The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-25
JUST BACK FROM MANILA
Lieut.. Kennedy Says the Mon
tana Regiment Is All Right.
MANY HAVE BEEN ILL
They Are All Homesick and Would Like
to Come Home-No Danger of a
Fight With Aguinaldo-CoL
Kessler Exonerated.

lieutenant d. VI ENflA't. Va >'F -
Montana volunteers. who arrived home
Friday night. VAS besieged yesterday
with visitors anxious 10 hear Of their
friends In Manila. Lieutenant Ken
nedy Is still weak from his illness, but
Is rapidly recovering.
II sailed from Manila on Nov. 10 on
the troopship Scandal" said MI. Ken
nedy to a Standard reporter. our voy-
age over was a somewhat tedious one.
but many Of the sick men aboard prof
tied immensely by the Sc days which we
spent on the water. We left Manila
with about I25 sick and discharged SOL
dlers aboard, and without exception the
men improved in health from the very
day of sailing. Some of he poor fell
lows were very sick and frightfully emd-
ciated. The sick on the Scandia were IN
charge of Major Charles l.. woodruff,
a.. :. A., one of the most eminent young
physicians I'm the service ot Uncle sam.
Major Woodruff was untiring I'm ms Ell
forts to aid the sick and ii was I'M
doubt eddy due. In "A large measure, to
his ability and untiring energy that
there were no deaths during the trip.
The only other Montana man VINO re-
turned on the Scandal was L..
Cushing of Company T.. He was us
charged from the service ON account or
physical disability n is now at his
home I'm Dillon.
"When l left the Stands the Mon
tana regiment was vid The hrSt
and second battalions were stationed at
Manila, while the third battalion was
still at Cavite. dhe ruined old town
across the bay. The general health OF
the men, | regret to say. has not Deeh
good. The boys have suffered intensely
from the vas of typhoid fever, ma
laria and Asiatic dysentery, a terribly
distressing disease. The month OF DC
tober saw nearly half of the men of the
command under medical treatment and
ID is only because the men from the
Treasure state are a wonderfully rugged
and powerful lot of fellows that the
death list Is so small. While "A few of
our brave comrades have been laid To
rest under the damp Philippine sod. 1t
Is comforting to know that the LIST Mon
tana infantry has the smallest death
list Of any volunteer regiment partici-
pating i'm the Philippine expedition. The
Montana boys are truly "A brave ana
hardy lot of lads. n credit to the state
that sent them 10 the front.
so far as the men of the two com
panies from Anaconda, X and Nj. are
concerned. / am glad To be able To state
| llldN Nllt1 WI Nall III ~ 49, N'a''
when | sailed. Almost every man had
been afflicted more or less at n time
or another since the arrival or the regi-
ment. but on Nov. ~ | mad careful in
curry and was glad to learn that no one
from the Copper City was seriously i'll.
OF the 170 men who left this city last
April only one has d~ied-pOor Bob Len
nington.
The Butte companies have been
equally %rtun The smoke-eatcrs
are showing the pumpkin-pated fol-
lowers OF Aguinaldo what tough mater
ial the American soldiers are made of.
Company a of Great Falls has suffered
most severely from death, having lost
four members since being mustered in.
The Montana men are all homesick
and anxious to be relieved from Tursher
duty i'm the Philippines. The impression
prevails there that they will all be sent
home before three months elapse. Much
has been sale as to the probability of
trouble arising between the Fflipinos
and the American troops. IL is my can
did opinion that there H. not now and
never has been-since the day of Dew
ey's famous victory-any probability of
serious trouble bet ween the insurgents
and the American forces. Aguinaldo Is
a shrewd fellow-he Is after the nimble
dollar and will try to convert his al
legged power into a cash asset. but.
really. I do not. think that he is a very
serious factor. If he gets too gay the
men of the Montana regiment alone Will
gladly sign a contract to put him and
his followers out of the insurgent busi-
ness forever.
1t was painful to read i'm some of the
newspapers, since we left home, criti-