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Show COALVILLE TIMES. TJIEVJIE times riniwu-- ' UTAH. UTAH NEWS. The people of Thurbnr have recently put is system of waterworks. OTbtJHshWoo! Growers' some seyenty itroog, met In Sslt Ltkt City lset week. The Utah Mothers eonfreee held a two days' sraaioo la Halt Lake, Monday and Tuesday of this week. ewKX-istlpi- r' BnaiseM -- has bee ruahioglnthe ..State. laadoftk the pash. week., the daily receipts averaging over 1 1,000. Tbs Utah A Iaoifle is now within thirteen stiles of Stateline, and the road will be finished within the nest -- fortnight The Stout-.- ! ones shooting ease eame to an end Saturday, when thy jury returned a, verdict of not. gttiUy and .th defendant Jones wss released. At n public meeting held at Kephi it was decided that the town should soon - assistance the mistake would hare proved fatal. Tha central station of the Rocky Bell Telephone company at . Mountain Rpringwille has been discon tinned. Tha ettl&ne hire lodged TYigorons protest gainst this action. The twenty head of buffalo on An- teiope Island are fat and sleek this and the fourcalwes of last year spring, " are as pretty a lot aa ewer roamed the prairies of olden days. Ten new care are being recelwed daily by the Blo Grande Western. All Utah roads wilt bare to greatly In erense their rolling stock this year, awing to the Increase la traffic. Martin Maelstrom, of ML Pleasant, early ent hia arm off last week while cutting wood, lie was holding the stick on the chopping block when tbn ax glanced off, almost sewering the Merlon! s the near future, - -The sheepmen of the state are happy. Their losses in the winter Mere very small, and the wool crop promises to exceed that of a year ago. Kheep are la splendid condition, and all ia well with the men of wool Plane and specifications have been Completed for flwn new school houses Ito be built In Gunnison this summer. The buildings will be of stone. Utah la fast forging to the front in the mat tar of school facilities. Work on the big canal near Fort Duchesne will commence ia a few days. The canal will cower 4,000 scree of good land, and when It is finished there will be room for is number of en rgetie farmers In that immediate ty. - The citlxene of Orangewille bare milled a mass meeting, before which a proposition will be laid for building a school house by a joint stock corporation. The people ia that town are determined to have school buildings. Judge Timmony,Salt Lake City" police judge, last week discharged three boys convicted of chsrivsring a newly " wedded couple,'" Thajudgeiaid hshaj been guilty of the same crime when he was n boy, and he eould sympathise with the lads. It hat been decided by the supreme court of Utah that a jury of eight men empaneled to try n person eharged with n crime. less than n capital offense against the laws of Utah, ia n valid jury and the conviction thereby la n valid act. State Superintendent Park has issued a letter to the various county superintendents throughout the state in regard to the educational exhibit for the state fair In October. The letter calls attention to the proposed exhibit, and urges the superintendents to lay tbn matter before their teachers. The sum of 116,685.05 was distributed among the schools of the state last week by State Superintendent Park, -- i My the last-- enumeration the number of children of school age In the state ia 3,113, and the apportionment ia at the rate of 44 cents pr capita. Peter G shard i, an Austrian coal miner In the employ of the Pleasant Valley Coal company at Castle Gate, was, one day last Week, caught under a slide ol coal and had hia arms and legs badly crushed. It is thought, however, he will recover from his injuries. POISONED BY CANDY. FIGHTING ON NEGROS. PORTO III UA NS STARVE Csptarcd sud Kebetlioa Quelled a the I ery Ou wet. Manila, April 8. Colonel Smith, the governor of the island of Negros, reports that a number of bandits.headed by a man named Papaissio, attempted a rebellion on March 27 and killed several officials of Jummaylan. He also captured other officials and issued a proclamation calliifg upon the natives to rise and exterminate the Americans and Spaniards? Major Si me and two companies of the California regiment were dispatched by water to the scene of the disturbance and Colonel Dnboce-antwo other companies of troops were sent overland. On April 3 this force marched twelve miles and Captured Labzib, the headquarters of the bandits, and destroyed the town. The prisontroops also captured thirty-fiv- e ers and scattered Pspassio'a forces, thus effectually quelling the rebellion at the outset. Bendlt Ike The followWashington, April received from been has ing dispatch General I.e aloe's Wni-si Seels Cre Otis: General Mere ( ewpiete Thee Fleet Reported "Manila, April. Adjutant-Genera- l, t'lly (apt ered Wit heel Dertrae-iUat Property. Washington: Law ton s command cap tured Santa Cruz, the chief city of La Guns Bay, this morning Casualties follow13. The Washington, April six wounded. Insurgent troops driven, from been received baa ing dispatch dead on the field leaving sixty-eigGeneral Otlat Considerwounded number and at11. large "Manila, April insurgents Lawton will tacked MacArthur's line of railway able number captured. OtiA communication laat nigh t in considerpush westward. Santa Cruz was the Filipinos strong-bol- d able force. Repulsed by Wheaton, with in Lake La Guna Bay. and it ftR heavy lost. Wheaton's casualtiee,three intertbe handroFReuerar Law tons exkilled and twentywomidedr"" succcmTsL Santa Cruz pedition after soma sharp, quick firing, Lawton's more complete then reported yesterforming one of tlie most interesting nnd important battles of the war. unie ninety-threleft day. Enemy The plans of the American comseriformed dead on field and number worked perfectly, with the manders Lawton wounded. captured city ously withont destruction of property. His exception, that the progress of the exloss ten wounded, slight, except two, pedition was delayed by the difficult navigation of the river. About 1,500 one since died. Enemy retired east ward. Law ton in pursuit this morn. picked men, commanded by General. Lawton, on account of the illness of . r. The attack of the insurgents upon General King partly surrounded the the railway- - north of Manila indicated city, w kite the gunboats La una da to the war department officials that Bay, Oesta, and Napidan, under tha while General MacArthur was pushing command of Captain Grant of the Utah BdtfiTBodie of fnsu rgeh ii took W t he battcryT sheiieci the city and outlytn mountains and jungles to the right of trenches General Lawton and bis staff accoi the railway and have been watching an opportunity to capture the road at pan led the troops, sometimes ieadiu some point and thus cutoff the main charges in Indian fighting tactic body of the army to the northward. which eventually resulted in the eoi The repulse of the.natives shows that rout of the rebels with the suisj plete accomthey had not sufficient force to smount of damage to the city est plish their purpose. toss to the Americans. slight COLLAPSE OF A BRIDGE. " V P NA. AT RIOT SI eve Fear Werkmea Meet Death sad rar Joseph T. Shantion hat bee Sent Id the Insane asylum from Utah county, lie imagines that he la atarwlng to death, although he sale more than half dozen healthy men eould poksibly consume. The county commissioners of Utah sere slgVitv-ftveonnt v bsve 1 laud to be twil ask poor farm, ' The necessary buildings for a county poor farm and infirmary will he erected in HEATH IN ICE GORGE.! an ENTIRE FAMILY DROWNED YELLOWSTONE RIVER. 13. Injured. New York, April 13. The temporary superstructure of the Willis avenue bridge now being built over the Harlem river collapsed yesterday afternoon killing four men nnd seriously injuring aix, one of whom may die. Twelve or more workmen el so received injuries of a more or lesa serious nature. The accident wss caused by too great a weight being put on the tracing derrick that croeaed the superstructure. The superstructure- - connected the north shore sustaining wall with a pier and was a flimsy affair stretching 300 feet across deep water, bnllt in three sections, one above another, to n height of about sixty feet or thirty men were emTwenty-fiv- e when the colP Postmaster Thomas of Salt Lake City ployed on the structwre visited the post office department at lapse occurred. Many of the men were wreck. Only a carried down iu Washington last week with n wlew to few sucecededed inthe to the getting for the improve- the majority either falling into pier, making anrgeatlona the ment of the mall service in Salt Lake water or into the tangle of iron and woodwork. City. v eed The tlljr Shelled by I tub Kehels Driven Out. - have an eieetjrieJirht ystem, ll7,00) "opera louse and a 14,000 creamery." A Junction woman last week took a doaa of strychnine, thinking It was quinine, sod but for prompt medical , GRANT BOMBARDS SANTA CRUZ. D-- 'J REPULSED AGAIN FILIPINOS WITH HEAVY LOSS. co. COALVILLE. THE RUN ON Tve IN Mi" Have Already Been Keeevered end Others Are Mlelng-le- e Gorge Censed the River to Overtow. Glendive, Mont., April 11. An ice gorge in the Yellowstone river at this point cajjsed the stream to overflow, .drovBlpjr jfour. person.'.. Eight .mors are missing; three span of the steel bridge are washed out. causing a loss n of $2' ,000; the Pacific tracks are inundated and possibly washed uway for some distance, and the loss, ta live stock by drowning will involve a large sum. The dead persons are: Mr. R. W. Snyder, wife of a rancher; Miss Nellie her niece; Miss Rose Wybrecht, to the Snyder ranch; Eugene !eagan, The missing are: James wife and six children. The ice began moving at 7:30 oclock i the evening, and continued to flow ntil 0:30, when it formed a gorge-h- e Snyder party, noticing the back-ate- r, started for the Northern Pa-fl- e tracks, hoping thus to escape drowning but befort; ihsyjKurfrehhU the distance the water wss waist deep and they took refnge in a tree. OConnor was the first to be washed from the tree, Mrs. Snyder the second and Miss Wybrecht third. A huge piece of 'ee struck the tree and broke it it two, carrying of Misa Reagan. It ia thought that the family of James Sullivan, wife and six children, were swept away by the overflow, as bo trace of them can be found. No.-the- WAR'S VICTIMS. of ( 0f Three llumlred Laid to le If eroea Kent. Washington, April 8. With full honors of war, upon the crest of the southern slope of Arlington cemetery, the nation, represented by ' President McKinley, his cabinet and other high dignitaries of the government, the commanding general ofjhe army and other distinguished officers, all the regular and militia organizations of the district, and a vast concourse of 15,000 people, paid the . last .tender tribute of honor and respect to the bodies of 336 officers and men who gave their lives on distant battlefields for their country during the Spanish-America- n j war. The scene was a most DEAD JU8TICE FIELD STEPHEN J. Mining Town Afml Declared imposing one. After the last religious I'nder Martini D Wees Member of the ('sited State Supreme and military rites to the dead heroea Bench For Thirty-fou- r Yearn. Pans, Ills., April 12. Tbdebas been was over the work of actual interment another riot at Pans, as a'yesult of Justice Washington, April 11. As each of the caskets weighs n began. which seven are known to Stephen J. Field of the United States almost 500 pounds and requires eight killed and a number of others woo-ledsupreme court, retired, died at his men to handle it, it will be two or the major portion of the victims ty'ug home on capitol hill in this city at 6:30 three days before all the bodies are in innocent spectators. 'oclock Sunday evening of kidney com' their graves. He had been unconscious plications. Henry Stevens, a negro miner, since Saturday morning, and death FIRST SESSION OF CONFERENCE has long been considered a le among bia associates, is declared to painlessly. Very Lsre, Nssrly Every lien Johnson Field was born at Tbs Attendance have been the direct cause of the riot, Stake Being Keresented. the Conn.. November 4, 1816. He It U said he was also the leader of Salt Lake City, Utah, April 8. The riot that occurred las! September, was theeq of David Dudley Field and sixty-nint- h annual conference of the Stevens has Jong cherished hatred for one of fok brothers who became so Latter-da- y Saints convened at the made Dai 1 Sheriff Downey and has openly. famous, Dudley, Cyrus W. and tabernacle at 10 o'clock Thursday threat hat he would kill him on sight. Henry M. I j 1 being the other memPresident Lorenzo Snow Moudty he was on the streets with a bers of the Jl at quartette that made morning. and the other general aurevolver, saying' be was looking for their naraesnown throughout the presided, on were stsnd thorities the George Q. Sheriff Downey. He found Downey world. F. Smith; of the and Cannon Joseph sheriff The In 1863, Preiknt Lincoln appointed and commenced shooting. of the twelve apostles, Frankreturned the fire, and in a few minutes him associate lattice of the supreme quorum D. lin Richards, Brigham Young, Slates and be held tba streets were filled with men and court of the I Franclrf M. Lyman- - John Henry Smith, ' haiL . like Ail were hia that position ballets retirement on flying George Teasdale, Ileber J. Grant, John f Governor Tanner has Issued fe proc- December 1. w. n W. Taylor, Marriner W. Merrill, lamation declaring martial law at During thi'Vong service on the F. Ii. Matthias Lund, Cowley, Pena. Tha proclamation created a bench he also as before the public district comprising the city of Pans eye in other wa f yhan aa judge of the Abraha&i Owen Woodruff and Rndger patriarch John Smith; of the and ail territory within one mile supreme court I 'the United 'States. Clawson; seven first presidents of the seventies, n thereof and forbids the carrying of He was a mem the Heyee-TildeB. Young, C. D. Fjelsted, B. arms within such district in 177 and voted Seymour t - ' electoral comm H. Roberts, George Reynolds. Johnawith the DemoA V- In 1880 he reG. Kimball, Rulon S. Wells and than The TeUewstoae Overflow, for tll preslceived sixty-five- ! fles The dency nominal, at the Cincinnati Joseph W. McMurrin; of the presiding Glendive, Mont, April 13 overflow of the Yellowstone river, Democratic co ntion, on the first biahopric, William B. Preston, Robert caused by the gorging of the ice, is ballot In 187 I fj was appointed by T. Burton and John R. Winder. The attendance was fully as large as anticpractically over. The loss of human the governor of I1e state of California sion Mrs. B. was to examine the ipated, and represented nearly every twelve W, Snyder, one of the com I beings j hat state. In 1866 stake. her brother, Eugene F. OCounor, their code of laws Uomex WaiU lodepeadeneo. Conferred upon him niece, Miss Nellie Regan, and Mias Rose Williams Wybrecht of Indianapolis Ind., J ernes the degree of 1. ). and in. 1869 the Havana, April 8. The Cuban miliSullivan, wife and aix children. The regents of the (verxity of California tary assembly being dead, General Maxssor of laws in that imo Gomez will take up his program of remains of Miss Regan and Eugene made him a pi O'Connor were recovered and buried, institution. solidifying the Cuban people into a The remains of Miss Wybrecht have party that shall, without ceasing, urge YS POLITICS. been recovered. The Sullivan family the United States to withdraw from . were found in their bedrooms. Thou- flay H i f 8Rv 4 Iks AdsaliiUtratlsa the island. His purpose is to make the sands of acres of land along both sides jf j J Is HI Party. people seem to have bat one emotion, the river are covered with tee, v try-- jfjvji ork, April 11. Admiral Dewey one desire the thought of independtundflven to the Manila correspondent ence and the absolute separation from Do.ealiea Weekly an Interview regard-Th- a the United States. Some of the AmerCoadittoa of crops. TC8'lfest'on that the admiral be ican officials hem think the United Waahlngton, April 13. The April jt made a candidate for-J0presidency 8tates government may yet experience report of the statistician of the depart next year.'' The admiral said aa to his trouble with General Gomez. meet of agriculture will show ttf politics: Suppressing Brlgsadage. I am a sailor. A sailor has na average condition of winter wheat 00 de Cuba, April 8. There Santiago politics. The administration is hit am now April 1 to have been 77.0 against8-twenty-tw- o bandits in the on April 1, 18US; 81.4 on April party, and Republican or Democrat, it Santiago military prison. Major Gen1 no makas ten-yedifference. 84. a and Then, again, average of Wood is actively aurpressing dissome from Vermont, and you know eral Of 4he thirty statee product from this source. Yesterturbances that means what x To be anything bnl wheat, twenty-sicontaining four bandits from San Luis and day Republican in Vermont ia to be a two from per cent of the total winte' Guantanamo were brought man without a party. My flag lieuacreage, report a condition belo in. Them ia not a little excitement tenant comes from He telle Georgia. respective yesr average. The av PtJlro piiUaws and mAh be .anything but- - a-- Democrat Iq condition of win ter. rye 184.4 wg in circulation regarding rumors are Is south the be to a nobody. If I lived 93.1 on April 1, 1809; 88.9 on Ap south I would probably be a Demo- troubles in the district of Holguin, but 1808; 88.5 April 1, 1897, and a tec the present efforts or the military aucrat," , average of 90. Admiral Dewey said that neither. by thorities will soon assure safety in all of the province. Retire. Alxsr May vocation, disposition, education nor parts 11 was he capacitated to fill the TROOPS FROM CUBA. Washington, April Frl training reporta have been circulated hq. presidency. He said that he. was too well along in life to consider such a AU t thn Yolo atsers WIU Retara Before some time of aa intention on the May. of Secretary Alger to resign after possibility. His health would not adAll the troops Washington, Aprils. mit of it AU his life's work was ia inquires into the conduct of 4he( which am to return to the United States have ended, and these am coupled (different lines of effort and that, while muster-ou- t are expected to return the statement that Senator McN Jfhe kindness and enthusiasm of bia for before May 1. About 13,000 returned -- nda'wero of Michigan, had been determine grateful to him and the and it is expected 35,000 as Gen. Algers successor. Bei rous tribhtes of the American in March, mom will arrive during this month. McMillan makes, however, a poa were dear o him, he could not is being taken by the precaution Every disclaimed of any knowledge off ould not be a candidate for the war and the marine hosdepartment change in the cabinet, saying; eney of the United States under service to prevent the introducpital know nothing whatever on the snb nditions. tion of infection from these troops War Far Frsa Kadsd. MESSIAH IN JAIL. i 8ngar Prices Cat. i Hongkong, April 13. Though 1 Ban Wke Iks Ntsrlea Mss bless Hkeet Francisco, April 8. In order to dreda of Filipinos sue dally retnrr Tid1 Dm sees. meet the opposition of two firms which to their homes and are desirous of I x TattsrS.'DTT' A IT Albert am selling to the grocery trade sugar pnll turning peaceful pursuits, and Uk sen-h- y Canton has of been refined in Hongkong, the Sugar Trnst jkins the proclamation issued by the Unig Judge Garland, in the federal baa ent the price of granulated augar States Philippine commission haagiq Ito lerve a year and a day in' to 4 6 cent a pound. This decrease aa impulse to this movement, the .tq is far from ended. One of the fo the penitentiary for sending obscene has been mom 4han met aad now the trnat has notified dealers that it will most A merles n generals said recently liter are through the mails. Messiah be the to sell any cube or any other qualities not prev"We will see a hundred Ihousaq soldiers In the PhliippCnes before Ik ious to and daring the Sioux trouble of sugar to those who buy oriental Americans control the islands," and at Pin Ridge in IS?, and started the granulated. It is estimated that if ghost dsnees out of which ell the There is no advance in present prices majority of the army am of bia opinio trouble grew. consumers will saro S3, 000,000 a year. ti hs-bee- . ftd . 1 Attempted to Mentor a Nebraska Woman With Doetnrod Boa-Hon- e. Hastings, Nab., April 13. An attempted poisoning ease on the lines of tba Adams ease of New York has occurred here. An unknown person deft at the studio of Mrs. C. F. Moray a s box of with the card of a prominent society woman attached, Mrs. Morey ate freely of the candy, aa did several of her lady friends. Later the lady whose card was attached to the box called and Mrs. Morey thanked her, but the lady said she did not send them, Mrs. Morey and the other women who xt the candy were noon taken sick fend narrowly escaped. The ease ia shrouded in mystery. , bon-bon- VOLUNTEERS It Is Expected s AT MANILA. Member Will Return es the MherMaa. Washington, April 13. Under the elause of the army law allowing the of volunteers for aix months, who are serving in the PhHip-U-f pines, there will be no reorganisation of any kind as a result of the exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty. Those who deaim to remain add those who wish to come home may do so. It ia expected quite a number will return oa the transport Sheridan. POPE DISOBEYS DOCTORS. An-tho- ' - 7 their Advise He Will Attend RtnleM Kui ftaaUaj, Roma, April IS. Despite the advice of his doctors, the Pope Insists on attending services in SL Peter's mext Sunday. Great preparations am being made to insum hia safety and comfort. A cardboard tiara ia being prepared to save him ftofUTtie' fatigue of wearing the genuine diadeiu. Forty thousand admission tickets am to be distributed. The doe.tors greatly fear the result ol the strain. Despite Resume Friendly Relatione Washington, April 13. The condition of war whU;h has existed between the United States and Spain since April 21, 1898, terminating Tuesday when the last formalities iu the resolution oi peace were performed by the exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty. Coincident with this 1 resident McKinley issued hia proclamation declaring that the war was at au end and the appointment of Bellamy Storer determined upon as United Stater minister to 8 pain. Jtnalalk to I Jefferson City, Mo,, April 13. William J. Byran addressed the Missouri legislature Jroni ihfl Capitol steps, inoYder to accommcdate the big crowd, 2,000 people being present. He spoke against trusts and the income tax decision, denounced goldbugs and condemned the annexation of Porte Rico and the conquest of the rbiHp pine islands. Colonel liyranwts given a reception by Governor and Mrs. Stephens at the executive mansion at night.. Members of the legislature at , tended. 'i . -- Colonel ar 15-1- IN THE INTERIOR GREAT DISTRESS. IN PEOPLE On Hundred TIioUMinct People Whe Have Neither lirrad Nor Meet Contlltiou Due lerfHv to the Short Coffee Crop y April W. retwlnr ha Stone, juat urned from Porto Rico, w here he took ateudavs journey through the interior. declares there is much distress and actual starvation iu Porto Rico. The general was attached to the men t oi agriculture before tire war, and during hostilities lie was in Porto Rico as a member ot Geneiai Miles staff. This last trip was made with a party of capitalists and railroad raeu. He was also invited by Major-GenerHenry to give advice concerning the construction of roads through the islands. 'People are dying of starvation all tiirougti the interior, said General In the district of Aguas lianas Stone there were many deaths. Tlje judge in the district of tomcrio showed me a kt:. bad JRflACK hlsdi til boob 'rn--. names of many who died from lack of food. General Grant rc;orted thirty-niu- e deaths from starvation in onedis-tric- t. I saw hundreds of natives emaciated and weak. When I left Porto Rico there were 100,000 persons there who had neither bread nor meat for two weeks. The stateof affairs is largelvdue to the short coffee crop and the ruinous competition of Brazil. Yet, with alt their sufferings, the Porto Ricans speak with pride as belonging to the United States. They do not expect Porto Rico to become a Washington, Brigadier-Ge-neral-Ha- de-pa- rt state. Rorto Rico is the home of the orange, yet oranges are rotting on the trees. They are sold at 50 cents a barrel. I bought them five for one cent. They are as good as tlie Indian river oranges. " FLEES FOR HIS LIFE. Chinese Reformer I Persecuted by th Empress. Victoria, B. C., April 9. Kang Yu Wei, the Chinese reformer, who was deposed and has since been pursued by the empress dowager, has arrived here the steamer Idzumi Mam, from Yokohama. He is on his way to London, where he hopes to find a harbor of on refuge. Kang Y n WeL, as chief commissioner and secretary of the "board of public works, was responsible for the reforms nitiated under the old regime. When the empress dowager deposed him a price was put on his bead. He fled and got on the British ship Ballarat Although pursued by Chinese boats, h reached Hongkong. Thence he fled to Tokio. He is in mortal terror of hia life, and fearful of assassination, even at the hands of his countryman here. Waiting For Orders. Kansas City, April 9. Captain J. T Weldon of Kansas City has presented a claim against the government for 831,-00- 0 back pay. alleged to be dne him. 1 was captain of a gunboat on the Mississippi river on the union aide in the civil war, said Captain Weldon, and have never been mustered out of the nary. . I was sent home at the close of the war in 1865 to wait for orders and 1 am waiting yeL Captain Weldon commanded the gunboat He entered the Mississippi marine service in 1862 and served until the war closed without losing a day. VI hen he was told to go home and wal for orders, his home was at Lafayette Indiana. Tus-cumb- COMEZ REINSTATED. Caban Uvaerals D velds t Pines Him nt th Head of tbs Army. Havana, April 9. At a meeting ot the Cuban general held at Marianao, it was officially decided to reinstate General Gomez as commander-in-chie- f They also decided to appoint an executive board of three generals-tassist him the ?3, 000,000, In ' the details of disarming and in the organization of the rural police for the province. He will be officially notified of this action and a proclamation prob hly will be issued to the Cubans, o MONTENEGRO IS DEAD. Ym Next to Agalaaldo Ia laflaenee Among FtUpiao Rebels. New York, April 9. The Journal's correspondent at Manila cables that paciflcos who have returned within the American lines report the death of Gnerl Montenegro, who we regarded as next to Agninaldo the most influential and aggressive of the Filipino rebels. The .report is credited at Ma-1- 1 where it Is believed General Montenegro fell while defending Malolos DEWEY WANTS SUPPLJES. Cable . for Eaeah Kaflneertng giy Meath. tUatabitili Washington, Admiral April 9. Ihwey has cabled the aavydepartment asking that six months engineering supplies be sent him at Manila. The department will probably use the Buffalo, now on her way for Manila, for the carriage of these stores. The admiral's request is aa Indication of hts belief that it will not be possible to materially diminish the American fleet in the Philippi oa in the neap In turn. |