The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-11-24


police duty down town. Our orders
are to arrest all gambling games, that
is the men that are playing, and keep
strict order in the street with our guns
and twenty rounds of ammunitiOns, and
when we arrest man we are not al
lowed to lay our hands on him, but
keep him ten feet in front of us, and if
he runs call on him three times and if
he don't stop to shoot. September IL
/ was walking my beat, which is in the
heart of the city and only three blocks
long, when | saw a Chinaman in a cor
ner drug store, and I watched him
a few minutes, thinking he prob
ably worked there, as it was 4:3O in the
morning, but when l saw him go to
show case and take things out and put
them under his shirt, then / went over
and tried the door. He saw me and
ran for side window. / ran around
and when he landed on the sidewalk he
jumped about eight feet. had my
gun under his nose and called on him
to stop. | did not dare touch him, so
| had to call on him to stop | called
on him three times. He would not
stop so I shot and missed him. 1 shot
again and struck him; the bullet went
through his neck, He died the same
day at Hos o'clock. That is on my
| list; may get some more.
The Cinnamon around here are the
biggest thieves you ever want to cast
your eyes on. There is one or two shot
every week, being caught in some place
stealing. You see when we tell them
to halt they don't know what it means.
They can't understand our language so
they keep on running, and of course,
we have to shoot.
Dear sister, l must tell you how we
live in this country. Our quarters are
nicely fixed up now. We all have
canvas cots, with feather pillows; we
also have hammOCks. We can sleep in
hammocks, or on our cots, just as we
please. Our food is all light; it mostly
consists of rice, sweet potatoes and
Murphys, prunes, very little meat. In
the morning we have coffee, but at
dinner and supper, tea. All our water
is filtered; our regiment has a tiltering
plant with a capacity of 1000 gallons
of water in day, so we have plenty OF
pure water. We are all in the best OF
| health Three of our company have
/ typhoid fever, but it is not in a severe
form here; those that have it get out
of the hospital in three or four weeks.
The only thing we have to be careful
of is what we eat and drink, to keep
our stomachs in a good condition so we
may not get dysentery, which is very
severe in this climate. Another thing
is not to get wet. If we should happen
to get wet we change our clothes as
soon as possible. AS a general rule we
are very careful what we eat. This,
getting wet may set into malariaE
fever, which will send US to the hos
pital for awhile The yellow fever the
soldiers get in Cuba is unknown here.
We are dressed in white thin suits and
white cork helmets, and the black belts
with twenty shiny cartridges makes
quite a pretty appearance. We have
all our blue clothes stored away.
| We can buy some very nice things
here very cheap. l bought one of the
finest China silk handkerchiefs for 90
cents, that is 30 cents in American
money. This is something new toyOu.
We get eleven Spanish dollars for our
five dollar gold pieces and 500 for our
$40 pieces, and an even two for one for
all our silver. We go into a store and
buy something that costs a Spanish
dollar; we give an American half dollar
and the bill is paid.
I was off duty last night and [ took
a good nights sleep, but have to go
out tonight again. 1t is 2:30 and / am
going to have an afternoon nap until 6
O'Clock. Then I will have supper; we
have chicken for supper and / WON'T
miss it. / have to go on duty at 7:3O.
CHRIS. j. Cook,
Co. A, 18th Infantry, Manila, Philip
pine Island.
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