The Advocate and news., 1898-05-25
War Notes.

Inc war department has ordered 2OO,-
600 shoes for soldiers
-Four carloads Of soap have been sent
south for the use of the army
1t will require $3O,OOO,OOO to pay the
soldiers for the time from July to De
Cember 81.
Paymaster General Smith has asked
for the appointment Of eighteen addi-
tiOnal paymasters
The Monitor Monterey, which is at San
Francisco, has been ordered to Manila
to reinforce Dewey.
AT Tampa an order has been prOmul-
gated prohibiting the sending out Of any
war news to newspapers.
1t is surprising that such Il large por-
tion Of the volunteer army should want
to go to the Philippine islands.
The address Of members of the Twen-
ty-trst Kansas is now Camp George
Ii. Thomas, ChiCkamauga, Tenn.
1t is believed that some of the vol
untCcrs at San Francisco will be ready
to start to Manila the later part of this
week.
Why Kansas volunteers should pre-
fer to so TO Manila instead of Cuba is
beyond the understanding of the aver
age man.
A St. Louis firm, which presented Mis-
souri volunteers with $4,000 cigarettes,
is evidently staunCh friend of the
Spaniards.
Kansas is not so slow. The Twenty
first got to Chckamauga in time to
be attached to the third division of the
first army corps.
The report that Edward BalIOu, Of
Company G (Beloit, Twenty second
regiment, had deserted is denied by Cap
tain CharleswOrth.
A regiment of Chicago Canadian
Americans has rendered its services to
the government. Many of them have
been in the British army.
One man was killed and two fatally
injured by collision between train
carrying the First Missouri and a pas
senger train near ChiCkamauga
The Chaplains of the various regi-
ments are making war on the saloons
which have sprung up in the vicinity
of Camp George II. Thomas at ChiCka-
mauga.
Spanish papers are urging greater aC-
tiyity on the part of the navy Great
confidence in the superiority Of the
Spanish fleet over that of the Americans
Is expressed
When volunteers arrive at Chicka-
manga and other mobilization points they
find their fun Is over. Business then be-
gins and the tiresOme mOnOtOnous drill
ing is taken up in earnest.
All of the news given out by the
Navy department Friday was that it was
believed that authentic information had
been received showing that the Spanish
fleet was at Santiago de Cuba.
At the close Of last week 100, 900 volun-
teers had been mustered into the gov
ernment service. The Adjutant General
hopes to have the entire 125000 mus
tered in by the close of this week.
Reports from Australia and Hawaii
indicate that the people of those coun-
tries are in sympathy with the United
States in the present war. Hundreds
are offering to enter our volunteer army.
Many of the militia boys who came to
Topeka brought no clothes other than
their uniforms. When they were re-
jected they had to wear them home and
now they are coming in from every
direction.
Associated Press dispatches from Lon
don intimate that news Of the location
of the Spanish fleet was given out by
the Spanish ministry to win favor at
home by endeavOring to show that some
thing is being done.
Arrangements have been perfected to
prevent the Spanish ships from getting
coal in the vicinity Of Newfoundland.
The French government positively as
serts that no coal can be procured from
islands which are part of its posses
siOns.