The times., 1898-07-22
TYPHOID At CAMP ALGER
Two More Cases Are Reported
Yesterday.
LOOKING FOR DESERTERS
Three Men From the Third Missouri
Have Been MitsiEg for Eleven
Days How Wbirky Was Drawn
From a Soda Water Fountain, and
What Followed.

The epidemic of typhoid fever at Camp
Alger is not to be checked as easily as
Col Girard seemed to expect. Two more
cases were reported yesterday.
Capt. L. B. Smith, Company A, Third
New York, is now in Rochester, on leave.
1t is said that he went home because of a
sickness that the camp surgeons did not
seem to understand. When he reached
Rochester it developed tnat he was i'll
with typhoid fever. His leave has been
extended two weeks.
Lieut.. Jenkins, of Company L, Third
New York, has also been unwell for sew
eral days. He was sent to Fort Myer yes
| terday morning
Three men are reported deserters from
the Third Missouri They are Privates
Joel Farron and G.. A. Graham, Company
A, and A b. Hunter Company NJ. They
left camp eleven days ago and have not
been heard from since. A board, consist
ing of Major Kelsey, Capt. Kelly and
Lieut. Hardcastle, has been appointed 10
determine the value OF their clothing and
| equipments.
A series of lectures is to be delivered
TO the officers of the Seventh Illinois by
Lieut. Van Dieman, of the Second Divi-
sion staff. Lieut.. Van Dieman is reg
ular army officer and an expert on forti-
dcations and intrenchments, the subjects
on which he is to lecture.
The Twenty-second Kansas was in
| spected yesterday.
At last the postoffice in Camp Alger is
in thorough working order. Some one had
a money order eashed there yesterday for
500 And still they can't get any mail
through from Santiago.
A young man named McCorby spun his
wheel once too often yesterday and work
ed himself into the guardhouse. He will
answer to the charge of gambling TO the
authorities Of Fairfax County.
Yesterday was the First Division court
martiaVs busy day Twenty men were
tried for absence without leave. In the
Sixtv-ffth New York that record was al
most equaled by the publication OF sen
tences in eighteen cases. The men were
all given light fines.
A few hundred suspicious eyes have
been turned with startling constancy to
stand near Gen. Buffers headquarters
ever since the proprietor hired about
dozen pretty girls. Capt Brooks ana
Can't Calhoun were among the watchers.
They were also among the ones VINO were
able to see something beside the girls
What they saw was the sale of whisky IN
glasses from a soda water fountain ana
they forced the manager to close his
stand. The proprietor is to be arrested
and delivered over to the authorities
Interest Is centered in the proposed rife
range which is soon to be established al
Cockrilrs Mills, on Difficult Run. The in
novation has been awaited with great
deal of impatience by officers and men,
some of the regimental commanders nav
ing gone so far as to begin work on
range for their own regiments.
Col Kavanaugh, of the Seventh Illinois,
was the first to make the suggestion and
it was taken up by the brigade command
er. Gen Davis, and finally brought TO the
attention of Gen. Graham, the corps COM
mander. The shooting place is to be large
enough for the use of all the regiments
BY next Sunday thirty targets VIII be II
position. with as many pits and ilring sta,
tions. The ammunition store house vii
be erected near the range.
The Fourth Missouri has been detailed
to complete the work and, as there are
many expert shots in that regiment, ev-
cry convenience which their experience
may suggest will be arranged.
Col Gross will leave on Monday morn
ing for Difficult Run, and expects to
have everything accomplished within the
/ week SO far as the program has been
arranged, each regiment will march to
the range and remain there full week
devoting the whole OF its time to target
| practice.
The shower yesterday afternoon gave
| the men of the Sixth Pennsylvania a
/ much-needed rest. In all the fearful heat
of the day they have been laboring tC
/ clear the ground for their new camp with
/ a very inadequate supply of tools. Ev.
/ cry stump and root must be removed
1 yet not one man in ten has a pick or &
| spade with which to loosen the earth
| The men are compelled to wrench out
| the smaller stumDs by main strength
| while the fortunate possessor of a pici
| loosens the larger ones for others K
strain over.
Col. Schall expected to move the regi
/ ment TO its new quarters yesterday, bu
he will hardly be able TO occupy the new
| ground before Monday. The well that 1.
being dug on the site of the proposed
camp has not reached a sufficient supply
of water, and. al the present rate o.
progress it will not be completed in tim,
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