: Quiet at ths Capital. -;
Washington, March IA Sunday was
comparatively quiet. There was no in
formation bearing on the doings of the
court of inquiry into the Maine ex-
plosion received during the day or any
other dispatches calculated to cause
conferences between the heads of the
various departments. There were a
number of the experts of the war de-
partment ordnance office at their desks
for 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, specific inquiry that moth
ing had been received from the court
of inquiry. @t . zs. wig ~
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