The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-01
THEY ARE DISCONNECTED
Montana Volunteers Disguised
With the Situation.
SICKNESS AND BAD FOOD
Several Given . D1shonorable Discharge
and Len TO ssarve in Manils-No t.
More Passss Are Issued-In-
surgsnts Troublesome.

Inc STANDARD 0aS received an dnOny-
nous Communication from the boys
Of the LIST Montana regiment" How
many OF the boys Joined in the COM
mupication there - no means OF know
ing. but the letter. would indicate that
there rs a good deal of discomfort and
dissatisfaction. The letter says in part
Most i3n of h Montana boys are
~disgusted with the place n the treat
ment they are getting. You can have
no idea how unpleasant things are for
the boys here. THE hot weather. sick
ness and bad ghab combine to make
nearly every one dissatisfied. We have
been housed up In rhis little old hole
five or six weeks. THEY have stopped
all Of our passes to Manila and given
us a good hard drili every afternoon
instead Of a pass. They pave given
three of the boys a dishonorable dis
charge and turned them loose out here
without one cent In their pocketk. What
can they do out here for a fyingy
There is no work for them to DO. I
think the boys should have been sent
back to Frisco instead of being lft
here to starve. The dishonorable dist
charge Is punishment enough for what
they have done. The people Of Butte
would be greatly surprised to see their
boys now. They left Butte a jolly.
happy lot; now they are thoroughly
discouraged and heart-broken. and you
would not think they were the same.
The happiest day of our lives will be
the day when we start for home, sweet
home"
In the course of a letter to his father
in this city. Secon Lieutenant w. Il.
Knowlton of Company q says:
.yVhan urA lAff raxffa wa had afAara
to take five days rations and be ready
to move I'm light marching order at
short notice. Two or three thousand
insurgents were camped near here and
were ordered by Major General Otis
to move before IL O'Clock. Oct. %. We
were coins out to move them IL they
hadn't moved. They were going to
sen four batteries and some other in
fantry. We didn't have to go, how
ever. for at IL o'clock yesterday they
commenced to move. We weren't very
sorry. for 1t rained all the night be-
fore and all day yesterday and II would
ave been very disagreeable out I'm the
trenches.
Our first and second ~battalions came
owe on the oath. The third Is still at
Cavite. The men are quartered In a
big warehouse and are awfully crowd
ed. The officers have real nice quar-
tiers. but our board costs like every
tAA ,tBI, Af'F NoAh NJ nv -,
about cheap living here. but IL IL inn
possible TO liveaiss good here as in
Butte. Everything they have here a
Is Mt to eat comes from America-all
the fruit and vegetables. bacon. ham.
etc. I don't believe 8 per cent of the
soldiers here wantpour country to hold
these islands. Every one wants to
come home. Even the regulars are
very much disguised at the prospects
of a long stay here"
Al Baker. with the LIST Montaue at
Manila. writes to his parents here'that
he is thoroughly Disguised with his job
and says that the only consolation he
finds I'm his monotonous life is the as
suranc that some day he will be re
leased from what he characterizes as
his prison life. He says that the
p~leasantest sight that has greeted his
eyes since he arrived on the island
was the appearances in camp of IA Red
Cross women-Americans. The repul-
sive black natives are eyesores and he
Is Disguised with his surroundings.
He speaks of the wonderful change
hat has come over the Montana boys
since they left San Francisco. Then
they were the happiest band of young
men ever seen. Now they seldom smile.
and only when cheering letters from
home are read does a smile pass over
their c-ountenances. They ind little in
the situation to cause them to rejoice
and much to depress their spirits.