Amador ledger., 1901-06-14
ARMY AND NAVY.
UNITED STATES.


The transport Kintuck, from Manila
TO Seattle, has arrived at Nagasaki.
Nine companies of the Ninth rcgi-
ment have arrived at Manila on the
transport Indiana from China.
Colonel Henry Jackson, commanding
the Third Cavalry, has been placed on
the retired list on account of age.
Brigadier- General Frederick Funston
has been assigned to command the
Fourth district of the Department of
Northern Luzon, with headquarters at
San Isidro.
The War Department has been in
formed by cable that General Chaffee,
with his troops on the transport Sum-
ner, has arrived at Nagasaki on the
way to Manila.
Under the law the pay of volunteer
soldiers Will cease June 30th, and if thew
are not mustered out by that date Con-
gress will have to make specific appro-
prlatlons for their extra service.
The model camp at the Presidio is
now empty, the Forty-ffth Volunteers
having been mustered out. No trouble
was experienced, the men leaving camp
without paying the visit which it was
anticipated they might make to the sa-
looms near the Preside entrance.
Acting Adjutant-Ge Ward has
received message from General Mac
Arthur saying that the transport Thyra
sailed from Manila June 1st for San
Francisco via Nagaski, with three off
GERS and seventy-eight enlisted men OF
Company B, Thirty-eighth Volunteer
Infantry.
The last volunteers, the Forty-third
Regiment, sailed from Mania ON the
transport Fitzpatrick, June 4th. The
sick regulars, several hundred of whom
have long awaited transportation, will
be embarked for home on the next
transport, with the remaining dis
charged regulars and civilians.
Acting Acknowledgement Ward re-
ceived a cable message from General
Macarthur saying that the transport
Logan sailed from Manila May 31st fol-
San Francisco, by way of Nagasaki,
with two.battalions of the Thirty-eighth
Volunteer Infantry. Although every
effort has been made to land the volun-
teers in this country before the volun-
teer army goes out of existence, it is not
believed that it can be done. Cable in
structiOns have been forwarded to Cen
eral Macarthur to send a mustering-out
officer with each regiment on the trans
ports yet to sail, so as to have every
thing in readiness for their muster out
on arriving in San Francisco. A large
corps of paymasters has been ordered to
San Francisco to make the final pay
ments, and there will be no delay in
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troops get home
The following officers will report to
the commanding General, Department
of California, for duty in connection
with the muster-out of volunteers at
San Francisco, and afterward proceed to
Manila; Majors Thomas c. Chalmers,
Luther B. Grandy, John A. Metzger,
Frederick A. Washburn Jr., George p.
Reed and John Carling, and Captains
Frederick H, Sharrenberger, G. S. Gill,
Willis J. Raynor; surgeons and assist
ant surgeons, First Lieutenant Alfred
t. Clifton, Signal Corps, from Philip
pines to Angel island, Cal, and assume
command of the Signal Corps detach-
ment at that point. Navy orders:
Commander Il. S. Phelps, detached
from Mare island yard, June Sth, to
command the Alert, June Sth, in relief
of Commander Perdins; Commander G..
P. Perkins, detached from the Alert
June Sth, and to Mare island immedi-
ately as equipment officer of the yard;
the order detaching Lieutenant r. c..
Bulmer from the Iowa, to go home to
await orders has been revoked.
SOUTH AFRICA.
The correspondent of the Pail Mall
Gazette has sent letter to his paper,
saying the British commander-in-chief
is known as Kitchener of Chaos
The Beers are crippled through the
lack of supplies, and the British are
handicapped by having to devote five
siXths of their army to guard their stores
and their lines of communication. The
situation has provoked the wearied
population of South Africa to cry out
against British methods.
A cable to the New York Sun from
London says that the sum of the South
African operations is that British STRAIT
egy has again failed. Lord Kitchener
had planned to force the Beers to WIN
ter in Northern Transvaal and fight
| there, or at least to hold them until af-
ter the South African winter, when the
veldt is most unhealthy for the whites.
Then it was expected would come sur
render.
The Sun, London, publishes a sensa-
tional story to the effect that General
Botha has arrived at Standerton and is
communicating by telegraph with Paul
Kruger, through the Netherlands Gov
eminent, appealing to Kreuger to sue
for peace. Lord Kitchener is said to
have given Botha permission to adopt
this course. The Sun further hears
that 10000 Zulus have gone on the war
path, owing to Boer raids in Zululand.
The reticence of the English Govern
ment regarding the battle of Vhakfon-
tein and other military events of some
importance which have recently oc-
Cured at widely separated points in
South Africa has led to considerable
anxiety. This is in no way allayed by
the curious answer of the War Office
to question regarding the accuracy or
otherwise of the Boer report that the
British were defeated near Pretoria on
May I'd. The reply which the War
Office vouchsafed, 1--WE have no official
information" has aroused some mis-
givings.
Certain groups in the Petersburg dis
trict are already entering the British
lines and LAYING down their arms hut