The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-11-04
LETTER FROM PORTO RICO.

The GAZETTE is under obliga-
ton to Captain j. w. Craw-
ford of this city for permis-
,,o,. 10 make extracts from very |
Interesting letter received by hlm
r........llv. written by Lieutenant q.
E., Dentler of the Eleventh U. ;.
Infantry now serving IN Porto
Rico.
j We are having the rainy season
now, and tonight reminds me very
much of Oregon, and this country
for beauty of landscape is very
much like some parts OF the VIII
annette Valley; but the Oreson
country is far ahead of this all
things considered. The people III
the Oregon country are white,
some of the whitest on the earth.
Here all are the vilest type OF nlg-
gers: filth and disease is the char
acteristic Of the common Puerl"
Rican. aud Uncle Sam has a big
lob Of civilization on his hands
here il he does his duty. "
, course, there are some good people,
but | speak of the masses. There
is no cold weather here, even in the
e mountains of the interior. The
highest peak Is not as high as deal
Y old Marvs peak that looms up sc
IS fine west of the O. A. @. The
four happiest years of my life
were spent in sight of that deal
old mountain and it seems like
. rood old friend. 1t may be phil
~ anthropic and Christian for US, th'
- Uaited States, to take i'll the tll'
"a nrger and the Malay. But
~ can't help feeling that it would b
~ =. batter for the United States If w
10, -, would start in and kill them all OF
-, - at once. We may have it to do l
-. Cuba and the Philippines if nc
:, in Puerto Rico.
na The Puerto Rico women,all nav
- =, good hair and do it up in fine sty le
l.. bnt their faces would stop w;
~ ,erbury double timer watch, or TIA
ii Corvallis town clock.
'as The army and navy have Gel
90 tainlv done the work cut out tC
~, W them IN good style, and the p'ar
on m and execution of them here wei
(nr simply perfect; ten days mol
,,t would certainly have seen almo
,dD all the Spanish forces IN Puer
,vs Rico killed or captured, and 81
n,ra Juan at our mercy, with what w;
,vo left. Gen. Miles won the prals
~, of every book soldier i'll the arm
his and the practical fellows toe, |
nr his strategy and his energy in tn
d. island. Ny own regiment has
ala record of killing and woundll
bat POS. dispensing as fugitives 70
.nn and capturing 1856, with 250O Ma
sers and several hundred tho
,or sand rounds of ammunition; o
M Colonel, one Lieutenant Colon
and % other officers OF the 4
Viz phonzo XIII Regiment, and t'
,.J baltalions of Volunteer troo
h.t that confronted us at Hormlguer'
M hs Mavaguez and Las Marias. In t
nst meantime Gen. Miles had thro'
;rs Gen. Henry's Brigade between q
:, Ioppaneuts ndSan Juan, SO Il
,va if the Protocol had not suspend
w. our movements all of the II
- Spaniards, Regulars, and 1900
han more volunteers opposed to
a.a must have been killed or capture
,,nr Our fellows are fighters, eager
,va the fray, there is no doubt of tn
nnr You ask how | like field servi
h.t Well there is a thrill about tie
,are service that you can find nowh'
~, else! | saw men who had marc
ed under broiling sun and so:
- ing rain with sore feet and achi
,,ot legs fall out and get helped Ii
,I.n THE ambulance. and when the co
~ mand got under fire and the z
NV zip! of the mauser bullets told wl
nOo was going on these same ami
IND lance baskers climbed out selze'
,,s rifle. overtake their compan
r.,a: and tear along for miles after
10 enemy; tired! if they We're I'll
he did not know it. My compa
and charged through swamp VIII
I'D some of the men had to swim, :
ra.n we all went in up to our nee
tbe and the bullets splashing the
ter all around us, out they all
ran out and double timed up SIT
.otd hill like there was gold on
Ill waiting for them, instead of
companies of Spanish Resul;
$50 strong each, with mausers ;
vss in rifle pits. Captain, If the l
rr,, Inf. had been In those rifle P
han 10000 of the best troops on cd
cou1d not have passed by t