Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-23
ARMY NOTES

Private sadyiees. received here by
medical corps officers from Vera Cruz
are to the effect that Major Theodore
{. Lyster, head of the Vera Cruz med
ical department by order OF General
Funston, Is doing tine work in the way
of lettering health conditions in the
Mexican city, and that the place al
ready is far more sanitary than it
ever was before.
Conditions In Vera Cruz were found
TO be most depiorabIe, and in order to
effect thorough cleanup of the. city,
all the native physicians were pressed
into, service, under the pay of the
United States, to enforce sanitary reg
ulations as laid down by the American
army doctors.
Major Lyster has organized train
ing school for Mexican women nurses
to care for the sick and wounded
among their own people. Every house
in the place is undergoing rigid in
spection, the city being divided into
districts and medical corps officer
being assigned to each district
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The Both Infantry when relieved in
Alaska, win come to the Presidio O.:
San Francisco. at least temporarily.
Orders to that. effect we're recently
issued by Major7general Arthur Muir
ray, thus settling the disputed ques-
ton as to the station of the command.
That the Preside will be but the
temporary station of the regiment,
however, is shown by the wording of
the order, which says: And on arri-
val will be placed in camp and can
Torment pending determination OF fu-
ture station" - "a. VI.
This. would seem to signify, that the
Preside is to, be. kept, vacant for the
Eighth, Brigade as long as possible, In
order. that the brigade can return to
San Francisco intact. During the alb
sence of the Twentieth Infantry on
border patrol work the Thirtieth prob
ably will be, attached 10 the Seventh
Brigade. - q
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William w Grayson. the man who
fired the first shot that started, the
Filipino insurreetion in: February,
1899. while private in Kansas reg
iment, was admitted to the, Letterman
General Hospital at San Francisco re-
Gently to undergo an operation. His
home is in Portola, Cal, and the story
of how he precipitated revolution is
an interesting one. ....t
!, Grayson was on guard near block
house No, II. at Marliqina, Luzon,
when he spotted a Filipino creeping,
toward him through the long grass.
His commands to- the native to halt
brought no response. so he shot and
killed the Filipino In revenge for the
death of the man, the natives attacked
the Americans next day, and the war
was on.
Colonel Stotsenberg questioned
Grayson as to why he fired, and upon
receiving his explanation exonerated
him from blame. simply remarking
that his one shot put, $4,000, men in
the field. and entirely changed Ameri-
can history in the Philippines. z,.--:
s.zsst -. ~. ...s..ss s.. e--.2a-,
j, Captain Joseph H. Griffiths, who is
before a court-martial at, the Presidio
on q charge. of embezzling Government
funds in Seattle took the stand in his
own defense yesterday, and =, beforei
Captain Dennis P. Quinlan, Judge advo-
cate of the, court. had cross,examined
him, very long he acknowledged that
he had taken government money. He
howe that he had. no in
tention Of keeping the money any
length OF time and that he, regarded 1t
merely. as a temporary obligation"
This acknowledgment was made af-
ter sGriffiths had made answers to-
questions by Quinlan.' which the pro-
secution construed as virtual sur,
render of his defense that he was un-
der great mental strain at the time of
the alleged defalcation. and so was
not responsible for his actions; and
also surrender of his defense that
his first confession in Seattle was not
that it was made principal
y through ignorance and because het
did not have the advice of an attorney. !
Griffiths did not mention the amount |
Of money he admitted he had misused, !
but this was brought out in a letter (
written by the accused to Mrs. Vir';
sinia Bramhall of Portland, Or. which |
vas introduced as evidence.
Mrs Bramhall was financial back.
n of Griffiths in his timber scheme
md the person to whom he surrender
ID all his rights and titles in the deal
when the crash came. In this letter
o Mrs. Bramhall -Griffiths asked the
woman to surrender, $500 TO the COY.
,rnnent should she recover that
over and above her own loss.
IS, thus forming what is believed to be
splendid case for. the government,