The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-24
SOME DAY IT MAY Be COL. MANTLE
Friends of the Senator Say That's Likely - Sanitary Conditions
in Cuba Are Pretty Bad in Places = Matters
Relating to the Mineral Lands.

( the senator. HE sees a chance to do
his duty and that is all. He has al
ways felt that an adopted citizen Of
America was under eve a higher obli-
cation to render service to the country
than any native. He came to the Unit
ed States a poor English boy of ten
der years. He encountered great pri-
vations, overcame many apparently in
"surmountable obstacles, and has risen
to n of the most conspicuous posi-
lions in the service of his state. l
have often heard him say that these
things would have been utterly impos-
sible in England, and long before the
present war was dreamed of he has
expressed to me the conviction that
the alien-born citizen who had thus
profited by our Institutions should be
ever ready to render the country serv-
ice in time of war"
The senators from other mountain
states are aware that Senator Mantle
may be at the head of a regiment of
pleased at the possibility that some of
their constituents may serve under
him.
1t Is Healthy.
For the Montana troopers Who will
ride in the independent cavalry regi-
ments the war department has good
news. 1t is stated that no fear is felt
for the health of the invading army.
The medical department of the army
has consulted an eminent physician
who has spent a large part of his life
i'm Cuba regarding the yellow fever
and other endemic diseases in the ISL
and of which so nue. has been heard,
not only of late, but for many years.
This physician states emphatically
that no yellow fever or kindred dis
eases exist outside of certain large cit
-. - .Lz
healthy, requiring only a few precau-
lions in the way of clothing and ele-
waited sleeping places, for which ham,
mocks serve every purpose. He gives
further valuable information concern
ing the clothing, food and drink best
calculated to preserve health.
This removes the most serious OBJ
stacle to the invasion of the island.
The terrors of the climate have exert
ed a powerful influence. Tn country
outside of the cities was, in the popu-
lar imagination, reeking with deadly
levers, and none but an acclimated
person could emain with safety longer
than a few hours. ven the deadly
reptiles and insects are shown by this
authority to be harmless.
The state department information is
hardly as cheerful and comforting.
They report Havana and Matanzas as
very healthy. and say that in these
cities, with proper drainage and sani-
tary. arrangements, yellow fever
Malaria would be almost unknown.
Santiago de Cuba is regarded as very
unhealthy. yellow fever being preva-
lent throughout the yea and smallpox
epidemic at certain times. These con-
ditions are due to the lack Of sanitary
and hygienic measures; all refuse mat
ter. as well as dead dogs, cats, chick
ems, ETC., being thrown into the streets
to decay and fill the air with disease
germs. At Cienfuegos during the
rainy season yellow fever is epidemic.
But little attention Is given by the
municipal authorities to hygienic or to
sanitary measures. AT Cardenas SAN
itary conditions are bad. Yellow fever.
typhus. typhoid n pernicious fevers
prevail throughout most of the year.
being worse in the hot season. Cases
of smallpox also appear. Altogether
the state and war department author
tiles hardly agree as to the healthfuI-
ness of the Queen of the Antilles.
The Mineral Lands.
Secretary Bliss. Commissioner of the
Land Office Hermann and Director
of the geological survey have
made a report to congress on the ex-
pense attending the work of classifying
the Northern Pacific lands i'm Montana
and Idaho. These reports are made to
a basis for estimates of the
of similar work along the line Of
the Southern Pacific road. Director
Walcott says: The Northern Paci-
has in Montana and Idaho a grant
OF every alternate section in a strip of
40 miles on Zach side of the lipe and
an additional area of indemnity lands
Of 10 miles on each side. so that there
is a strip 100 miles in width that has
been examined or is to be examined by
the four commissions appointed for
his in the states above men,
toned. The Northern Pacific railroad