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late war over 60 regiments. union n
confederate, lost a greater percentage
of men in a single engagement than did
the Light Brigade at Balaklava or the
Guards at Gravelotte, n the latter
was the highest record in the franco
Prussian war. ]. ]. Hill once told me
that he mentioned this fact at a dinner
given by General Wolsey. The guests
were amazed, and on Mr.. Hills return
to this country he sent each of them a
copy of Major Fox's book.
1.-THE losses made by the Irish brig
ade, Miles brigade. and indeed the whole
attacking column at Fredericksburg
doubled and trebled the heaviest per-
centage at Santiago. The LIST Minnesota
at Gettysburg lost So per cent. in a
charge directed by Hancock until he
could bring up reinforcements. / be-
lieve this is the highest loss on record.
mo, I think the campaign against
Santiago was well conducted. The rough
riders did not fall into an ambuscade;
the Spaniards were falling back and the
rear guard turned M made a fight. To
new troops this seemed a surprise, but
the boys did well and bravely proved
themselves equal to the emergency.
1.-THE Spaniards prove to be pretty
good fighters" added the major. THE
men, arms, powder and artillery turn
out to be more up to date than ours;
but our men make up for any short
comings. Their courage, endurance and
superior craftsmanship won the vic
tory. Our boys should be the best
equipped on land, as fortunately they
are upon the water. I hope this will be
the end Of the var 1t looks as If his
surrender were the beginning of the
withdrawal of the Spanish troops from
Cuba. The conditions of surrender were
surely sanctioned by the home govern
ment. and If Sagasta is corrected report
ed, peace will follow. Already the war
has had its compensations. 1t was worth
all II has cost. Still / hope ii may soon
be over and that We may return to the
paths of peace and the ways or sros-
perity." ALLING.
Helena, July 16.
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BATTLES In Which Men
Have Died Like Sheep

An interview with Major Martin Ma
ginnis is always interesting. If the sub
feet happens to pertain to war the in
terest of the interviewer is heightened,
as the major talks very entertainingly
upon such subjects. From an experience
gained while in the union army as a
member of the LIST Minnesota, when ne
achieved fame upon the battlefield of
Gettysburg and other famous contests
between the North and South, the major
talks entertainingly and instructively.
In order to obtain for the Sunday Stand
ard his views Of the conduct of the CAM
paign against Santiago, the Standard
reporter called at his residence and en-
joyed a short chat with him. He was
asked for a comparison of the fighting
conducted by General Shafter with that
of the late war. whether he considered
the loss of life unnecessary and whether
h tactics displayed were the best.
NO." said he. II don think Shafter
made an unnecessary sacrifice. He had
to tax those positions to perfect his
investment; otherwise he would have
had to stretch out his men into a longer
line. AS 1t was his line was very thin
in spots, which the Spanish e~ndeavored
TO break by the sortie. If he had re-
maine further out he would nave been
so much more distant from the inside
work; then he had to take those inside
works to reach them. 1t might have
been better If he had had more artillery.
but he could not wait for that and have
the lines he wanted. / doubt If you
could have driven out the enemy with
artillery-it takes close work to force
men from such defenses. However. ii
was worth the outlay as the result has
shown"
"uow does the percentage of lose
compare with the battles of the civil
war;
ut is hard to say. There really was no
pitched battle near Santiago, simply a
determined skirmish for position. The
rushes mad on FL Caney and San Juan
hill were the nearest approaches to an
attack in battle. If the Spanish troops
had come out en- masse you could make
a comparison. Judging from the ac-
counts, Skaters casualties were about
10 per cent. of the men engaged. That
Is warm fighting. but 1t could hardly be
classed desperate as the papers styled
1t. At Shiloh. Gaines Mill. Fair Oaks,
Antietam. Gettysburg and Chickamauga
the losses ran from rs to 80 per cent. of
the men actually engaged. At the bat
tie of Franklin, when Hood attacked,
he had % general officers killed and
wounded. The fighting in our civil wal
was very fatal.
There is a Dol Of statistics called
'Fox's Regimental Losses / saw a copy
once in the Butte public library. 1t is
largely made up of dry details. but upon
examination it proves to be most inter
esting. That book shows that in the
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In generous proportion. as shown in
the table printed or this page, the
presidential postofices of Montana
made good gains in the amount of
their box rents and stamp sales for
the fiscal year recently closed. OF
twenty-three towns included in the
list, only seven show a decrease in
their receipts. 1t is to be remembered
that the figures given in this table do
not make up the total of business ia
these twenty-three offices: on the con-
trary the transactions In the way of
money-order business are not included.
and these. in some of them. run up TO
surprisingly large figures.
A summary for the Anaconda Office
will serve as a convenient illustration.
As shown in the table. Anaconda's to-
tai is SIS, 036. The two items that make
ND this amount are receipts of $3.515
from box rents and of Sic. 461 from the
sale of stamps. That is a gain of rs
per cent. over this city's record for the
preceding fiscal year. although the Of
fee suffered a reduction in its box
rent receipts for last year owing to the
fact that, in Anaconda, the f~ree-deliv-
cry service SldIltu otlODtT L. 1891. 4 ut
figures for the Anaconda Office. in the
money-order department. are so large
in comparison with those / have
quoted that they are worth mention
ing. For the last fiscal year our local
office issued 1886 none orders. If
which, in round numbers, twelve per
cent. were domestic. These orders
were. in money. $3.50. $50. Out of this
total, about IS per cent. OF the money
was sent to domestic points. 22 per
cent. being for transmission abroad.
These figures are suggestive: they
show. through the postal service of re-
mittance, tina the sendings from this
city to a foreign destination were not
age, the Anaconda Office handled FORTY
four money orders a day. the trans
actions, in dollars and cents, being an
average of 1920 This includes the
orders issued here and. as well. those
thai were cashed. This latter class
was a total OF 3.2o1 orders. amounting
to sss. 200. In addition. for the year un-
der review. the Anaconda office dis
patched 3.262 registered packages and
received 2.970.
For N table printed this morning
the Standard is indebted to the cour-
tesy of Inspector Wayland. Follow
ing copy" as the phrase is in printing
offices. the names Of Montana towns
appear in the printed table as they did
in Inspector wayland's manuscript.
He writes the names of some of these
towns in grotesque style because. as l
suppose. he feels officially bound to
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IN THE old DAYS.

do but accept, and I had the satisfac-
ton of knowing there was no chance of
election.
Il didn't make a speech in this cam-
paign; didn't leave Bannack. Toward
the time of election I began to feel very
worried. for so many democrats told me
and wrote me that they were going to
vote for me that I feared 1 might by
some possibility be elected. 1t would
have been utterly impossible for me to
give up my practice at that time and
&c to Washington. So 1 begged people
not to vote for me, and escaped cleo
ton by a comfortable margin, although
I believe my opponent had the smallest
majority of any democrat who had run
up to that time.
The territorial conventions weren't
passed around the state in those days.
as they are now. They were always
held in Virginia City at first and after
ward in Helena. The delegates would
go on horse and cayuse or in dead-axe
wagons. There were no carriages.
Proxies cut a great figure. 1t was hard
for many of the delegates to get away.
and a smart politician would travel over
the state and collect all the proxies he
could.
The precincts selected their dele
gates then about as they do now. Usu-
ally there were mass meetings in the
various precincts just before the coun-
ty convention, and the people would Sc
lect delegates to the convention at these
meetings. The territory was cam
paigned more thoroughly in those days
than II is now. I remember once we
had arranged for a republican mass
meeting at Bannack. A man named
Clytus Barber had been engaged to
speak, and he. came riding in accom-
panied by a rough looking fellow who
wore a flannel shirt and broad-brimmed
hat. Suddenly CONSERVATION prevailed
when 1t was learned that anne NJ. Cav-
anaugh. the democratic candidate, had
arrived in town and was going to
speak. A joint meeting was arranged,
but we knew Barber couldn't talk with
Cavanaugh. This stranger nor of us
knew, but a democratic friend of mine
gave me a tip to put the stranger on.
He had heard him before, so l took the
democratic tip and took chances on the
stranger. Well, sir, you never heard
such a debate. 1t lasted until 3 O'Clock
in the morning, the speakers taking
turns. / never heard such an orator as
that stranger. 1t turned out to be Will
liam Henry Claggett, who is now in
Idaho and contested Dubois seat in the
United States a a few years ago.
1t seems that Claggett was a good law
yer, used to be Dixon partner In the
Black Hills. But he had the mining
fever and whenever he heard of a new
mining camp he would throw aside his
law books and start for it. We after
ward ran him for congress, and he
would have been elected If he hadn't
been so abusive of the democrats. That
first appearance of his, however, in his
soiled miners clothes was a revelation
in oratory to this part of the country.
"whiskey cut a great figure in cleo
lions In those days. Each side would
have a keg in each saloon. 1 remember
in one election in Bannack there was
a Frenchman named Meron. He sell
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Montana Boys Are All Right

"It was a theme of universal COM
ment in San Francisco" said w. E.
Bond, who has just returned from that
city. that in physique the Montana
regiment made by far the best appear
ance of all the volunteers quartered
there. They were literally head and
shoulders above any of the others. The
Montana boys. in fact, are as strong.
well-made and rugged a lot of soldiers
as one will see anywhere in the world.
The percentage of illness among them
has been very small. and that notwith-
standing the indisputable fact that at
times their rations were miserable stuff,
unfit, you might say. for crows and vul
lures. The complaint Of the Butte com
pany that rebelled one morning on ac-
count of the poor quality of the food
served to them was unquestionably
just. The company. however. made a
serious mistake in not registering their
objections in the proper manner to the
proper officers. An investigation. how
ever, showed that the complaint was so
w~ell-grounded that the boys escaped
punishment. The very next day 1,400
pounds Of rancid bacon was condemned
and thrown away.
"Of course there has been a great
deal of soreness in the regiment over
the fact that, although IL was the first
volunteer regiment in the country to
complete its organization and tender its
services to the president, IL has been
held until the last to start for the Phil
ippines. Various reasons are assigned
for this unfortunate delay. The opin-
ion is general in the regiment that poll
tics has had much to do with IL. There
Is also universal regret among the off,
GERS that Colonel Kessler's temporary
assignment to a brigadier generalship
was not made permanent.
That the boys will acquit themselves
handsomely in the Philippines, especial
ly if there is any fighting to be done.
is a foregone conclusion. The time they
have spent in San Francisco has been
consumed in hard drilling. They are
trained down and in the very best Of
shape physically. Captain Hallahan's
company has impressed critical observ-
ers very favorably. In appearance, it is
one of the most conspicuous companies
in the regiment. 1t is composed Of strap
ping big. husky fellows who drill X
clockwork. But / am not drawing any
invidious comparisons. l speak of Hal
lahan's company only because IL had
had no previous existence as a member
of the National Guard and hardly any
of its members knew the slightest rudi-
ments of military drill"
EGGLEsToN.
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BASINS GOOD MINES.

Special Correspondence of the
Basin, July 14-Lieutenant Governor
A. +. Spriggs. superintendent and gen.
eral manager of the Ruby mine. was
here his morning on his return from
Butte. where he attended a meeting OF
the board of directors of the Gold Noun
tain Mining company yesterday. At
this meeting OF the board II was decided
TO resume the work of sinking the Ruby
shaft from the 5o0-foot level. where min
ing is now in progress. The mine II
still producing considerable rich ore
from the upper levels. but the ground
Is becoming pretty well worked out. and
IL is desired TO open up the ore body at
a greater depth as soon as possible. so
as TO keep the production up to the
highest possible figure. The wagon
road over which they have to haul their
product to the railroad Is now dry and
in good condition. affording them more
favorable transportation thai they have
heretofore enjoyed since the opening OF
the spring season.
Ex-Mayor William Thompson OF
Butte now has a considerable force OF
men employed on the North Boulder
mine near Bernice. The water Is now
about all pumped out of the old shaft.
and the mine is being put in good
shape for mining operations.
Work is progressing nicely on the new
Katie works. and the framework OF the
new smelter is rapidly nearing compile
ton. At the mine the new shaft Is go
ing down rapidly. and the pumps are
running steadily. taking the water out
of the old works at a rapid rate.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-17

more on the agency of yellow fever In
the destruction Of the unacclimated
Spanish soldiers than on their own ef-
forts. The methods of prevention are
well known. Absolute exclusion of the
germ Of yellow fever from any locality
is an absolute preventive of the fever"
Rigid quarantine. disinfection Of cloth
ing. etc; isolation Of the sick and de-
population of the locality will prevent
the spread Of the disease. but the only
way to avoid the disease is to keep away
from the affected locality.
Our quarantine system. maintained
and employed by the several states. SUBJ
ject to inspection by the United States
marine hospital service, is adequate.
having established stations upon our
seacoast islands at convenient distances
from the principal ports; there being
one off the coast of Georgia. one at Dry
Tortugas and one at Ship Island taking
care OF the gulf. All infected ships are
sent for disinfection and treatment TO
these stations. The large cities in the
South also maintain quarantine plants.
With such men as Drs. Guiteras and
~Sternberg directing the care of the men,
we may rest assured that all known
methods OF prevention and treatment
will be taken and satisfactorily carried
out; both are acknowledged authorities
on the subject throughout the civilized
world. The treatment OF yellow fever
is peculiarly medical; various systems
have been taught by different observers.
With our knowledge of the cause OF fhe
disease. it is ardently to be hoped that
DIR. Sanarelli, who discovered the germ
one year ago and who is still expert
menting. may be able to give US a spe-
cific remedy for the cure of this dis
ease, which has heretofore bafied our
noblest efforts. 1t is fair to state, how
ever, that his latest reports are not
encouraging. Strange 10 say. l have
of people. after reading about the spread
of yellow fever. have been in doubt as
to the meaning of the word immune
The meaning that suggests itself natu-
rally and off-hand is the right one-an
immune is a person who has had the
fever and who by that fact is protected
from a second attack; he has immunity
for the disease. Having written this
much, in an aim to convey to the reader
a very general idea respecting yellow
fever, l find myself. undo the limit of
space assigned, obliged to omit. with
out wen mentioning them, many inter-
esting facts about this disease, a case
of which few of us in this latitude have
ever seen. ]. F. SPELMAN, NJ. d.
Anaconda, July 16.
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To enter into any of the details that
relate to yellow fever would be quite
out of the question within the space
to which I must limit myself. yet 1t
may be h a in response to the Stand
ards request I can present, even in a
few lines, some of the items tina will
serve as general information for those
who follow with such deep interest the
fate and the fortunes, good and Ill, Of
our soldiers now in Cuba.
Yellow fever Is a disease that holds
sway In tropical M sub-tropical coun-
tries. characterized by jaundice and
hemorrhages and due to a specific virus
known as the Bacillus Icteroides of
Sanarelli.
While there Is SOM doubt regarding
the identity of this germ. 1t is more
than likely that DR.. Sanarelli of Rio
Janiero, Brazil. is entitled to the dis
tinction of discovering the real cause
of yellow fever.
The countries which are infected
by yellow fever are divided by Guiteras
into three zones: First. the focal zone.
in which the disease is never absent, in
Guiding Havana, Vera Cruz, Rio jan
Zero, Matanzas and other Spanish
American ports; second. the regions of
periodic epidemics, which comprise the
African Atlantic coast, a few seaports
of the American Pacific coast ard the
majority of the sub-tropical Atlantic
United States seaports, including New
Orleans; third, the zone of accidental
epidemics, which includes all countries
bordering on the Atlantic ocean be-
tween the parallels of As degrees north
and IS degrees south latitude.
Yellow fever does not prevail as an
endemic disease In places which have
a mean winter temperature much below
IS degrees Fahrenheit; as a rule cpl
denies are not developed at a lower
temperature than 75 or so degrees Fab
renheit, and not at an altitude of more
than 1000 feet. The approach of cold
weather usually checks an epidemic as
do transforms. which flood the sewers
and remove the filth. 1t il essentially
a disease Of the summer months. pre-
vailing along the coast and on the mar
gins of the great rivers.
The early history of yellow fever is
involved in obscurity, there being M
definite data on which we can rely as
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Sunday Battles.

From the Baltimore Herald.
Sunday as a day for fighting is wonder
fully popular. Not only is past history
full of instances of battles fought upon
that day of rest, but the United States
and Spain are making history now in
which the two most important engage
ments have taken place on Sunday. II
seems strange. indeed. that the very day
mad sacred to the Prince of Peace should
so often be that on which war in all its
awful power awakes, and amid the thun-
der Of cannon. hurls thousands of human
feated IN Manila bay on Sunday. and two
months later Cervera's fleet was blown
TO pieces of Santiago on the same day
OF the week. The irony of fate shows
in these Sunday battles as strongly as in
anything In human affairs.
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In these days Of ofice-seeking 1t Is
scarcely conceivable that there is a man
now living in Butte who passed sleep
less nights for fear he would be elected
when he ran for delegate to congress in
Montana territory less than a quarter
Of a century ago. Candidates for office
In these days pass sleepless nights all
right and they make others pass sleep
less nights also, but their nights are
made sleepless by worry and fear of de-
feat, and they don't go around entreat-
ing people not to vote for them, as DR..
e. d. Leavitt once did.
DR.. Leavftt doesn't pay much atten-
ton to Montana politics now, though
he boasts of the fact that he is m Of
the few Mckinley republicans in Butte.
In the early days the doctor was a
power in Montana politics and many is
the amusing story he can tell about the
politics of those days.
"Oh, yes said the doctor, when a
Standard reporter opened up a chat with
him yesterday afternoon. Yes. we
had some good times in those days.
The republicans only ran for the fun of
running-the democrats had every
thing their own way in the territory in
the early days and all we could do was
to keep up a party organization and
once in a while sneak in a candidate
through the division Of our enemies
That reminds me of a funny one. But
don't put in any names"
"No."
mo, don't you do it. 1t wouldn't do
at all. 1t seems that one year we elect
- %AA AIn~AN2 - DNr0vocC fhraxyOb q
division in the ranks of the democrats.
the Irish boiling the ticket. That was
way back in the sixties. 1 think. Well.
the defeated democratic candidate was
very bitter. of course, and the night
after election he was pretty well loaded
up. He stood at the bar drinking with
some friends and he saw an Irishman
standing over the other end of the bar.
The defeated candidate couldn't resist
a chance to give the Irishman a shot,
so he remarked in a drawing way:
What did General Washington mean
when he said In time of battle to put
one but Americans on guard?
""what did he mean?' retorted the
Irishman. Why he meant to look out
for the id Missourians!'"
When the reporter quit smiling he
asked the doctor about the time he ran
for congress.
"Oh, well,' said the doctor. 'let that
down light. Don say much about that.
I was living in Bannack at that time. I
was always a delegate to the county
convention and usually to the territorial
convention. This particular year, I've
forgotten what year it was, 1 couldn't
get away to go to the territorial con-
vention. When the delegates got back
they told me / had been nominated for
congress. I never dreamed of such a
thing. I had supposed that Colonel
Sanders would be nominated as usual.
He used to take the nomination just
for the fun of going around the state
telling democrats what he thought of
them. There were no telegraph lines
then and by the time I learned of my
nomination all the delegates had reached
their homes There seemed nothing to
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Chinese Cruiser sunk.

San Francisco. July i6.-Details Of the
sinking of the Chinese cruiser Flu CHING
of Port Arthur on June 3 confirm pre-
vtous deports that the crew Of 20 men
were drowned cn.y nve men escaping
The vessel was driven on shore BY q
strong wind. The crew sought refuge In
the rigging. Men from the warships IN
the harhor tried 10 save the sailors OF
the Flu Ching by firing rockets with lines
attached. brit the chiresS did not know
how to use the lines that reached them.
The sea was too rough to permi. the use
Of boats and I'm a few hours the cruis%r
was a total wreck. nearly all the erew
perishing.
The Dutch steamer Simit. Captain
Karst. Was lost on Jun , on the Core
coast The crew. cCnSi<t'rg 90 n Eui
peans. four Chinese. with seven Chine .
surercarEoes. took the tree clipis boz ;
and were landed with Gficulty. II =
have since gone TO Nagasskt