The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-04
TYPHOID FEVER At
CAMP MCKINLEY
Five Soldiers Succumb
to the Disease.
AN EPIDEMIC AT HONOLULU
FIFTY CASES IN THE CAMP
HOSPITAL.
Volunteers on the Transport Senator
Made Violently Ill by the
Food Served Aboard
the Vessel.
AN EPIDEMIC AT HONOLULU
FIFTY CASES IN THE CAMP
HOSPITAL.
Special Dispatch to The Cali.

VICTORIA B. c.. Nov. 3.-Honolulu
advices per her Majesty's ship Aorangi,
which arrived here to-day, are to the
effect that work has been stopped at
Camp Mckinley. The entire camp will
be moved to the Moanalua tract, which
General Merriam has recommended as
a site for a permanent post Inc
typhoid fever was the cause OF the
abandonment of the camp. The troops
in Camp Otis will remain there until
the arrival of the transport Arizona
from Manila
Typhoid fever was sown broadcast
during the time the ordinary rules OF
sanitation were disregarded in the mill
tary camps There are said to be nifty
cases, but trained nurses have been
added to the force at the hospital from
the city and it is believed the death
rate will be very small. Malaria is on
the decrease. -
When the Aorangi left there were 1853
patients in the hospital, fifty showing
typhoid symptoms. General King says
the patients at the hospital will be
moved as quickly as possible to some
place near the hills, where it is dryer
and cooler. He says the hospital
should never have been located where
it is.
General King will sail on the Arizona
for Manila with the troops at Camp
Otis. The New Workers and Engineers
will remain at Honolulu Indefinitely
for garrison duty. Five deaths from
typhoid occurred during the week pre-
vious to the sailing Of the Aorangi
The names of the dead are:
CHARLES H THOMPSON, First
New York Regiment.
THOMAS BEAVER, Eighteenth IN
fantry.
PRIVATE TIMBERLAKE. Eigh-
teenth Infantry.
JULIUS N. MILLER, Company B,
Nebraska Volunteers.
D. w. DAWSON, Company T, Colo
| RADIO recruits.
| Brigadier General King had quite a
controversy with Police Judge Wilcox.
The Judge while sentencing some pri-
Yates for disorderly conduct Is reported
] to have said that If there were any
surety of the men being punished by
/ court martial he would let them off
easily, but on previous occasion when
men made a disturbance the command
ing officer could not be found, but was
sick in bed, although the same night
he gave big dinner party and the men
| were whitewashed. General King
wrote to Wilcox asking him if he used
that language and the Judge replied
! that the report was correct King Their
declined to give, and there the matter
| rests for the present
It is stated that a new bank will
commence business in Honolulu the
first of the year with a capital of $780,
900, with power to increase 1t to $1,000
600. Part of the capital Is local. 1t
will not be a national bank, but organ
| lied under the laws of Hawaii.
! Police Marshal Brown leaves Homo
lulu on November 9 for San Francisco
to visit the principal coast cities, with
view of getting into closer touch with
| them, annexation having made some
changes desirable.
The steamer City of Columbia has
been released on bonds. She was to
have sailed for Seattle the day after
the Aorangi left.
The election at Camp Otis was to
have taken place one week after the
Aorangi left. Senator Steele had left
the necessary blanks and gone on to
Manila for the same purpose.
! The transport Senator arrived the
| day before the Aorangi sailed. She
will coal at Honolulu and proceed to
| Manila. The voyage was uneventful,
but the men complained of poor food
and crowded quarters. On the night
of the 22d 300 men were attacked with
| violent nausea, the result of eating
! tainted food. All recovered.