The San Francisco call., 1898-05-12
All Supplies Are
 Purchased.
Advance Guard of Oregon Volunteers Leave
 Portland.

@ FF1cIAL and .,,Io private aat. messages Il II clearly indicate that the Govern NJ ment Is making great haste to or
 ganize the expeditions from San Francisco to the Philippine Islands. Tel egrams announce that volunteer troops from Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas, as well as volunteers from Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Nevada and South Dakota have been or dered to this city. Space will be found on the Presidio reservation for the en- campment of the incoming regiments.
 Dispatches received at army headquar- ters in the Phelan building yesterday did not state when General Merriam would be in San Francisco. It is thought the general wants to make sure that all the details for the organization and muster ing in of the Washington and Oregon vol unteers will be settled before he leaves Vancouver to establish permanent head quarters here. He has detailed two mem- bers of his staff-Lieutenant W. s. Graves and Lieutenant J. B. Bennett-to assist in mastering in the volunteers from the two States mentioned.
 The following telegram was received at army headquarters yesterday:
 WASHINGTON, D. C., May il. 1898.
 Major J. S. Witcher. Paymaster, U. &. A, San Francisco; You are hereby relieved from duty at San Francisco by the Secretary of War, who directs as necessary for public serv- ice that you proceed to Portland. Or. and re- port by letter to the commanding officer of chief paymaster of that department. By com mand of MAJOR-GENERAL MILES.
 SCHWAN, Assistant Adjutant- General.
 The recruiting station of the. Thirf United States Artillery on the fourth noor of the Phelan building is one of the bust est places in San Francisco. The recruit ing officer, Lieutenant Delamere Skerrettr T. S. A, had 100 applicants in line yester- day. Two hundred men have been en- rolled, and the army surgeons have all they can do to keep up with the recruit ing officer. The Third Artillery is an ex- cellent regiment, commanded by officers service is high, and when the war is over the men who are now enlisting may be mustered out if they desire to leave the army. To bring the regiment up to the war standard of 2O3 men to each battery, places can be found for 800 recruits.
 Lieutenant Boyd of the Fourth United the recruiting line at his station on the Presidio. Forty recruits were assigned to various regiments yesterday by Colonel Morris, commanding the post.
 Captain Long, acting chief quartermas- ter Of the department, is actively engaged in procuring ships to transport troops and supplies to Manila The steamships Ohio and Connemaugh, belonging to the Inter national Steamship Company of Philadel- phfa, were secured yesterday. The Ohio has cargo space for 23O0 tons, and can carry 1000 troops. The Connemaugh is a freighter, with capacity of 2O00 tons. The work of preparation for the expe6i- ton is so far advanced that all the food supplies have been purchased and ware housed Nothing remains to be done in this line beyond storing the supplies on the steamships which may be engaged to carry the goods to Manila. The Australia went on the dry dock yesterday noon.
 According to a private telegram re- ceived at the Presidio yesterday by Colo nel A. J. Coffee, the. First Battalion of Oregon Volunteers left Portland last evening for this city. Colonel Summers, commanding the Oregon regiment of vol unteers; announced that eight companies would leave for this city next Sunday evening.