Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-11
e...ol officers Testify They Have
Taken the Water Cure
c,y IT IS NOT DANGEROUS
ADMIT IL Produces Fear o.
meath BY ssransu'a'Ion in Ma"
70 whom Adminis.ered'

y.rlla. Monday, June s'-The mem
as me court-martial which tried
~ rdyin F. Glenn Of the Fifth In"
~ who was charged with admin
'~ the water cure to Filipinos,
~. ,s,urued to Manila. The court held
.saslons az Catbalogan, island OF
amar ,..oa %
,au evidence from places outside OF
=. phaipplne Islands which was
,.ongh, forward TO show that practices
s'nilar TO the water cure had been con-
sao,sd .y The police Of New York city
~ iNl when Brig. Gen, #. d. Grant
.ss one of the police commissioners
c'S Gant was president Of the Glenn
u ."art martial. Major Glenn, Surgeons
S Sces Rhodes and Beal, and Lieut.
cornor testified that they mad taken
w. gater cure, that 1t was not dan.
s,ous but that II produced a fear OF
t.a,b nv strangulation In the man 10
whom ID was administered,
Ws chas. j. Crane Of the adJutant-
..ssyaps department testified that In
X. opInlon Mai. Glenn's work in the
i.sud of Panay had done more than
,bal of any other one man, with the
sSrcptlon Of the efforts of Gen. X. 4.
ungheE~to bring about the successful
,spIgcatlon OF the island. Maj. Crane
sss he regarded II impossible TO obtain
,u,o,nation from the natives without
cosrfion and that he regarded MAJ
cl,nn's work at lgbaras as the open
Ins wedge which led TO the paciiieation
ofhe FIRST large territory In the Philip
pine archipelago,
cd Nicolas Roces Of the native con-
stSmlary testified that he gave several
81 hs men ten days furlough on ac-
count OF the fact they were suffering
trom dengue fever that these men
wsr, caught by American soldiers. who
nave them the water cure and that the
men returned In three days time fully
recovered from the effects Of the fever
col R0ees said these men now thought
he water cure was good fever reme-
dy,
Il the trial by cOurt-martial Of First
Iisut. Julian F., Gaujot of the Tenth
cavalry. who was tried. on charges. sim
llar to those preferred against Maj.
Glenn. the lieutenant admitted all the
charges and said he considered the re-
suits obtained amply justified the
methods employed
lieut.. Norman f. Cook Of the Philip
pine scouts, who was tried by court
martial for manslaughter on the charge
Of having ordered the execution of
three natives, denied that he had given
orders 10 this effect and declared that
the men In question were shot without
his knowledge, while endeayoring to
escape
The repairs to the United States army
transport Sumner and the former hos
pItal ship Relief, the latter having been
used by Gen. Chaffee for the transpor-
tiiion OF troops throughout the archi-
yAgo. have been COMPLETED at Shang
lh where these Vtsses have been
"a the past three months. They will
Nv be sent home to be sold and II Is
Nfyed that one of them viii go to
M York.
The ports Of the island OF Leyte have
len closed since the lst Of June. The
nlye constabulary of the island will
Grilct an aggressive campaign
tfainst the bandits there. but have re-
fused the assistance Of the United
saies troops in this work Mai Henry
2 Allen, chief OF the native constabu-
hg Will probably personally take
Command Of his forces in Leyte In
'u'gent flags are now deiiantly flying in
many places on the island.