The San Francisco call., 1898-06-16
MORE THAN ENOUGH MEN
SAN JOSE COMPANY ORDERED
 INTO SERVICE.
Astor Battery From New York Ar rives at St. Louis En Route to San Fran
 cisco.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LOS ANGELES, June 15.-Lieutenant Colonel Schreiber of the Seventh Regi- ment, California Volunteers, arrived here from San Francisco to-day and immediately opened a recruiting office for the purpose of filling the companies of the Seventh to their full strength Lieutenant Dass, who Is recruiting for Battery D, heavy artillery has ob- tained thirty-five of the fifty-four men wanted to complete that battery. He will leave for San Francisco on Satur- day.
 SAN DIEGO, June 15.-Captain R. V. Dodge of Company B, Seventh Califor- mia Regiment, who was sent south from San Francisco on recruiting duty, ar rived in this city tonight, accom- panied by one of each company of the First Battalion of the regiment. Cap tain Dodges task here is to recruit twenty men, and 1t is already per formed, several times that number having volunteered. From here Cap tain Dodge will go to San Bernardino, Riverside and Redlands to obtain ad- ditional recruits.
 PORTLAND, June 15.-Under the second call of the President for troops Governor Lord to-day issued instruc- tions for recruiting to its maximum strength the Oregon Regiment of Vol unteers now on its way to Manila. Ore gon's quota under the second call is 33O men.
 Troop c, Fourth United States Cavalry, from Walla Walla, spent the day in Portland and left this evening for San Francisco. The Oregon En- ergency Corps supplied the 'cavalrymen with an elaborate lunch at the armory.
 SAN JOSE. June 15.-Company B. Fifth Infantry, will leave for San Francisco tomorrow or next day, word having just been received from the ad jutant general that the Fifth had been called into service as a full regiment. Company B is ready to start with 192 men.
 DENVER, June 15.-The Soldiers Aid Society of this city is kept very busy these days entertaining troops that pass through here. en route to San Francisco. Every train bearing troops is met and refreshments served to the soldiers. Fifth IowanS were fed to- day 150 more will be entertained to- morrow, and 150 Kansas and Iowa sol diers will sample Denvers hospitality on Friday.
 Colonel Fred H. Funston of the Twentieth Kansas Regiment was the guest of the society to-day. Colonel Funston, who is the son of ex-Con-
 
 til short time ago, chief of artillery in the Cuban army. He came home suffering from wounds and disease. He rapidly recovered and was given com mand of the Twentieth Kansas Regi- ment now at San Francisco, awaiting transportation to Manila. He has been, for the past three weeks, in confer ence with Generals Miles and Shafter in regard to the invasion of Cuba Colonel Funston left for San Francisco this evening.
 ST. LOUIS, June 15.-The vandalia train brought in the Astor Battery from New York today, and after the men had been refreshed with sub stantial breakfast at Union Station the journey to San Francisco was con- tinued. Lieutenant P. c. March is in command of the battery, and with him are three officers and ninety-n nine men, They arrive in train consisting of three tourist sleepers, one coach and three baggage cars.
 Before starting on west the train was enlarged by the addition of seven cars containing horses and mules, one fiat car with two army wagons and one box car. The box car contained pack sad dies, brides and accoutrements The mixed train, now consisting of an en- zine and sixteen cars will be operated as special by the Missouri Pacific to Pueblo, by the Denver and Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western to Ogden and thence by the Southern Pacific to San Francisco.
 CHICAGO, June 15.-The first lot of Chicago recruits, eleven in number, destined for service in the Philippine Islands, left to-day for San Francisco