Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-06-17


All notifications except Moro were
reduced to ruins.
DIR. Jou f. Chan, highly educated
Chinese physician residing at Cleve-
land. Ohio, has offered his services to
the United States in a novel plan to
drive ;hc Spaniards from the Philip
pine Islands. He proposes to enlist
200 OF his fellow countrymen in San
Francisco and take them to the Phil
ippines and do missionary work among
the Chinese residents of the country.
Chan says of the 100000 inhabitants
of the Philippines, 100000 are Chin
csc. They are strongly opposed to
Spanish rule. lie says the Chinese IN
the Philippines are almost entirely
ignorant of the United States, but if
he can 60 over there he would in
fiucnce them to become in favor of Il
government Of the islands under con-
troll of the United States and could
organize a large army of Cinnamon to
fight under the Stars and Stripes.
The merchantmen captured by the
auxiliary cruiser st. Louis just off
Morant Point jamaica, last Friday
night, was the British steamer
Twickenham. On board the Twicken-
ham are 1920 tons of coal for the
Spanish fleet. She has been sent as
prize to Key West. The British cap
tain at first made vigorous denial
that he was carrying coal for the
Spanish fleet. His vessel was searched,
however, by the men from the st.
Louis. In the tire-r room man with
ovcralls was found who spoke only
Spanish. After vigorous crOss-ex-
animation by Capt. Goodrich, of the
st. Louis, this man admitted that he
was Spanish officer in charge of the
cargo. On the approach of the St.
Louis he had thrown his papers and
commission overheard. He appeared
to be badly scared at the way things
had turned out. He was sent as a
prisoner of war to Key West on board
the captured steamer.
Filibuster Capt. John ID. Hart, was
in 1897 tried and convicted of having
violated the provisions of neutrality
embraced in section 1886 Revised
Statutes, in providing the steamship
Laurado to carry cargo Of arms and
ammunition and Is men rs military
expedition to the island of Cuba
against the government of Spain,
which was at that time at peace with
the United States. He was sentenced
to pay fine of $500 and costs and to
be imprisoned for a period of two
years. The President has pardoned
Hart on the ground that his punish
ment under the circumstances is too
severe; that while the United States
by no means justities or condones a
violation of the neutrality policy of
the country, and his conviction and
imprisonment has made manifest that
the law will be rigidly enforced, a full
consideration OF all the circumstances
impels the belief that he has been
adequately punished and the dignity
of the law sustained by the term of
three months of imprisonment already
served.
After weeks OF waiting and prepare
ton, the first army of invasion of
Cuba to start from the eastern shores
of the United States departed under
the command of Gen. Shafter Tues
day morning at s o'clock. The feet
of transports consisted OF thirty-five
vessels, four tenders and fourteen con-
voys. The actual embarkation of the
troops began on Monday, June 6. The
work proceeded diligently until late
on Wednesday afternoon, when, after
the departure of several vessels, an i'm.
portant order came calling halt in
the proceedings. The Castine was
dispatched at once to overhaul the
disappearing vessels and recall them.
They all came back but one, the City
OF Washington, which was reported to
be aground down the bay. 1t had
been subsequently learned, however,
that this vessel had outstripped the
messenger until the coast of Cuba
was really sighted. Neither the
Washington nor the Castine returned
to Port Tampa until Saturday. The
alleged cause of delay is that the
Hornet, while out scouting, had
sighted several Spanish warships.
The American troops at Guantanamo
are having severe time of it. A dis.
patch dated Monday says that our
forces have had the best of two days
fighting, but they have had little
chance for rest or sleep in repelling
incessant attacks. Were it not for the
guns of the fleet the little band would
be annihilated by the Spanish troops
from Santiago. The least movement
in the American camp which is pro-
tected by trenches and pits, is the
signal for target practice by the Span
iards, whose rifles carry much further
than ours, though their owners rarely
hit anything they aim at. The Span
ish forces are deployed in ambuscade,
in regular Indian style of warfare.
During Monday night the Marblehead,
believing that the Americans had been
driven from camp, threw several shells
into the place. The fight was the
first in which the Cubans co-operated
with our forces. They are undisci-
plined, and about as likely to hit
friend as foe in their awkward charges.
An outpost of four marines were
killed and their bodies horribly multi
ated by the savage foe. The naval
and land forces are endeavoring to
hold their own till reinforcements ar
rive.
A trial of the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius took place at the entrance
of Santiago harbor, on the 18th, about
midnight. While the Oregon turned
her search light on the batteries, a
shot was fired. There was slight
kissing noise followed by sort of
cough but no report, no flame to give
| warning to the Spaniards. Thirty
seconds later a dull roar broke the
silence of the night. Two hundred
pounds of gun-cotton exploded on q
hillside and the blockading lines, two
miles away, shook with the explosion.
The firing of l3.inch shell is mere