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Show I WHAT THE COMMISSION FOUND. .Many Offenses, Hut no Offender Except Miles and III Surgeon. Washington, Feb. It Following ij a synoysis of the report of the war investigation in-vestigation commission, which has been made public: There was lacking in the general administration ad-ministration of the war department during the continuance of the war with Spain, that complete grasp of the situation which vv;is essential to the highest elliciency and discipline of the army. The commission finds that the inspector in-spector general's department was not as etlieieot as it ought to have been. The condition of the railroad congestion conges-tion during the early portion of the time Tampa was occupied by troops seemed unparalleled, showing almost inexcusable lack of executive ability on the part of those charged with the loading, unloading and handling of trains. The transportation provided for the Shafter expedition was iusutlicient, the vessels were overcrowded, poorly equipped equip-ped and not loaded systematically. The army was painfully deficient in land transportation. General Miles was guilty of dereliction derelic-tion of duty in failing to report to the war department his belief that the refrigerated re-frigerated beef had been chemically treated. The commission is of the opinion that no refrigerated beef furnished by contractors was subjected or treated with chemicals by the contractors or those in their employ. The nursing force during the months of May, June and July was neither ample or efficient, for which congress was responsible. At Camp Wikoff there was some lack of proper attention to matters of sanitation, and to the sick, and without with-out doubt cases of distress, it may be neglected, but there was much exaggeration exagger-ation in what was written and said about Camp Wikoff. QUIET SUNDAY IN MANILA. Contrary to Expectations no Fighting Occurred Oc-curred ou the Sabbath. Manila, Feb. 14. Contrary to general gener-al expectations, all was quiet along the line Sunday, nothing having happened hap-pened to disturb the peace of the Sabbath Sab-bath in Manila. The inhabitants have generally recovered from the. alarm occasioned by the fear of a native uprising up-rising and are resuming their ordinary business. The shipping interests are naturally suffering, since there have been no clearances for Philippine ports for a week, but on the other hand foreign for-eign shipping has increased, especially for Hongkong, every steamer bound thither being crowded with timid refugees. Last week there was not a single day without fighting, but the Americans Ameri-cans steadily advanced, carrying everything every-thing before them. It is now known that the Filipino loss is fully 2,500 killed, with wounded vastly in access of that number, and thousands are held prisoners. All this has been achieved at the cost of 65 Americans killed and 276 wounded. There were twenty-five Americans unaccounted un-accounted for. UTAH NEWS. Provo hail fifteen inches of snow th latter part of the week. The seminary school at Huntington is still running at full blast, with an attendance of about sixty-five. Local sportsmen of Spring City, one day last, week, killed and captured 300 rabbits and twenty-five wolves. From present indications tho Great Salt lake will be higher tho coming summer than it bus been for a decade past. Some of the farmers of (Iruntsvillo commenced sowing grain lust week, but suddenly stopped after six inches of snow had fal len. Tho Hrook.s Locomotive works is to build tho ten engines for the Denver Rio Grande, anil the fifty-two engines for the Union Pacific Tho Coolio Locomotive &. Maehino Works has secured the contract to build twenty of the engines for tho Oregon Short Line referred to last week. The city council of Provo has defeated defeat-ed the anti-prize fight ordinance by a vote of six to three. Look out for some lively bouts in the near future. Considerable anxiety is evinced by llishop Preston for tho safety of stock belonging to the church, which is being be-ing wintered in various parts of the Htate. Several more valuable dogs have met deatli by poison in Salt Lake City. The fellow who has been doing the work is as yet unknown, but one man Is suspected. An icicle eight foot long, six inches in oircuinference at the top, tapering to the size of a lead pencil at the end, was a curiosity seen on the eaves of a Salt Lake building last week. The house has taken favorable consideration con-sideration of tho bill for a public building at Salt Lake City. The limit of the cost will be fixed at 8300,000, and it is thought tho bill will be passed in tho near future. Tho entire Sanpete county claim for bounties paid for the past six months, one-half of which is paid by the state, is 8281.05. The items include bounties ou seven bears, two mountain lions, 1.18 coyotes, 38 wildcats, 7 lynxes, 30 foxes, 52 muskrats, 11 minks and 3,078 gophers. Frank MeBride, formerly assistant postmaster of Salt Lake, who was convicted con-victed of ember zling postollice funds, and is now serving a term in the penitentiary, peni-tentiary, has executed a bond of S6000, on an application for bail until the determination de-termination of the appeal now pending before the United States circuit court. An extensive deposit of sulphate of magnesia, familiarly known as epsom salt, has just been discovered at the mouth of Manti canyon. The finder says he has known of the existence of the deposit since he was a boy of 14 but had been under the impression that it was saltpetre until recent tests were applied. Two young men of Provo were held up one day last week. One of them made a break for liberty and escaped, but the other one was less fortunate and lost one dollar aud a new necktie, lie didn't care for the dollar, but the loss of the necktie, a present from his sweetheart, caused the young man to put forth every effort to capture the highway men. During the past week the Oregon Short Line placed an order with the Pullman car works for forty-four pas-seuger pas-seuger cars, and another order was placed with the Harney & Smith company com-pany for five more passenger cars. These, with 30J steel ears, recently ordered, make a total of 340 so far arranged ar-ranged for of the large number for which the company has been figuring for so long. A meteor is believed to have passed over the city of Manti ou the Sth inst. At about 9:20 p. m., there appeared in the heaveus a light similar to that of a strong arc light, which lasted for about one minute. It lighted the streets of the city as the noonday sun and made the surrounding mountains visible. Then darkness came, and in three or four minutes a loud report was heard, accompanied by a rumbling sound. Many of the citizens heard the report and witnessed their homes tremble and the wiudows shake The Manila correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle, in his report of the battle at Mauila, says: "The Utah batterymen were seasoned by their experience at Malate, late in August, and couducted themselves like veterans." D. I. Allison of Moab has been arrested on a charge of passing counterfeit money. The southern part of the state has been flooded with counterfeit money of late, and the charge is made that Allison is the guilty party. Traveling through Trovo canyon is daagerous and almost impossible. Three men from Provo were caught between two snowslides, Thursday, and succeeded, with much difficulty, in getting out with their horses, leaving leav-ing their wagons. |
