Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-09-15
SOUTH DAKOTA
ARRIVAL OF SHERIDAN At SAN
FRANCISCO.
Boys Are o~verJoyed to &c. Back
Home-Disembark from TRANSPORT
Saturday Morning and March to
the Presidio-Other Items.
The First at Frisco.

The First at Frisco.
The transport Sheridan with South Da-
kota and Minnesota regiments aboard, ar
rived at San Francisco from Manila Thurs
day evening, Sept. z. The troops had a
pleasant voyage and a quick trip. They
left Yokohama Aug. q, having been well
received there. The boys are Overjoyed to
get back home. The soldiers fused and
funnel when they learned that the quaran-
tine officials would keep them aboard ship
until Saturday morning. The boys left
the transport about s O'Clock Saturday
morning and were marched 10 the PresidiO,
where they will remain till mustered out.
The soldiers received a welcome from the
populace they will not soon forget. The
date of mastering out has not yet been Sc
lected owing to q misrepresentation of the
speed of the Sheridan, and tits not the
first transport record she has made.
Only Congressman Gamble, his wife and
son were on hand Thursday night to greet
the boys fromth state. The ~gubernatorial
party arrived Saturday morning. Among
those who are in San Francisco with
Gov. Lee are Lieut.. Gov. John T. Kean,
Secretary of State w. Ii. Roddle, State
Treasurer John %Schamber, State Auditor
James ID. Reeves, Attorney General John
I. Pyle. Commissioner of Public Lands
David Eastman and about fifteen other
prominent citizens of the state. Many of
the visitors were accompanied by their
wives.
There were three deaths during the
voyage. among them being Arut Carlson,
private, Company b, First South Dakota.
Besides the bodies of the three soldiers
who died enroute the Sheridan brought the
remains of the following who died during
service in the Philippines: Walter E.
Hutchinson, private Fifty-tirst Iowa;
Sydney Pratt, private Company A, Thir-
tenth Minnesota; John S. Moore, first
lieutenant Fitfy-first Iowa; Lee Forbes,
captain First Nebraska.
Not one of the commands that have seen
service in the Philippines has a prOuder
record than the First South Dakota. From
the beginning of hostilities the standard
of the regiment has been waving where the
fighting was fiercest and the heavy list of
casualties tells a tale more graphic than
words of gallant charges and logged
watches on the firing line. The regiment
numbered 1,006 men on leaving San Fran
cisco and besides the officers $50 enlisted
men returned. Not all of the missing were
victims of bullets or disease. for some chose
to remain in Manila to engage in business
and some re-enlisted.
The first detachmant of two battalions
left this country OH the Rio Janeiro July
% and the remainder were shipped on the
st. Paul July 29. The regiment suffered
most severely in the beginning of Mac
Arthur's advance on Malolos Feb. "a and
Is, and when Hale captured Calumpit nine
South Dakotans were killed and twenty
five wounded.
Uneventful as was the trip home to the
Minnesotans, sevcralthings happened dur
ing the voyage which interested the men
of the South Dakota regiment. One was
the death of Private Arnt Carlson, who
died of disease on Aug. %, and another was
the arrest of Maj. r. G. Warne. the sur
geon of ther regiment.
The cause for his arrest was certain re-
Elections which he is alleged to have cast
upon Col. Frost, his commanding officer,
in a letter Which he sent to Senator Petit
grew. Col. Frost did not learn of the
Structures until after the transport had
reached Nagaski, when the surgeon was
placed under arrest. Col. Frost declines
to discuss the matter.
The transport was also alive with gossip
about alleged friction between Col. Frost
and both Lieut.. Col. Lee Slower and Lieut..
Horace Bates. just what the trouble is not
one of the officers of the regiment will say,
but it is alleged that the bad feeling said
to be existing between the commanding
officer and the other officers named orig
mated over a letter somewhat similar in
purport to that Maj. Warne addressed to
Senator Pettigrew. Some of the soldiers
say that the suspicion of the commander
has fallen upon Col. Slower. There is no
specified charge placed against Lieut..
Bates. He is said by some to have been
guilty of INSTRUMENTATION and by others to
have simply sided with Col. Slower.
The trouble in the regiment started at
San Fernando, when the officers and many
of the men of the regiment are said to have
petitioned for relieS having served on the
firing line longer than they thought they
should. Col. Frost would not grant the
request II more trouble followed in con-
nection with Il set of resolutions which
were sent to be t%elegraphed to Gov. Lee.
After the resolutions We're drawn up and
made ready to forward, it was alleged by
Col. Slower and others, so the story goes,
that the wording was changed and that the
words "May you win" were substituted.
This controversy caused bad feeling and
accusations of .doing politics'' were made
on both sides.
Another story went the rounds of the
steamer to the effect that a sergeant of
the First South Dakota wrote a hot letter
to a congressman concerning Col. Frost
and that the latter accused Col. Slower of
having instigated the epistle. Col. Slower
denies the charge in toto, and the matter
will call for an investigation.
Clark's Outfit Found.
Some time ago the body of a man in a
badly decomposed condition was found
some fourteen miles southwest Of White
Lake II was identified as Clark, the Del
mont murderer. Last week the son of Geo.
Nightingale while out herling about four
miles south of White Lake found a saddle.
bride, blanket, halter and a gun case.
About the tlme of the discovery OF Clark's
body u light bay horse with u star in fore
head wandered around and was finally
taken up by William Sprick, who has the
animal at present. This completes the
outfit of Clark. He must have walked
about ten miles before taking his own life.
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