Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-09-22
ORDERED TO MANILA.
SEVERAL REGIMENTS WILL SAIL
AT ONCE.
Troops stationed at San Francisco VIII
be Sent to the Philippine Islands
Battleships Oregon and Iowa
May Accompany Them.

Washington, Sept. 20-Five regi-
ments now at San Francisco have been
ordered to Manila Arrangements for
their transportation will be made at
once, The regiments ordered to Ma
Mia are the following:
Fifty-frst Iowa, Twentieth Kansas,
First Tennessee, First Washington and
a detachment of the Second Oregon.
1t was stated at the war department
that no eXigency had arisen which
made it necessary to send the troops
now at San Francisco to Manila, but
the order issued was in accordance
with the general plan of the depart
ment regarding garrison for the
Philippines. That plan of garrison
duty included 20. 600 men for the Phil
ippines; 12,50o for Porto Rico, and
10000 for Cuba. The troops to be sent
to Manila under order Will fill the
complement for that station. The
troops would have been sent before, it
was said. except that the department
was awaiting the return of the trans
ports.
1t is not expected that troops now at
Honolulu will accompany those to be
embarked at San Francisco, but that
more troops will be sent to Honolulu
in the near future
The following is the order directing
the movement OF troops from San
Francisco:
"Adjutant Generals Office, Washing
ton, d. c., Sept. 10, 1898: Command
ing General, Department of California,
San Francisco With the approval of
the acting secretary of war, the Fifty
first Iowa, First Tennessee, First
Washington, Fifth Tennessee and a de-
tachment of the Oregon volunteer in
fantry, now at San Francisco, are here
! by relieved from duty in the depart
ment of California and will proceed to
Manila, Philippine islands, reporting,
upon arrival at that point, to the com
manding general, n ted States forces,
/ for duty.
THE quartermaster's department
will furnish the necessary transporta-
tion, especial care being taken to pro-
vide sufficient space, and the subsist-
snce and medical departments are
| charged with providing ample and suit
able supplies furnished by their re-
spective departments, to insure the
comfort, well.being and health of the
i troops EN- route. By command of Major
4 General Miles.
III. c. CoRBIN, Adiutant General"
The war department has amended
The orders relative to the dispatch of
/ reinforcements to the Philippines, so
rs to increase the number by 1,161
| privates and 20 officers. These are
made up of four companies of the
twenty third infantry and recruits for
the Tenth Pennsylvania, First Ne
braska and First Colorado These
troops made up the expedition under
General King, which recently left San
Francisco on the Arizona for the Phil
lppines, but was stopped by the depart
ment's orders when two days out, and
returned to port.
The navy department is rushing
preparations for the start of the big
battleships Oregon and Iowa to Homo
lulu and orders have been sent to the
New York navy yard to have the
mechanics work overtime on these
ships The purpose is to have them
start on their long voyage by the end
Of the present month and according to
the department calculations, they
should arrive at their destination by
the end of January. There is little
Effort now made to conceal the fact
that the departmentwill have the ships
met at Honolulu by a dispatch boat,
with orders to turn their prows west
ward to Manila.
Battleships of this character are not
needed to keep the Filipino insurgents
in order, and their assembling at Ma
Mia, in conjunction with the dispatch
of heavy reinforcements of troops for
the American land forces, cannot but
be regarded as significant. In we'll
Informed circles here it is seen that
the real purpose of the president in
making these preparations is to insure
the peace commissioners against any
interference in their work of disposing
of the future of the Philippines accord.
ing to their best judgment.