The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-10-12
LATER NEWS.

The First Washington volunteers
have arrived at San Francisco.
The medical department of the army
considers Vancouver a desirable place
for sanitary hospital.
Reports to the marine hospital serv-
ice say there were % new cases of yell
low fever and three deaths at Key
West.
The United States transport Newport
has arrived at San Francisco, 33 days
from Manila. She has 465 members
of the volunteer signal corps aboard
and Is civilians.
A cablegram to the war department
from General Otis states that the trans.
port Indiana sailed from Manila with
43 officers and 6l9 men of the Tennes-
see regiment. The regiment left no
sick.
The steamer Cottage City, from the
North, has among its passengers Sena-
tor Shoup, who has spent several weeks
in Alaska, visiting various points for
the purpose of obtaining information
iNthiiNC W lOI hidohd.
President Galloway, of the New York
Central railway was before the indus
trial commission to give testimony re-
lative to the question of railroad trans
portation. He favored a pooling law,
and advocated the prohibition of the
present brokerage system.
A riot prevailed in the barracks Of
company l., of the Eighth infantry, AT
Fort Smelling. With only a dozen ex.
ceptions, the company was locked in
the guardhouse. The trouble arose
from charge of robbery preferred by
Corporal Former against Privates Stout,
Kelly and Brazille. They had been in
st. Paul ON spree.
Captain Cope, of the steamer Ameri.
ca Maru, which left Yokohama, Sep
tember %, reports the transport Tatar,
with the Kansas boys aboard, sailed
two days ahead of him, and should
rslch here tomorrow. lie thinks he
passed the Tartar Saturday night in
the fog, but he is not sure.
The Maxim Nordenfeldt Gun & Am
munition Company, Ltd, of London,
has shipped two six-gun batteries Of
mountain guns to Manila. They were
inspected here prior to shipment by
Captain George w. Nandusen, First
United States artillery, who will follow
the guns Thursday. The ordnance is
OF the latest pattern.
Oberin NJ. Carter, the disgraced
army officer, has paid the fine OF $5, 900
imposed by the court-martial. His
check for that amount was sent to the
United States District Attorney Bur-
nett Mr.. Rose, of Carter's counsel,
has been called to Savannah, and Judge
Lacombe has, therefore, extended the
time for submission of briefs in the
habeas corpus proceedings.
Admiral Dewey will receive 81 900
watch from the municipality OF Boston.
The city will spend $4,000 giving
the admiral welcome.
The Marquette Club, of Chicago, en-.
tertained President Mckinley at a
banquet in the Auditorium Saturday
night. Thirty-fve hundred guests were
present.
According to the Sebastopol corre-
spondent of the Daily Graphic, the
Russian naval credit for 1900 amounts
to the erroneous total OF $500, 900
rubles.
The Thirteenth Minnesota regiment,
returning home from the Philippines,
was royalty entertained in Portland.
The regiment remained over night and
attended the exposition.
The Spanish government has sold
the Havana floating dock for 5000, 900
to a syndicate of Vera Cruz merchants.
Several New York firms have been
asked for terms for conveying the dock
to Vera Cruz.
Admiral Dewey has chosen j. w.
Crawford as his official secretary. Mr..
Crawford is an employe in the Office
OF the judge acknowledgement of the
navy. He will hold the rank of lieu
tenant in the navy.
Near Chicago five persons were in
jured in a collision bewteen a Haw-
thorne race track train ON the Illinois
Central, and freight engine which
stood upon a siding, the switch of
which had been left open.
Don Emanuel Aspiroz, Mexican am
bassador 10 the United States, and the
first of the distinguished guests whom
Chicago has arranged to entertain dur
Ing the fall festival, has arrived in the
windy city from Washington.
The third attempt to sail the first
race beteen the Columbia and sham