The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-29
CONDITIONS AT CHICKAMAUGA.
Most OF the Men Want Ia he Mustered
Out of service.

Missoula. Aug. 2s.-To-day's west
bound train brought to Missoula Can
ain Higgins of the Sd volunteer avail
~, and Lieutenant Lyons Of the 25th
infantry. Captain Higgins is on a fur
Tough of 30 days and will remain i'm
Mlssoula most of that time. Lieutenant
Lyons has come to Fort Missoula to rest
and recuperate from the effects of his
wounds received at Santiago. lie has
been in Kansas City, but found the eli
mate too warm, and So came To Mon
tana, where he knew that he could lind
good air and cooler weather. lie Is
much reduced i'm flesh and shows plainly
the suffering that he has undergone.
He says, however, that he is much bet
ter than he was a few weeks ago and
that he expects Ia regain his former
condition In "A short time here i'm Mis-
soula. Captain Higgins has lost much
of surplus flesh. although he Is in much
better condition than most of the sol
diers that have returned from ChiCka-
manga. He is tanned till he looks as if
he had been through a Cuban campaign.
He has not been III since leaving and his
health is now excellent, If appearances
count for anything. His arrival to-day
was a surprise. even to his family.
As TO the mastering out of the Sd cav
airy, Captain Higgins says tina the or
der for the muster out has been rescind-
ed and that Colonel Grigsby and others
OF the regimental officers are exerting
their influences to have the regiment
retained in service. This plan is not
popular with the men I'm the ranks. The
sick men Of the regiment are all improy-
ing.
Captain Higgins says that those whose
condition was serious have been re-
moved from the camp n are receiving
better care in the city. The principal
IffffIHltRH NaHfVl Vla .AAIEa.H
according To what Captain Higgins says,
Is that the medicines that were supplied
To the physicians nave nearly all been
in tablet form and that the weak stom-
aChs of the fever patients have not been
able to assimilate the drugs that would
have brought them relief il they had
been in another form. He confirms
what has appeared I'm the special CORE
spondence of the Standard as Ia the
condition Of the sick men. The asso-
ciated press, he says, has disguised the
true condition OF things and has not
presented the situation as il really Is.
clyde Hatch. who was reported here
as dangerously IN a few days ago. has
not been on the sick list. Hatch IL now
acting as qu"artermaster sergeant of +
Guffy being on the sick list. Fred
whose condition was serious. has
been taken 10 the city, where he is inn
proving. The other sick boys are doing
as well as could be expected.
Captain Higgins. when asked how
long he expected to remain here. said
that he would be i'm Mlssoula for sew
eral days at least, but tina the main
purpose of his visit to Montana was TO
try TO secure the immediate mastering
OF the regiment. He says that rs
per cent. Of the men want to be dis
charged. Fourteen men Of Troop Il
been granted sick leave and seven
Of them will return to Missoula IN a
short time.
Major Monteath has been quite IN and
has been granted a 80 days leave. but
when Captain Higgins left he was not
able 10 tTayel.
As 20 the Western Montana horses.
Captain Higgins says that they are the