The Meeker herald., 1899-09-02
WASHINGTON NEWS.

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The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved clear list of 26,O25 acres in
| the Sterling and Denver land districts
of Colorado, to the Union Pacific Rail-
way Company.
A cable dispatch has been received
At the War Department from General
Davis, giving additional details of the
conditions in Porto Rico. He places
| the number of killed at 1000 and reit-
crates his statement of 100000 desti-
tute.
Since the beginning of the Spanish |
war there have enlisted in the regular
army 9O.6T1 men. This includes those
who were discharged after the close OF
the war and the increase Of the regular
army for service in the Philippines;
310,OG5 applied and were rejected.
During the last year more than ST.
100000 has been paid to the soldiers
in the Philippines. Only gold and sill
yer are now used. as insects in the
plants destroyed the greenbacks that
were sent over. The War Department
is now taking steps to increase the
force of nurses there.
The Navy Department does not IA
vor the plan to have the historic war
ship Constitution take part in the Dew
ey demonstration at New York. The
venerable craft is not in Il condition to
undergo such service. and is far too
valuable as relic to subject her to the
risks Of a trip from Boston.
The State Department does not ap-
prehend that any International compli-
/ cations will arise out Of General OTIS
| course in excluding Chinese from the
Philippines, as this is said to be only
temporary military expedient, leav-
Ing the general question to be deter
mined by Congress.
Secretary Root says that every man
belonging to the twenty regiments OF
volunteers now being recruited shall
eat his Christmas dinner in the Philip
/ pines. This statement was brought out
by reference to the published report
that ten of these regiments were to be
held in the United States as n reserve
force.
An order was issued Mt the War De-
partment Thursday honorably dis
charging from the volunteer army
Brlgadier General Irving Hale. to take
effect October LIST. General Hale went
to the Philippines as colonel OF the
/ First Colorado, and was made briga-
dler general for gallant services. Cen
eral Hale arrived yesterday at San
Francisco
A special from Washington to the
New York Journal says: Captain Car
ter is to go free. He will be dis
charged from the army and may be
fined $1O,6OO, but he will not be i'm
prisoned and his offense will not be
published In the newspapers of his
home, That is the information OBJ
tained here. Public clamor only Will
upset this program.
Inquiry at the Department of Justice
and the Treasury Department devel-
ops that there is absolutely no founda-
ton for any claim against the federal
goyeIpment on account OF the Union
for months past requests have been re-
ceived from citizens in the West for
Information concerning an alleged
claim. 1t appears that some schemers
have been attempting to interest the
people in that section in an alleged
suit to recover about SOD. 900 600, the
amount of first-mortgage bonds Of the
Union Pacific, which they represent
were deposited with the government
and never returned
1t Is not likely that any more caval-
ry regiments will be organized, save
1 luS oht ciS Ioi ia
the Philippines. General Otis has en-
bled that cavalry cannot be used to the
best advantage in the islands, and In
| his judgment the two regiments of reg
ular cavalry and the volunteer regi-
ment will be sufficient to meet all the
needs of the campaign. Great pres
sure has been brought to bear on the
administration to organize a colOred
| regiment for service in the Philippines.
The matter is still under consideration
by Secretary Root 1t Is understood
that II n regiment is organized, 1t will
be officered by colored men.
The order for bringing to the United
States five battalions of soldiers serv-
ing in Cuba establishes depot battal-
Ions, a system that has not been known
In the army heretofore. The order also
provides that troops, batteries and COM
panies will hereafter be formed into
battalions in alphabetical order, ex-
cept that the light and siege batteries,
| being mounted, will not be placed in
any battalion. The troops ordered from
Cuba are to be stationed as follows:
Battalion f, First infantry, at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas; Second Infantry
| at Fort Thomas, Kentucky; Fifth in
| fantry at Fort Sheridan. Illinois;
Eighth infantry at Fort Smelling, Min
nesota; Tenth infantry at Fort Crook,
Nebraska.
| Owing to the conflict of authority be-
tween the state and national quaran-
tine authorities at San Francisco, Sec
retary Gage, after consultation with
| Surgeon General Wyman, has tele-
graphed the collector of customs at
that port to employ a sufficient force
to enforce the federal quarantine regu-
ations. The marine hospital service
is laboring earnestly to keep infectious
diseases out of the country and at
San Francisco is directing its efforts
especially against the bubonic plague,
| Introduction of which is feared from
the Orient. The local quarantine au-
| thorities at San Francisco haze II Ia