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Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21

with bacon in the SIDE, oags or cones,
cans Of tomato and hard tack. When
the men subsequently returned along
this trail to recover the sorely needed
rations. the horde Of Cuban camp fol-
lowers had carried Of everything.
About 10 at night the command
reached level. grassy fields south of FL
Caney and east of Santiago. The men
were under orders not to build fires, not
to talk loud. and. worn out with the heat
and tedious march, they lay down in
the wet grass and slept. Under the or
ders they could not strike light for
smoking and could not make coffee.
The chronicler Of all this is not disposed
70 gloss over anything, Dnt ne says tnat
there was no fault finding, as the men
realized that absolute secrecy and 81
lence were necessary to success.
The short march on the morning Of
July was toward Ell Caney battlefield.
Led by the regulars of the Eighth and
Twenty second the line marched past
Capron 8 guns, which had already open
Cd the ball. Finally, while the Second
was marching west along narrow
trail orders came to move by the right
flank into the brush. This shift Of di-
rection brought the men soon in front
of the Spanish lines. Capron's firing
meanwhile grew heavier, and the Mau'
ser fire aimed at the regulars in front
steadily increased, bullets going over
the heads of the Massachusetts men.
Says the regimental chrOnicler: 1T was
not to be expected but that the men
would be little nervous at what they
we're up against for the first time, but
there were very few men that baked,
and those who did were quickly spotted
by their comrades.
Through the brush the regiment made
its way to the Santiago-El Caney road
There the men discarded rolls and hav
ersack and all other impediments ex
cept canteens and rifles. In column o
fours the command moved up the roa(
toward Ell Ceney seven companie'
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21
Brookings County.
Land is rapidly advancing in price and
now Is the time to invest. Big profits are
sure 20 he gained by investing.

Land is rapidly advancing in price and
now Is the time to invest. Big profits are
sure 20 he gained by investing.
The county Of which Brookings Is the
county seat is the best adapted to diversified
farming of any in South Dakota. Situated In
the center of the renowned Big Sioux Valley
and watered by the Big Sioux river ana in
Vulnerable lakes. The soil IL of rich, black
loan and Is unsurpassed for fertility. The
best of water is found near the surface, ana
numerous small streams water the rich farm
lands in all directions. II contains 23 town
ships and 5DS,5si.43 acres Of gently roiiing
land, fully IS per cent OF which Is under cuiti'
vatiou Has lOi good schoolhouses valued at
about SlO0, 900 in round numbers. Good rail-
road facilities. Assessed valuation, l8ss,
ss.3l5,Ooo Tax levy, 1898, 10 mills fortgeneral
purposes Average crop for the past twenty
wears, Is bushels per acre. Fine herus OF
blooded stock and rich grazing lands NO
government landau occupied by sactual
settlers. Decided land can be purchased AT
from sl2 to $50 per acre according to location
Good railroads convenient for marketing
stock and grain.
Long distance telephone connects every
town WIN lHt Seab anu
many points in the state as well as into Min
nesota and Iowa.
The country neighborhoOds throughout tne
county have their churches where the people
worship every sunday.
During the past year large number OF Peo-
pie from the east have brought their tanlIies
10 Rrookings county and located perma-
nently. In every instance they are contented
with their choice of location and are prosper,
ing There are still opportunities for people oi
all classes to come here ana De lhoePehueht,
Nm state I'm the union offers better advantages
than can he found right here In the Sioux
Valley region.
Farmers in the east who contemplate com
ing west can find no better soil, no ostter ln-
cation and no better markets IN the Wnoie
northwest than Brookings county presents.
Come out and see for yourselves the banner
county of South Dakota
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21

up, eacn In advance or the FORMER, ano
on the 18th the line reached the bay.
completing the lines of investment.
Two days were spent strengthening this
position. The line was but few hun
dred yards from the Spaniards.
After the surrender the regimen,
staid in the trenches until Aug. 13.
subject to the fever. At one time 65 per
cent of the regiment was unfit for duty.
Between May 81 and Nov. there were
SO deaths in the regiment from disease,
Adding to these the deaths in battle.
the total loss of the Second Massachu-
setts in three months campaign was
10 per cent of its strength for battle.
GEORGE L. KUMER
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21

walls they burst short, they struck our
embankment and burst; they burst over
the heads of the men; they flew high
and went down the fields, bursting
sometimes among our men; they were
almost as thick as the bullets.
"The Spanish were giving MS a prac-
tical lesson of the value of smokeless
powder. Every time our guns cracked
line of fame ran along the top Of our
embankment. Every sheet of fame
drew fresh hail Of Mauser bullets.
Every time Utah gun cracked a
Spanish cannon was aimed at its fash
There our boys had as good mark as
the enemy. and they did their best. 1t
was only guessing at the range by the
time between fash Of gun and bursting
of shell, and there wasn't stop watch
on the line to give greater accuracy.
But they did good work, and they fired
as coolly as if they were at target prac-
tice. Their work was invaluable.
For soldiers not Injured to tropical
CLINE the volunteers at Manila have
kept in good health. Their camps are
clean and orderly and the discipline
high GEoRsE L. KnMER
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21

as originally ordered by Shafter AT
o'clock the line halted and lay until
q. M, the I'd, when orders came from
Shafter to take the back track to the
Siboney Santiago road and join tn:
troops which had carried San Juan hill
This march was made for the most par
over unknown trails with ignorant
guides, and it was 10 in the forenoon
when the weary Massachusetts, mer
toiled up the slopes of San Juan under
FIRE from sharpshooters.
The Second took the right of the line
beyond the cavalry. Two of it's mer
were struck by Mausers during the aft
ernoon, and in the night defense of th'
crest against Spanish assault TIVE
more were hit, one fatally. These casu
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21

gust was so trief and the victory SO easy,
that, coming soon after the desperate
struggles at FL Caney and San Juan
ridge, it was looked upon as an unfair
test Of the powers of the volunteer of to-
day.
But the Filipino war has supplied the
test, for the regiments conspicuous in
repelling the insurgents last February
and in rushing them in their jungles
and strongholds since were among the
captors of Manila The Pennsylvania.
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21

OW that the case
of the Seventy
first New York
has been settled
and the respon-
sibility for its
conduct on July
l fixed, it is prop
er to take up
the story of the
other volunteer
militia regiment
Engaged at San
ltiago, the Second
4 NJ a s s achusetts.
IA new regiment
lmust have good
officers to save il
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21
BROOKINeS and BROOKINGS COUNTY.
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION.

Cigar factory,
Two bakeries
One state bank.
Seven churches.
Five good hotels.
Six grain elevators.
One national bank.
Excellent drainage
One steam laundry.
Two machine shops
Three lumber yards.
One Chinese laundry.
Three weekly papers.
First Regiment Band.
Railroad eating house.
Fine lake near the city.
One first-class creamery
Good water near surface.
Glove 'and.mitten factory.
Local telephone exchange.
State Agricultural college.
TidbaIl Medicine Company
Twenty-Five hundred souls.
Splendid resort for sportsmen.
Wsterwosks for fire protection.
One monthly periodicsl-college.
Long distance telephone system.
Fine brick public school building.
Incorporation three miles square.
United states Experiment station.
One building and loan association.
Five hundred scholars in public schools.
Railroads running east, west and north.
FIGURING min with capacity Of 100 barrels.
Good sewerage system in business portion
Electric lights owned and controlled by the
city.
Four hundred students at Agricultural col
lege.
Abstract and title guaranty company-in-
corporated
County seat Brookings county, population
i3,OoO-fine court house and Jail.
Surrounded by the best farming and graz
ing lands in South Dakota--where crops are
suIe and water plenty.
Masonic bodies: Commandery, Council ,
Chapter Blue Lodge and Eastern star. Odd
Fellows: Encampment, Subordinate and
Rebekah A. o. Z. W. andlDegree OF Honor.
Modern Woodmen and Royal Neighbors.
ROYAL Arcanum. National Aid Association.
Mystic Circle. q. A. X. and Woman's Relief
Corps.
Beautiful trees dot the prairie in every di
rection and the city presents a charming ap
pea nee, matted as il ia I'm the midst of flne
growth OF shade aud ornamental trees.
Brook ings invites manufacturing enterprises,
wholesale houses and business OF all KINDS.
Her citizens are ready and willing to encour
age and assist every helpful industry.
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21

o l. | y / EERS
cut a greater zig
ure in the fight
ing at Manila
than they did in
the Cuban cam =
paign. Relative
ly the proportion
h a 5 b g en- re-
versed in the
Philippines, for
only two regi-
ments of regu
lars took part in
the capture of
Manila from the
Spaniards. The
fighting last Au-
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21

MAJOR wHIPPLE. LIEUT.. COL. sHUA"Af'
alties made fatal and 80 recoverable
wounds in the two days. July the
regiment advanced to the right to begin
the real investment Of Santiago From
that date to the end of the siege the
Massachusetts men were constantly
digging new trenches or strengthening
old ones. On the 10th. 18th and 18th
respectively new positions were taker
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21
FIRST IN AT MANILA
GALLANT FIGHT OF VOLUNTEERS
AGAINST SPANIAROS.

Stirring Incidents In the Ranks of
the Thirteenth Minne>ota-CoIorn-
do Boys Exchanged First Blood For
First GIory--strnnEe Battle Music.
copyright, 1899. by G.. l.. Kilmer.l
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21
YANKEE BOYS NCUBA
THE SEccNc MASSACHUSETTS Mill
TIA VOLUNTEERS AT SANTIAGO.

A Reputation In Good keeping-Best
Regiment In the Bay State-RecOrds
Incidents of the Line at Eel Caney.
copyright, 1899. by c. L. Kilmerl
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21

rrom sheer weakness Captain Seeoacn's
injury was received in the same man.
ner, and his conduct was just as COM
mendable.
Captain Carlton of Company 4 wrote
in a private letter: after the fight we
were "a hours without food and have
had war enough to last few days The
insurgents are very troublesome, be.
cause they are kept out of Manila, and
we may have to whip them tonight or
tomorrow. They are dirty lot of rob-
bers and cutthroats. if ever l saw any"
The First Colorado was one of the
regiments which had no chance to get
at the Spaniards. However, the first
blood spilled in the conquest OF the
| Philippines came from the veins OF
Colorado boy. Private W. H. Sterling
of Company A was the man, and was
shot through the arm on the 30th OF
July, when the Spaniards attacked the
batteries This regiment also planted
the first flag on captured Spanish fort
and the first one in the captured suburb
Malate. While helping to unfurl this
flag. the regimental banner, Private
Phoenix of Company / was mortally
wounded by a Mauser bullet. which
struck him in the neck.
The fort captured was named after
the regiment, and is now known as
Fort Colorado. The Spanish flag was
torn from the pole by Lieutenant Colo
mel Mccoy and Lieutenant Ralph b.
Lister of Company X. During this ad-
vance, when a battalion of the regiment
was vigorously answering the Spanish
volleys from the captured trenches
around the fort, occurred the famous
incident Of the Colorado band playing
inspiring music to cheer on the boys.
Led by Chief Musician Harry T. Irvine.
the bandsmen waded up to their waists
in swift stream close to the outlet
into Manila bay First the fighting line
heard the strains of Dixie floating to-
ward them as they advanced on the
fort. Reaching the middleof the stream,
the air changed suddenly to 'sThere'll
, Be Hot Time In the Old Town To-
| night" The water was 80 deep that the
bass drummer held his drum and the
! stick over bis head. whila the from
bones were partly under water. ALI the
, players hoisted their pieces as high a.
they could stretch, and with all their
= strength played until they reached the
, lines then at the captured fort. Two
rified guns of the fort, called by the
, Spaniards Fort San Antonio, were Civ
{ en- to the Colorado men as trophies d
: he day. xsss
AN eyewitness Of the fight With =;
] spantafas on July 8 gave this descrip
!. tion 81 the Utah artillery IN battle a
the Capuchin chapel: Ibid you even
D hear a cook beating up eggs on platter
! with spoons If that noise were mag
nified thousand times, it would givs
{ a suggestion Of the tattoo the bullets
r beat on that old chapel, and all this time
2 there were the shells Shells smashed
through the chapel and burst inside
: They burst as they struck its heavy
1 | -,-r .asa.ezs -~r---x .
Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-09-21
Brookings
Machine Shop.

ii Is in better shape to handle
iall kinds OF repairing in brass
| and iron than IL has ever been
] before.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
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Sept. IA, 1889.
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First Publication August 10th 1899
Department of the Interior,
Land Office at Wausau, Wis, August
4, 1899.
Notice is hereby given that the fol-
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WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN

TEMPERATURES. The average tenn
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yious. killing frosts occurred in the
northern and central counties on the
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Land Office at Wausau, Wis,
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Notice is hereby given that the fcl-
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WAR" said the gentleman with the
sunburned beard and the muddy boots,
"war, by gosh, jist puts money in the
pockets OF the big trusts and bond dea-
lers; that's all it does. =
s'And makes demand for horses.
cattle and grain said the listener.
"Oh, of course amt sayin but what
war is sometimes good thing to arouse
patriotism
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HARD LUCK

Eyes; he was our oldest inhabitant-
ninety-nine when he died. His last
years were very sad.
How was that?n
A New York reporter interviewed
him and the old gentleman's statement
was boiled down from two columns to
half q colum."