The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-05-14
TROOPS ORDERED TO CUBA
IN COMMAND OF GEN. MILES.
900 Men Have been Chartered to
Garry Forces to the Philippines
az Well ns to Cuba-Lee to Become
Military Dictator.

Washington, May lO.-General Miles
and his entire staff will leave Washing
ton tonight for Tampa to accompany the
first military expedition to Cuba.
Unless present plans are changed by
Friday morning Miles will have assem-
bled his staff around him at Tampa.
1t is expected here that the first troops
will be on the way to Cuba within a
week. The only delay probable will be in
securing a sufficient number of trans
ports.
Movement From Chickamnuga.
Chattanooga, Tenn, May l0.-At Chic
kamauga Park today the officers and men
of the regular army regiments were rush
ing as they have not been called upon to
do since the war began. The entire army
is ordered to pack up and go to the
front
This was announced ait o'clock and
since then things have been moving at Il
running all available cars to the park
and, as rapidly as they arrive, are load
ed with camp equipment and horses, sup
plies. etc.
The work of moving the big command
during the next few days as they are
expected to do, is an immense job for the
of the sudden orders and had made no
adequate preparations.
The first troops to get away will prob
ably be the infantry division composed of
the Second, Seventh, Eighth, Sixteenth
and Twelfth regiments. Five hundred
passenger coaches to carry the men to
Tampa will be available tonight
The First and Tenth cavalry go to New
Orleans, the Second cavalry to Mobile,
the Third and Sixth to Tampa.
1t is announced that General Brooke
will remain at Chickamauga in command
of the volunteers coming. Chickamauga
will be continue to be the headquarters
of the department.
Generals Lee, Wheeler and Wilson are
expected to arrive the latter part of the
week
Command at Tampa.
Tampa, May lO-Command of the
troops at Tampa was today turned over
to Major General Wade by Major General
Shafter in conformity with the orders re-
ceived from Washington yesterday. 1t is
stated that no change i'll the plans re-
garding the movement of troops from this
point toward Cuba are contemplated
Shafter will command the army on Cuban
soil and direct the campaign against Ha-
vana
Lee to Govern Cuba.
New York, May l0.-A special to the
journal from Washington says:
Major General Fitzhugh Lee will be the
first military governor of Cuba. For the
next two weeks he will act as the of
fetal adviser of Secretary Alger He will
have a private Office and desk near the
secretary's office and will either remain
here or visit the various mobilization
points.
When Havana is taken General Lee will
be sent to Cuba and with headquarters
at Havana, will assume temporary die
tatorship of the island until republican
form of government is established by
/ the Cubans.
Miles i'm Personal Command.
New York, May lO.-The military
movement to end the war with Spain by
prompt and decisive aggressive cam
paign in Cuba is in full swing throughout
the country orders having been issued
from the war department with apidity
similar to the continuous rattle of an au
tomato machine gun, says the Washing
ton correspondent of the Times.
The force of expert military telegraph
ers sent hundreds of messages in cipher
and hundreds Of others in ordinary Ian
guage to commanding generals, to rail
way superintendents, to quartermaster
and commssaries, TO state governors anC
mastering officers and to all the unit
in the vast mechanism which is relieC
alpOn to unite in n crushing blow to Span
ish authority in Cuba and the Philippines
General Miles having secured the pres
ident's permission to take the field il
person and command the invading army
completed his final arrangements to star
for Tampa, where Ire will assume activ
control of the force concentrated Their
and at Mobile and New Orleans. dividing
it into divisions under Generals Wade
, Coppinger and Shafter.
The plan to have General Shafter hea'
| an army OF 5000 to establish base o
communication with the insurgents wa
completely set aside. Generals Wade
/ Coppinger and Shafter, respectively, i
the order of their rank, it is now deter
mined, will lead equal divisions of tn
! army of occupation under General Mile
! General Brooke, now at Chickamaugo
T has been definitely selected to comman