The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-09-06
TROOPS IN THE BUNGALOW
THE DRILL SHED AND PARADE
GROUND TO BE OCCUPIED.
Military District of Hawaii Created
With General King in Command
Disposition of Soldiers Now Here.

Ihe HaWallan Archipelago is now
the military district of Hawaii in the
department of California. An order
creating this district, dated Septem-
ber 4th, has just been promulgated
by Major General Merriam.
This order was made to bring the
Hawaiian Islands, so far as military
jurisdiction and authority is concern
ed, into the regular system of militia
ry organization which embraces all
the territory of the United States. 1t
was deemed especially necessary be-
cause of the lack of quick communi-
cation with Washington to enable the
military commandant here to exercise
military authority in any part of the
Islands if it should be necessary,
without being obliged to apply to
the department for instructions or to
await orders from it. The order has
no significance as to the civil govern
ment to be adopted here and outside
of it's military application, no further
significance than being another indi-
cation that the Islands are really an
nexed and are a part of the territory
of the United States and are being
treated in exactly the same way that
all other territory of the republic is.
The ultimate selection of a site for
a permanent post will be matter of
some time and congressional action.
General Merriam will report to the
secretary of war the surveys of sew
era tracts proposed, and his judg-
ment as to their availability. With
this he will also report the existing
ownership leasehold or fee simple, of
the land, together with what the own
ers ask for their property. and what
it is worth so far as he can get es-
Inmates. The secretary of war can
then report the matter to Con-
gress with his own recommendations
But before a site can be fully decid-
ed or acquired, Congress will have to
act and make the necessary appro-
priation.
1t has been finally decided that the
military are to take possession of and
use the military accommodations of
the Hawaiian government. The Bum
galow, drill shed and parade grounds,
will be used and probably the base
ment of the Executive building tenn
porarily.
The order creating the military dis
trict of Hawaii is as follows:
DISTRICT OF HAWAII
Headquarters Department of Califor-
mia, San Francisco, Cali.
September 4, 1898.
GENERAL ORDERS.
For better administration and sub
ject to the approval of the Secretary
of War, the territory lately consti-
tuting the Hawaiian Republic is here
by constituted a Military District, to
be known as the District of Hawaii,
under command of Brigadier General
Charles King, U. S. ", with headquar-
ters at Honolulu. The officers in
charge of supply depots in that city
will, in addition, act as chiefs of the
staff departments they represent.
The troops present in the district
will be consolidated into two camps,
one to be called Camp Mckinley, con-
sisting of the First New York Volun-
teers and Battalion of U. S. Volun-
teer Engineers as now, under com
mand of Colonel T. H. Barber; and
another to be called Camp Otis, COM
prising all expeditionary troops tenn
porarily in the district and command
ed by the senior officer of those forces
present
BY Command of
MAJOR GENERAL MERRIAM
JNO. B. BENNETT,
First Lieutenant Seventh Infantry, 4
D. c., Acting Assistant Adiutant
General.