The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-09
MARINES IN CAMP
UNITED STATES BLUE JACKETS NOW
LIVING ON FOREIGN SOIL.
Landed from the Cruiser Dixie mt
Colon and Taken to Empire, Not
Far from Panama City.
MAY GUARI AN OLD TRAIL
WHICH coLoMBIANs MIGHT try TO
USE IN AN INVASION.
Establishment OF the Camp Said at
Washington to Be Both Precau-
tionary and Sanitary.
ONE HUNDRED NOW ASHORE
OTHERS MAY BE SENT BY RAIL TO
WESTERN SIDE OF IsTHMUs.
DIR. Amador and Frederic Boyd Well
coined Home-Former Greeted as
Panama's Lfberator.
Establishment Of the Camp Said mt
Washington to Be Both Precau-
tfonary md Sanitary.
ONE HUNDRED NOW ASHORE
OTHERS MAY BE SENT BY RAIL TO
WESTERN SIDE OF IsTHMUs.
DIR. Amador and Frederic Boyd We'll
coined Horie-Former Greeted as
Panama's Lfberator.

? COLON, Dec. S.-A company OF marines
from the United States auxiliary cruiser
Dixie, under command of Capt. Writ Nc
Creary. were landed here this morning and
took train for Empire, town On the rail-
road near Panama, where a camp was es-
tablished in the canal campany's buildings.
Another company of marines to the number
of fifty from the Dixie left on the after
noon train for Empire. The camp at EN-
pre is now thoroughly equipped and all
precautions from a sanitary standpoint to
insure the health of the marines have been
taken. The camp will be supplied with
water from the Dixie pending the analysis
of the drinking water available there. II
this water should be found to be good the
remainder of the 450 marines on board the
Dixie will be transferred to the camp in
patches Of fifty.
The stated official purpose OF this move
ment is to give the marines practice I'm the
building Of camps and to provide relief
from their long confinement on the vessel.
The actual purpose of the United States
government i'm landing the marines is. how
ever. believed to be connected with the pre-
cautionary measures now being carried out
on both sides of the isthmus and perhaps
also for the moral effect which the landing
of the marines may have on the ma
tive garrison at Panama, the loyalty
of which,. though hitherto absolutely
unswervine, has been questioned IN
some quarters. especially since the
discovery of the plot against the life of
General Huertas, commander -in-chief OF
the forces of the Republic of Pana ma, and
the alleged effort on the part OF few army
officers to persuade the garrison TO revolt.
1t is considered significant that the point
selected for the encampment of the Dixie 3
marines, while IL is the highest and best,
so far as sanitary conditions are concerned.
on the line of the Panama Railroad IL is
also on the trail most frequently used in
the past for the movement of troops over
land from the Cauca district into the Chiri-
qui district If body of Colombisa troops
should succeed in obtaining a focthold in
the rich Chiriqui districts. IL is generally
conceded that i'm predatory raids. on the
country side they could retreat to the
be most difficult to dislodge thems There
is no doubt that the naval authorities took
into consideration the moral effect on the
Colombian government of the establish
ment of a marine camp at Empire
The report of the movement of 1900 SOL
diers from Cartagena for the purpose OF
invading the isthmus cannot be ccynhrmed.
for frequently, particularly as thu people
by the precautionary measures adopted by
the United States. General Hutrtas Is
about TO establish a small garrisoS OF the
troops of the new republic at Ybviza.
town at the head of San Miguel bay, on
the Pacific side of the isthmus.