Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-08-04
WANTS TO CHOKE Her.
SERGEANT HUTTON Is LOOKING
FOR MADAM RUMOR WITH
A SEARCH WARRANT.
For Intimating That the Fifth Regi-
ment Will Leave Chickamauga
and Go to Sedalia, Which
Offered $1,000 For
the Move.
Correspondence of the Ledger.

A,uA, July @o'-A my
sincere wish that possessed the power
of an attorney and a %corporal's guard
in order that 1 may find Madam Ru-
NOR and choke her to death. She has
been so tickle and has played 80 many
cruel Jokes on us that I am thorough
ly at outs with her. Her latest esca'
pade was to start the report that the
report thai the Fifth would be moved
to Sedalia, Mo-, where they would be
in camp till fall, when the movement
on Havana will begin.
1t Ia understood that Sedalia has Of
fered $4,000 for such a change; but
that would a little less than pay the
cost of transporting the regiment
there. Lieut.. Col. Morgan is reported
to have said late yesterday evening
that the move needed but the sanction
of President Mckinley to be perfectly
satisfactory. One thing sure is, that
an immediate change of some kind is
necessary, for our water supply is not
only diminishing very rapidly and
what there Is is becoming very poor
in quality. Further, on the same sub
ject, a tailor from Chattanooga was in
camp yesterday and inquired Of Capt.
English, of Company l, If there would
be any objections to him setting up a
tailoring establishment in the regi-
ment. Capt. English told the nan
before Lieut.. Col. Morgan VINO, it is
reported, said that he had no objec-
ton to the proposed plan but that he
thought that it would be time thrown
away, as the regiment would be here
but a few days.
Good advice may be for one;to take
the report for what it is worth, but
1t would take a Kansas City mule buy
er to say what it is really worth. Such
reports are too plentiful to be of great
intrinsic value in this locality. The
great trouble here is that we have
moved so often, in the minds of the
enlisted men in the regiment, that we
will have to have a general order"
read before wen believe anything.
A large amount of equipment was
issued to the regiment yesterday and
the boys can now wash their blue
shirts or sew a few buttons on with
out having to retire to the friendly
folds of their blankets to do 80.
Company X, of this regiment, went
out on outpost duty at Cave Springs
to-day. Their duty lasts for four
days. 1 think that we will follow
about Wednesday and, shortly after,
we will be sent to the target range in
heavy marching order for four days
target practice. While there we will
live as we would in field service, as
also we will while on outpost duty.
Since writing the above a beautiful, |
as well as a most welcome, shower
has began falling. 1t is indeed pleas
ant to have the scorched face of moth
er earth dampened by one of these
cool southern showers, and the boys
can be cen down the line showing
their appreciation Of this relief from
the heat and dust of a drouth.
Five minutes elapses and that con-
founded, spattering, sputtering and
drenching rain is still with us and the
tents have begun to leak; it always
seems that these southeast rains
come on at a time when everything is
out of proper shape. don't see why
the rain can't wait awhile. We didn't
need 1t anyway.
We have ten men on regimental
guard duty to-day. This is twice as
many as we usually furnish, but on
account of the first battalion and Co. |
K being out of camp we were called
on for the large detail. Besides this
we have n man at the quartermas-
ter's, three at corps headquarters and
seven men detailed to handle wild
mules. / understand, though, that
the regimental officers refused to ac-
cspt the mules offered by the govern
ment, as they were these scrawny
Texas mules.
By the way, they are giving each
company another wagon and four
more mules; another indication that
the government is not through with
the Fifth Missouri.
l have just been mi in the rain
gathering up some ponchos to lend to
Company K. Capt. Fnlkerson came
to me and asked If he could borrow a
few, al his men had such a long march
to make. Had i5 been anyone else
who had made the request / would
have had q hard time to get the arti-
cles, but when they asked who want
ed them and / told them, Captain Full
kerson, they said ''sure."
The Captain is a doctor, and q most
excellent one. He has q larger as
sortment of medicicns, l believe, than
the hospital department.; and he has
treated q great many of the boys of
Company l.. He refuses compensa-
ton either for his medicine or SER
vices.
That plagued rain Is still raining.
WILL HUTTON.
Returned to Duty.
From the Montgomery Standard.
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