Griggs courier., 1898-09-08
||FEN'1EA1HS At TIE CAMP
Mortality at Chickamauea Among
the Troops Was Only Two
' Tenths Of One Per Cent.
THE HOSPITALS ARE IN GOOD SHAPE.
Secretary Alser Is -Gr.tiaed over
General Boynton's Report-tiossiD
About Gen. Miles-Puerto Rico Conn
mission Sails for San Juan-Other
War News Of Interest.

Washington, Sept. 1.-Secretary AL
| ger is much gratified with the report
Of Gen. H. v. Boynton on the condi-
tions at Camp Thomas. Chickamauga.
Gen. Boynton disposes of the sensa-
| tional stories about the sanitary con-
ditions at Camp Thomas by showing
| that while there have been $4,000 men
IN thai camp, there have been only 1913
deaths, or about two-tenths of one
per cent. The secretary is gratified to
find that the sensational stories told
about. this camp are refuted by the
facts as reported by Gen. Boynton.
| Hospitals In Good Shape.
The report also shows that the hos
pitfalls are in splendid shape. and are
being efficiently managed-that there
is no lack of supplies and that the men
ere being properly cared for and have
everything that they could reasonably
want, thus disposing of the charges
made in some newspapers that sick
soldiers get insufficient food and
starve to death.
Gossip About Gen. Miles.
The gossip about Gen. Miles and the
interviews attributed to him contin-
ues. There is little doubt that unless
the general disavows responsibility
for the interviews Gen. Alger will or
der him tried by court-martial soon
after his return to this country. The
secretary feels. it is said, that the
maintenance of proper discipline in
the army demands nothing less than
this. 1t is still possible, however, that
the scandal that would ensue from the
adoption of this course may be avert
ed. The president may take hand in
the matter, and prevent open rupture
between the secretary of war and the
commanding general of the army.
Sail for San Juan.
New York. Sept. Admiral Schley
and Gen. Gordon, United States COM
missioners to settle the conditions for
| the Spanish evacuation of Puerto Rico,
| sailed for San Juan Wednesday on
board the steamer Seneca. The third
member of the commission, Mai. Gen.
Brooks, is at present in Puerto Rico.
Admiral Schley was accompanied by
his staff. and William w. Gordon. Jr.,
went with his father as aid.
Troops Arrive I'm Santiago.
Santiago de Cuba, Sept. 1. The
American transport Vigilancia has ar
| rived with s60 men of the Twenty
third Kansas volunteers. The troops
are in good health and will disembark
ss soon as the health inspection is
over. These troops will be quartered
temporarily on the San Juan hill. but
later they will be transferred to Gen.
Ewer's camp on the San Luis plateau.
Troops Leave Puerto Rico.
New York, Sept. 2.-Col. Kmball,
deputy quartermaster general, has re-
ceived from Gen. Miles a dispatch
dated Ponce, September /, stating that
1000 troops sailed Wednesday from
Puerto Rico on the transports Mani
toba, Mississippi, Concho, Alamo,
Chester and OLDHAM. He, himself sailed
on the OLDHAM. The transports will all
come to New York.
Gen. shafter Returns.
New York. Sept. 2.-The transport
Mexico, with Gen. Shafter on board,
anchored off Montauk Point Thursday.
Gen. Shafter came ashore and was
driven to the detention hospital.
Orders to Muster Out.
Washington, Sept. a. Adjt. Gen.
Goblin issued orders for the muster
out of 10 volunteer organizations, num-
boring more than 10000 officers and
men. Including former orders more
than $4,000 of the volunteers have been
ordered mustered out, and it is said
at the war department that the work
will no wgo forward more rapidly
and within week or two fully 100000
volunteers will be mustered out. By
December there will not remain more
than $4,000 volunteers in the United
States service.