The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

pearRnce Among the Men of the
EisHtIl-BeIieved the Germs Were
brought Back From Cuba-TwO
Recruiting DepotS Now in Oper-
alton at Smelling.
Three suspected typhoid cases develop
ed yesterday at the post hospital at Fort
Smelling. One case is pronounced typhoid
by Or. Berlin, and the other two are still
In doubtful manifest very strong typhoid
symptoms. Ii would not be surprising If
the hospital authorities had run OF
typhoid patients from the Eighth in
fantry. which recently reached the fort
from Havana, Cuba All the sick men
were taken off the transport Beaufort at
NeH York. but, as was the case with
the Third infantry upon its return from
Cuba. in many instances the disease did
not develop until several weeks after
reaching St Paul. The health of the
Fofty-ffth IS excellent, and aside from
Ie" bad colds, there are no epidemic signs
in the regiment.
Lieut.. Col. Ellis. of the Eighth infantry
reached the fort yesterday, and assumed
-A'A+NAN'iAN' VI N4AS SdiitSOUJ succeeding
Maj GerlacI, Of the Twelfth Infantry.
who has been in command at the post
since the Third regiment left for the
philippines. The rule in the army Is that
the ranking officer commands the post
unless there is an order to the contrary.
MAJ. Gerlach will continue as post quar-
lermaster until the date Of his retire.
hent from service In December.
Two recruiting depots have been OPEN
ri at the fort. One at the admtnistrs-
fion building for the Eighth infantry and
one at the camp of the Forthwith regI-
hlent, There are number Of vacancies
III the battalion of the Eighth now sta
TONED at the fort, and IL is desirable that
there be a full complement Of men. I'm
ueF recent order of the war department
one battalion Of each infantry regimAnt
VIZ ne stationed in the United States
d!sd me TWO other battaliOns stationed
liner III cuba, Porto Rico or the Philip
plhes' VIII draw upon the home battalion
Tor recruits. As soon as the FortwSffth
mas It's fun quota recruiting for tba
H'shth infantry will be pushed, although
d lew men are being enlisted at present
ny Lieut.. Norman, who has been a.
signed as post adtutant.
Inc tOrty-fifth regiment had IFS first
muster day yesterday, Col. Dorst conduct
~ thorough inspection of every com
paHF under arms. The roll call revealed
me total number of men present "a ON
twenty officers, making in all $50 SIT,
lie" recruits We're received from varioue
points Yesterday. These with the 225 men
recruited at Vancouver. gives the raoi
Hehc d total Of 1,2i6 men, about 100 shor+
OF the required number A souad oP
nearly 100 are expected from Tndianano1is
some tIme today. The new arrivals will
completely I'LL the regiment A half dozen
IniU1i9 %Fe on their way to report for
duty. accompanied by small squads %
teoItIis- IL Is quite likely that these will
ne assigned to some one of the other vol
unteer regiments now organizing,
Ahe war department now has seventh
SoiulIILs stations scattered all over the
Hlleu states, where men are enlisted FOR
me new volunteer regiments now In
pIusfeSS or formation. The Forty-ffth
mas smaller proportion of regulars
man almost any of the other voluntoar
regiments, SO it Is said. and at tho SOW
1iim9 - pronounced by military men to
contain the best material of anv COM
mahd now n.the volunteer service. The
1hlrty-ifth has over 90 per cent of ax-
SoIuiefs who re-enlisted. and the Fortv-
htth is said to contain less than 10 nor
cent "A soldiers.
y BOARD Of survey has been annoin+ed
py CoI' Dorst, consisting of Capt. Eugene
- =, -IolLilort Lieut.. A L. Castle and
Lieut.. E. G. Long. anu
The last few nights ii has heer ca ooJa
9t the camp that standing water froze
ihStde some Of the tents
ne iolioWlng is a complete list of the
ohcefS of the Forty-fifth which have
been appointed to date: Col. J. Fl, Dorst
Lieut.. Col. James Parker, Major Daniel
a. Frederick, Major h. T. Cole. Adj
b. +. Patrick, Surgeon Major NJ. w. Ire
Iahd' Assistant Surgeon Capt. F. E. Ar
taud, Assistant Surgeon First Lieut. n
h. Donaldson. Captains have been an
pointed as follows: Percy Willis Elmer
- el1Ick, \. f. Simps, II, Alb .rt Stein
hauSer, Eugene c. Montfort. w Tee
Gapps' \. w. Coggswell, 0. P. Lee. D
w Hand. T. J. Rogers. N A. Marden. r
ROSS, George W. Hickman.
FIRST heutenants, William Brown
George r. kumpe, NJ. r. Hilgard, Fred
". Morrison 5i.Fi w. A. Edwards, J. D. Wat
son, Willard n. Flynn, Alfred L. Castle
d. !. Mccormick, Lewis S. RYAN. F n
Look, Epen w. Rowland, Arthur 8. TIN
belts Temple H Owens. G. P. Tavlor
aud a G. Baker.
second iieutenants. Arthur r. Jones W
70. W. Mckinley, Roy / Taylor. Charles
70. ~ Howard, +. c. Lcng, NJ. 7 Member
i3uNdiu L. 15dFDeF, Il. II. keHOnd. T r
Shuman, \. S. OdelI, G. z. MobIev ana
T.. W. Munford. anu
Col. Philip Reade, a former captain in
the Third infantry, yesterday reported
10 Gen. Wade for duty He had recently
been appointed inspector general of fine
volunteers, with the rank Of major I'm tha
regular army. He has just completed q
leave OF absence which he spent I'm pike
county, Penn, and thoroughly enfoyed a
SEASON of hunting and fishing and the
high altitude Of 1900 feet above the level
of the sea. He said:
at is my theory that man who has
lived In a temperate climate cannot spend
two seasons in the tropics, without the
necessity of @ change TO higher latitude
and altitude. During the eighteen
months, off and on, of my stay In Cuba
my weight fell from 1876 to $50. The doe
tors say that there is a certain malarial
microbe peculiar to that climate which
attacks the red corpuscles of the blood
and ruins a man If it is given time with
out any opportunity of recuperaticn.
THE United States army, during the
last nine months, has done mora police
work in Havana than was done there
previously for 300 years. So effective has
been the cleaning up that yellow fever,
which was once continuously prevalent
there, is excluded, and that city is now
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