The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-01

CHRIsrOPHER =. LYNCH. or TACO.
MA. KILLED BY A FALL
washinGtan volanteefs Had 81
Not Losing q Man since They Were
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for Discharge.


SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. @.-The hrst
death In the regimen. is 10 be re-
corded this week Private Christopher
J. Lynch. OF Tacoma, a member OF Com
pany K. died last Thursday At midnight
from rupture of the bladder. caused by an
accidental fall week previous on the
inferred Friday afternoon AZ o'clock with
military honogs in the San Francisco ma
tional cemetery at the Preside. His en-
tire company. together with the FRS. regi-
ment band, participated. Lynch was
quiet. unasxuming man. well liked and re-
spected by all his comrades, and his death
was deeply regretted by all who knew him.
His un,imeiy end brought to a close the
unparalleled record of the Washington
regiment with respect to the absence Of
mortality among It's members, which has
been widely commented on, even by East
ern newspapers. and which is all the more
remarkable because In ali the other regi-
ments here at least score Of deaths have
occurred, and at the Preside there are SIX
or eight funerals daily. No more deaths
among the Washington volunteers are Ike
~ TO occur for some time. as there is nat
now single case OF serious illness Ia any
OF the battalons.
Drills are becoming easier. and the boys
are being granted more liberty since the
end of our service u apparently in view.
Several days ago the papers printed lists
OF the troops to be Immediately mustered
out, our regiment among them. There
were great demonstrations OF applause IN
the various companies when they heard
the news. good news for the enlisted men,
for the army is losing proposition fuan-
eialiy for most OF them Although no Off
ciai order has been received for our return
home no good reason seems 10 exist for
our further detention, and the general ex-
peetat.on Is that We Will be back in WASH
inston within a month.
Football is beginning to displacs base
ball as a claimant for popular favor among
the boys Strong teams are engaging IN
daily practice in all the battaiions. giving
promise Of hotiy contested games later in
the season.
The great esteem in which the officers
of Company F are held by their company
found expression last Monday evening, just
after dress parade, when each of the three.
Capt. Miller and Lieuts. Booker and Dorr.
received a handsome gold-mountei sword
as the gift of the company. The presenta-
tons were made by Sergt. DoIan, and as
the officers were taken completely by sur
prise. their impromptu responses were =
source OF delight to the assembled COM
pany.
Capt Moore. OF Company l., left Thurs
day for Spokane on a ffteen-day leave.
The members OF Company We're pleas
ed 10 have as a visitor on Saturday John
h Carroll. for several years a member of
the company In Seattle. Mr. Carroll goes
from here 10 Southern California on a
visit and at the end OF the week will re-
turn TO Seattle. Corporal Ralph Ross, OF
arm has Iaar fZ1
sergeant MA jor. in place of Joe Smith. who
has gone 10 Colfax on a furIoush. Private
Charles Reese, who has been sick for some
time. Is rapidly improving.
Prfvates Edward Davis and James II.
Moore have been discharged from COM
pany d for physical disability. Private
Bennett Is Off on D Through until Septem-
Der 10.
Corporal Ross. of Company E. has gone
to ME- Valley on twenty-day furiough.
George q. Georgia and John A. Custer
have been discharged from Company NJ for
physical disability. Winford Thorp leaves
Company Fl for the. same cause, and COM
rany has granted discharges to John d.
Moore and Moses f. Arnold.
John Il. Buckley has been transferred
from Company c to Company X. Two men
from Company c have been discharged.
Private Mcbride, through favor. and Pri-
waite corwin. from physical disability
Corporal John W. Brewer. OF Company
l, has been granted a thirty days fur
sough or account of his fathers sickness.
lie returned 10 Waaia Walla during tho
early part OF the week James &. Barker
was recently transferred 10 the Second
battalion hospital corps as private.
Washington visitors for the week have
been Mrs. William d. Gorham, Mrs. kath-
leen NJ, Goraan. George c. Ciorham, Mrs.
r. NJ. Maher and Carrie Stern, Of Seattle:
Miss Zueia Shelton. OF Tacoma: Edward
Jafdine. OF Vancouver: Margaret E Ad-
ans. Of Eliensburs: Mrs. John H. Melon
aid. Of Walla Walla: r. II. Z. Espey. OF
oySterviile. and Bernard Wflkeson. ex-
postmaster OF North Yakima
j W. SAYRE