The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1903-12-09
ON FOREIGN GROUND
Marines Establish a Camp
Near Panama.
SAID FOR The GOOD OF THEIR HEALTH
The Actual Purpose Believed TO BE
to watch Any DIsIOynl Act on the
Part of Local Forces or Hostile
Demonstration From Bogotn.

Denomination FROM bOBOtu.
COLON, Dec 9.--Two companies Of
marines from the United States aux
iliary cruiser Dixie under command of
Captain Writ McCreary were landed
here and have gone by train to EN-
pire, a town on the railroad near Pana-
ma, where a camp has been established
in the canal cOmpany's buildings. The
camp is now thoroughly fortified, and
all necessary precautions from a sanl-
tary 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. If this
water should be found to be good the
remainder of the 400 marines on board
the Dixie will be transferred to the
camp in patches Of fifty.
The stated official purpose of this
movement is to give the marines prac-
tice in the building of camps and TO
relieve them from their long contine-
ment on the vessel The actual pur-
pose of the United States government
in landing the marines is, however, be-
lieved to be connected with the precau-
tionary measures now being carried
out on both sides of the isthmus and
perhaps also for tie moral effect which
the landing of the marines may have
on the native garrison at Panama, the
loyalty of which. though hitherto abso-
lutely answering, has been question
ed 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
Panama, and the alleged effort on the
part of few army officers TO per-
suade the garrison to revolt.
II is considered significant that the
point selected for the encampment OF
the DiXie's marines while 1t is the
highest and most sanitary on the line
of the Panama railroad. is also on the
trail most frequently used in the past
for the movement of troops overland
from the Cauca district into the Chiri
qui district.
General Huertas is about to establish
small garrison of the troops Of the
new republic at YaviZa, a town at the
head of San Miguel bay, on the Pacific
side of the isthmus.
Or. Manuel Amador and FREDERICK
Boyd, the special commissioners from
the republic of Panama who recently
visited Washington, have landed here
from the steamer Seguranca. The COM
missioners took a special train for Pan
anna.
A report from Bogota says that the
national electoral committee has an
nounced that it will not accept the res
ignation Of the presidency sent by Gen
eral Reyes from Barranquilla. The
committee has proclaimed General
Reyes as the unanimous choice for the
presidency of Colombia and General
Gonzales Valencia as the choice for the
vice presidency. President Marroquin
has cabled General Rafael Reyes at
Washington that any negotiation pro
posed at Washington not based on the
return of Panama will be useless and
unacceptable to Colombia. A national
integrity society on large scale has
been organized at Bogota with 100000
active members, with the object of re-
covering the isthmus.