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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-07-18
BIDS ADVERTISED FOR.
pOsals for Transportation of
Spanish TrOOps.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE formal ad-
vertisement issued by the quartermaster
generals Office of the war department for
the transportation to Spain of the Span
ish officers and men who surrendered to
General Shafter was issued late this after
noon. 1t will be inserted in newspapers
published in New York, Philadelphia Bos-
ton, Baltimore and New Orleans. The ad-
vertisement is as follows:
War Department Quartermaster Generals Once
Washington, D. C., July IT.
Transportation of Spanish prisoners of
war to Spain:
Sealed proposals are invited for the
transportation OF the Spanish prisoners
of war who surrendered to the United
States forces from Santiago de Cuba to
Cadiz. or such other ports of Spain as may
be hereafter designated. Their number is
estimated as 1,0OO commissioned officers and
24.0q0 enlisted men. Cabin accommodations
are to be supplied for the officers, and
third-class or steerage accommodations
having suitable galley accommodations con-
forming to the United States requirements
as to space and ventilation for the enlisted
men. The United States government will
deliver the prisoners on board at Santia-
go. Proposals to state the per capita price
for transporting officers and for transport
ing enlisted men and for their subsistence
and delivering them on shore at the Span
ish port Subsistence to be equal to United
States army garrison" rations, as follows:
One thousand complete rations-Pork. Lilo pounds,
net weight 20 pounds: bacon. :1-Io pounds. net
weight. $50 pounds: timed roast beef, .-10 pound
net weight; 100 pounds; -four. i25 pounds; or hard
bread LOCO pounds.
vssetables-Dry beans. IS pounds; rice. 80:
fresh potatoes. 500: onions 200, coffee roasted Sc
sugar $50: vinegar. 50: soap. 10. salt, 70: pepper
black, 2.5.
Needed transportation as above specified
to report to the chief quartermaster at
Santiago between July 30 and August IT,
1895.
Payment will be made when evidence
that the prisoners have been delivered is
presented to this Office.
Proposals should be addressed to Colonel
Frank ]. Hecker, care depot quartermas-
ter, United States Army build ng, New
York city. and will be opened at II o'clock
a. m. July 20, 1S9S.
NJ. I. LUDINGTON
Quartermaster General U. s. A.
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infantry. 1t was as lieutenant colonel Of
the Twenty-first that he went to Cuba.
During the battle of Santiago his serv-
Ices were of so distinguished a character as
to win for him special mention In General
Skaters official reports.
He was among the officers recommended
Tor promotion and was last week named
by the president as brigadier-general Of
volunteers. That the administration and
General Miles and General Shafter impose
great confidence in him Is indicated by his
appointment as temporary military govern
or Of the CITY,
Captain William McKittrick, who had
the honor to raise the stars and stripes over
the palace In Santiago, is an aide-de-camp
on the staff of General Shafter. On the
18th OF May he was appointed by the pres
ident to be an assistant adjutant general.
with the rank of captain, and was assigned
soon afterward to the Fifth army corps.
now under Skaters command, in Cuba.
He is resident of California.
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HOSPITAL SHIP ARRIVES.
Americans and spanish Officers
and Men Aboard

Americans anu Spanish Omcef1
and Wen Aboard.
NEW YORK. July 1.-THE United States
hospital ship Solace arrived at the navy
yard, Brooklyn, to-day from Guantanamo,
via Old Point Comfort and Newport News.
Va. When the vessel left Guantanamo she
had 150 wounded American and Spanish
officers and men on board.
Seven Of the Spanish seamen died during
the voyage, but all the other sufferers were
put ashore at Old Point Comfort and New
port News. Surgeon Street and his assist
ants, Drs. Stokes. Bogert and Smith, were
busy night and day for the last two weeks
attending to the injured on board. some of
whom were frightfully wounded during the
destruction of Admiral Cervera's fleet on
July 8. Captain Conchas, of the Maria
Teresa. who was Admiral Cervera's chief
of-staff, and four Spanish officers were
treated during the trip. They expressed
themselves as being surprised and very
much pleased at the treatment they re-
ceived frcm the American officers and sur
geons. There were forty-three American
soldiers and fifty-seven seamen. and forty
two Spanish seamen among the sick and
wounded when the vessel sailed.
Many of the Spanish seamen suffered in-
tensely owing to their weakened condition
at the time they received their wounds.
They told the doctors that for several days
prior to Admiral Cervera's dash from SAM
tiago harbor they had had very little food
and were compelled to work in the trenches
on land during the day and attend to their
duties aboard ship during the night. In
fact, they said. they were on the point
of starvation and were desperate enough to
attempt anything.
At first, when the Spanish seamen were
brought aboard. they thought they were
going to be killed, but after couple of
days their fears were allayed when they
found that they were treated kindly.
The Solace will remain here for eight
or ten days. during which time a new ice
plant will be put aboard. There will also
be necessary repairs made in her machinery
and when she sails she will carry large
quantity of supplies for the fleet off the
coast of Cuba.
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DEATH AT FORT MCPHERSON.
Washington Darrow Succumbs to
Typhoid Fever-Other Patients
Doing Well.

ATLANTA, GA, July T.-Washington
parrow, chief musician of the Tenth cav
airy, whose home is said TO be In Illinois,
died to-day of typhoid fever in the general
hospital at Fort Mcpherson. He will be
buried at the national cemetery at Mari
eta, Ga, tomorrow with military honors.
The other patients are doing well and al
though a great amount of work has been
nut on the limited force of nurses. are re-
ceiving adequate attention. Ten Red Cross
nurses have arrived and are rendering val
liable aid. One hundred and thirty-five
hospital tents are being put up on the
parade ground. greatly charging the ac-
conmodatfons. The demands Of the gen.
eral hospital upon the space at the reser-
walton have rendered necessary the re-
moval of 5000 recruits now at the post, and
they will be sent to the rifle range at
Waco, Ca. in a day or two. The movement
of the Fifth infantry to Tampa will begin
Wednesday.
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of the great squadron. the Brooklyn lying
q little further out to sea.
deserted. the Spanish soldiers Iounging un-
concernedly on the beach under the guns
of the fleet and within hail of the men on
the New York. The men of the navy are
impatient to get info Santiago harbor, but
il is not known yet when the entrance will
be made. The refugees who have been
Quartered at Fl Caney were ordered back
into the city to-day. and. as most of them
are without food, the Red Cross Society's
aid is considered very important.
The openhanded generosity of Ameri-
can seamen was shown to-day when a sub
scription was opened on Commodore
Schley's flagship, the Brooklyn, for the ben
eft OF the young wife of George Henry
Ellis, the only man killed on the American
side during the battle with Admiral Ger
vera's fleet. The men eagerly offered their
money, many whose salaries are but 81
and SIS a month giving so and s25 The
subscription soon amounted to ssJ7, and
then one seaman who had a silver coin
taken from one of the Spanish vessels Of
and it was bid in by another sea-
man for $25.
Lieutenant Commander Mason offered a
5-peseta piece from the Infanta Maria Ter
esa, and its auction brought $50 more The
fund tonight amounts to over $1,000.
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MORE OF BRITISH GUNNERs.
Lord of Admiralty to BE Asked In
Parliament II Any Were
With DeweV

LONDON. July T7.-Mr. Thomas Gibson
Bowles. Conservative. member Of parlia-
ment for Kings Inn, in the house of COM
mons tomorrow, will ask the first lord Of
the admiralty. the Hon George ]. Goschen,
whether there is any truth in the state
ments made by Mr.. Cunniugham-Graham,
former member of parliament. in letter
to the st. James Gazette that the excellent
gunnery exhibited by Admiral Dewey's
squadron In the fight at Cavite was due to
the fact that-in the words of Mr. Cum
MISUNDERSTANDING of the gunners
We're Englishmen, decoyed from our
Chinese squadron by promises of s1D
MONTHLY"
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Prevalence of Yellow Fever at SAN
tiaEo Makes 1t Il Necessary
PrecautfOn,


WASHINGTON. July 1.-THE prevalence
of yellow fever at Santiago in the opinion
of the postal authorities has made it nee
essary to disinfect the mails coming from
that point. Mr.. Louis Kempner, who was
appointed to succeed Mr.. Eben Brewer as
postal agent in Cuba. was directed to con-
fer with army and navy officials as to the
necessity for this work. but no answer
having been received to kilograms sent
him. the postal authorities here conferred
with Surgeon General Wyman, of the ma
rne hospital, and General Sternberg in re-
gard to the matter. 1t was then decided to
fumigate all mail leaving Santiago and a
machine for this purpose will be immedi-
ately sent there. The fumigation will be
very thorough. the mail being taken from
the pouches and every parcel allowed to
come in contact with the disinfectant in
stead of subiecting it to the process while
in sacks. The work will be in charge of
persons belonging to some of the immune
organizations, and the officials here say
that when the packages and letters have
passed through this process there can be
no danger Of their bringing disease to this
country.
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Keller May Go to Porto Rico.

MIAMI. FLA. July lit is understood
that General Keifer has been asked how
soon he can place his command in con-
dition to go to the front. II true, this
would Indicate that the six regiments
here are to be detached from the Seventh
army corps to one Of the commands un-
der General Miles to accompany him on
his expedition of invasion of Porto Rico.
The troops are being equipped as rapidly
as possible and are now in good condition
to undertake a campaign. 1t Is further
reported that officers of the Texas regi-
merits in camp here have received word
that the Galveston regiment of immunes
has been ordered here and will arrive on
or before July 20.
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GEN. CHAMBERS M'KIBBEN
Military Governor of Santiago Ha'
Earned His Promotion i'm


unG army
WASHINGTON, July 17.-General Cham
bers McKibben, who has been appointed
temporary military governor of Santiago, is
a member of an old and we'll known Penn
sylvana family. He was born in Cham
bersburg not far from the famous Gettys-
burg Early in the civil war he enlisted in
the regular army and almost Immediately
afterwards was appointed second Neu-
tenant in the Fourteenth infantry. His
first promotion was given him on the 10th
of June, 1864, when he was made a first
lieutenant.
On August IS, of the same year he was
given a brevet commission as captain for
gallant services in the battle of North
Anna river, Virginia, and during the opera
tions on the Weldon railroad. At the con-
clusion of the war McKibben chose to re-
main in the army and on the 5th of Janu>
airy, 1857. he was promoted to be a captain
in the Thirty-fifth infantry, and on May i,
1896. lieutenant colonel Of the Twenty-hrst
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DR.. ANDREWS RESIGNATION.
versity to Take Action on
1t To-day.

PROVIDENCE, R. l.. July 1.-THE resig
nation of DR.. Benjamin Andrews as pres
ident of Brown university to accept the
position of superintendent of schools in
Chicago, has been received here by Rev.
Mr. Thomas D. Anderson. secretary of the
Brown university corporation The resig-
ratiCn is 20 take effect at once At the
request of DR.. Andrews meeting of the
executive and advisory committee has been
called for tomorrow to take action upon
the matter. DR.. Anderson, when inter
viewed, said that DR.. Andrews resignation
was regarded as final and would be accept
ed.
No action has been taken as yet In re-
gard to a successor of DIR. Andrews. He
has been president Of Brown university
since 1883. He was called to the position
from Cornell university. where he held the
chair of finance. Previous to that time he
had held the chair of history in Brown
university for six years.
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USE FOR THE BUENA VISTA.
War Leaves for Caba With
ColOred LabOrers.

NORFOLK. VA. July 1.-THE auxiliary
cruiser Yankee sailed from the Norfolk
navy yard at $50 o'clock this afternoon
and passed the Capes, outward bound two
hours later. Her destination Is Santiago
The auxiliary cruiser St Louis. returning
from Annapolis where she landed Admiral
Cervera and other Spanish prisoners.
passed out Of Chesapeake bay at $40
o'clock this morning. The steamship
Buena VISTA the first Spanish ship cap
tured in the present war, left Norfolk this
morning for Cuba. She took about Ioo
colored laborers.
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cAMARA's FLEET AT HOME.
Reaches Spanish. .Mediterraneau Ports
-Weyler Has an Audience With
Queen Regent.

LONDON. July 1s.-The Madrid corre-
spondent of the Standard says: The pros
poets of peace could be much promoted IL
the United States were to control properly
the impatience and ambition of both the
Cuban and Philippine insurgents.
Admiral Camara's squadron and his trans
ports have finally reached Spanish -Medit-
erranean ports on their return from Port
Said.
General Weyler had an audience Of an
hour with the queen regent to-day. He
expressed himself as very grateful for her
majesty's gracious welcome, but he as
sured her that recent events had not mod
flied his opinion as to Cuban affairs.
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over and administration of the occupied ter
ritory Of Santiago must be met immedi-
ately. Santiago itself is a city Of approxi-
mately 1000 people, and in addition there
are large number of people in the cap
tured territory whose interests will have to
be looked after. The commercial side of
the matter also must be attended to
promptly. Santiago being ours. the pre-
sumption follows that the blockade main
tanned by this government will be declared
not to exist and the place made an open
port-the government maintaining a strict
surveillance to keep supplies from getting
beyond Santiago and being furnished to the
Spaniards.
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veteran to Two war. Dead.

WASHINGTON, July 1S.-Benjamin NJ.
Cu,berson, a veteran Of two wars. died
here to-day. He was born in We,lsburg.
when a boy. He enlisted in the army
from Ohio when the war with Mexico
broke out and served through the conrilct
under George W. McCook- Dur the
civil war he was a member OF Company
E. Fffty-second Ohio volunteers. He toek
part in the battles Of Perryville. Chicka-
mauga Peach Tree creek and Atlanta and
was honorably discharged after being in
the Davis Island hospital for several
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MAJOR W. c. HAYES WOUNDED.
Son of Late President Hayes Injured
the First Day of the SAN
tia0O Battle.

WASHINGTON, July IA cablegram
from Playa del Este, Cuba, received to-
day, conveys the information that Major
Webb c. Hayes, of the First Ohio cavalry.
son of the late President Hayes. was
wounded on Friday, July 3, the first day
of the battle of Santiago. At the request
of Major Hayes, no announcement was
made of the fact in the official dispatches.
His regiment did not participate, the regi-
ment now being under waiting orders at
Tampa. Major Hayes was detached from
his command and assigned to temporary
duty on General Young's staff
While acting in that capacity his horse
was killed under him and he was wounded.
That his wound was not particularly seri-
Gus is indicated by the fact that he is
out of the hospital and again ready for
duty
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MINES TAKEN FROM HARB0R.
Red Cross Steamer State of Texas
Enters to Give Assistance to
Sick and Wounded.

Sick and Wounded.
PLAYA DEL ESTE, GUANTANAMO
BAY, July II, Z p. MAT o'clock this
morning-the hour of the formal surrender
Of the 10000 Spanish troops at Santiago and
the 10000 others in the district of Eastern
Cuba which the Spanish have agreed to
evacuate-the Spanish flag was lowered
from Morro castle.
Steam launches from the New York.
Brooklyn and Vixen entered the harbor this
morning and examined the batteries, the
wrecks of the Merrimac and the sunken
Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes and the
torpedo firing station.
They discovered, six Spanish merchant
steamers and one small gunboat in the
harbor and a prize crew was placed upon
the latter.
This afternoon the torpedoes were taken
up or exploded, alter WHICH tHe r'eo SioSS
steamer State of Texas entered to give
assistance to the sick and wounded in the
city. The warships may not enter the har-
bor for several days. probably not until
after the arrangements have been complet-
ed for transporting the Spanish prisoners
TO Spain. Nearly all the American men
ofwar are now in Guantanamo bay.
Several vessels are preparing for the ex-
pedition to Porto Rico.
The auxiliary cruiser Yale, with General
Miles, will probably leave for Porto Rico
in the course of a day or two. General
Miles says a sufficient force will be sent
to the island at once to take and hold 1t.
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A CORRESPONDENTS VIEWS.
Foreign and Admiralty Officers
Led to Irene Incident.

LONDON, July 1S.-The Berlin corre-
spondent of the Daily News. suggesting
the possibility that friction between the
foreign Office and the admiralty led to the
Irene incident, says:
Nothing, I know positively, would be
more inconyenient and disagreeable to the
German cabinet than trouble with the
United States. A letter from Manila is
going the rounds Of the press here. ridicul-
ing as grossly exaggerated the reports Of
the sayagery Of the insurgents"
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ONLY AS AFFECTING CUBA.
Saying Peace on Any Other
Basis Ii Impossible.

MADRID. July Il, p. m.-El Imparcial
says that member of the ministry de-
cIares that negotiations for peace with the
United States are only possible SO far as
the question of Cuba is concerned. To
demand more would be to say that Spain
must commit suicide. The report that
Senior Moret, minister of the colonies. in
the last previous cabinet of Senior Sagasta,
will be the representative of Spain in the
negotiations with the United States is
without foundation
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SOLDIER WITH s700 MISSING.
Private Jessup kirkendall Disap-
pears From Camp AlEer and
Foul Play Is Feared.

WASHINGTON, July 17.-To-day has
been quiet one at Camp Alger. Interest
is centered in the whereabouts Of Private
Jessup Kirkendall. Company B. Thirteenth
Pennsylvania, who disappeared the latter
part of the week. 1t is said that when
Kirkendail was last seen he had over 500
on his person. Searches have been made
in the vicinity OF the camp and as no trace
had been found of him up to tonight, fear
of foul play is entertained by his COM
rades. 1t is stated that he recently drew
on his bank for 81 COZ.
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Two Men Killed in . saloon Row.

KEOSAQUA. Ia. July 17.-.At Farming
ton last night Push Reece and George Hat
ter, the latter colored, were XII led in a
saloon row. A feud existed between Hat
ter and Armel Freed. Halter met Freed
and at once opened fire on him. One shot
struck Reece. a bystander. in the stomach
Freed afterwards sent bullet through
Hatter's lungs. Reece and Halter died
within a few hours.
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MRS. PINKHAM'S ADVICE.
What Mrs. Nell Hurst has to Say
About It.

DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-When Iwrote
to you had not been well for five years;
had doctored all the time but got no
better. had womb trouble very bad.
My womb pressed backward. causing
piles / was IN such misery ! could
scarcely walk across the floor. Mem
situation was irregular and too pro-
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1rlt OCttCE
and was able to do nearly all my own
work. continued the use Of your medi-
cine, and feel that / owe my recovery to
Won. / Icannot thank you enough foryour
advice and your wonderful medicine
Any one doubling my statement may
write to me and will gladly answer
all inquiries.-Mrs. NELL HURST, Deep
water, Mo.
Letters like the foregoing. con-
stantly being received, contribute not
a little to the satisfaction felt by Mrs.
Pinkham that her medicine and counsel
are assisting women to bear their heavy
burdens.
Mrs. Pinkham'saddressisLy Lynn, Mass.
All suffering women are invited to
write to her for advice, which will be
given without charge. It is an ex-
perienced woman's advice tcwomen.
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REFUGEES ARE RETURNING.
Some of Them Are Naked, and All
Hangry-Many Had Fallen by
the WaYaide.

the wayside.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA. July 17-since 4
o'clock this morning a stream of refugees
has been pouring into the city, some naked.
and all hungry skeletons. and footsore
Many had fallen by the wayside.
The town OF Santiago presents dismal
sight. Most of the houses have been sacked
and the stores have all been looted and
nothing to eat can be had for love or
money. In the streets Of the city this
morning, at the intrenchments, at the
breastworks and at every hundred feet or
so Of the barbed wire fences were the living
skeletons of Spanish soldiers.
Among the arrivals to-day were the Ger
man, japanese and Portuguese consuls and
their families the British and French con-
suls having arrived day before yesterday.
General Pando was never here, but $500
men from Marzanilio arrived on July 3.
making the total garrison here 1900
The contact mines in the harbor were
removed the day Admiral Cervera left but
two chains of electric mines. one from
EstreIla Point and the other from socapa,
are still down.
The armament of the shore batteries of
Santiago consists of five brass 6-inch muz-
zle leaders, in the Morro Notifications; two
6-inck Hontorias, from the cruiser Reina
Mercedes, and three 21-centimeter mortars
never used-in the Socapa upper battery;
two useless 21-centimeter mortars, two S.
centimeter muzzle leaders and four S-inch
centimeter field pieces, in the Estrella bat
terry; one 57-millimeter and one 25-millime-
ter Nordenfeldt and one s7-miIlimeter
Hotchkiss, in the Socapa lower battery,
and two 6-inch Hontorias, two 9-centime-
ter Krupps, and two 15-centimeter mortars,
at Punta Gorda.
Four Spanish merchant steamers, the
Mortera, the Reina de Los Angeles, the
Tomas Brooks and the Mexico, and the
gunboat Aivarado are now in the harbor
The market place had been sacked by the
troops. ,.g
T-xr.ay, ,sx--4
tered at El Caney. 5000 at Firmeza and
5000 at Cuabitas. Ell Boniato and San In
cente, where they have been living for
fortnight. - l-+4,s. = ,-.-'
ii In one case $40 were crowded into one
building. which was a regular pigsty, with
horrible stencil.
They used the water from the river,
where soiled clothing was washed and all
manner of filth is floating. The Spanish
troops laid down their arms at O'Clock
this morning. They will be canped two
miles outside the city limits. under guard
until their embarkation takes place,
The docks are crowded by incoming ref
ugees in a starving condition, awaiting the
arrival in the harbor Of the Red Cross
Society's steamer State Of Texas. as there
are no eatables to be bought in the city.
The entrance Of the refugees was quiet
and peaceful. they viewing their wrecked
homes philosophically as the fortune of
war. Admiral SIMPSONS last lombard
ment Of Santiago wrecked fifty-seven
houses in the city. causing heavy damage.