A False Report

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 9, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 48.

A False Report.—There was reported some time ago and quite extensively circulated in various papers that Captain Barker, of the battle-ship Oregon, gave orders that on last Good Friday no meat should be eaten on the vessel and that a number of the marines were punished for not saluting the Catholic priest who held religious service on board. The Independent tells us that “Captain Barker declares that there were no orders given forbidding meat that day, that there was no special religious services of any sort held, that no priest came aboard, and that nobody was punished for not saluting a priest, and that the whole story is a fabrication. Some one seems to have lied, and the lie has traveled far and wide.”