The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-24

&C Cd deal Of noise now ami The men all
became interested in he work Q! The D@t-
teries. Suddenly one portion Of the block
house at Ell Caney wear Up IN 4 cloud Of
dust and the enemy poured out ike bees.
and the men cheered all along the line.
Everybody felt gleeful and glad they were
there. 1t was a grand sight. Then the
Spaniards brought smokeless powder
battery In their rear 10 play on and 81
sence the two American batteries. Chaun-
coy and his men then heard their first
sheEs. They make a noise like rushing a
stick through water quickly. Again
Chauncey's company was ordered 10 ad-
vance. Things were getting interesting.
II was awfully hot The men threw their
coats and hats away. They could hear
some bullets singing. The men were most
ly grim about IL, though some Of them
toked- No one had been hurt yet. They
halted. They all got down in the grass
(about three feet higt) except Chauncey.
He was taking a general survey OF the
field and was smoking a pipe. which he
purchased Of Husey, here in Wichita.
There was a big piff Of dust at his feet
and he turned 10 look at 1t. when some
thing Jared his pipe He squatted quick
ly and looked at his pipe. It had been
nicked on the stem with a Mauser bull
let It didn't knock 1t from his mouth.
He put il in his pocket and placed his
handkerchief over II to keep It from losing
out.
While sitting there thinking about that
pipe he noticed about thirty colored SOL
diers from regiment on his right fall
10
got up and ordered them to halt. He also
cooked a six-shooter. They came over 10
him and he put them behind his com
pany. a sharpshooter. the same that had
fired at Chauncey, had been plunking az
them. The coIored corporal said to
Chauncey, pointing to a tree in front over
a quarter of mile ahead:
Lieutenant, there's a Spaniard up N
that tree
"Where?" asked Chauncey, anxious 20
see the fellow who had hit his pipe,
up there" said the corporal. I'll
just bring him down"
He raised his rife but Chauncey pulled
it down.
You can't shoot" he said 1--WE have
no orders to shoot The smoke would
give our position away. Where is the
Spaniard?"
Lieutenant. you just sight along this
gun-barrel and you will see his old straw
hat"
Chauncey sighted along the gun-barrel
and sure enough saw yellow straw hat
away up in the tree.
That must have been the man who hit
his pipe. He sent a messenger to the
adjutant asking permission to bring the
sharpshooter down. The answer was
short: No firing under any circum-
stances.
Then Chauncey sneaked back 10 his
colonel and showed him the pipe.
well, laughed the colonel, "he did
come mighty near getting you"
well, can't we get him DOWN.
The colonel studied awhile and said:
"You can have just one shot"
Chauncey rushed back to his company.
He and the negro corporal slipped up
through the grass to that tree. Then
they stopped. The corporal wanted to
shoot Chauncey took his rife away from
him. lay back on his back, put the end
of the rife between his toes. aimed for
the Spanish sharpshooter and fired. There
was rustic in the tree and PUNK on the
ground The corporal slipped up and
took a small cockade from the dead Span
iard's hat and a star from his coat. his
rife and came back. These trinkets, ex-
cepting the rife, Chauncey still has.
Then the company had orders to ad
vance. They started up. The underbrush