Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-04
YELLOW FEVER OUTBREAK.
Gen. Corbin Says Conditions Are
Serious at the Soldiers Home
at Hampton, Va.
MONROE DOCTRINE TO Be APPLIED.
The United States Will Not Allow Any For
eign Power to Interfere in the Affairs
of San DomingO-Germany's Policy in
the West Indies to Be Watched-Ths
Enlistments.

Washington, Aug. 1.-Surgeon Gen
eral Sternberg has received the follow
ing from Lieut.. Col. Dewitt at Fort
Monroe regarding the outbreak of vel
low fever at the soldiers home at
Hampton, Va:
Fort Monroe, Va July 3l.-Surgeon General,
Q. s. A, Washington: At four O'Clock yester-
day Surgeon PettuS, United States marine hos
pital service, quarantine officer, officially states
that yellow fever at national soldiers
home, Hampton; 81 cases with six deaths.
Commanding officer took immediate measures
for quarantine. Surgeon PettuS states surgeon
general marine hospital service notified
yesterday afternoon.-DeWitt Surgeon.
Adjt. Gen. Corbin and Mai. John
stone, assistant adjutant general, were
at Fort Monroe yesterday and Were
present when Surgeon Pettus made his
report to Lieut.. Col. Dewitt regarding
the outbreak of yellow fever at the
soldiers home. Gen. Corbin SAYS that
from all accounts there is little doubt
that the conditions are serious and
there is no telling how far the infec-
ton may have reached. There is a
trolley road along the beach for dis
lance of more than six miles and eX-
curSiOn parties have been coming to
Old Point and adjacent places and
have taken the trolley to Newport
News and to the soldiers home. Many
of them have mingled with the soldiers.
Gen. Corbin says that one theory of the
way in which the fever might have
been brought to the home is that one
of the soldiers recently visited Santiago.
He returned some time since Sufferin g
with what the physicians thought to
be dengue. 1t seems it was not until
the inmates of the home began to die
that the disease was discovered to be
yellow fever. Orders have been issued
by the war department removing the
garrison at Fort Monroe to some point
on the northern coast to be selected by
Gen. Merritt. A few officers and 20
enlisted men will be detained at Fort
Monroe as a guard.
Monroe Doctrine to BE Applied.
Washington, Aug. Amy effort of
a foreign power to interfere in San
Domingo will be resisted by the United
States. Any force to be used will be
eXerted by this country alone. The
Monroe doctrine will be applied to San
Domingo. 1t is not unlikely that other
nations will send warships to San Do
mingo to look after their interests
there. German interests in the island,
while not of great magnitude, are suffi-
clenU. 1t Is Sdlu, TO justify ner IN max
ing a show of force. Germany, it is
believed, is very anxious to secure
foothold in the Atlantic, for in
those waters she has no port into which
her ships could put in in time Of war.
This fact alone is enough to justify the
belief that she will seek to become a
factor in the solution of the problem
presented by the Dominican revolu-
ton. The policy of this government
has always been to resist foreign inter-
ference in the affairs of this country
and, as the government is not on par
ticularly warm terms with Germany,
that governments policy in the West
Indies will be watched.
The Enlistments.
Washington, Aug. 1.-The enlist
ments Saturday for the Philippines
were $50, making a total of 1867. Col.
Pettit's regiment, the Thirty-frst, has
1900, just one short of the full quota.
The next is Col. Bells, the Twenty
seventh, with 1, 176, and Col. Gardeners,
the Thirtieth, with 1,O56.