The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 6, 1898, Page 2

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6 1898 FLT IS BLAMED Is ROOSEN His Inconsistency Shown. INDIGNANT AT THE PROTEST | CABLE MESSAGE OF CENSURE SENT TO SHAFTER. But the Captor of Santiago Shows That He Did Not Authorize the Publication of the Fever Statement. ispatch to The Call the -Herald tele- d indignation nst further the { reliably f censire was sent to General S was did not authorize ement. iment of the ad- ably e part of the | publication is | such pub- | but harm | which is | s as being | feel, hav tion should that d the otk that th MANZANILLO READY TO HOIST THE.WHITE FLAG | Believed the Appearance of a T‘uuu-i sand Amer s Would Re- sult in.Capitulation. SANTTAGO DE CUBA, 4 4 (de- ved in nsmission) he warships | and Dixle arrived at| vy last night and imme- | aling. | 0dd of the Wilmin at Man eral Rios, are 2000 regulars, 100 bombarde: or ear to be well ns, but unition. e dis- ed that ican force, d result in even if only 1000 mer the capitulation of the ion has been cbtained of the the Flo \ for @ be Gomez of Gen On Jul Trinidad morali: port of Pue serte . the Province the There. hipping there. SAMPSON. TO COMMAND THE EASTERN SQUADRON Commodore Watson to Be Second in | Command and Schley to Re- main at Home. NEW YORK The Washing- ton -corresy Herald tele- graphs: Rear Sampson will | Admiral command the eastern squadron if it be | sent abroad by the President. I learned to. -day on high authority that he has | rders to take command .of | and Commodore Watson | gnated as second in com- | transfer Commodore “ to the Newark m ! at_home. - miral Sampson upon the de: Seeretary Lo officer of tri i While ection of Rear Ad- based, i and dj nfide’ deemed cond in com- ent proy mand. SECRETARY LONG NOT TAKING ANY CHANCES Every Available Vessel in the Navy Being Made Ready for Service. NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—A Washing- ton speeial to the Herald says: That. every available vessel of the navy may be Tready . for offensive and defensive serviée in c: of necessity Secretary Long has ordered the re-armament of the 'Essex, Ranger, Adams and Alert, and Captain Charles O'Néil, chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, is now ship- ping guns fo the navy-yards, where they.will be installed on board the ships named.. Each of these vesseis will recelve g battery of six four-inch rapid fire guhs, four six-pounders, two one-pounders, one .machine- gun and one field gun. The Essex is now the training ship-on duty on this coast and the Ranger, Adams and Alert are on duty on the Pacific Slope. —— Spanish Gunners at Target Practice. CARTAGENA, Aug. §—The forts are praoticmg. at floatns targets, making fair pragctice. —_—————— &tmr. Grace Dollar will sail for St. Michael. Guaranteed connections Yukon River poin! low rates, Particulars 46 Mkt or 632 Mkt., r. ~The Washing- | informed, a | > for the | | | | " BRIGADIER GENERAL GEORGE A. GARRETSON, U. S. V., Who Is Taking an Active Part in the Invasion of Porto Rico. TIME, LIVES AND LABOR LOST WHILE GOING TO DAWSON and Disasters to Those Who Left on Hurried Expeditions. BY SAM W.WALL. WSON CITY, July 10 (via Seattle 2.—Almost a year from the da; DA arted for this place from Seattle A some fifty people arrived here June 30 on the steamer W. K. Merwin. They nd wintered at M ek Creek, nes the mouth of the Yukon, wh Alaska Commercial Compan er ice and the Columbia 2 Company’s boat Dwu were also held in the The Merwin left Seattle on the 10th of August last, and was ice- bound November 18. § was released and started up the river June 8. Her passengers had a hard experi- ence. Three of them died. On Febru- ary 24 W. B. Robertson of San F cisco, 60 years of age, died of ex and dy tery On March 28 V. Nordhoff perished while attempting to cross the por to Nulate. and his partner Morgan was badly frozen. April 14 George Derwin of Massachu- setts died of dysentery, some say for lack of proper nourichment—in other starvation. The entire party d to the plainest living, hav- ing exhausted such luxuries milk, butter and sugar long since. Many of the passengers went ashore and built cabins, while others stayed aboard the boat the entire winter. With the spring flood those on shore were compelled to camp on the tops of their houses for several d and many lost all they had. On June 7, from a man in a small boat that had come down from Dawson behind the river ice, they received the first news from the outside world since they left Puget Sound in August, learning that the United States was at war. Following is the brief history of the passengers who shipped on the Merwin last August, as learned from old Hiram Robbins of Little Rock, au- thor of the “Arkansas Traveler,” who is one of them: The following arrived in Dawscn: Mrs. Bertha Turner and Elizabeth Carr, wife of Jack Carr; Hi- ram Robbins, Dr. H. C. Bowers, C. B. Knapp and J. L. George of Louisville, words, was reduc | William Moody, Evansville, Ind.; Oliver | Quigley, Joseph Baker, Fred Oberg, Grant Trellinger, Martin Pedterson, Peter Peterson, all of Astoria; J. W. Story, Marysville; J. BE. Service, Leb- anon, Ind.; J. A. Dwyer, San Francis- co; Charles F. Snider. Salina, Ohio; Patrick Carns, Harry Lewis and Christ Kennon of Butte, Mont.; James Bu- chanan and E. H. Hunt, Asheville, N. C.; J. S. Partee, St. Joseph, Mo.; L. Benneman, Thomas Severan, Los An- geles; Willlam Bartells and L. Hasgin, New York; M. Kappeld, Sioux City; W. B. Willlams, Renton, Wash.; Henry Schumbart, T. H. Simmons, Thomas Malarky, Washington; Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kirk, Charles Slaughter, Jack Lawrence, Willlam Boyden, W. Mec- Gilvery, Paul Stein, L. Carson, John Stewart, Alf Rowell, Rudolph Hanso: and Captain Nugent. / The following stopped at Circle City: Allan Tucker, Archie Heath, W. BEs- worthy, W. H. Weldon and C. W. Mc- Murrin. The following stopped at Eagle City: John Howe, George Milfs of Tacoma, F. P. Haverner, Boston; Thomas Ed- | wards, Shamokin, Pa.: Robert O'Shea, New York; W. S. Phillips and Willlam Shebert of Buffalo; Thomas J. Breis- man, New York; Willlam Francis and Captain Bob Thomas of Colorado; Wil- liam Clifton. The following got off at Minook: H. B. Porter and three brothers, Scott Hartman, C. Seaman and John Barnum of Idaho; J. W. Snider of Tacoma. . The following went back to St Michael: J. A. Vail of Cripple Creek; Thomas Clark and son, Seattle; J. C. Garvey and brother of Chicago; C. A. ‘Whiteneck, Christ Ceaser, J. A. Nep- | | ferman of Professor Paul Kuf- John Cummons, part, of Brookly Chics Newberg, N. Y.; David L. Le Blank, New York. The Alic : evek Cree arrived on the ev | the 4th,. bringing a, number of passen gers picked up on the riv She he no through pas that is directly from the outside, ve two—Mrs. Cathie and daughter—who came over from St. Michael by dog team just before the eamer sailed. The Alice suffered somewhat from the crush of ice at the breaking up of the er, and her barge ¥ submerg- ed nk and a quantity of the c She came up the river with heavy load that she was twice led to stop and cache, part of it zet through the flats. Even andbars nine da: rived. in good order, notwithstanding, and brought up a big cargo. brought up the following named ngers: Mrs. Cathie and daughter, Harrington, three Sisters ‘of H. Raymond, Dr. L¢ Claire, W. R. Wheaton, Stanley Fay, F. R. Bates Tom D. Drew, R. S. Heap, G. P. Mc- Gowan, J. H. Bender, J. Bonnehan, H. D. Moore, W. K. Stevenson, J. Ford, H. Crane, - . Moore, M Right Rev. hop Bompa rner, J. B. Doane, R. N. g V. Spencer, G. Myer, Sergeant Major Davis, Miss K. ngton, J. McDonald, Corporal W. H. Conway, A. J. Beecher and wife, A. R. Gardner, Constable C. Reed, Ber- nard Burgh, J.-F. Howell, C. Hender- son, Mrs. Pickett, R. J. Preston, Mrs. Medlok, T. J. Smith, George W. Ross, James Watson, Mrs. Thomas Barker, J. H. Watson, son and daughter, C. C. Chittick, John Charles, D. H. Borcher, Mr. and Mrs. Casper Ellinger and James Mabee. Stanley Fay and Mr. and Mrs. Beecher were among the passengers:of the Excelsior who sailed from San Francisco last July, bound for this place. They wintered at Minook. If they had been delayed twenty-two days longer they would have been just one year on the way. Gabriel Cohn, an- other of the Excelsior's passengers, ar- rived on the Hamilton, having re- mained all winter with her. He also remained with her on her return trip down the river. The Alicé’s passengers who were there during the winter all speak well of the Minook diggings, and say that Rampart Clty is certain to be a prosperous camp. Those who spent the winter with the boat at Minook de- clare that the-little steamer Thomas Dwyer, that wintered at the same place, will not be able to get up the river, as she lacks power to buck the current. When the Alice passed her she was making a struggle that ap- peared to all of them to be futile. Her passengers, if they get here at all, must come by some other boat. The Governor, Stoneman, tugboat, that left San Francisco on August 9 last with a party of sixty-five, which it was to bring up the Yukon on barges, arrived here yesterday with no barges and just nine of that party. They are: Dr. C. J. McGovern, George Morris, George Rosella, A. K. Varney, H. Richrath, Ed Shasei P. Sullivan, M. H. Davis, D. La Montagne. Most of the party went back from St. Mi- chael or Dutch Harbor. Of those who attéempted the river the following is the history: Remained at Novekakat, where the steamer wintered—John Alexander and John Bleidon; started for the Koyukuk—O. Wiseman and James Hastings; went to Minook by dog team during the winter—John Mayne, J. M. Mehan, J. L. Schofield, Dan_ Holden, W. McKee, A. Johnson, M. N. Kimball, R. L. Quisberry and J. P. Carson; stopped at Fort Yukon to go prospecting from that point— Thomas McCabe, B4 Mills, ‘M. Blan- chard; stopped at Circle City—J. Crow- ley and Frank Joaquin. F. H. Sterenson went back from Nulato, having wounded his foot so as to disable him. Mat Braumagan left the Governor Stoneman at Fort Yukon and came up on the Beila.. R. C. Nich- ols and Fred Hayworth, tired of wait- ing for the Stoneman to get off a bar, left her in the flats and floated in a small boat back to Novekakat to take seme other boat. B. F. Thomas went to Circle City during the winter with a dog team. A. Barnaberg left the Stoneman at Fort Yukon and came up on the Alice. Joseph Steel, a man of about 50 years of age, died from ex- haustion and exposure at Novekakat, | The little tug Hettie B, another of the fleet of ill-advised ventures of last summer starting from San Francisco, arrived about the same time as the Governor Stoneman. Of sixty-four people with whom she started only seven arrived. They were: Captain Corning, Robert Bain, J. C. Murray, M. O'Leary, J. A. Walsh, M. A. Nich- ols, F. BE. Bowers. A number of others of the party came up on-the Seattle No. 1, and their arrival has been noted in previous dispatches, Many went back and a few are scattered along the river, but the officers of the boat kept no record of them. Both the Hettie B and the Governor Stoneham hzad to abandon their barges, as they were un- equal to the task of bringing themn up. The Hettie B, in fact, found great dif- ficulty in getting up herself, as she araws four feet of water. The pas- sengers and crew of the Stoneman were employed most of the winter in fitting the craft to carry thelr thirty tons of stuff up the river without the barge. To do this they took the boat out of the water, cut her in two and | put twenty feet to her length with | lamber whipsawed out of the forest. They made a good job of it, under the circumstances. Oakum and nails were secured by dog team from Minook, eighty miles away. The history of every one of those hur- ried expeditions of last summer and fall is a recital of disaster, loss, dis- appointment, a year of wasted time, much suffering and death. This is the story of those who crowded the decks of the Excelsior at San Francisco in July and of the Humboldt at Seattle, | the Eliza Anderson, the May West and the barges of the Thomas Dwyer, the Governor Stoneman and the Hettie B. and the St. Mich Hail storms, accompanied by heavy thunder and lightning, have been fre- quent during the past ten days. The river has risen considerably, relieving anxiety about the expected boats from down the river and the forest fires that threatered to destroy the timber along the whole upper river have been quenched. The forest fires have grown from camp fires of the careless crowd on their way in here. eve I have hitherto neglected to n the mosquito, about which so much has been said. It was a grave jght. The mosquito is very num- and a great nuisance in the But the fact is he is scarcely in evidence within the limits of Dawson. | Just why I cannot explain. Dawson is | on & swamp that would naturally be expected to produce mosquitos without | 1fmit, but it does not. Perhaps the peo- ple of the city are not good for mos- quitos. The mosquito of the brush— up the creeks and elsewhere—is just now being supplemented by the little black gnat, to the greater torment of the miner and all who go among them, he drow n -hirty Mile River of Kenneth Stewart of Inverness, Scot- and, is reportel here, also of Rev. Mr. Lyon of London and a companion Lake Le Barge. Kenneth Stewart was : ® me of a party of five from the place by Rev. Dr. MacDonald. wrecked and all their goods lost. Dr. MacDonald climbed on rock in the middle of the river and re- ned there for over two hours until r boat came and s0 nearly struck | the rock that he was able to catch hold of it and go through to a landing. Dr. MacDonald has arrived here with | the three companions who were saved. Rev. Mr. Lyon and his companion were | trying to cross Le Barge in canoes. That of Mr. Lyon capsized and he was taken up by the other boat. In trying to recoyjyer some of their goods this | canoe diso capsized and both were | drowned. Rev. Mr. Lyon was a Church | of England missionary, bound for this city. named, led Their boat w 205 8 PASSENGERS AND GOLD ! FROM DAWSON CITY Returning Klondikers Tell of Hard | Times Ahead for Tenderfeet in Alaska. SEATTLE, Ays. 5.—The steam schooner Dirigo arrived from St. Michael, Alaska, this morning with ninety-seven passen- gers and a small amount of gold dust. Twenty-seven of the passengers were ym Dawson. The most of them went in overland this spring. They never stopped at Dawson but left right down on the river to St. Michael, where they took pas- s the Dirigo. The remaining p re laboring men from Unalaska fichael. Of the Klondikers those old dust were Charles Moore and oy | | | | J. H. rown of Midland, Ontario, Canada, | who_had about $70,000 between them, and | H. Miller with about the same amount. | F. W. Spencer of Portland, Or., had about $40,000, made in steamboating on the Up- per Yukon. It is estimated that the total am gold on the Dirigo was $200, Brown sald people are flocking out of Dawson as fast as they know how. A big | erowd f{s ing down the river in skiffs and on ts. There will be much suffer- Michael unless the Government «f to the crowd drifting there, and hungry. Alaska is a good count and there is lots of gold there, but a majority of the tenderfeet who rushed in do not know how to handle it properly. The Dirigo left St. Michael July 23. There was but little change in conditions at St. Michael. All the stranded steamers except the National City and Progreso are gradually working out of their troubles and hope to get away soon. It was expected that the National Cuf- would soon return to San Francisco with her passengers. The army officlals are al- lowing pasengers from the steamers who have no river connections to land if they have 1000 pounds of provisions and are willing to take chances on getting up the river. Under this ruling the Progreso has landed about seventy-five passengers out of her 300. The Tillamook had salled for San Francisco before the Dirigo left. TEXAS FEVER RAVAGING FRESNO COUNTY STOCK Many Horses and Cattle Dying in the Pastures of Kings River Bottoms. FRESNO, Aug. 5.—A large number of horses and cattle in the pastures of Kings River bottoms, this county, have died of the Texas fever, and by order of Veteri- nary Inspector Graham thelr carcasses were burned. The fever is sald to have been introduced by a lot of cattle that Crate Hayes brought from Texas some vears ago. Hayes' cattle were pastured on bottom lands, and they communicated the disease to other stock. Many o# the cattle in the herd of 1500 which was brought to this county died. . James Graham, the veterinary surgeon, visited the infected herds this week, and says there i{s no doubt as to the digease being Texas fever. The fever, according to his investigations, Is not a new thing in Fresno Connt& He says that for years gtock on Kings River bottom lands, Mus- sel Slough and on Grant have been af- fected with splenic fever during the sum- mer months. ———— SUPPOSED TO BE LOST. Dispatch-Boat Plying Between Hong- kong and Manila Missing. Special cable to The Call and the New York wHemld. Copyrighted, 1868, by James Gor- don Bennett. v ount of J. H. BRIGADIER GENERAL OSWALD H. ERNST, U. S. V., One of the Most Active Brigade Leaders in the Porto Rican Campa ign. the allegation that the War Depart- | ment had bestirred itself to succor the unfortunate army in Santiago before the united protest was made the fol- lowing statement is given out by the Secretary of War regarding the ship- ment of troops north from Santiago: Until quite recently it was supposed that yellow fever was epidemlic in San- tiago, and it was not believed that would be safe to send shiploads north of men largely affected with yellow fever. death and burial of many at sea. On the 28th ultimo the Secretary of War tel- egraphed to General Shafter that as soon a5 ‘the fever subsided the men of his command will be moved north to a camp that had been selected for them at Mon- tauk Point. On the 30th of July General Sharter telegraphed: “Made known Sec- rel y of Wars telegram wou.d be moved north as soon as fever subsided, and it had a very good effect on the me: When, however, the true condition was made known an order was issued to Gen- eral Shafter to move his command north as rapidly as possible, and all ships in the quartermaster service, possible to get to Santiago, were sent there and the great liners St. Paul and St. Louis were also ordered there. All this was done before the communication signed by General Shafter and his generals ‘was re- celved, and before Colonel Roosevelt's letter 'was published. Over 150 surgeons are at Santiago, and 176 Immune nurses have been sent there, besides the usual hospital corps that always attend such an army. There have been less deaths in Santiago by vellow fever than by ty- hoid fever In any camp of the same size FL\ the United States. The War Department has ordered the regular fleet of transports at Ponce to proceed to Santiago to join .with the transports already there in bringing General Shafter’'s army back to this country. There are several J~fge trans- ports with the fleet at Ponce, some of them, like the Mobile, having a capa- city of 1000 men. In all, they have a capacity for 6540 men. This, with the ships already at Santiago, will give a carrying strength of over 12,000 men at a trip. Surgeon General Sternberg has in view several points for patients and convalescents. The actual hospital station will probably be located at Montauk Point, where a field hospital for 5000 patlents is being prepared, in addition to the hospital equipment which General Shafter's forces will bring along with them. But, besides this, General Sternberg has ingview two fine locations, where thé bracing mountain and lake air will help conva- lescents to recovery. These points are Fort BEthan Allen, Vt., and the army post at Plattsburg, N. Y. The following report of the sanitary condition of ‘the American camp at Santiago was made public at the War Department this morning: The War Department to-night posted the following: SANTIAGO, Aug. b.—Sanitary report for August 4: Total sick, 3354; fever cases, 8; total new cases of fever, 502; total cases of fever returned to duty, 549. Deaths August 4—Joseph Hynes, Troop B, Ninth Cavalry, and David Mertener, Troop. E, Third Cavalry, cause not re- orted; Peter L. Vanderboen, Company , Thirty-fourth Michigan, malarial fe- ver; Pease, Company H, Eighth Infantry, malarial fever; Patrick Nealy, Company F, Thirty-fourth Michigan, Kel- low fever; L.: Pagner, Company G, Thir- teenth Infantry, yellow fever; Fred Ro- ADVERTISEMENTS. When Hot Don’t sweat and fret, but keep cool and take Hood's Sarsaparilla. This is good advice, as you will find if you HONGKONG, Aug. 5.—The small steam- er Wingfoo, belonging to the American firm of Jackson & Evans of Cavite, left Hongkong on July 2 for Manila, and it s now supposed that she is lost. Bhe was last heard of at Holsow, where she was driven by stress of weather. This steam- er was chartered first by Consul General Wildman to carry dispatches to Admiral Dewey. On June 27 she had returned to port and the dispatches were transferred _to another steamer, which arrived safely at Cavite. Captain Hermann was t] Chinese. only American aboard, the crew wg:lflood’s Pi"sfi“ harmoniousl; . follow it. Hood's Sarsaparilla is a first-class summer medicine, because it is so good for the stomach, so cool- ing to the blood, so heipful to the whole body. Make no mistake, but get only Sarsa= HOOd,s parilla America’s ‘Greatest Medicine, ‘with ood’s Sarsaparilla, 25c. it | The disease, it was believed, would spread | rapidly on shipboard, and result in the | that troops | SUCCOR FOR THE UNFORTUNATE ARMY NOW AT SANTIAGO Secretary Alger Had Taken Steps for Removal Before Shafter’s Demand Came. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—In proof of | per, Company H, Twenty-first Infantry, | Yellow fever; Altfed H. Taylor, Company i , Twenty-first Infantry, yellow fever; Owen Thornton, Company B, Thirty- fourth Michigan, yellow fever; Paul Zam- back, Company B, First Illinois, yellow fever; Charles Thoman, Company A, Eighth Ohio, malarial feyer; William Cornpin, Company G, Twenty-second I fantry, malarial fever; William Mur Company E, Eighth Infantry, thermlc fever, exhaustion; William Gibson, Com- pany_ G, Seventh Infantry, typhoid fe- ver; Nathan J. Abbott, Company B, Sev- enth Infantry, typhoid fever. SHAFTER, Major General Commanding. “.SANTIAGO. Aug. 4—Adjutant General, al ust 3: Total sick, 3778; total fever, 26%; new cases fever, 449; cases of fever returned to-day, 585. Deaths July 31—Private Conrad C. John- son, Company A, First Infantry, acute dy:enteryf Tk ugust 2—Private Henry Boostell, Com- pany A, Eighth Infantry, dysentery; Pri- vate H. Galbraith, Company G, Seventh ln:{nn(ry': elloév fever. ugus — Sergeant Christian Larsen Company F, Twelfth Infantry, typhold fever; Private Thomas J. Barrett, Com- pany E, Seventeenth Infantry, chronic dysentery; Private Henry Kaester, Com- any L. Thirty-fourth Michigan, malarial ever; Private Peter B. Baan, Company D, Thirty-fourth Michigan, malarial fever; Private Joseph Grenfer, Compan:; x Thirty-fourth Michigan, malarial fever: Private George Martin, Company L, Thir- ty-fourth Michigan, malarial fever. ooyl TRULY UNPRECEDENTED IN MILITARY ANNALS A movement, unprecedented in mili- tary annals, has just been Inaugurated at Santiago de Cuba. The whole of General Shafter's army, victorious over their Spanish foes but in greater dan- ger from Cuban fevers, has been or- ington — Sanitary Report for Aug- ! for a few regiments of * dered 'l’ilOl‘(h to a g their places are to Blled: Lo who volunteered- tc fu:f\l. d, Mith 1 lence that stalketh by noonday- as the Spanish bullet 4 These are the “immune” composed Wholly of men wh ready once been within (1 of death and for wh fever has.any dread, as they are more proof was Achilles from the enemies after his dip Styx. 3 The immune regiment American institution-an innovation in the art or all the thousands of make up the mighty hos there is not a single “immunes.” - The Czar have some for service in Sii he loses hundreds 6f his year from the dread” Sit England could use them wel where the jungle: fever ki Englishmen every year than f: hands of their enemies. Germany, too, could r ¢ e latitude ang ir African possessiong and save h’ii‘:é? hundrlds of their soldiers, wh fall vietims to the forest and swa fevers on the Dark Continent. Th nations, however, who make the prep: ration for war .a first object, cannot have these. death-proof - regim They have -not the material to recruit from: - nited States already has si he lu'll;' regiments with four more near filled up, and if the necessity ¢ could raise three: times as many I The idea of raising 5 of men for service in Cuba who wou be proof against its hiddén but great dangers originated with Colonel Du -can N. Hood, a son of the late Lieu- fenant General John B. Hood of Con- rate -faiie. tege“" leaving West Point some time in the.early 80's Lieutenant Hood wa assigned to duty. on-the ‘Gulf Coast of the Southern States and while there was taken with yellow fev at the time somewhat epidemie, - He had a severe case and a very narrow escape, having at.onée time.been laid out far burial by his attendants. He recovered, however, and when.the prospect of ser- vice in Cuba seemed -certain’he fully realized the advantage that “immunes,” men who, like. himself, -had had the fever and were proof against further danger from all its. Kin and kind, would have over men who had never. been ex- posed to it. e 3 i His idea soon took shape indefinite plans. He went to Washington and -Jaid them before Secretary Alger and the President, both of whom fully dp- proved of the idea and took immediate steps for carrying out his plans. A bill was introduced by the House Mili- tary Comniittee providing fof the. en- listment of a sufficient number of *“im= munes” to. form’ ten regiments of 1038 men each. Six of them were to be white and four colered. - Colonel Hood was appointed to the command of one of these regiments and at once returned to New Orleans and. began recruiting. He soon gathered . at.. Camp Caffery, near the:city and named after the Sen- ator from Louisiana,’ who was very ac- tive in support of the bill, enough men to form two regiments, lafer two more were filled up in New Orleans and with recruiting in other ‘Sauthern cities and towns the full. number author’zed by Congress has been mearly made up. There may be many other regiments remarkable for uniformity of size, color, nationality or whatever else, but these immune regiments the most unique military organizations in the world without question. No matter what other qualifications for enlistment the applicant- may .show he must have had a real genuine cage of yellow fever. Must have looked death full and square in the eye and touched his icy front. Immunes are pecuifar people other than the fearful experience they have undergone. Yellow fever works won- derful changes & man, both mental and physical. ary- material pol and evety other discase gerin seems be literally cooked out of the system by the high temperature and the pa- tient, if he recovers; begins life again with a new body as it were. The change in disposition is alike remarks- ble. Where before there was a ten- dency to anger, depression and discon- tent, there is patience and amiability, lightness and buoyancy- and content- ment with life, without the impairment of any of the better qualities of a man. CARLIST AGENTS ARE VERY ACTIVE An English Firm Books a Large Order for Arms and Ammu- nition.. cable to The Call and the New York Spectal Herald. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gor- don Bennett. = GIBRALTAR, Aug. 5—Whén the Brit- ish Mediierranean squadron rounded Eu- ropa Point the Spaniards were.encamped at Carnero. The troops turned out great- ly excited. The torpedo boats Halcon and Habana have left since for Vigo. Carlist agents are very active. A repre- sentative of an English firm tells me he has just _booked an order. for 20000 rifles and 2,000,000 cartridges, to bé delivered in Switzerland. —_————— Alice Rix Writes About the Princess Who Winted to ‘Be Queen o whole regiments i In Next Sunday’s Call. ADVERTISEMENTS. OPEN EARLY! We will have salesmen on hand at 7 a. m. to-day and every.day to serve early comers. Purchasers who call before 10 a. m. are sure to get prompt service and avoid the crowds who come later in the ‘day.. This will be a big day. before. all along the line. FLANNEL SHIRTS............2% There is not a better shirt worn than we sell to-day and Monday; finest tennis goods money will buy; only sold at this price to keep our sewing girls busy; limit 12 ehirts; you pay 75¢ to $125 at credit stores. UMBRELLAS—Large, Strong. . . .25 These are men's sizes for rain, which comes_early this year; worth b0c, TSc, at credit stores; limit 2; to-day and Monday. 100 DOZEN TOWELS. . .........5 Either Turkish, bath, huck or linen; not worth 50c, but worth 2 or 3 times price asked; limit 2 dozen; to-day and Monday. MEN’S SHOES—Extra.........85% have not so found shoes for §ic_they go quickly; and Monday only; 5 pair limit. MEAT CHOPPER ............5.00 This is the best make of chopper; this one is the No. 2 or §2 size; some get more; only a few to close at this price. Saturday l Several items called bargains will doubtless be out by rioon or ‘We must keep our force busy. for the few, but hard times for the multitude. See what we say in. figures. War times may mean good times ‘War prices are knocked out SCHOOL CRAYONS. ... ........Tc These are full boxés chalk crayons; b money Will buy; Himit.5 boes: to-dar and Monday. R § LADIES’ FINE HATS. ... .Ifc Everything in tfimmed and unt ; neretotore gc and mAnY RIghers aur s bargain counter at l0c for to-day aad Mon- day; no limit. FLOWER AND GARDEN SEEDS . .. | We. always clear out seeds in Au 3 these are be, 10c, 1fe n August; Sell those '1n_stre; 1000 pemers ey Cmk hundred. kinds. 3 SCHOOLHOUSE FLAGS. . . . .. . .§i.75 We have too many 10 foot buni = they are worth more than "3‘055{5 o we ask; linen bunting: perfect .in every ::', every school house skould have a LINOLEUM, sq. yard .3 ot this ‘price? et el B, Mnclepe lots of them,. that's all; @ all 2 Yards wide: 3 days caly. o Lol oS papers gnd one FUR SUITS FOR THE FAR NORTH FOR FAR LESS THAN COST, $12,50 UP. SPECIAL TO-DAY! Child's Gray_Cotton Hose, & Gold Pans, 75¢_kind, now Garden Hose, 50-foot ler Handled Axes; why pay ‘Washtubs, family use . 95-27 Market St., S. F. -