Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1898 — Miles’ Elastic Army Plan. [ARTICLE]

Miles’ Elastic Army Plan.

Gen. Miles says that the nrmy should be reorganized on the basis of one soldier to every certain number of inhabitants. He thinks that one soldier to every 1,000 population would be found to be about the right ratio for a standard, and that the army, his standard being adopted, would increase according to the recognized needs of the government in an exact ratio to the increase of the population. Indians fired upon a boat on the Yukon river, in Alaska, and killed one prospector and wounded another.