The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-06-25


With the Hospital corps of the First
Colorado is Claude Z. Cooper. son of
the veteran business manager of the
Denver Republican. Young Cooper Is
a medical student. He leaves a fine
home and excellent prospects in Den
yer.
Fer the benefit and use of the hos
piral department of the Tenth Penn
syivania there was contributed $1,000
by COnneIsvilIe $500 by Washington
county. $500 by Beaver county and
liberal amounts by other town and
counties.
Francis Carey IS the name of the
trumpeter of the Colorado regiment
who has served thirty years N the
regular army. Carey is As years OF
| age and was married four days be
fore his reg ment left Denver for san
| Francisco.
The rich man of the second eXpedi-
| ton is Private Byron Mckeown OF
the Tenth Pennsylvania, who is a mill
| lionaire HIS father was an oil baron.
| Private McKeOwn makes a good fellow
| of himself with everybody and IS cor
respondingly popular
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| Col. Hawkins, Tenth Pennsylvania
! has, since going to his command. been
nominated for the State Senate on the
| Republican ticket and word was sent
| that he would be elected whether or
no he came back to serve. The colonel
| is enlisted for the war.
Lieut.. CoultOn of the Tenth Penn
| sylvania is the son of Fighting Dick
! COultOn who was at the head of a
! PENNSYLVANIA regiment during the civ
| H. The father of the McCandless
| brothers Of this country was in the re-
giment of Col. Coulton.
VIM. Nelson, Jr., in Capt. Young's
! company of the Utah Artillery, is the
| son of Col. Nelson, managing editor
| of the Salt Lake Tribune. Young Mel
| son is an old hand comp" a machine
operator and a good writer. He will
send back letters to The Tribune.
The Pennsylvania militia law allows
| only fife and drum corps for regular
field music. That is the reason the
! Tenth is without a band. OF course
| the officers of the Tenth and the men
as well declare that they like the
| sheep skin band better than brass.
Col Hawkins of the Tenth Penn
| syIvania went into the civil war as a
private and came out q captain. He
is greatly admired by his men. The
colonel has one son with him as q
captain and another, a West Pointer,
is with the American forces in Cuba
as q lieutenant.
John F. Bass is on the China for Ma
Mia in the interests of Harper s
Weekly" the London Chronicle
and the New York Evening Post"
| Mr.. Bass has won deserved fame as a
war correspondent, representing the
! New York Journal during the Greek
Turkish campaigns.
Walter Dempsey leaves Company B
| of the n. C. II. to be a soldier for
| Uncle Sam in Manila. Dempsey has
| been in Honolulu but a few months,
! but as made many friends. He is a
| young man who has been in the Oahu
Railway train service.
Nebraska is corn State, for one
! thing. Yesterday a squad of the First
! Nebraska saw green corn at a store.
| The sergeant commanded: Right
| face Salute" The emblem of the
home State was given all honor and
| the squad passed on looking for more
pineapples or pretty girls.
| Capt. Taylor commands the Thurs
| ton Rifles of Omaha, the crack
company of the whole Manila force.
nj "a 20
| Memphis, Tenn. for drilling and a
| of camp discipline. 1t is a splendid
company and "quite swell"
In the large batch of letters written
| by the Roys in Blue at the Waverley
Club yesterday the following states
| were represented: California, Colorado,
Texas, Kansas, Kentucky, Pennsyl-
vania, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Mich
igan, Missouri, Wyoming and Wash
| ingtOn The pool and billiard tables
were well patronized.
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In the Regulars of the 18th Regi-
ment is Lieut. z. E. Hatch who was
military instructor in the University
| of Maine for three years while w. R.
Harrington, former editor of the Ad-
yertiser was student there. It was in
the prize drill Of the State of Maine in
1890 that Mr.. harrington as Captain
Of A Company from the University,
won first place. Lieut.. Hatch was then
military instructor
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The Tenth Of Pennsylvania IS IN
der command Of Colonel a. L. Haw-
kins, q veteran of the War Of the Re
belliOn. He is strict disciplinarian,
but just, and has the respect and es-
TEEN Of his entire command. LieUten-
ant Colonel Barnett is now in Penn
sylvania, bringing on recruits, in or
der to make each Of the eight com
panies 100 in number, and viii join
the regiment at Manila.
Frank Tldbau, regimentaI clerk in