The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-10
FIRST TO ARRIVE.
Seventeenth Infantry Reached
San Antonio at Midnight.
The Soldiers Spent he Night in
the Cars.
BIDS FOR PROVISIONS.
Submitted by Wholesalers in
the Texas City.
Movement Has Been Given Name
OF alias Maneuyers.

ment of troops completed and the
scene of activity shifted from Wash
ington to the field the headquarters
of the army today is awaiting the ar
mands at their objective points.
Major General William H Carter,
commander of the division which is
concentrating at San Antonio is eX-
pected to arrive at the Texas post to-
morrow. Reports to the war depart
ment indicate that by that time near
ly all of the troops which will form the
division will have reported.
OF the posts from which the SOL
diers are being drawn to make up the
division the Wyoming forts are the
farthest removed from the places of
rendezvous. 1t is thought the troops
from those forts will reach San An
tonic by Sunday and certainly not later
than Monday Major General Leonard
Wood, it was announced today, proba-
bly, will go to the border in April.
The purpose of his trip will be to in
spect the camp and commands along
the frontier.
The navy is carrying out it's part of
the operations just as If the sudden
and extensive preparations of war YES
sells for active duty was part OF eV-
cry day life. Three ships of the Fifth
division of the Atlantic fleet are now
en- route to Guantanamo, Cuba. The
armored cruiser Washington, the re-
naming unit of the division which is
undergoing repairs at the Portsmouth,
N. H, navy yard, will be ready for duty
on March Is when she will be sent to
join her division. The admissions in
administration circles that the mill
tary activity is inspired by conditions
in Mexico were read with deep interest,"
today by officers of the army and
navy, a majority of whom had accept
ed the earlier explanation that the OPP
erations were merely technical eAer-
cises and drills in the art of warfare
called 'sAlias Maneuvers.''
San Antonio, March 1O.-Not know
tration of troops down here they call
it "alias maneuverS.'' In the next "
hours rs troop trains are scheduled to
arrive here. The first on the ground
was Colonel John T. Van Orsdale at
( the head of the Seventeenth infantry.
The regiment arrived at midnight,
travelling in two sections
The soldiers owing to the lateness
of the hour spent the night in the
cars. The regiment has 33 officers and
| 672 enlisted men, two medical officers
and fifteen men of the medical corps.
/ Local wholesalers today submitted
bids for furnishing provisions for the
division The bids are 200 sub
sistance articles, delivery of which is
demanded for March Is.
Among the specifications is one for
a carload of fresh meat every day
Sugar to the extent of 10000 pounds
|
! 5000 pounds; matches, 432, 900 boxes;
beans. $4,000 tins; tomatoes. 10000
tins: coffee. 10000 pounds; salt,
| $4,000 pounds; sweet corn, 10000 tins,
and other articles in proportion.
Diaz at His Desk.
| New York, March 10.-W. B. Joyce,
| president of the National Surety COM
pany, said here this morning after
! calling on Mr.. Limantour, the Mexican
minister of finance:
''I am convinced that the health of
President Diaz is satisfactory. I am
| General Diaz is at his desk day and
night. Moreover, I believe that the
| Mexican administration Is fully able
| to cope with the insurrection."
The National Surety company bonds
most of the postmasters. paymasters,
| internal revenue clerks and other
| Mexican employees who handle gov
| ernment funds.
Still Fighting.
Ell Paso, March 10.-News reached
here this morning of a fight at the
! San Augustine ranch in Mexico, di-
rectIy opposite Fabens and twenty
| eight miles east of Ell Paso, between a
| band of sixty-eight insurrectos and
| 135 federals under Lieutenant Colonel
Pueblita sent out from Juarez yester-
day. Twenty of the insurrectos came
across the river and were captured
and disarmed by Captain Lindsey, U.
/ >. A. Ihey were drHeu Win MduSer
rifles.
Three horses and a quantity of am
munition were captured. The insur-
rectos' officers quit their men early in
the fight. About half of the party
were Americans.
The insurrectos were part of the
! band that has been concentrating
around Juarez with view to assault
! in the town, it is said.
Iimantour Is Pleased.
New York. March 1O-Jose Liman-
tour, the Mexican minister of finance
and right hand man to President Diaz,
grows daily more gratifed as the in
tent of the administration in dispatch
ing 10000 troops to the Mexican from
1.-The ideas regarding this matter
which President Taft is reported to
have expressed yesterday while en-
! route to the south will have a further
reassuring effect. 1 consider it quite
untrue, as reported, that representa-
tions have been made by responsible
persons to President Taft or to other
high officials in Washington of a gen
eral uprising in Mexico in the near fu-
ture or that President Diaz's health is
precarious.
.'The latest authoritative news from
Mexico shows Improvement in the
general situation and that Diaz is at
tending to his duties as usual. I re-
gret exceedingly that much has
been said in the newspapers regard
ing the possibility of intervention in
Mexico by the United States govern
ment can not conceive of a situa-
tion in my country which would war
rant such action
my government will protect not
only the interests of its own people
but those of foreigners as well.
Although there have been disturb