Arizona republican., 1898-04-25

that they were going around the Horn or through the strait They returned to the coast and the Oregon set out for Dutch Guiana by a short overland route. A great many people will be disinclined to believe this, but they are confronted by the two impregnable facts that she was at Callao cn April 19 and the Gazette dispatch describing her presence in Dutch Guiana on the night of April 23. This may even seem to have been fast time. but then it must be remembered that the Oregon cost S3,000,00 and speed on land was expected of her, for she is not very fast on water The Gazette dispatch says nothing about the Marietta She iB probably in the interior of Brazil mak- ing her way more slowly toward Dutch Guiana The Gazette tomorrow morn ing will probably contain another ex- elusive dispatch giving an account of the launching of the Oregon for sea service again.
 There was one thing about that dis patch that puzzled folks. It was stated that the Oregon would skirt along the coast of Brazil to- ward home This Statement dis turbed many preconceiyed ideas or geographical location and even the text books and maps to which many Of the Gazette's readers referred were found to be erroneous. According to those maps the more skirting along the coast of Brazil the Oregon does. the further she will get away from home. where she Is badly needed just now. But the Gazette is no doubt right and the geographies are certainly wrong. just as the Gazette the other day proved that the histories had been wrong for ninety years when they put into the mouth of the tamented Law renee that memorable utterance by the dying Perry, Don't give up the ship!" If historians erred in such an important matter, why may net geog- raphers have erred with respect to the relative locations of Brazil and Dutch Guiana?
 This Gazette dispatch creates many surmises regarding the future move ments of the Oregon. It. was supposed that she was under orders to join Schley's squadron, but now that Ha- vana has been invested from the sea side, naval and military strategists see better move for her. It is not very far from Dutch Guiana to the southern coast of Cuba. Since the Oregon has proved the soundness and capability of her land legs, why wouldn't it be good thing for her to land on the southern coast of the island, proceed overland and attack Havana in the rear? That would make the Spanish hunt their holes.
 The people of the United States have not generally been informed that the Oregon is safe. The Associated Press correspondent at this point and special correspondents of eastern newspapers are remiss in their duty if they did not send out the comforting dispatch of the Gazette to an anxious nation yesterday. The president would have slept better last night if he had heard about it and the navy department would have known why the Oregon did not put in at Montevideo, as she was expected to do. : The Gazette had another startling telegraph report yesterday, the prob able capture of the Alfonso XIII with 10000 men. Folks who read this got to figuring. In the first place they did not think any ship could carry So many men. The displacement of the Alfonso is little more than 1000 tons. It seemed as if 10000 men of average weight, together with the armor, ar mament and the weight of the naked ship would make displacement of this kind tired and maybe sink the ship. But no doubt the Gazette is right. What do these critics of landlubbers
 know about displacement and such things, anyhow? Perhaps the AL fonso could carry a million mon if she felt like it.