The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1899-10-14

per quart, some beer sells for one dol
lar per quart; of course there is cheap |
er whiskey than that, but wniskey |
that costs two dollars per gallon in the
states, costs four or five here-every>
thing else in proportion. August the
18th. Position Of army same as yester-
day. 1 think from what l can learn
they are going to make another dash
tomorrow. There was d seargent on
outpost night before last about four
hundred Yards from here and his rifle
Academia ly discharged and shot him
through the arm, just below the elbow.
His elbow was shot all to pieces and
some of the men said today that his
arm would have to be taken off, The
patrol went out this evening and
captured twelve men. Some OF them
we're Cinnamon and some Philippines
and here was also al old woman just
come from Mexico yesterday and was
stopped by the guards. They thought
she mad leprosy; she was quite pitt
full sight indeed. She was SO lame she
could hardly walk. There have been
several cases Of leprosy found on the
Island, but people don't seem to think
any thing Of it.
/ certainly had a fine supper tonight.
We had fried potatoes, canned corn,
nice soup with pastry and corn in it.
Tea and milk for breakfast with light
bread, toast, oat meal, milk and coffee.
OF course we use condensed milk al
together, but it is all right. They
have just sent patrol of about thirty
men out to Mexico and I understand
they are going 10 run wire out there
today and station me there. They say
it is h nice little town, with about
four thousand inhabitant, or at least
there were that many before the
Americans captured it, but OF course
they run the most of them out. The
horses over here are just the size OF
our little shetland ponies. They are
brought here from Australia. They
hitch them to carts and wagons and
make them pull as big load as our
horses-they also make them pull
street cars. The government has is
sued a bill, prohibiting the use OF them
for street cars. They have carts some
thing like our dump carts that they
carry provisions and such stuff with,
being drawn by the coribon, something
like our oxen, only they are much SLOW
err and have slick black skin. Some
of them have horns nearly six feet
from tip to tip. thought our oxen
went slow enough, but they arc like
horses compared to these. They are
also called the water OK. They car
not live out of water only for Il short
time, and the natives who drive them
have to let them get in water about
once every half hour or they will die
in the cart. Since wrote in the firs'
part of my letter I see in the paper
that the'report OF killed and wounded
in the fight was not so heavy-only six
killed, and forty wounded. lam glac
there were no more killed and wound
ed than there was. | was afraid there
would be a great many killed anc
wounded. will send you the firs'
page of the Manila paper. | had i,
lying on III" table and was going tt
send the whole paper homo aud some
one tore it up. also send you a mar
of the surrounding OF San Fernando
before and after the fight, as near as
can make, as to the position of Our
soldiers.
We had fine peach pie for supper to-
night and I had as much as I could eat.
They are having d little skirmish at
San Duis this:evening but don't think
it will amount to much. We can hear
the report of the rifles just as plain and
hear the bullets whistling. The natiy'
es use bamboo cannons and shoot every.
thing imaginable in them-old pieces
of stone, chain, nails, horse shoes and
all kinds OF scrap iron. I think there
must be lew cats in them from the
way they howl as they 60 by. There
was Spaniard captured yesterday
who reports that he has been a prison
er in the army for thirteen months.
He ssys they only have eight of our
men prisoners, and that they are we'll
treated, only they work them hard all
day. He brought some good informa-