The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-03
More Enlisted Men to Paw.

MATES submitted to congress by
the War Department for the mainte-
nance of the army, it is evident, will
show an Increase over the estimates for
the current fiscal year.
This has been made necessary in all
branches mainly by the increase in the
enlisted strength. In July last this
amounted to 1880 men. Six months
later, IN December, the enlisted strength
was $4,000.
The estimates now being prepared in
various bureaus of the War Department
are on the basis of an increased force
| OF $4,000. 1t is roughly estimated that
the increase necessary for pay of the
enlisted force will be fully ST 900 600.
| The estimate for subsistence is not
only affected by the increase in the en-
listed force, but by the advance in tue
cost OF the ration from 1866 cents last
year to 20.91 cents this year, as the
! average cost of the ration per man.
1t is under such circumstances that
| the War Department, and, for that mat
ter, the bureaus of the Navy Depart
| ment are 1aboring in getting up esti-
mates by the first of MAY for the fiscal
| year, which does not begin until four,
teen months from that time. 1t is clear
| " foreseen that there viii have to be
much guesswork in such calculations.
Mrs. Rush Wells Story.
| SAN FRANCISCO, April 24.-Charg-
ing Captain Rush Wells, Fourteenth
Cavalry, U.S.A., with an assortment of
| abuse, from threatening to shoot her
with big army revolver to breaking
IN door of a closet where she had
| hidden from fear, Mrs Leila B. Wells
answered the captain S charge of de-
sertion yesterday with a cross COM
plant. She states that life with the
captain was one long period of terror.
Wells began his action for a divorce
on February % last, alleging desertion,
aand to this charge Mrs. Wells pleads
that it was only after seven years of
marital infelicity that she finally made
up her mind that she could not possibly
live with him.
i She states that he once signed a
pledge to her not to drink any more
while they were living in the Philip
pines. One day, she states, he demand
ed the return of the pledge and when
Eshe refused to give it back to him he
grabbed her by the wrists and threw
her against the wall from in front of
a bureau where she had the pledge lock-
ed in a drawer.
On another occasion, she saws, the
captain began to abuse her and she
. took refuge in a closet to get away
} from him and locked the door. He
! kicked in the door and dragging her
: out, cursed her until he had exhausted
himself.
Upon another occasion she states that
: he took his big army pistol and threat
,ened to shoot her with it. Another
1 ,time while she was in hospital in the
: Philippines he made her return home
4 Iwith him before she had recovered from
t her illness, and drove her through q
4 hot, unshaded country for nine miles
: she alleges, causing her great physical
e and mental anguish.
e AS another instance of cruelty on the
: captain IS part, Mrs. Wells says that
while ill in the Philippines Wells in
, sisted on allowing his dog to sleep in
e their room, against her protests, and
4 that it caused her much misery
Navy Men to be Tried.
! PHILADELPHIA, April 1S.-Lieu
7 tenant Commander James Mexican OF
the ordnance department at the Phil
9 adelphia Navy Yard, and Lieutenant
E. Delaney, in command of the Unit
ed States steamer anther, left to-
Q night for Washington, where it is ex
: pected they will be called upon to ex
: plain a meeting on the Panther, when
prominent officers of the line drew ur
a resolution criticizing the order OF
= Secretary Newberry, which upset
naval traditions by displacing old line
officers everywhere from control OF
;. ordnance, construction, repairs, equip
n nent and steam engineering, and plac-
ing young staff officers in charge.
+ The report that sensational court
y nlartials would result was not taker
1 seriously at the navy yard there
0 Friends of the officers say that they
/ were acting within their rights Real
r Admiral Melville (retired) is among
). those who hold that the officers were
[ not guilty of a breach of discipline
e He also expressed his dissatisfaction
of former Secretary Newberry's mid
night order"
, The order was promulgated Januar,
% and approved by President Roose
{ welt the same day. 1t caused dissat
L isfaction among the officers of th'
IS line, which cultivated in meeting Oh
r board the United States steamship
II Panther on March %, which the fol
l. lowing officers attended: Captain Al
$. bert G. Berry, Commander B. c
d Bryan, Lieutenant Commander J. S
, Mexican, Lieutenant Commander r. D
L Hasbrouck, Lieutenant E. H. Delaney
g, Lieutenant G. w. Steele, Jr., Ensigr
P. T. Dwyer and Mi6shipman w.
Il Farber.
# Changes Among officers.
L These officers, who have recent.
% been promoted, have been assigned t
n the following regiments: Colonel Lev
n P Hunt from the second Cavalry I