The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-11-18

Gnan gu or lower than 6O degrees.
People come here and regain their
health and don't see why some of
the boys write such letters homo.
don't think some of these soldiers
know what they enlisted for and l
believe some of then. will learn more
in two years service than they would
have learned In lifetime at home.
1t will take some of them ssoff the baby
list "don't cbur know 2"
Our camp, Camp Mckinley" is at
the foot OF Diamond Head mountain
on high rolling ground. 1t is here
Col. Barber's Regiment, the LIST. New
York, 1850 men and our battalion of
Engineers is camped. Camp Otis is
just west of US at WAIKIKI Park. They
are both good camp grounds although
Camp Otis will not be desirable
place when the rainy season sets in
which IL some time next month, but
by that time Camp Otis will all be in
Manila as they are only waiting the
coming of the transport Arizona,
which Is due the 26 of October. Gen.
King Is in command here at present.
Col. Barber will be when King leaves
for Manila. AS for the deplorable
condition of this division of the army
it is all a fake. The complaint is
generally made by the same soldiers
that ride on a baggage wagon if we
are on march, or gets sick every
time they have to go on guard. They
want to go home and they should
have been left at home or sent to the
front where many better men went
and never got back.
| will now try snd tell you as near
as | can about some of the places of
interest have visited, Diamond Head
mountain being about the first.
Everything here is of volcanic origin
| and only after the second attempt did
reach the top. 1t ia very steep and
is very dangerous climbing from any
part, but the stars and stripes floats
from the highest crag. When you
get To the top from the west side it is
a grand view. The bottom of the era
or seems to be on level with the
ocean for there is a lake of water that
covers about five or six acres at the
bottom. Across the top OF the crater
! should judge 1t to be one mile wide
although have heard it estimated
from 1 to u miles. When / started
around the top, found it very mar
row. Time and the heavy rains they
have here have got it down to a festh.
or edge. There were some places /
hal to crawl as a mistake would
have cost me my life. From the top
had nice view of rice fields, the
cocoanut groves, banana fields and
the Punch bowl mountain, which is
just back and north of the city of
Honolulu. 1t was very rough trip,
but 1 consider the sight we'll worth
the trouble.
Next of interest is the Government
building, which is very nice struct-
ure and in front stands the statue of
King Kamehamehs, The First. The
next was the Bishops Museum. Here
| saw the grandest collection of cur
los ever saw. There is nothing in
Sc. Louis, Kansas City or Frisco that
equals it. Tho building is graud
structure built from blocks of lava and
the inside | can't begin to describe as
there is the grandest collection ever
saw. Just to the south of the mu.
scum is the Young Ladies Seminary
which is good building with beauti-
full surroundings. There is also a
beautiful church just north of the
museum. Honolulu has as nice
schools and churches as any place of
the size ever saw. The people here
are all right. They are not the
ignorant heathens that some people
think they are, but are intelligent
people. They have treated the SOL
der too well. He has been taken
into their homes and cared for, and in
return, in some cases, the soldier has
acted scandaloHsly, has plundered
and stolen things that would have
been cheerfully given him and has
acted 30 mean that it has become
necessary to put on provost guards
out in the country as far as five miles
from camp. don't like to say things
about the men am with but IL Ia n
matter of record as the Court Martial
will show. These are the men who
have been mistrested. They are the
men who want to go home and 1 will
just say think the people of Homo.
lulu and the country will be glad
when they are gone.
saw a soldier buried Sunday.
The funeral was from the church and
never saw the hearse pass a native
that did not take off his hat. / did