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The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-01-05
MASONS COME NEXT
GRAND BODIES OF KANSAS TO BE
HERE SOON.

The Next Big Meeting Which Will be Held
In This City and Which Will Attract a
Large Number of People Here Will be
ihe Masonic Grand Lodge-They VIII
10 IL lnclnsive-This VIII Include the
GRAND Lodge A. f. and A. H., the Chap
ter r. A. NJ. and Grand Council R. S. NJ
The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-01-05
FOR GRAND MEDICAL EXAMINER

well as pleasure.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-11
TRANSPORTS FOR MANILA.
Believed That the Expedition Will
Leave Next Sunday.

San Francisco, May ia detail of
army and navy officers visited Pacific
street dock today, and boarded the
steamship Australia, on which the gov
eminent has secured an option as a
transport for troops to the Philippines.
The steamer is in splendid condition
and can be pressed into service at short
notice.
The steamship City OF Sydney ar
rived from Panama and way ports be-
fore daybreak and from the manner
in which she was given quick dispatch
by quarantine and custom house Off
GERS it is evident that she also has been
chartered to go TO Manila, and Will be
placed on the berth Immediately.
Orders have been given to discharge
her as rapidly as possibly.
A large force of stevedores is at work
on the City of Pekin's cargo, and IL
will be out of the hold by Wednesday
night and the vessel sent to the dry
dock for cleaning 1t is thought the
Australia and Pekin, and possibly the
Sydney, with one collier. viii leave here
no later than Sunday noon
So far no provisions have been made
to transport troops on the Pekin. AT
the navy pay office it is given out that
the navy is fitting her up as supply
ship and is doing nothing for the ac-
commodation of troops on board,
though it is expected that before she
sails the army officials will arrange for
the transportation on her of a portion
of the force assembled here.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-11
SPANS PAPER NAVY.
Worthless Ships, Worthless Guns and
Worthless Gunners.

Washington, May 10.-Mr. Palma, of
the Cuban delegation. today expressed
his views ON the battle at Manila, say
ing it was important iE that it furnish
ed conclusive proof of the fact he had
/ long known, that the Spanish navy was
paper navy. and utterly incapable
of conducting modern naval war
fare.
In the first place, Admiral Montejo's
: fleet was taken by surprise. THAT is
a whole lesson in ITSELF said he. I'VE
have heard much from Spanish sources
as to the lack of discipline and crude
ness in the American navy, but here,
at the very first practical test, the
| Spanish fleet committed the very worst
and most inexcusable offense of allow
/ ing itself to be taken by surprise. And
| this occurred not only when war was
/ in progress, but when Admiral Montejo
knew the American fleet was nearing
him. In the face of this, the surprise
and defeat of the Spanish fleet showed
complete lack of discipline and of that
! keen alertneSS which is the first essen
tial of a discipline which insures de-
Tense"
Senior Quesada of the Cuban delega-
ton added the statement that the WHIP
ing out of the Spanish ships like so
l many cookie shells made plain the fact,
/ Wen known to those familiar with
SPANS naval resources. that she had
a lot of old wooden craft which would
suffice for dress parade in times OF
peace, and would give an outward ap-
pearance of the possession of an actual
navy. The Spanish naval officers, Mr..
Quesada said, were about the best fea-
ture of the Spanish service, but they
were DOwerless. as a result of corrupt
administration OF naval affairs at Ma
drid.
The guns had none of the modern
mechanism, and the gUnners were I'M
practiced. All this had served to place
the Spanish ships at the mercy of the
strong American fleet under Dewey.
Mr.. Ouesada said the first reverse Of
this paper navy was simply a fore
cast of what would follow when the
same class of worthless ships. with
worthless gunners, met Admiral Samp-
son and other commanders of the
American fleet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-11
PREPARATIONS AT TAMPA.
Fourteen Thousand Troops Will Soon
Be Ready.

Tampa. Fla, May 10.-By Thursday,
six of the big government transports
at Fort Tampa will be in readiness for
actual loading of the troops and horses.
They have already been fully supplied
with coal and water. The work of
building the stalls for the horses and
mules were practically completed to-
day and long lines of freight cars filled
with boxes of ammunition for the rifles
OF the soldiers and for the gatllnSs and
Hotchkiss quick-fire guns were backed
I'D on the tracks along the wharves,
and the work of loading them on board
ship was commenced. General Shafter
spent most of the afternoon at the post
inspecting the work, which will con-
tinue night and day until completed.
Tomorrow each transplant will have
mounted one or more of the Hotchkiss
guns. while the Gatlings which will be
taken along will be placed on the lower
decks. The Orizaba, TOW at the quar-
antine station near s mont Key, viii
arrive here Thursday and will be put
into the slip at once for coallng and
her load of supplies and ammunition
Soldiers and officers are quietly pre-
pairing for orders for the breaking OF
Camp. Practically all their belongings
except such things as are absolutely
necessary, have been packed away, and
when the orders come but little VIII
remain to be done except to take down
and load into the wagons the tents.
The mobilization of the state troops
at Tampa will commence tomorrow,
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Boys In Blue Will Embark For Cuba Within a
Week.
ALL OF THE SIX THOUSAND REGULARS
WILL LEAVE CHICKAMAUGA AT ONCE
Retreat Of the Spanish Fleet Leaves the Way Clear For
Operations In Cuba.

Washington, May 10.-By Friday
morning the commanding general of
the United States army, General Miles,
will have assembled his staff around
him at Tampa, Fla. He leaves Wash
ington tomorrow night, taking with him
Colonel Mickler, Colonel Maus, Colonel
Greenleaf, Major Osgood, Major Hum
phreys, Captain Seyburn and Captain
Scott.
Only one member of the staff, Cap
tain Davis, viii remain at headquar-
tiers, and he will follow the general
within two or three days, or as soon as
he can turn over the care of the bust
ness at army headquarters TO an Of
ficer to be designated for that duty.
Unless plans are changed, the general
viii go with the first military eXpedi-
tionary force to Cuba. He is not eX-
pected to relieve the major generals al
ready selected for the conduct of the
campaign, but both in Florida and in
Cuba Will exercise the same general su-
perntendeEce over the campaign that
he now does from his headquarters in
Washington.
The arrangements for the movement
upon Cuba are being FASTENED with
such energy that it is evident to an OBJ
server that the beginning of the cam
paign is imminent 1t is expected here
that within a week the first troops will
be on their way from the United States
to Cuba The only delay will arise in
the difficulty of securing the necessary
number Of transports, and the quar-
termaster's department is making
great efforts to assemble a sufficient
number OF these ships at the gulf ports
in time to receive the troops, who are
even now ON their way there.
Orders have been given for 10000
hammocks to be furnished for the army
and to be delivered, beginning imme-
diately within the next fortnight. Elk
perts have reported that a hammock is
an absolute necessity in a Cuban cam
paign. 1t is the only means to escape
the vermin which otherwise would
make sleep impossible to the soldier,
and it is the only way TO escape the
fatal dampness of the dark. rich soil.
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Washington, May 10.-The state de-
partment gives out the following: Of
fetal information has been received
that the four Spanish cruisers and
three torpedo boat destroyers have re-
turned to Cadiz.
Secretary Long has received a dis
patch from the naval attache at Lon
don, confirming the state department
cable that the Spanish Cape de Verde
fleet is at Cadiz.
A special from London says a cipher
dispatch from Cadiz reports the return
to that place of four cruisers, one tor
pedo boat and three torpedo boat de-
stroyers, comprising, it is alleged,
part of the Cape de Verde islands fleet.
1t is hard to tell whether the naval
officers were relieved or disappointed
by the news that came late this after
noon to both the navy and state de-
partment to the effect that the Span
ish flying squadron had arrived at Ca
diz Spain. The safety of the oregon
from attack is now completely assured
and the way is clear for military oper-
atoms in Cuba without running the risk
of having the occupying army line OF
communication cut off. On the other
hand, it is. believed that no enduring
peace can be secured until the Spanish
navy has been destroyed, and it now
appears that to do this our sailors
must make up their minds to go after
the Spanish, a task very much more
difficult than that of meeting them near
our own shores.
1t was suggested by some Of the
members of the war board that there
was just a possibility that the Spanish
squadron might take quick passage
into the Pacific through the SueZ
canal and attack Dewey at Manila. 1t
is said that, contrary to the common
understanding, the Suez canal is open
to the warships of belligerent powers,
so that if the Spanish choose TO take
this course they would have long
start of any pursuing fleet from our
side of the Atlantic
1t is scarcely believed. however. that
the Spanish are willing to take the
great risk of exposing to our attack
their own ports by the withdrawal OF
so considerable a proportion of their
naval strength as would be required to
overmatch Dewey
Nothing was heard from Sampson to-
day. but there is a confident eXpecta-
ton that interesting news will be com
ing from his squadron within the next
"a hours. Whether this means an al
tack on Porto Rico or not, cannot be
learned
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New York. Nav ia special to the
Tribune from Washington says: The
naval board is convinced that the
Spanish armored flying squadron, pop
uIarly known as the Cape de Verde
| fleet. has returned to Cadiz, and that
Spain has abandoned all her hope of
effective resistance to the loss of her
American colonies. The war in Amer
! lean waters. at least, has therefore
been reduced to a simple matter, and
| it's duration is expected to be exceed
| ingly limited. Arrangements have been
promptly made to bring Admiral Samp-
sons fleet to Key West, to unite the
! with the army in quickly terminating
Spanish rule in Cuba.
1t is positively announced that San
Juan de Porto Rico will not be bonn
barded, and that the island will be let
severely alone, for the present at least,
or until Cuba is freed and American
military government firmly established
there. 1t is believed that this will be
a matter of not more than two weeks,
and then the heavier ships will be re-
lieved for duty against Porto Rico or
for dry-docking on the Atlantic coast,
preparatory for a cruise in force, aug
mented by the armored ships in Com
modore Schley's squadron. against Ca
diz itself. unless Spain in the meantime
sues for permanent peace.
The idea that the Spanish vessels
would run home instead of confronting
certain defeat near Poroto Rico, has
been held by the vast majority of naval
officers since the first Spanish squad
ron. composed largely of torpedo boat
destroyers. returned to st. Vincent, af-
ter several weeks 1T sea shortly before
war was declared. On that occasion
grave concern was manifested in Wash
ington for some time, and it was with
decided relief that the news was re-
ceived of their turning home ward.
For the last week the best experts in
washington have agreed that the
Spanish ships if on any offensive mis-
sion. had the battleship Oregon as their
objective and after ten days, they
failed to report at Pernambuco for coal,
the war board reluctantly decided that
they might be attempting to enter the
Caribbean by the Barbados passage
to come upon Porto Rico or Cuba from
the south. It was considered the bet
ter part of valor to send Sampson east
ward. where he could more readily Sc
cure an engagement, at any rate be-
fore Cuba could be reached, trusting
that definite information would be Sc
cured the moment the Spaniards ap
preached Barbados or st. Thomas
This precautionary cruise of Admiral
Sampson, while probably disappointing
in the extreme to all the officers with
him, is believed to have been not with
out advantage, as it permitted the re-
tention of Commodore Schley's ships at
Hampton Roads, and thereby secured
the Atlantic seaboard against alarm
for the safety of the chief coast cities
and navy yards.
The return of the Spaniards to Cadlz
is gratifying in the highest degree 10
the president and his advisers. who de-
sire to achieve a speedy termination or
the war, as much for curtailing the
enormous expense it involves, as to re-
lieve the Decentralization of business
throughout the country. which would
be inseparable from long continuance
of the conditions of the last month.
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TO POISON OUR TROOPS

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-11
ASSIGNMENTS OF GENERALS.
Kent Goes to ngton-Divisions
For Civilians.


Washington, May 10.-Major General
Sewe1 has been assigned to command
the concentration camp near Falls
Church, Va. This is taken as an indi-
cation that the general has concluded
to accept his military command, risk
ing his tenure of office as a senator
thereby. The order issued from the
war department today reads as fol-
lows:
The following named officers shall
be ordered to report to the adjutant
general for duty with troops to go into
camp at Washington, D. c.: Major
General Sewell, Brigadier Generals Fo-
land. Kent, Young, Randall, Schwan
and J. c. Bates"
None of the corps commanders have
yet been assigned finally. although the
entire list of commands has been pre-
pared The three civilian major gen
erals are not to receive such COM
mands, but are assigned to divisions
General Lee, Wilson and Wheeler going
to Chattanooga for duty, and General
Brooke will undoubtedly command one
of the army corps.
Eight of the new brigadier generals
have been assigned to duty under Ma
jor General Brooke and will lick" the
raw recruits into shape at Camp
George H. Thomas. They are 3rigadier
Generals Briggs, Compton, Burt, Sum-
ner, Henry, Lawton, Chaffee and Da
Wis.
Chattanooga, May 10.-It is announc-
ed that General Brooke will remain at
Chickamauge Park, in command of the
volunteers coming. Chickamauga will
continue to be the headquarters of the
department.
Generals .Fitzhugh Lee, Wheeler and
Wilson are expected to arrive the lat
ter part of the week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-11
LEAVING CHATTANOOGA.
Six Thousand Regulars Ordered to
Tampa at Once.

Tampa at Once.
Chickamauga National Park, Ca,
May 1O-Maior General Brooks. COM
manding the United States regular
provisional army corps at Chickamauga
Park, today received orders from the
war department directing him to send
all the cavalry and infantry troops now
in camp at Chickamauga Park, about
5000 in all, to Tampa, Fla, without de-
lay. The order is accompanied with
Instructions to provide the men with a
full supply of ammunition for go days.
There are five regiments of infantry
now in camp, the Second, Seventh,
Eighth. Twelfth and Sixteenth, all of
which are ordered to Tampa, under
command of Colonel Guy V. Henry and
Colonel A. r. Chaffee.
Two regiments of cavalry, the Third
and Sixth, will at once proceed to Tam
pa under General S. S. Sumner. The
Second cavalry, under Colonel Hunt,
has been ordered to Mobile, and they
will march TO Rossville and be loaded
on the Southern at that point. The
First and Tenth cavalry will go to New
Orleans under command of the senior
officers, Colonel Baldwin, marching to
this city and taking the Alabama Great
Southern here tomorrow afternoon
All regiments began preparations to
move tonight and by morning it is eX-
pected each regiment will be ready to
move
The medical corps of each regiment
was today provided with medical sup
plies for go days. The medical force is
TO be increased from Is to % men as
soon as the regiments have been in
creS sed to their war strength.
There will be very little delay in
transporting the troops, all the rail-
roads having provided the necessary
cars in expectation of hurry orders.
The loading of the supply trains began
this afternoon and a number are ready
for shipment.
Owing to the unexpected orders to
move, received today, General Brooke
made a hurried reorganization of the
infantry forces, annulling the division
heretofore formed, forming the Fifth,
Twelfth and Sixteenth regiments of
infantry into a brigade, to be COM
manded by Colonel Guy V. Henry,
Fred a. Smith, assistant adjutant
general. and Lieutenant Stafford of the
Eighth regiment, brigade quartermas-
ter. This brigade is organized to pro-
coed at once fully equipped for field
service, to Tampa, and report to the
general commanding at that point
The same order also formed the Sec
ond and Seventh infantry into a bri-
gade, Brigadier General a. r. Chaffee
in command. who is also ordered to
proceed as early as possible with his
brigade to Tampa.
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PRIZE MONEY FOR DEWEY.
Every Man of His Command Will
Receive $50 or Over.


New York. May ia dispatch to the
Times from Washington says:
Rear Admirai Dewey and his men
will not have been fully rewarded for
their victory at Manila when they re-
ceive the thanks of congress and the
medals ordered to be struck for them
Under the law they have become enti-
tied to rich bounty. Unless the nu-
merical importance Of the fleet Of Ad-
miral MCntejO has been Overestimated
and its losses overStated, the officers
and men of the Asiatic squadron will
be entitled to share among them some
thing like s1S7.O00 bounty money
Section 1885 of the revised statutes
of the United States provides:
"A bounty shall be paid by the United
States for each person on board any
ship or vessel of war belonging to an
enemy at the commencement of an en-
gagement which is sunk or otherwise
destroyed in such engagement by any
ship or vessel belonging to the United
States or which it may be necessary to
destroy in consequence of injuries sus-
tanned in action. of 500 If the enemyS
vessel was of inferior force, and of 5000
if equal or superior force, to be d1-
vided among the officers and crew in
the same manner as prize money; ana
when the actual number OF men on
QOcIu any SuCu NESSti NeAAiAADA ~ 49,
isfactorily ascertained, it shall be esti-
mated according to the complement al
lowed to vessels of its class in the navy
of the United States. and there shall
be paid as bounty to the captain for
any vessel captured from an enemy,
which they are instructed to destroy, or
which is Immediately destroyed for the
public interest. but not in consequence
of injuries received in action, $50 for
every person who shall be on board at
the time of such capture.
The $751;, 200 will be distributed to the
fleet under section 1881 of the revised
statutes relating to prize money. Ad-
miral Dewey win get One-twentieth OF
the whole amount Of bounty awarded
to his command. That will give him
50. 800. If ne has fleet captain, or what
passes for one. the latter will have
share of something like $500. There
will be left to be distributed to the YES
sells of the fleet. according to their pay
rolls. about $4,000.
After the amounts mentioned nave
been deducted. the residue will be dis
tributed to the lesser officers and sea-
men of the ships in proportion to their
rates of pay on the day of the engage
ment. The amount to each seaman. 1t
is believed. will be in the neighborhood
of $50.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-11
MOVE TO END THE WAR
Nations Friendly to Spain May Urge Her to Sue
For Peace.
Foreign Diplomats at Washington Have Already Taken the
Matter Up In Tentative Way.

Washington, May 10.-As a result of
the Spanish reverse at Manila, leading
members of the diplomatic corps, rep
resenting some Of the most influential
of the great powers of Europe, have
unofficially exchanged views on the OPP
portuneness of a movement, dictated
by the most friendly spirit and in the
interest of peace, toward urging upon
Spain the futility of further prosecut-
ing the war and inducing her to sue
for peace on the basis of the relin-
punishment of Cuba, the promise of a
war indemnity and the occupation of
Manila by Admiral Dewey until the war
indemnity is paid.
1t was stated tonight by one of the
most influential members of the diplo-
matte corps, an ambassador, that such
a step by Spain was the logical result
of the crushing Spanish defeat at Ma
Mia, and that Spain herself should be
the first to recognize it as a measure
of her own self-protection and self
preservation. Her best friends in the
family of nations ought to urge it upon
Spain, this ambassador said, and if it
were not for the chaotic condition of af-
fairs at Madrid he felt that such peace
overtures would be welcomed there.
With Spanish politics In their present
disordered state, and a revolution i'm
pending, he did not know whether the
men at the head of the government
were strong enough and brave enough
to save Spain by heroic sacrifice of
her pride. Unless they did, he said, the
disaster of Manila would be repeated
for it was now patent to the world that
SPANS military and naval strength
was grotesquely inadequate to cope
with the forces of the United States,
and Spanish pride would ultimately be
humbled into peace on far more severe
terms than she might be able to obtain
now.
A TENTATIVE MOVE.
While expressing this view with much
positiveness. it was put forward only
as tentative. and not as move which
the European powers had actually be-
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convicted was one of the most cold
blooded ever known in this state. He
was travelling with a man named John
Decker. They reached Van Wyck, in
Long Valley, on Oct. %. last year That
night they camped in a vacant cabin
about two miles from that place. While
Decker slept st. Clair shot him in the
head. The body was dragged behind
the wagon into the brush and left with
a blanket wrapped around it.
On November 20. Judge Stewart SEN
fenced the prisoner to hang on Jan. IA,
but an appeal to the supreme court
acted as a stay of execution
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gun. At the same time it indicates a
new trend of feeling among leading
foreign representatives in Washington.
This discussion has been entirely I'M
official and without advices from their
own governments, but it is said that
SPANS plight is such at the present
moment. that a movement on the other
side may begin at any time towards
inducing Spain to make terms for clos
ing the war. In such a move, it is
pointed out, these powers which have
been friendly to Spain, particularly
Austria and France, might well join in
urging her to sue for peace before it is
too late. 1t is said that the nations
most friendly to Spain might suffer al
most as much as Spain herself by a
prolongation of the war and the Ill
innate humiliation of Spain. At the
same time. those powers most friendly
to the United States, particularly Great
Britain and Russia, would, it Isl be-
lieved, join in any movement pfomis-
ing to restore the peace or the world.
1t was stated with positiveness at
several of the embassies and legations
today that intervention, in the sense
of staying the course of the, United
States, was no longer being discussed
and that only such Intervention as
would induce Spain to sue for peace
was possible under the existing copdi-
ton of affairs