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Newspaper
El Paso Daily Herald
Location
El Paso, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1898
Page
1
Dispatches from Washington report growing tension between Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of War Hon. R. A. Alger over leaks about Shafter’s Santiago campaign. A court martial is feared as officials outline troop movements to Montauk and a mass redeployment north before month’s end.
A Santiago conference on Shafter orders moves the army toward San Luis for health reasons. Col Roosevelt’s letter to Shafter warns that remaining would cause massive deaths from malaria and yellow fever, urging withdrawal to avoid catastrophe. American generals unite behind Roosevelt’s stance.
Chairman Hull of the House Military Affairs Committee says a standing army of 150000 will be needed after the war. The next congress session will decide regular army status, with Hull drafting a measure during recess for early action. He previously favored 50000 but says conditions in Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines demand more. It is likely 100000 regulars will be needed for some time.
A Ponce dispatch reports Gen Miles forbids communication with Spanish town officials while peace talks continue. The advance to San Juan waits for wagons as Krag rifles replace springfields for volunteers. A transport carrying Krag rifles sunk in harbor. the Massachusetts troopship floated off the reef at noon.
Sickness at Fernandina camp swells with sixty typhoid, ninety malarial fever, and fifty measles in second and third division hospitals. Only 24 of 103 in one company answered roll call as doctors fear regional Florida regiments show higher malaria and typhoid. Hospitals overflow, medicines scarce, patients on bare ground.
An official gazette reports Russia negotiating with Abyssinia for a Red Sea concession. Russia is said to want Kaheita near Perim as a strategic key to the Red Sea. Rome notes Tribuna denying any Italian relinquishment of Rahelta.
San Francisco reports that the units ordered for garrison duty in Hawaii sailed today, marking the deployment as completed.
Washington reports suggest a special senate session may not be needed to ratify a peace treaty as Spain evacuates the West Indies in three to four months. Madrid approved U S conditions and a French legation undersecretary hinted that Spain’s reply to McKinley’s terms may be accepted.
In New York on August 6 reports say independent refineries led by Arbuckle and Doscher are near forming a strong combination to oppose the sugar trust. The anticipated clash between Arbuckles and the trust is expected to grow sharp and protracted.
The Wanderer will depart Tampa on Monday carrying the final government relief mission to Gomez. Lt. George R. Apcarn commands the order, with Gen. Nunez and Cuban Vice President Capote accompanying. No arms or ammunition aboard. Twenty five regulars travel on the vessel, convoyed by a warship.
A Santiago dispatch says Spanish soldiers in a camp are sick and wounded and allegedly treated inhumanly by American officers who deny food and medicine and force them to sleep on straw.
The navy department orders immediate establishment of a smokeless powder factory at the naval proving ground in Indian Head Maryland, located 40 miles below Washington on the Potomac River.
A Gibraltar dispatch reports Carlist agents active in London. Representatives of an English firm have booked 120000 rifles and 2000000 cartridges to be delivered in Switzerland, marking a sizable arms procurement.
The schooner Florence arrived at Canso Nova Scotia with a floating body found by the crew. Papers on the corpse include passports and a draft for 215000 francs, identifying the deceased as Dr. Candido Diaz of Mexico City, 38, who drowned in the La Bourgogne disaster.
Jacksonville dispatch reports First Sergeant Kellar of Company I and Private Garrett of the Second Alabama regiment argued over tent locations. Kellar stabbed Garrett in the side below the heart, and Garrett is expected to die.
Denver on August 6 Judge Hallett ordered the South Park railroad sold within ten days to satisfy a mortgage.
Army officials say Montauk Point camp will be ready for troops by the middle of next week. Preparations are under way for an army of 18000 men, though the order calls for a hospital only for five hundred men.
New York reports the Texas will stay in dry dock at the navy yard until a damaged port bow plate is removed and replaced after a shell passed through it that killed Blakely, the apprentice.
Two sailors on the Baltimore describe the Manila Bay engagement under Admiral Montijo. They recount daybreak gunfire, the McCullough, damage from the Reina Christina, and the crew’s hot conditions. They mention relics kept in hammocks and plan eventual leave before reenlistment.
In a July correspondence from Santiago, Theodore Roosevelt asks Secretary to deploy most regular troops, at least a cavalry division including the Rough Riders, totaling about 1,800 to 4,000 men, to Porto Rico, arguing they would outperform state troops armed with outdated muskets. General Wheeler’s knowledge and approval are noted.
Secretary of War Alger replies that the regular army volunteers and Rough Riders performed well but warns against inflaming victory with comparisons. He notes the Rough Riders had arms advantage and should be grateful. Engineer Hadlock reports general rain east of here and happy farmers.
Nat K Lytle of Company D 18th Infantry has returned home from San Francisco after receiving his discharge due to expiration of his term of enlistment.
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