The San Francisco call., 1899-09-30
1t Was Decided He
Was Infected.
NO CHANGE ON THE ISLAND
TWENTY NINTH REGIMENT IN
FROM FORT MCPHERSON.
Some Piums Drop in the Way of the
Minnesota Men-Another Rul-
ing on Commissary
Officers.

The Illness OF Corporal Larabee Of the
South Dakota regiment has developed into
unmistakahIe smallpox and he has been
sent out TO the camp near the fort His
symptoms bat1ed the surgeons for a time,
for they were not the ordinary signs or
the disease. Yesterday DR.. ktnyoun,
chief of the Federal quarantine service,
was called in to see the man and he gave
it as his opinion that Larabee had small
pox This was in accord with the Judg-
ueut OF the surgeons of the hospital and
so the patient was sent to the Isolated
camp.
Larabee has been kept in separate
ward Of the hospital since he showed s1S-
picious symptoms, and no one out his at
tendants and the surgeons have been al
lowed to see him There are still some OF
the men VINO were associated with him
in his company VINO are beng held under
detention. he order Is Out that every one
at the post must be vaccIu2Jed-
There has been no increase N the NUM-
her of cases in the ThIrty-nrst, and II Is
probable the regiment Will De aIIoWed 70
Ieave quarantine II time TO get away Tor
Manila before October 10 Inc men o.
the regiment are getting restless under the
long CeJeuu01, but there Il no help Tor II,
ana as long as smallpox shows itself so
long viii they have 70 remain
Tne last OF the IWenuy-ntnth Regiment
got in from Fort Mcpherson last evening
The last sections OF the command were
not expected IN SO soon, but rhey made
remarkably good time and arrived fully
due.
Second Lieutenant William B. Aiken OF
the Thirty-seveuth Infantry IS starting
his campaign in g. rather sensational man
aer He was 10 have Joined his COM
mand which is in Manila. on the Grant
Orders were out for him 10 sail on the
transport last Monday but when the
Grant left port Aiken was not on board
He had been celebrating his coming de-
parLure in a manner not wise and too
extensive. and he was IN no condition TO
keep track of transports when the time
for the departure OF the Grant arrived
As a result be was ordered under arrest.
and yesterday he was before 3 courC-n1ar-
tiaI charged with conduct TO the preJu-
dice OF good order and military discipline
in having been absent without leave from
September 13 10 September I5, Tor being
intoxicated while at the post exchange
and for having missed his transport
The Minnesota Regiment is another in
stance Of the pecuIia rites Of the military
law when applied TO volunteers. 1t viii
De mustered out with q c0mmISsaFy Of
the rank OF first lieutenant, an officer de-
MED all the other regiments thaE nave
passed through the mastering officers
hands. The reason for this is that IL had
a eommissary officer when IL was d Ma
tiCnaI Guard regiment and before it was
mustered into the volunteer service. The
Government would n0E muster in the COM
uIssary officer. for IL was then declared
that the regulations did not allow such q
position: but now il IS declared with equal
gravity and as much effect that there may
be a commisSary officer in the regiment
because tt had such an officer before it
was mustered in A r de AIuth. who
has been acting Commfssary for the regf-
ment. VIII be given the commission. but
his rank viii not date from the mus t6riug
I in OF the regiment nor viii he get paw for
anything before yesterday. The appoint
msnt is an admission that the regiment
should have had such an officer from the
start, but the Government will save the
pay Ray Davis OF Company A will be
made COnmiSsary sergeant
@. e FaIk, adjutaGt of the regiment
has been raised one bar TO q captainev
Battalion Sergeant Major John y Love
has been made a captain in the Forty
fifth Volunteers, and First Lieutenant
Walter A. Johnson a first Lieutenant in
the ForTy-secOud Volunteers
The Hospital Corps Of the Minnesota
Regiment having been merged into the
Hospital Corps of the regular army. has
been mustered out before the remainder
Of the regiment
The payment Of the men who came
home on the City Of Para viii be finished
to-day.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Ernest K.
JOi1nstoue has been ordered TO report 10
the chief surgeon Of the department for
the SnnuImeut Of his contract
Acting Assistant Surgeons John J. Gill
huley. Charles A. CattermoIa Thomas K.
Mullins and Fred W. Palmer have been
ordered TO proceed TO Manila on the trans
port Nelson Second Lieutenant James
D. Keen viii also leave on the Nelson