Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-11
...,olO officers Testify They Have
TAKEN the Wafer Cure
c,y n IS NOT DANGEROUS
.A,o,t II Produces n Fear OF
~ o,,,h by s,rsnsuiatIon in Man
70 whom Administerea'

,.raa Monday, June 9.-The mem
os me court-martial which tried
y, Edwin F Glenn of the Fifth IN"
~% .s who was charged with admin
'~ ,a the water cure TO Filipinos'
rs,nrued to Manila. The court held
.saslons az Catbalogan, island OF
amar ,-,.,.oa %
,snIt evidence from places outside OF
NJ Philippine Islands which was
1roughi forward to show that practices
.,,ilor TO The water cure had been con-
snctsd Is the police Of New York city
~ lSl when Brig, Gen, #. ID. Grant
u one of the police commissioners.
c c Gant was president Of the Glenn
u .onrt martial. Major Glenn, Surgeons
Lanes Rhodes and Beal, ana Lieut.
c sr testified that they had taken
w. gater cure, that 1t was not dan.
s s but that It produced a fear of
t.a,S Inv strangulation In the man to
whom ID was administered.
WsJ chas. j. Crane Of the adJutant-
..ssyars department testified that In
NJ opinion Mai. Glenn's work in the
issuj of Panay had done more than
hal of any other one man, with the
' s Of the efforts of Gen. X. +.
unShea~to bring about the successful
,ooIgcatlon OF the island. Mai. Crane
ia he regarded II impossible 10 obtain
,u,ornation from the natives without
Sosr,ion and that he regarded Maj.
Gl,nn's work at lgbaras as the open
lns wedge which led to the paoiiieation
ofhe FIRST large territory In the Philip
pine Archipelago
ri Nicolas ROces Of the native con-
s,Smlary testified that he gave several
n bn men ten days furlough on ac-
count OF the fact they were suffering
ram dengue fever that these men
vsr, 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
rol Roces said these men now thought
M water cure was q good fever RENEE
dy
Al the trial by cOurt-martial OF First
Lent 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
pItsl ship Relief, the latter having been
used by Gen, Chafee for the transpor-
talon Of troops throughout the archl-
yAgo. have been COMPLETED at Shang
ld where these ytsses have been
10 the past three months. They will
DIV be sent home to be sold and II Is
lssyed that one Of them viii go to
M York,
The ports Of the island OF Leyte have
lea closed since the lst Of June. The
nlye constabulary of the island will
ciilct an aggressive campaign
,fainst the bandits there, but have re-
fused the assistance Of the United
sAles troops in this work Maj. Henry
Z Allen, chief OF the native constabu-
hV Will probably personally take
Command Of his forces in Leyte In
'u'seni flags are now deilantly flying in
many places on the island.