The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-07-10
70 SHIP NO MORE HORSES
WANTS NO MORE
IN PHILIPPINES.
Capture of Aguinaldo has Removed
Further Demand for Stock-Horse
Transports go out of Commission

SEATTLE, June 27.-There is little
probability that the war department
will make any further shipments of
horses to the Philippine Islands, at
least for a long time to come. Quar-
termaster Ruhlen announced yesterday
that the transports Pakling and Kin
tuck, the last of the fleet of animal
ships under charter to the government
would be released on their arrival here
during the next few weeks. The gov
eminent has ceased its purchase of
horses in Eastern Washington, and the
horse corral at Fort Lawton is empty.
While there are no figures obtainable
at this time as to the number of horses
and mules shipped from Seattle to the
Philippines, an authoritative estimate
is that the government purchased be-
tween 5000 and 10000 horses in Wash
ington and oregon for the use of the
cavalry in the Philippines. The pur-
chases We're made through the chief
commissary of the department of the
Columbia. at Vancouver. The average
price paid was $75 per head.
y few years ago. horses could be
purchased on the range in eastern
Washington at s. per head. This was
i'm the days of hard times. In the win
ter of 1867, many thousands of horses
were allowed to starve to death on the
range in eastern Washington because
they were not worth feeding, and the
ranchers did not have more forage than
they could use for their cattle and other
stock During the Klondike excite
ment of 1898 the price of range
horses rose rapidly until a good pack
horse sold readily on the streets of
Seattle for $50. Since that time, the
price has increased steadily, the upward
movement being manfestly stimulated
by the demand for cavalry horses for
government use.
a year or so so ago, the local quar-
termaster had upwards of 900 head of
horses in corral at the corner of Third
avenue north and Harrison street They
came chiefly from Oregon and Wash
ington, and weighed on an average ], 900
pounds each. They cost the govern
ment not less than $75 each and were
shipped to the Philippines, where it
was soon proven that the average
Washington 'cayuse" was better suit
ed to the rough service of the army
than the Kentucky thoroughbreds that
went with the Third cavalry In August
1899. The Washington horse was found
to be harder and easier kept than the
Eastern horses, and the war depart
ment after receiving reports from the
officers in the cavalry service in the
Philippines, purchased thousands of
them in this state and Oregon.
The capture of Aguinaldo and the
insurgent Filipinos has resulted in the
lessening of government shipments to
the Philippines livestock as well as
forage. The transports Pakling and
Kintuck, which We're fitted up in this
city by the Moran Bros. Co., to carry
animals, will be released from govern
ment charters on their arrival here
The kintuck is due within a week. She
will bring Company L of the Forty
second Infantry, United States Volun-
teers. The men will be sent to San
Francisco to be mustered out, and the
transport will be disma ntled here and
returned to Frank Waterhouse, from
whom she was chartered
The Pakling, which was also fitted
for the carriage of animals here, will
return to San Francisco from Manila
within a short time. Thence she will
come to Seattle, and be dismantled, as
the government has no further use for
her.