Arizona republican., 1903-07-22
MILITARY GUESTS
General Baldwin and Party in the City Yesterday
Were Shown Among Other Things the Great Agricultural Resources of the South Side.

General F. D. Baldwin. commanding the department of the Colorado. arriv- ed in the city yesterday afternoon on special from Prescott. He was acccom- panied by Colonel J. w. Pope, chief quartermaster of the department, and Lieutenant F. A. Drum Of his staff. Governor Brodie, who had gone to Prescott to meet the general. also re- turned on the train. Messrs. F. M Murphy, w. A. Drake and J. H. Elm inert were members of the party.
 The train reached the Santa Fe depot at 2:30 o'clock and within a few min- utes, under the direction of MT Mur phy, left with the military visitors ove- the Phoenix & Eastern for Mesa. The object was to show General Baldwin as much as possible of the agricultural re- sources of the valley. The train ran only about seven miles beyond Mesa. having passed out of the cultivated portion of the valley. The members of the party were the military visitors. Messrs. Brophy Emmert, Drake and a representative of The Republican.
 The train returned to the city, arriv- ing about 5:3O o'clock. The military gentlemen were driven about the city by Mir. Murphy for half an hour. In th5 meantime their special car had been attached to the Maricopa and Phoenix train. and they left last night fer the south. They will first visit Camp Grant, then Huachuca and will then gC to Clifton and Morenci. They were delighted with the valley and GerJ5-al Baldwin believed that with the construction of the Tonto basin reser- voir 1t would become one of the great agricultural regions of the earth.
 General Baldwin is making very close observa tions on this trip of the indus | trial conditions within the department He is untiring in his efforts to be brought into contact with all these, con ditiCns. and when he returns from. this tour he will have collected the great est possible volume of information.
 This is, by the way. the generals first visit to Arizona in thirty four years. In 1869 he marched from Fort Riley to this territory and on that oc- casion established Fort Wingate in 1 New Mexico. The general Is in ap- pearance as we'll as in fact every inch
 soldier. the hero Of two warss and
 he has distinction which is possessed | by no other soldier of having been aMarQeu TWO medals TOT ulStlnSulSneC | bravery on the field of battle.
 His most famous service. as has been [ mentioned in the Republican, was the | putting down of the Moro rebellion in the. Philippines. Lieutenant Drum was i with him in that campaign. The ] American force consisted of only l l.10( i men. Against them were many thous- ands of the Moros. The rebellion was | of greater importance than is common | ly understood. It was not a mere ma
 tive outbreak. Upon the success of it F hung the renewal of insurrection throughout the islands. The Moro
 chiefs said that they had no objection | to the American occupation of the coast. but the Americans must not pen | citrate the interior. Three Americans who had gone in had been murdered 1 The obpect of the expedition of General | Baldwin was to secure the murderers and at the same time insist on the prin- ciple that the Americans could go where they pleased on the islands. In the course of a short and vigorous campaign that was made very clear to
 the Moros.
 ! Color,-l Pope is well known though out the west by reason of his long ser
 vice in the department of the Colorado
 He is known throughout the whole ar
 my as a gallant soldier. Lieutenant already seen a great deal of active ser
 vice and has won the appreciation of his superior officers.