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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Proceedings of the Supreme Lodge at
Indianapolis.

Indianapolis. Ind, Aug. 20-The su-
preme lodge Knights of Pythias was in
session all day III the state house. 1t
adopted the new ritual for the uniform
rank in modified form
The committee appointed several days
ago TO investigate the charges OF eXtrav-
aSance made against the supreme lodge
officers and to secure, II necessary. the
name of the informant of a local paper.
VIII report tomorrow that there has been
extravaganza, but no criminal nliscon-
duct. 1t VIII also report that il could
not secure the name. of the recalcitrant
reporter. Further. the committee will
reccomend committee to have super
vision over the award of contracts for
printing and supplies.
The committee on the state of the or
der reported today that the reports Of
the supreme officers heretofore submitted,
We're very significant and very suggest
i've.
to recommend per capita tax of cents
for the support of the supreme lodge
which, with $1,000 estimated income from
the sale of supplies and 500 income from
the supreme representative tax of $50,
each against grand lodges, Will give an
income of about $4,000 a year.
The supreme lodge decided today to
borrow $1,000 for the expenses of the SUI
preme lodge, as there is now only $4,000
in the treasury.
The supreme tribunal concluded its
work today and adjourned, after having
settled several cases
In the case of T. w. Dunno against the
Oahu lodge No. 1 of Honolulu, the APP
John H. Alexander of Leesburg. Va.
was reelected supreme tribune for five
years.
w. 3. Gale of Boston succeeded George
D. Seay on the tribunal.
w d. Kennedy was reelected supreme
recorder.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
SEVENTY-FIRST AT HOME
New FORKS Swell Regiment Receive
a Glad Welcome.

New York, Aug. 27.-The Seventy
first regiment of New York volunteers
arrived here this afternoon and march
ed uo Broadway from the battery to
Thirty-fourth street, where their ar
lnory is situated.
on reaching the armory the men
were dismissed. and then sat down to
the first really good lunch they have
had since they went into camp on
Hampstead Plains months ago.
r For hours before the regiment reach
ed the battery there We're crowds
stretched along Broadway, and when
the first line of soldiers came into view
ia their dingy uniforms there was an
outburst of cheering, and the men
We're the reci9ients of a continuous
ovation until they came to the armory
Tie returned men looked eXtraordi-
nary well. considering their condition
When they landed at Camp Wikoff. The
regiment as it left camp, consisted of
Go men. of whom 260 were veterans
who had Seen service in Cuba, and
we're able to walk: 300 We're recruits
Who had never had a chance to fight,
and 20 were Santiago survivors who
we're too veal. to march. and had to
be carried in army wagons to the de-
not
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
WILL FIGHT TO THE BITTER END
STRIKING EMPLOYEES IN OHIO
MOUNT PICKET GUARD.
Nearly All the Handy" Men of the
American Wire & Steel COM
pany Stay Out.

Cleveland, Aug. 29-AlI negotiations
between the American Wire & Steel
company and their striking employees
having been declared off, the strikers
have again taken up the battle, and
say that they will fight it to the bitter
end.
Hundreds of strikers mounted picket
guard around the plants of the com
pany, in anticipation of an attempt to
Smuggle in additional employees BY
a. m. today 500 strikers were posted
covering every approach to the works.
Each workman, as he came along, was
intercepted by a committee, who asked
him to stay away from the works.
No threats were offered and no vio-
lence offered.
1t did not take much persuasion to
prevail on all the machinists and Ia
borers, nearly all of the handy men
and firemen, to remain with the strik-
ers. 1t was claimed early in the day
by the strikers that fully $50 men were
kept from going TO work
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
UhClESAM'S ARMY DISBANDING
RAPID MOVEMENT OF TROOPS
FROM CHICKAMAUGA.
First Army Corps Enroute and Third
Getting Ready-No Time Set For
Muster Out at Camp Merriam.

| Chickamauga National Military Park.
Aug. 29.-The work of moving the First
army corps from Chickamauga has
been completed and the army officials
are now directing their attention 20 the
! Third corps. No regiments of this lat
ter corps left today, but two, the Third
Tennessee and First Mississippi, are
expected to leave for Admission Ala
tomorrow. Others will leave as rapid
y as transportation can be provided
for them.
The railroads are now in excellent
shape to do the handling and there will
be no delay on their account. The whole
corps. it is thought, can be easily
moved during the week.
The Sixth regiment. United States
volunteers. will remain here for some
time. The Eighth New York now be-
ing mustered out, will probably leave
for home tomorrow. The Second Ne
braska is expected to start for Omaha
Wednesday,
The conditions in the hospitals at
Camp Thomas are rapidly improving.
At least half of the sick have been
sent away and arrangements are being
made to send hundreds of others.
The surgeons and nurses are now
able to give good attention 10 all here
and decided change for the better is
everywhere noticeable.
Governor Black of New York will ar
rive at Camp Thomas this evening. He
comes here for the purpose of examin-
ing into the condition of the New York
regiments. The government will make
careful investigation of all the re-
ports that have been sent out in refer
ence to the New York regiments and
will ascertain if he can do anything
that will benefit the bows
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WEATHER AND CROPS.
Review of Condition For the Week
Ending Monday

| United States department of agricul-
ture, climate and crop bulletin of the
weather bureau. Utah section. for the
week ending Monday. Aug. 49, 1898:
There has been scarcely any change
| in the temperature conditions of the
past week from the temperature of the
week before, the weather continuing
excessively warm. The daily excess of
temperature above the average was five
degrees. There was more cloudineSs
and threatening weather last week,
with no rain, than occurred in the two
weeks previous, being insufficient to
aid the growth of vegetation. There
were some storms in the mountains
which furnished rainfall sufficient TO
swell the streams in some sections and
proved advantageous for irrigation
purposes.
Owing to the continued drouth there
has been a rapid maturing of all crops.
Sugar beets, garden vegetables, pota-
toes and lucern could still be benefited
by a good rain. Continued dry weather
will materially lessen the yield of pO-
tatoeS and practically prevent the har
vest of the third crop of lucern, which
has already suffered from burning.
Farmers are busy stacking grain since
most of the crop has been harvested.
All the threshers are working vigor-
ously, and making good progress.
Yields show fair average, consider
ing the entire crop, fall grain being
above and late sOwn spring grain be-
ing below the average, as a rule.
There are an abundance of peaches,
plums and apples, the quality of the
same being fair. Apples show more
insect injuries. Vegetables and melons
are abundant The yield of honey is
above the average.
The week closes with a prospect for
showers in the northern portions of the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-30
KANSAS SHOULD BLUSH.
An Officer Found Guilty of Desecrat-
ing Confederate Graves.

Washington. Aug. 29.-Captain Louis
c. Duncan. surgeon of the Twenty
second Kansas regiment, is held by the
Sheriff of Fairfax county, Virginia, to
answer an indictment charging him
with desecrating confederate graves at
Bull Run, near Manassas.
1t appears that DR.. Duncan, whose
case has now become famous, was not
sentenced to five years imprisonment,
as reported from Camp Meade, Pa,
but escaped much more lightly at the
hands of the military court, there be-
ing a lack of evidence to prove that
he actually took part in despoiling the
graves He was tried by courtmartial
under the 61st and 62nd general arti-
Giles of war.
The finding of the courtmartial, ap-
proved by General Davis, was that
Surgeon Duncan be deprived of his
rank for two months and confined to
the regimentaI camp and forfeit half
his pay for the same length of time,
and that he be reprimanded BY the
commanding general.
How DR.. Duncan is to be confined to
the regimental camp for two months
when he is now the prisoner of the
sheriff of Fairfax county, is difficult
to understand. His regiment has
moved from Thoroughfare Gap to
Camp Meade, Pa. 1t is understood that
when the sheriff presented his warrant
for him under the state Indictment,
Duncan voluntarily surrendered. A
clash between the state authorities and
the war department may develop. The
case has not been brought to the at
tention of Washington as yet.
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HoNGKoNG CRITICISM.
Caustic Rebuke of the Fmeute Pre-
cipitated By Our Bows.

London, Aug. pa dispatch from
Manila to news agency, dated Aug.
3D. via Hongkong, today, says:
The friction between the Americans
and natives requires exceptional ability
TO avoid total alienation. find that
several high American officials of med
iocre education are utterly unacquairt-
ed with oriental ideas, and unable to
understand the primitive races. Most
of the Americans are deficient in pa
thence. and numerous trifling misunder-
standings Intensity the friction. l be-
lieye the Americans are too hard. The
American censor absolutely prohibits
the sending of a single word about the
Cay-ite incident of yesterday, and he
threatens TO eX9el any correspondent
who mentions it A deoutation from
the press is going to General Merritt to
protest against his action. The affair
began in a drunken American shoot
ing, and native sentries tried to shoot
him. In consequence of the melee four
natives and one American were killed
and 1t is now generally unsupported as
being a deliberate Inauguration of hos
tilitIes. General Merritt returned their
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SICKNESS Ar CAMP MERRIAM.
Record Broken In Number of Patients
In HOSPITALS.

San Francisco. Aug. 29.-In spite of
the great precautions taken by the To-
cal military authorities, the health con-
ditions at the local camp are worse
than ever.
Today the total number of sick is the
largest yet known. The total is sos,
five of these being in private hospit-
ais, So out on furloughs, II in outlying
HOSPITALS. and sos in the division hos
Iital proper The Seventh California is
still TO the front. with SO cases. Pri-
vate Frank II. Rodibaush, company II,
Seventh California, died yesterday
afternoon of typhoid fever. There are
16 or Is typhoid suspects in the hos
pital. The Tennessee regiment has 90
sick men. and the Fifty-first Iowa
E6
There were IS patients in the Pre-
sidio hosoitaI this morning, several of
these having typhoid fever in its first
stages.
A cable was received today from Cen
eral f. V. Greene. who sailed to Manila
in command Of the second expedition,
inferring that he intends TO return to
the United States Immediately. AS the
China is reported as leaving Manila to-
morrow, General Greene may come on
her.
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UNDER MILITARY Law.
All Cuba Will Be Governed After
the Santiago Fashion.

Washington, Aug. 29.-The instruc-
lions 20 the Cuban and Porto Rican
military commissions were drawn up
and approved by the president before
he left Washington, and are now ready
to be delivered tosthe president of each
before he leaves. The instructions will
not be made public, but their general
terms are known to be the same as the
instructions sent TO General Shafter
regarding the government of Santiago,
and to General Merritt regarding the
Philippines.
This will mean that the military COM
mission Will take control of Cuba and
Porto Rico, the same as the military
governor now controls that portion of
Cuba surrendered to the United States
after the Santiago campaign. The
many minor details relative to the
evacuation of the islands are left to the
commission, who will report any diff
Guilty or disputed points to Washington.
There has been doubt that the United
States would take control of Porto Ri
co, but the Instructions to the Cuban
military commission settles any ques-
ton regarding that island, and means
that for the present at least the United
States will assume the government and
control of the remainder of the island,
as has been the case in Santiago.
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AFFAIRS IN SANTIAGO.
Extreme Distress Found In Lower
Part of City.

Santiago de Cuba, Aug. 90, $50 p. M
morning, bringing Lieutenant Rich
| mond Hobson, who Will superintend the
efforts to float the Sunken Spanish
cruisers Cristobal Colon and Infanta
Maria Teresa. Lieutenant Hobson had
| an enthusiastic formal reception from
General Lawton, with whom he will be
quartered while in Santiago. The Seq
urancia brought also Captain Leigh and
40 men of the signal service corps, who
viii relieve Colonel Greene. Work will
be begun at once on the military tele-
phone and telegraph lines along the
eastern Cuban coast. The Segurancia
brought a cargo of fresh beef.
Today General Lawton issued an or
der releasing the largest wharf in the
harbor-lately wholly occupied by the
United States government. and return
ing it to the use of coal merchants and
shippers. Trading vessels here exper-
fenced great inconvenience and delay
in consequence of the insufficient wharf
facilities. and many ships in the harbor
are waiting place TO unload
The special hardship arises from the
excessive harbor charges.
The beautiful Alameda boulevard. 200
feet wide and encircling Santiago bay
is now occupied by the Second immune
regiment, and will be released to the
city as soon as the immunes can be re-
moved to the new camp, two miles dis
tant- The boulevard is a fashionable
resort for driving and promenading
A whole battalion of the Fifth regu-
lars, brought by the Knickerbocker
from Tampa, has been placed in the
hospital vacated by the Spaniards, vel
low fever having appeared among
them. M
The Knickerbocker has been quaran-
tined. She touched at small Cuban
port on her way, from the United States
and was not inspected at Tampa. Five
cases of the fever have developed, i
a large quantity of government sup
plies left here by the comnissary de-
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PRESIDENT WILL VISIT IT.
Mckinley VIII Make a Personal In
spection of Camp Wikoff.

Washington, Aug. 29.-It is said at
the war department that there is no
truth that Camp Wikoff, Montauk
Point, is to be abandoned, either as a
result of Secretary Ayers inspection or
any other account Adjutant General
Corbin says the camp was established
only as place of temporary detention
for the troops returning from the fever
infected districts of Cuba, in order to
avoid the possibility OF the Introduction
of yellow fever. 1t was not intended as
permanent camp, and win be aban-
doned when it has served the special
purpose FOR which it was established
From present Indications the camp will
be maintained there several weeks yet
The troops will be ordered to their
home camps as soon as they are dis
charged from service after two months
furlough 1t is estimated that there are
about $1,000 troops at the camp, includ-
ing the regulars.
Secretary Alger viii make another
visit 10 the camp IN few days, in or
der to meet the president there.
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HER ABILITY WON.
Woman Creates a New Departure In
American Army Life.

Washington. Aug. 29.-Today for the
first time in the American army a wo-
man was appointed a member of the
medical staff. DR.. Anita Newcomb
MCGEE, wife of Professor w. ]. Nc
Gee of ibis city, and a daughter of
Professor Simon Newconb, formerly of
the naval observatory, was regularly
sworn in as an acting assistant sur
geon. This. according to Secretary AL
gers general order, would entitle her
to the uniform of q second lieutenant
without designation of rank. 1t is not
likely, however, that Dr. MCGEE will
avail herself of this privilege. Her APP
pointment from q technical standpoint
is not the beginning of Dr. McGee's
service with the war department.
Throughout the war she has BEEN in
charge of the selection of the women
nurses, and of 200 or more now in the
field, most OF them have passed muster
at her hands.
Assistant Surgeon MCGEE goes to
New York to select 80 graduate nurses
for service in Porto Rico. DR.. MCGEE
has regularly practiced her profession
in Washington for some years. and is
well known in medical circles through
out the country. She contributed sew
eral articles to the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science
and to the scientific organizations
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OFF FOR HOME.
Troops In Porto Rico Embracing For
the North

New York, Aug ga dispatch to
the Herald from Ponce says:
"Details OF the homeward movement
have been practically completed Gen
eral Miles and his staff and eight COM
panies of the Second Wisconsin volun-
teers LETT on Tuesday. The Fourth
Pennsylvania volunteers are to start
home on Wednesday. All of the cavalry
horses, guns carriages of batteries,
etc. OF Pennsylvania will leave on the
Mississippi on Thursday, While the men
of the three Pennsylvania batteries
and the Third battalion of the Second
Wisconsin sail the same day on the
COncho.
The men and guns of the Missouri,
Illinois and Indiana batteries are to
leave on the Alamo Friday, and the
battery horses on the Ute on Satur-
day
The Illinois volunteers will follow on
the Seneca and another ship not yet
named.
1t has been arranged that thesyhole
detachment of about 1900 men viii
land in Brooklyn After resting there
4 few days they will proceed to the
bridge, Wall street, to Broadway. to
Fifth Avenue. and then to Central
park. The men in line viii be COM
manded by General Wilson, and Cen
eral Miles will review them
Gene b Brooke is preparing to move
to San Juan. One hundred wagons
have been sent TO him from Ponce to
transport supplies across the noun
tains. 1t seems probable that he Will
take all the forces at Guantanamo, in
Guiding the mounted troops.
Reports of disorder continue. The
authorities believe that the outbreaks
are sporadic and Will soon quiet down.
General Miles Will probably issue a
proclamation calling for order, and de-
creeing severe penalties for disobed-
fence.
The trial by a military commission
of L civilian prisoners charged with
burning the town of Coto begins to-
morrow in Ponce. Colonel Griffin, of
the First volunteer engineers, wal pre-
side. The prisoners having no counsel,
General Wilson has detailed Major
Walton, of the pay corps, to act n that
capacity. This is the first trial of a
civilian by a military court since the
occupation of the island"
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Enroute to Montauk Point.

New York, Aug. 29.-The Sixth and
Seventh sections of the First United
States cavalry arrived in Jersey City
today from Lakeland, Fla. There We're
about 400 on the two trains. All We're
transported from Jersey City to Long
Island City to continue their trip TO
Montauk point The first five sections
OF the cavalry are at Montauk
Fifteen sick men were left behind at,
Washington and two died there. The
troops brought Private c. H Thomas,
who is accused of having killed Private
Deans in a fight on Aug. Is.
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Rovcotting Declared LegaI.

st. Louis. Aug. 29.-Judge Valiant,
of the st. Louis circuit court, rendered
a decision in the case of Marx and
Haas against Watson and others today,
declaring boycotts legal. A temporary
injunction pending settlement was
granted a week ago by Judge McKee,
sitting in Judge Valliant's stead The
order enjoined the union from boycott
ting the tailoring firm. Now Judge
Valiant declares a boycott is legal. as
long as no force or intimidation is re-
sorted to-
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Falling Off In Cases.

Knoxville. Tenn. Aug. 2s.-With the
arrival of the First Pennsylvania from
Chickamauga today, the entire First di-
vision, Third army. CORPS, will be com
plete. The Fourth Tennessee is now
here, 10 Join the First brigade, making
total of 10,7G0 at the camp. The last
regiment 10 arrive is the Second Ohio.
which came today and went into camp
with the Fourteenth Minnesota. Chief
Surgeon Hymei reports a marked fall
ing off in sickness
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Ordered Mustered Out.

Washington. Aug. 29.-The following
troops have been ordered mustered out:
Ninth Massachusetts. from Middle
town, Pa, to South birmingham,
Mass, where they will be mustered out;
Seventh Illinois. from MiddletOwn 70
Springfield; First illinois, Lexington,
KY, to Springfield; Fifth Illinois, Lex
ingtOn to Springfield; Sixty fifth New
York, from Camp Alger to Buffalo;
Fifth Ohio infantry. from Fernandina,
Fla, to Columbus, o.; First Wisconsin,
from Jacksonville. to Camp Douglass,
Wis; Third United States VolUn-
teer cavalry (Grigsby's), at Chicka-
manga; Fourth Texas. at Austin. Tex
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RESUME PASTORAL PURSUITS.
But Occasionally the Savage In the
Filipino VIII Crop Out.

New York, Aug pa dispatch to the
Herald from Manila says:
Indications are that the natives are
resuming peaceful pursuits. They are
tearing away the trenches around San
tana and Paray, and beginning the cul-
tivation OF the fields.
Seven unarmed Taglo soldiers under
a caDtain on Saturday at noon were
arrested at San Sebastian. They We're
dragging a Soaniard, bound and gag
ged. along. the street. They said they
were taking him Quito shoot him Their
ca tive was rescued by the American
soldiers. The rebels had q pass signed
by Colonel Montenegro, authorizing
them to patrol the city
Some of the rebels on Friday abduct-
ed woman from Vinondo street, TAX
ing with her a small child four months
old. TIE woman has not been seen
since. The provost officers are on the
trail of the kidnapers.
Plans Cor the sanitation of Manila
are almost completed
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AN ALPINE CALAMITY.
Fate of Scientific Family Who
Climbed Without a Guide.

Berne Switzerland, Aug. 29-Dr
John Hopkinson. an English metrical
engineer, and his son and two daugh-
tiers, have been killed while ascending
the Deits de Xeisivi, in the Canton of
Valais, the mountains of which are
among the highest in Europe, and are
exposed to furious torrents and fire.
quent avalanches. The party had gone
on their periIous trip without the as
Sistance of a guide
DIR. Hopkinson had intended starting
for New York on Sept. 20, the trip to be
made IN connection with a syndicate
which he was representing for the pur-
pose of developing his Inventions. -