The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01
STARTING Time SET
THIRTEENTH MINNESOTA WILL
LEAVE SAN FRANCISCO AT
NOON, OCT. 5
LONG WAIT IS NEARLY OVER

The Troubles In the Regiment Like
~ to- Crop Out After the Men
Reach Home and Resume Civil
Life-Too Much Politics Seeming
ly the Cause of the Trouble in the
Thirteenth.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 30-Special-
1t was announced here today that the
special trains to carry the Thirteenth
regiment home will leave San Francisco
at noon October 5, and will arrive in st.
Paul on the morning Of October II. Leav-
ing here Thursday the train will reach
Portland Saturday and will leave there
Sunday, the delay being so arranged
that the Portland people and the Oregon
regiment may give a reception to the
Minnesota men.
The Preside was Guaranteed for five
minutes today. The case of Corp.I4ara-
bee, of Company NJ South Dakota, was
finally diagnosed by the general hospital
surgeons as small poX, and was reported
as such. The medical officers declared
the quarantine on the entire camp, but
it was removed within a few minutes
The tent in which Larabee lived was
burned this morning, as was all his prop
erty and that of his three tent mates.
If another case Of small poX is found
in the South Dakota camp, the entire
regiment will be sent to quarantine on
Angel Island, and the muster out will be
delayed for probably two weeks.
An order has been issued requiring the
Thirteenth to be Vaccinated. 1t is not
ontjninotod hot thopo will ha NV
in this regiment. and the order was SIM
ply a precautionary measure.
The men will be obliged to subSfst them
selves on the road, as the Northern Pa
cific refuses to furnish dining cars to
specials, and negotiations for provision
car have fallen through
1t Is feared now that there will be con-
siderable difficulty in obtaining meals for
the men, especially through the sparsely
settled regions.
The long period of suspense is nearing
an end, and it is now a matter of days
ere the officers and men of the Thir-
teenth Minnesota will leave the service
of Uncle Sam and return to their homes
and re-enter the civil walks of life,
which early last year year they left to
don the blue and karkht to go forth to
the Philippines to combat the deadly eli
mate and the treacherous Tagalo and
naughty don.
The regiment which went forth from
the North Star state will come home in
a body, but 1t Is hard to disguise the fact
that it will not march through the
streets Of st. Paul and Minneapolis with
out dissension in the minds of the rank
and file and WearerS Of the shoulder
straps.
NEED OF DIPLOMACY.
Since the arrival of the Thirteenth in
this city the delegations from the Twin
Cities and the representatives of the
press Of St. Paul and Minneapolis have
been hard at work, hoping to set aside
the differences which have unfortunately
rent the gallant Thirteenth in twain. OF
course, as every one at home knows, the
first trouble when the regiment arrived
here was the differences between the CT
f1cers of the Thirteenth and Col. Ames
Considerable diplomacy was used by the
Twin City delegations and the newspaper
representatives to- heal the breach, and
for the honor Of the regiment and the
state 1t was agreed that the Thirteenth
would go home in a body, without any
trouble between the wearers of the
straps. No sooner had that matter been
settled than the affair of Lieut.. Cham
bers cropped up, and for a few days the
outlook was dark. The enlisted men who
complained to Col Ames, Of the conduct
Of the lieutenant would not withdraw
their charges, although every pressure
was brought to bear on them. They in
sisted that Chambers had grossly insult
ed them, both by words and acts, and
that, being once more in the United
States, they proposed to make him suffer
for the fndignities he had put upon them
in the land Of the Geisha.
Chambers realized that he was in a
serious position. and finally begged the
toll 20 Ill
he had taken this stand the day after the
affair in Yokohama, there is no douot
but that the enlisted men would have
dropped the matter right there. AS pri-
Yates Of the Thirteenth, however they
felt that they had been grossly insulted,
adm remembered the old adage that "he
laughs best who laughs last" The
verbal and written apologies Of Cham-
bers were respectfully received, but at
the same time he was told that only his
punishment would balance the account
Finally. however, sufficient pressure was
brought to bear on the enlisted men and
they withdrew the charges they had filed
with Col. An1es, and for the present the
matter Is ended. Chambers will be mus
tered out with his regiment, but the en-
listed men say they still have score TO
settle with him. When he lays aside the
Uniform which bears the straps he will
be on an equal footing with the enlisted
men, who will be mustered out at the
same time as the officers, and it is pos
Sfble there will be a scandal over this
matter long ere the special trains carry
ing the Thirteenth arrive in the Twin
Cities.
LATEST COMPLICATION.
When every one was happy at the sus-
pension of the Chambers affair. and all
had hoped that there would be no fur
Their trouble In the Thirteenth, along
came more trouble in the refusal of the
Red Wing. Saltwater and st. Cloud com
panies to go TO st. Paul and Minneapo-
lis. The relatives of the men Of these
companies had written to them daily
since the arrival in San Francisco I'M
pressing upon them the urgency of COM
ing home. The men Of the companies
mentioned naturally listened to the heed
of their relatives, and openly announced
that on no account would they go to the
Twin Cities.
And so once again the delegations from
ST Paul and Minneapolis and the news
paper representatives have hal to pour
OIL on the troubled waters, and with the
exception Of a few men, the companies
mentioned will go along with their COM
rades of the Twin Cities and march
through ST. Paul and Minneapolis
Every ono in the regiment wants to get
home as soon as possible, and the ma
jority Of the men do not care to be de-
layed by the argument that President
Mckinley desires to review the ThIr-
teenth Minnesota. AS head of the army.
they will tender the president every re-
spect while they are still in the service.
hut once mustered out they see no rea
son why they should be kept on the road
longer than necessary. just to allow the
president to review them, or, as manv
Ill
jollyipg speech"
Politics has played an important part