The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-21
OUR BOYS AT MANILA
Chick Varian Tells of the Conditions
surrounding Them.
HOSPITAL R V BAD
CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT
MADE IN THE RATIoNS.
Angus Nicholson and Isaac Russell
May Stay and Start a Newspaper
Utah Soldiers Smart Under the
Injustice of Not Being Mustered
Cut-Why Chick" Resigned.
Chick" Varian is home.

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He came from Manila. arriving here
yesterday forenoon, and though he has
had the "goldarndest" experience of his
IRE, he looks none the worse for wear.
Cnlek was the most popular mar in
the Ctah batteries, as letters from the
lana OF the monday sun testify. He
was one of h first TO enlist last year,
ana UP TO a short time ago wore cor
potaI strlpes, but he resigned this pO-
sluon, and Just why he did so he re-
FUSED TO state for publication. 1t is
pieSty wei understood, however, that
Corporal Farian led the onslaught
against the commissary department
ana It's management, which was result
ant OF much good. But after this some
OF the officers made it hot for the cor
poral, and he quit on the spot.
Chick" in an interview last night,
had very little to say against anybody,
Dut when the matter of hospital service
was approached, the soldier replied:
Now, you're getting at it. That is
something l Will talk about. The con
ditlonS existing in the hospitals are
something fearful. The management is
worse than rotten. Why, 1 could tell
you OF cases coming under my notice
while l was sick that would make any
Americans blood boil. One thing l re-
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Oregon mar was brought TO the hos
pital suffering with erysipelas, and he
received no care whatever. They didn't
even give him "a Jath, and after three
days ne died with no one neal him. The
body remained where it was. I'M
touched, for thiTty-siX hours, and two
of US, who were patients, had to sit up
with the body all day and night. It
makes me sick to think of il now.
But, after an continued the
speaker, the grub proposition is
stl 9ghtened out pretty well. The boys
are doing iTst-rate in this respect, but
want to come home.
" 'Trilby' Nicholson and Ike Russell
are going TO stay there, l believe, and
q newspaper, but as a rule the
whole crowd j coming as soon as they
can
Speaking of annexation. Mr.. Varian
said the government certainly should
hold the Islands, now that they have
been conquered. LAS to the FilipinOS
fighting, it's all rot, and the frequent
in camp have gotten to be farci-
cal with the men of the batteries. In
the first place, the insurgents are poor
" equipped. aud in the second place.
they are a pack of towards and could
not fight if they had to. We could
take two w~ell-drilled regiments of in
and clean out the whole lot.
Two Apache braves could do the
same"
Chick saws that Frank Shelley did
all the campaigning for Roberts and
Zane, and carried the election easily.
He tells many funny stories on the
and a princely tale anent
'Trilby'' Nicholson.
The Tenth PennsylvanianS and the
Third artillery. he says, are now the
nearest friends of the Utah boys.
Mr.. Varian was in the hospital about
thirty days, suffering with dysentery
and malaria. He was in command of
AS gun No. l on the night of
the fight, and served with distinction.
1t is an experience he does not regret,
but is not DESTROYS of going through
campaign again. He was dis
charged on Dec. 10, and sailed for
America on the Ohio on the 18th. His
trip homeward was 6ore enjoyable
than his first experience on the ocean,
but he is glad to be again in Gods