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i §1 §W J'. I lill 1SP£ £irV pf to, v 4' V c& THE HERALD-ADVANCE MILBANK, H. "W. W. DOWXIE, Editoi ami PuVvl't OFFICIAL PURER Of CITY HID COUNT FRIDAY, JAN 14. lfilll LIQUOR IN ALASKA. lk» Spite of Strlnscent Lntta the ClfM In IlHinpant. One of the least fortunate acts of the, United States congress in regard to Alaska has been the enaction of u most •it id prohibitory law as to alcobolio Kqaors, saye David Starr Jordan in The Atlantic. This is an ironclad statute forbidding the importation, sale or man •fauturu of intoxicants of any sort in Alaska. The primary reason for this act ti the desire to protect the Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos from a drug of Which they are excessively fond and Which soon destroys them. But a virtu ous statute may be the worst kind of law, as was noted long ugo by Cunfu »ue. This statute has not checked the flow of liquor in Alaska, while it has done more than auy other influence to destroy the respect for law. In general men who **are not in Alaska for their health" are Jtord drinkers, and liquor they will fcave. It is shipped to Alaska as "Flori da water," "Jamaica ginger," "bay SUm." Demijohns are placed in the cen ter of flour barrels, sugar barrels, in any package which may contain them. With all this there is a vast amount of out tight smuggling which the treasury de partment tries in vain to check. All southeastern Alaska is one vast Iterbor, with thousands of densely wood fld islands, mostly uninhabited. Car goes of liquors can be safely hidden al most anywhere, to be removed piece by piece in smaller boats. Many such car goes have been seized and destroyed, but the risk of capture merely serves to raise Ihe prioe of liquor. Onceon shore the liquor is safe euongh. Upward of 70 sa loons are running openly in Juneau, and ferhaps 40 in Sitka. Most of these fcouses are the lowest of their kind, be cause, being outlaws to begin with, the •rdinary restraints of law and order feave no effect on them. SLAVES OF DRUGS. Growing Among Women On* Lwly'i Note Destroyed. Much has been written recently about the alarming increase of the use of drugs ly women in this country. A titled lady in England has recently been •bliged to go to Germany for a surgical teconstruction of her nose and the cause therefor is thus related by Aune Morton lane in the Chicago Times-Herald: The story of how it became neces •ary for her to lose her nasal organ is lather a sad one. It seeius that for some years this very well known dame has feeen addicted not only to an overindul gence in the liquid pleasures of the ta kle, but also she has had recourse to Ahat dangerous drug called cocaine, Which she applied by inserting a small instrument into her nostrils and inject ing the fluid in this way. Some time •go it was found to be absolutely neces •ary to endeavor to break her of this horrible craze, and so she was placed tinder treatment, and gradually it was fcoped that the habit would be discon tinued. However, it is a difficult mat ter at any time to stem a woman's ap fietite, once acquired, for drugs, and In one of her frenzied moments she suc ceeded in securing some cocaine, and placing it on the end of a hairpin push id it up her nose. Unfortunately the Jiairpiu was not quite long enough, and She pushed it rather too far, and com pletely lost it, so that a surgical opera tion was necessary to recover the mis laid instrument. The effect of this little /iniHadveuture seriously damaged the txme of her nose, which became diseas ed hence the necessity for the journey -to Berlin and the severance of that im portant feature of her face by the sur gical knife. This story may sound rather queer, i|nt it is an absolute fact, and I have it vxcellent authority. Cmre For Intemperance* Intemperance is an individual evil, .jjud the reform must be individual. As .•jjftre the units, so is the state. We some times forget this and think, if we had "law, we could do everything. Laws on statute books do damage in every way to society unless they are enforced. The euro for the evil of intemperance is the education of individuals. We need a re vival among ministers and church niem k Jjers and fashionable mothers, to train children to self denial, to be temperate lu all things. It is the small matters that develop character in the boys and yirls. .It is a very good thing for a boy of 6 or 16, to know that there are some things he cannot have. I believe this training of children to self denial, self Sacrifice and self control goes to thp root of the evil. It touches the wery begin ning. Then, when we have a law that the expression of the vast majority, it iwill be executed and moral sentiment .will make it impossible, for personal igain, to deal in intoxicating iv Bishop Vincent. Too Butr. "Haggles, I am in some embarrass •sent. I want to make a present of a jewel box, appropriately inscribed, to young lady"— "Corbus, I'm sorry, feat I haven't a oent"— "Confound yon, did yon think I was asking you for money? I only wanted your help in getting up the motto to Inscribe on the jewel oase." "Corbus, yon interrupted me. I was about to say that I hadn't a sentiment in my mind that would be appropriate to the occasions. "-—Chicago Tribune. SHAFTER AND WS ARWES GraphfeWctures of the Cyclonic Campaign at Santiago. STOEIES or MEN EIGHT IH IT. Selection of Lender and Picked Tron|i«—Iiinitlt' History of he K\ peil it Ion—Ilriw Shutter \Vnr«l«'l Off Dl*n*ter—Trying Viijanc on Truim- portu—The Fighting Regiments. [Copyright, 1S0S, by the Author.] I. This is the first of a series of 15 arti cles comprising the history of the San tiago campaign by Captain George L. Kilmer, late United States volunteers. Captain Kilmer holds the highest rank in his specialty—deeds cf heroism and daring—and is well fitted for the im portant work he is doing. He has had access to the very best sources of infor mation, has interviewed every officer of importance from General Shafter down, and the men in the ranks have also told lim their stories. His articles are the first notable articles on the great his torical struggle around Santiago. ITH the single exception of Na poleon's Russian campaign, there has never been a military expedi tion fraught with personal distress a n suffering equal to those en dured by Shaf ter'H army. The case is all the more striking from the fact that after a most brilliant victory the army was compelled to retreat in the face of an enemy more terrible than Spanish bul lets. The physical wrecks of this army which had been spared by the Mausers at Santiago reached Camp Wikoff, Long Island, between the 1 oth of August and the end of that month, and I consider it the happiest episode of my career as a writer that I was commissioned to go to Montauk and spare neither time nor expense nor labor in covering the camp from end to end in order to glean from the lips of participants of all ranks the true story of Shatter's campaign at San tiago. The moment I stepped from the cars into a throng and jam of war worn fig ures clad in stained and begrimed uni iorms around the landing at Montauk, the 33 years that have elapsed since I inarched with the conquerors of Peters burg, back from Appomattox over the blood stained course to the army land ing on the James, were wholly obliter ated. It seemed that I was a soldier again, touching elbows with heroes, thinking their thoughts and sharing with them the after emotions of events seldom finding parallel in the life of one man. From that time on until tho camp was practically abandoned I lived among the soldiers, sharing the tents and the fare of officers and men. Around their campfires on the chilly nights and under the welcome shade of canvas in the heat of tho August days they told me of the battle, made sketches of the position and explained the movements of the regiments, brigades, divisions and the vantage ground of batteries. There came together to take part in these recitals officers who had not com pared notes since the fight of July 1. Whenever there was doubt or contro versy upon any point, absent officers or soldiers who could testify in tho mat ter were summoned. Moreover, soldiers of every rank finding the strain of weeks lifted at last were in the mood to recall stirring incidents which, when pass ing, had left no impress except as they hurt or startled. In point of fact, I found the army emerging from a horri ble nightmare and for the first time feeling that it was all over and time tn take an account of what had happened. I was conscious from the first moment of my entrance to Camp Wikoff that I was in the midst of a superior body of soldiers. The type I could recognize aa having existed in 1864-5, but the army has kept pace with the march of im provement, and the ideal soldier of 1865 i» the real and universal soldier of Shafter's regular regiments today. There was no posing in the camp, no standing hat in hand to be gazed at and applauded as hero, but a bustling, dead earnest, soldierly activity, which, with cool self control, was broken off long enough to sit down and discuss the details of the campaign. There was no difference whether tho soldier inter viewed waB the leader of a battalion or a regiment or a commander of a brigade or division no, not excepting the chiefs of tho corps, two of whom were in com mand during my stay in camp—that is to say, General Shafter and General Wheeler. As this is to be a story of the fight ing as the soldiers in line of battle re member it, it is not necessary to discuss moot questions, but I could not tetter preface the stories of the marvelous deeds of Shafter's army than by saying that it had a leader who in the opinion »f a host of the best soldiers in the serv ice was in every way worthy of it. Whatever he may be or may not be, whatever he may have or lack, he has qualifications for a high command. William R. Shafter is no aocident. 1 was so fortunate as to pass a whole forenoon in General Shafter's headquar ters tent the second day after he took command of the camp at Wikoff, where I could witness his method of adminis tering affairs calling for prompt and en ergetic acjtion. The business of the ad ministration toeing over, he devoted more than an hour to a general and off hand elucidation of the difficulties of the Santiago campaign. As to Shafter's army in the Santiago campaign, I could not help saying to atlfl again at Camp Wikoff that the equal of his corps as I saw it, barring tho fever wrecks lying on the ground and in the hospitals, could not have been paralleled by any single corps In the Army of the Potomac in 1864. This notwithstanding the fact that at the beginning of the Wilderness cam paign the Army of the Potomac was thoroughly reorganized and consolidat ed. In the first place, this country has progressed more than a quarter of a cen tury since that time. Military ideals have been fostered and followed up to their very highest point, and the very elements of choice American bone and blood and sinew and brain which went to the creation of the crack corps of 1864 have entered into the make up of those matchless regiments of regulars who stormed and carried the heights of El Caney and San Juan in the face of a foe the equal iu courage, in equipment, in position, of any troops that ever stood for battle. Shafter had the pick of the regular army with him at Santiago. This was stated to me again and again at Camp Wikoff, and I think no discrimination was intended against the regiments that were not there. The fact seems to be that those regiments which were select ed happened to be, without a single ex ception, up to the very highest standard of efficiency. The soldiers had passed through just tho experiences in the west which would fit them for a hard cam paign. They were well officered, well disciplined, rugged, "gritty" men. In the Army of the Potomac iu 1804 the very best of the army corps had regi ments and sometimes whole brigades of raw and untried material and scores and scores of green officers. One needed but to see the regulars in Camp Wikoff to recognize at once the fact that the vet erans there had not evoluted in a single month's campaign from the standard of the militia volunteer. In the twenty and odd regiments whose camps I lingered round not a sin gle one but what was commanded by a veteran of the civil war. In many cases these commanders were majors. The field officers above them, absent on ac aount of wounds or promotion were war veterans, and in several instances the commanders held the rank of captain and were war veterans. It seems that there are now something like 65 cap tains iu the regular army who served in the civil war. The importance of all this will appear during the battle nar rative, where the leaders will be named in connection with their war record. General Shafter says that after Samp son located Cervera's fleet in the harbor of Santiago and had looked the ground over he cabled to Washington that an army of 10,000 men could take the city at one blow. Shafter was already get ting together an expedition for the in vasion of Cuba somewhere. He was di rected to embark 10.000 men and pro ceed at once to Santiago. Owing to some difficulty iu the way of forwarding cer tain supplies or other elements in the expedition to the point of embarkation at Tampa there were empty transports in the harbor after the 10,000 had gone on board. Shafter ordered these empty' transports to be filled with troops, and as a result be took something like 16, 000 or 17,000 men to Santiago. He said, and General Wheeler, who was present at the conversation, agreed with him, that had the expedition gone with 10, 000 men it would have ended in a hor rible disaster. In confirmation of the statement about embarkation is the story of the Ninth infantry, of San Juan fame. On the night that it embarked at Tampa an orderly dashed up to the headquarters with a message to the ef fect that if the Ninth regiment was not on board the transport within a limited time given it would be left behind at Tampa and not go to Cuba. The point was that the material which had been ordered forward to Tampa might arrive -V GENKKAL W. R. SHAFTER, U. 8. A. and be loaded ahead of the regiment, and so it was really a race between sol diers and some other necessary part of the expedition. The Fifth corps as it fought at San tiago 011 July 1 was as follows: WHEKT/ETfS CAVALRY DIVISION. Sumner's HriKade.—3d U. S. cavalry, 6th U. S. cavalry. 9th U. S. cavalry (colored). Young's Hrlgade.—1st U. S. cavalry, 10th U. S. cavalry (colored), 1st U. B. volun teers (rough riders). There were only two squadrons of each regiment at Santiago, one squad ron being left at Tampa with the horses and baggage. FIRST DIVISION OF INFANTRY, G32JN- KRAL J. F. KENT. Hawkins' 1st Brigade.—6th U. S., 16th U. a, 71st N. Y. Pearson's 2d Brigade.—2d U. S., J0th U. S.. 21st U. S. Wikfiff's 3d Brigade.—9th U. S.t 13th U. 8., 24tli U. S. (colored). GENERAL H. W. LAWTON'S SECOND DIVISION. Ludlow's 1st Brigade.—8th U. 8., 22d U. 8., 2d Mass. Mil**' 2d Brigade—25th U. 8. (colored), 4th U. S., 1st U. S. Chaffee's 3d Brigade.—12th U. 8., 17th U. 8.. 7tli U. S. Strength about 12.000 in line of battle. ARTILLERY AND MACHINE GUNS. Grimes', Fnrkhurst's, Best's and Ca ptions batteries, U. S. artillery, 4 guns each. Captain Watson's, 4 Hotehkiss guns. Lieutenant Parker's, 4 Gatling guns. These troops figured conspicuously in the battles to be described in the arti cles upon the Santiago campaigns. That's Our Theme THE DAKOTA FARHE3 ABERDEEN, S. D. W. P. T. Bushnetl, Managing Editor. 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