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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
NEARLY STARVED.
COLONEL TURNER TELLS OF CON-
DiTloNs BEFORE SANTIAGO.

Sent Three Men to Siboncy for Supplies
Enough to Keep Troops Alive-savcdl
by the Rcd Cross-Dr. Ward Says Army
Supplies Were Not Available ut Chick
amauga-Requisition After Reputation
Was Forwarded Yet No Relief Came.
CHICAGO, Nov. 9.-The most sensa-,
tional testimony Of the day before the
war investigating commission, in ses-
sion here, was given by Colonel Turner
Of the First Illinois, u participant in the
Santiago campaign. After detailing the
conditions Mt Chickamauga and Tampa,
he said:
/. think there was very great over
sight at Siboney. We reached Siboney
on Saturday morning, July Q, and Gen
eral Reynolds then informed me that he
had received telephone orders that
was to disembark ut once. When I
asked him what preparations had been
made for Discrimination he said: I
don't know anything about that. You
must fight that out yourself Iwent
ashore and spent about two hours trying
to find somebody who would give mo
some information as to howl was to get
my regiment on shore. We got off all
our men by the next day ut noon, some
of our rations and some of our tcntage,
but good deal of our stuff remained Oh
the transport and somo of it was taken
to Porto Rico. For the first three days
we were ut Santiago
We Nearly Starved to Death.
We could get no supplies in nny way.
Finally three Of my men agreed to foot
it to Siboney and bring back on their
backs enough supplies to keep the men
alive. In connection with this General
shafter sent me very sharp note COM
planning that had not reported the sit
uation directly to him."
Regarding conditions at Montauk
Colonel Turner said he found little to
criticize. One thing he noticed was q
disposition to turn the men out Of the
hospitals before they were entirely re-
covered. II found men," he said, "who
had been discharged from the hospital
while in almost state Of deliririn. We
found four or five Of our men, one of
them almost unconscious, discharged
from tho hospital"
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
READY FOR EMERGENCIES.
MoBILIzING TROOPS.

War Preparations Continue Uninterrupted
in Great Britain.
LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE military force
at Davenport, the site of the largest ar
senal in Great Britain, has received Or
ders to mobilize all the troops in the
Western district.
The Daily Chronicle processes to have
important military news, which it
would not be advisable to publish with
out the sanction of the war Office
DepOts Shipped ia ,cCslons.
The depots for the new towns along
the 500 extension are built in Minneapo-
lis, shipped up i'll sections and put to-
gether on the spot. The one for Wishek
is nearly completed,
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
Put Turkish Troops ON Transport.

1uS 4uEAAsn AEOVpD Va AbDnskSv1ss
CANEA, Crete, Nov. S.-The Turkish
troops at Retimo having refused to leave
that place, the Russian admiral in those
waters, following the example of Ad-
miral Noel the British commander here,
forcibly conveyed them on board .
transport.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
Ca.h for Darlington volunteers.

The ladies of Darlington sent draft
of $12 to each of the Darlington soldier
boys at Manila. In addition draft Of
$50 was sent to Captain Eddy Of Com.
pany II to be used for the boys for deli.
cacies and comforts in case of sickness
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
KHALIFA HARD PRESSED.

Capture of the Defeated Dervish Leader
Seems Probable.
CAIRO, Nov. S.-Khalifa Abdullah,
the defeated dervish leader, is hard
pressed on the frontier Of Kordofan,
southwest of Khartoum, by natives
friendly to the Anglo-Egyptian expedi-
ton, and it is believed that his capture
is imminent. Ali Sheref, his son-in-
law, is already prisoner and is being
brought to KhartOum.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
LATE MARKET REPORT.
Dulutll Grain.

DULUTH, Nov. 8.
WHEAT-Cash No. l hard, 60Ac; No. I
Northern, 6S1lc; No. 2 Northern, 639zc.
To Arrive No l hard, 6OAc; No.
Northern, 60s4. On Track-No. l hard,
6614c; No. Northern, 69Ac; December,
NBc: MaY U6&c
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
'ccipts: Hogs, 700; cattle, 2,4OO.
st. Paul Union stock Yards.

SOUTH ST. PAUL, Nov. 8.
HOGS-Strong and active. Range Of
prices, s33O135O
CATTLE Market steady.
Sales ranged 81 A043.05 for cows; 2.26@
$50 for stockcrs; S275Q13.l0 for heifers;
g. 1902. 40 for bulls; 50. .5O@3.SO for steers;
{2250l2s5 for oxen.
SHEEP-Good sheep and lambs steady
with last week.
Range of prices, 4.25@5.e5 for lambs;
$3 s5l4.0 90 for muttOns.
Receipts: Hogs, 800; cattle. 1,2OO;
calves 200; sheep. 800.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
Minp..apolis Grain,

MINNEApoLls, Nov. g.
WHEAT November, 83c: December,
G3@G3lzc; May, 6ilzc; No. hard, 6a7<c;
No. Northern, G3s4c; No. . Northern,
BlMc
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
Sioux City Live Stock.

Sioux CITY, Nov. &
HOGS-Mnrket strong to shade higher.
selling, S}.40013.6O; bulk, e3.45.
CATTLE - Market slow and about
steady.
Sales ranged 81 .5O15. 10 for becves; $3.50
GAGS for Westerns; a2.0O@365 for cows,
bulls, mixed; g. 5O@410 for stockers and
feeders; S3.50@4.75 for calves and year
lings.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11

States had prevented Spain from quell-
ing the insurrection and had thus con-
tributed to the violence against Spain
after the cessation Of hostilities. The
Spanish presentment also cited the re-
fusal of the Americans to consider the
Cuban debt on the ground that it was
not sanctioned in the protocol and de-
manded an adherence to this as a prece-
dent in the discussion of the Philippines,
regarding cession of which the Span
ish commissioners held the protocol to
make no mention.
American Idea of the Protocol.
1t may again be asserted on the high
est authority-as bearing on the Spanish
argument--that when the protocol was
signed there was no understanding, ver-
bal or otherwise, which the protocol
does not show forth. Nor have the
American commissioners at any time,
on the other hand, held or believed that
the protocol determined anything
against Spain's sovereignty in the Philip
pines.
The American representatives have,
however, held, and doubtless will hold,
that the protocol was meant to provide
and does provide for decision by the
Paris conference regarding the owner
ship of the Philippines.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
BLAMEs GENERAL BoYNToN
DR.. Ward TcstiAcs Regarding Conditions
mt ChlcknMnllvn.

DR.. Ward Tcstiilcs Regarding Conditions
at Chicknnaugn.
CHICAGO, Nov. 8.-Dr. Milo b. Ward
of Kansas City testified during tho aft
ernoon before the war investigating
commission. He declared, when asked
as to the condition of tho hospitals at
Chickamauga, that there was great
lack Of medicines, only some of the very
simplest medicines being on hand. In
reply to further questions DR.. Ward
said:
"The necessities were not available
from the army supplies and had it not
been for the Red Cross some of the SOL
diers would not have survived. Requisi-
ton after requisition was forwarded and
yet no relief came. The nurses as q
rule were incompetent and Indifferent,
though some were more faithful than
others. The location of the hospital
was extremely bad in my judgment. It
was in a very low sort Of a place and the
sinks were in filthy condition most of
the time. want to say that that is one
of the causes of tho spread of the ty-
phoid fever"
When asked for his opinion as to tho
responsibility for tho conditions at
Camp Thomas, DIR. Ward said: "For
tho condition of the camp, first, the man
who insisted that the camp was perfect
and that tho hospital was we'll run.
That was General Boynton."
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
HAS MILITARY LocKJAW.

Colonel Bryan's Reason For Not Discus
sing Army Conditions.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 8.-Colonel William
]. Bryan, Third Nebraska volunteers,
passed through st. Louis from Savannah,
Ga, on his way home. In response to a
request for an interview, Colonel Bryan
said:
Don't ask me to discuss the political
situation. Don't intimate an inquiry as
to prevailing conditions in the army.
Why? Because I have military lock-
law"
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
admiral schiey Relieved.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. = Admiral
schley has cabled the navy department
that Captain Snow has arrived at San
Juan on the Solace and that he had re-
lieved the admiral Of the command Of
the naval station there.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11
lows Physician on the stand.

DR.. Louis Schooler of Des Moines, L.,
who was stationed at Camp Thomas as
chief surgeon of the Second division,
Third corps, from June to July
II, was ON the stand for some
time. Questioned by DR.. Conner he
said that during the time he was there
the sanitary condition in the hospitals
was not very good; that the sinks in the
whole division were bad. owing prin-
cipally to the character of the ground,
and the discipline was rather lax.
Said DIR. Schoolor: There were
practically no facilities for the caro- of
the sick; we were short of medicines
and had no apparatus by which the
stewards could prepare the medicines
that we had. The regimental hospitals,
all but one or two, were as
poorly supplied with medicines as
the division hospitals. Requisitions
were made for them but they were gen.
orally disapproved at the camp head
quarters. Tho supply department had
certain hours for issuing supplies and
at other times nothing could be OBJ
tanned. There was scarcity Of beds in
the hospitals. At one time half the
nursing force were sick or in the guard
house for insubordination."
In regard to the water supply at the
camp, DIR. Schooler said that he did not
think any of the surgeons in his divi-
sion considered the water fit to drink.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-11-11

Violation Of InternRfiOnal Law,
because done after the suspension of hos
tilities under the protocol. A further
charge was that by the imprisonment of
the Spanish troops at Manila the United
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-03

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
Once during the late war President
Lincoln was found in very respondent
MOOD by a friend. Somewhat alarmed, the
friend asked the President if he had re-
ceived any bad news from the front mo"
said Mr.. Lincoln; army matters seem to be
in very fine shape, but l am worried all
most to death about the Podunk postonice
l have to appoint postmaster down there.
There are several candidates. Delegation
after delegation has called upon me, and
each new set threatens the destruction of
the Podunk Republican organization If it's
candidate is not named. This office-seek-
ing business seems to me to be utterly self
ish, and it causes me more trouble than all
the rebels
The experience of Lincoln in this direc-
ton has been the experience of every other
public man who had appointing power. The
stock argument of the average office-holder
is that he is a thick-and-thin party man.
and he usually adds covert threat that
the party will go to the bow-wows if he is
not appointed. The fact that the Repub-
ican party has not only been able to sur
vive in spite of the vengeance of hundreds
of thousands of disappointed patriots, but
is actually stronger to-day than at any
6ence that it has proved its right to exist.
The man who serves his country best
serves his party best, for in the long run
that party succeeds best that gives the peo-
pie the best government. The average man
cares little about the politics of public serv-
ants ~but he is heard from very promptly
if his mail is not delivered on time.
The public service of the United States
Notwithstanding the unbusinesslike way in
which many of its officials have been APP
pointed, has been steadily improving the
great interests at stake compelling Off
Gals in high and responsible positions to
adopt certain civil-service regulations for
self-protection, and these regulations final
ly were embodied in a civil-service law
Possibly this law is not perfect but it is
so much better in its operation and results
than was the old way that no man with
grain of business sense desires its repeal,
unless he is himself liable to the suspicion
of dishonesty. The only rule for public
service is the rule obeyed in private life
fitness for the position and assurance of
position so long as the fitness continues.
Such a rule, rigidly adhered to, viii in time
get the best men in place and keep them
there.
The rant about an office-holding class is,
to say the least disingenuous Any one
who has been active in political life under
the old style of appointment. through favor,
knows that the most arbitrary oftice-hold-
fng class ever known vas composed of the
old-time politicians. How the boss would
smile and smile on all who sought favors
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-03

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
The present discussion Of the civil-service
law seems to be projected on the line Of con-
sistency of the gentlemen who favor or dis
favor the system. This feature of the ques-
ton has no merit whatever. for it matters
not what views were held in the past by the
parties to the discussion, as the real issue IS
the soundness or unsoundness OF the prin-
ciple as applied to our government. Our
present civil service has for the most I'art
been of gradual growth and is now made
conspicuous by the attacks of its enemies
rather than for its real deficiencies. 1t
seems to be forgotten by the opponents Of
the system that the several changes in ma
tional party control that have ccurred dur
ing the past decade have, by reason of the
operation of the civi-service system been
accomplished without the slightest confu-
sion in our great governmental machinery
a thing of the utmost Importance in a gov
eminent so subject to political changes.
With offices vast in number and Importance,
as is the case, a change of President ana
party control effected under the old SpO1lS
system would shock the government from
center to circumference, If not produce a
revolution. To return to the. old regime
would destroy the confidence OF every pro-
gressive mind in the world in our national
intelligence. We could no more get along
without civil-service law at this advanced
could without self-binders and steam thresh-
ers to harvest our great wheat crops and
railroads to transfer them to market. There
always have been and will be kckers
against progress but they never prevail. 1t
is fast becoming evident that the contest
for supremacy of the world is on and that
government is no longer simply a local af-
fair: that the United States is one of the
giants of the earth and must be governed
accordingly. The point, therefore, has been
reached when the President and Congress
can no longer wisely be hampered with the
filling of petty offices and give proper atten-
ton to the great and growing questions that
press upon these branches of our govern
ment for solution. Whether the present
ciVil-service law meets the requirements OF
the occasion is one simply with the pension
law and several other laws that are admit
ted to be correct in principle, yet defective
in detail That the majority of the people
of the United States are hostile to a civil
service law Lacks serious confirmation. A
few years ago the question of civil-service
law was submitted directly to the people in
the city of Chicago at popular election
and carried by very decided majority, evil
dencing strongly the fact that the opposi-
ton to such a law comes principally from
the noisy army of office seekers. The wall
of disappointed place-hunters should not be
magnified into a national calamity.
JEFFERSON H. CLAYPOOL
Indianapolis, Jan. 2.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-03
INFECTION by THIRD PERSONS.
Little Danger and Unnecessary Fuss
Made by Health Officers.
London Hospital

Is all this fuss about infection by third
persons necessary? The teachings of eXpe-
rience almost uniformly say it is not. OF
course, every one admits that infection can
be carried by means of fomites. and that if
a doctor sits upon his patients bed, and
rubs his head against him in listening to his
lungs, or gets his hands Soiled with infec-
tious material while inspecting his throat,
and then straightway goes and rubS himself
against another patient, he may carry the
disease. But suppose he does not do these
things, and that he properly washes his
hands-that is, the parts that have actually
touched the patient-all experience goes to
is a mere bugbear 1t IS perfectly well
known that in general hospitals which re-
ceive infectious diseases, and in which, even
II these are placed in separate wards, the
doctors and the students pass direct from
one ward to another, any diffusion of the
disease throughout the house is of the rarest
possible occurrence. while, we would ask
how often is it not the case that medical
men take their own children with them on
One of the most eminent Of the physicians
practcing in London used to take his chill
dren with him in his carriage when ne visit
ed the fever hospital, and either leave them
at the door or let them play in the garden
till he came out, when-soaked with infec-
ton, as some people would say-he would
get into the carriage and drive away with
them. Did they catch scarlet fever? Not
at ALL Let us put to one side all this dread
and fear of infection by third persons. Such
a thing may happen now ard then, but it is
not thus that infection is ordinarily spread
unless, perhaps we make an exception in
favor of varicella and of smallpox in I'M
vaccinated communities.
We speak thus plainly because medical
men, and especially medical officers of
health. have shown themselves all TOO ready
to encourage what we believe to be totally
unnecessary restrictions of the ordinary
work of daily life. But If such a mode OF
spread is only of occasional occurrence do
not let us pass silly laws We may perhaps
best judge of the manner in which laws to
regulate the movements of casual visitors
to cases OF scarlet fever would operate by
recalling the very patent fact that the med
ical man is exactly such a casual visitor.
Already people are to be found who are
quite ready 10 attribute their Illness to infec-
ton carried by the doctor, and we may Inn
would be hurled at his devoted head il such
preiudices We're crystallized into form by
legislative enactments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-03
LABOR UNION LAW.
Right to Work and Not to Work De
fined by High English Authority.

London chronicle
AS we foreshadowed a few days ago, the
Lords have given their final decision in
favor of the legality of trades-union meth
DDS by allowing the appeal in the critical
case Of Allen versus Flood. 1t is impossi-
result, and the lucid judgments delivered by
Lord Herschell ard the other law lords of
the majority mark a turning point in
great social history. The legal attack on
the unions has been pressed for some years
with dangerous energy by those unwise
and unrestricted henchmen of capital who
are always to be found in the legal pro-
fession The first attempt was that in
which Mr.. BompaS distinguished himself by
presuming to set the criminal law in mo-
ton against those who "conspired to or
ganize or carry out such wicked things as
strikes That decision was oyerruled; but
and a host of suits have been started
against delegates and officials of unions in
hope of either intimidating them by risk Of
bankruptcy or of having them summarily
restrained by injunction from carrying on
the battle against capital AT least two
such cases are pending at this moment and
any number more would have followed in
stantly if the lords had dismissed this APP
peal. This conspiracy to cripple combina-
ton has utterly collapsed.
1t is very true that the employees might
petar0-for the legal theories they invoked
really turned against the Engineering Fed
Grafton. But even So the social danger of
a conflict between the trade unions and the
Queens Bench would have been grave in
the extreme. From this, the trained COM
nonsense men like Lord Herschell, Lord
Macnaghten, Lord Dayey and Lord James
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-03
OUR COAST DEFENsEs.
General Miles Recommends ~ Series
of Land Batteries.

January Forum.
During the last fifteen years the subject
of coast defenseS has attracted the atten-
ton Of the entire people of this country.
The press, the legislative and executive de-
partments of the Nation have all considered
the Importance of the subject, and In sew
eral presidential messages the ACCESSIBILITY
of putting the coasts in a condition of de-
Tense and security has been referred to.
To defend our coasts adequately was one
of the first measures adopted by Washing
ton, and some of the Notifications erected
by him still stand in good condition--evi-
dences of his wise administration for the de-
Tense of the Nation. By their presence alone
these expensive and powerful forts have for
a hundred years contributed largely to the
security and welfare of our country.
These forts have fulfilled their mission. and
now that they have become obsolete a differ
ent system of defense is being adopted,
which / trust will be equally effective for
the next hundred years in maintaining
peace, security and prosperity for our people
and country.
To cripple or subject a country to ire
parable loss it is not necessary TO invade 1t.
The blockading of the Southern ports dur
ing the civil war by the federal navy did
more to cripple the Confederacy than any
other act of the government. 1t prevented
those States from sending out their prod
ucts, especially cotton, to the markets of the
world. 1t prevented them from obtaining
absolutely essential munitions of war, as
well as the elements requisite to their war
purposes, and rendered ii impossible for
them to obtain the necessaries of life, even
depriving them of medicines-especially qui-
nine, which was so mucn IN demand Tor
their hospitals. The capture of the forts on
the coast of China enabled a nation one
twelfth her size, and very much her inferior
in material resources and strength 10 sub
jugate that vast empire and bring 1t to
terms.
1t is fair to estimate that the British navy
has cost $4,000 600, and that the navies of
Germany, France and Italy have each cost
more than one-half that amount; and, while
we believe in having our navy as effective
as possible. it is assumed that the nited
States will not at present authorize the con-
struction of fleet capable of destroying
any of the navies above mentioned. Even If
we had a navy of that magnitude ii would
be utterly impossible for il 10 defend a coast
four thousand miles in extent. The bitter
experience of China illustrates the utter i'm
practicability of such an effort.
Hence it mas been wisely determined to
adopt a more economic system of defense
namely, the planting batteries on terra
firma where the guns have great adVan-
tage over those that are subject to the roll
ing sea. and where they can be constructed
at the least cost and at the same time pos
sess the greatest power for defense.