Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19

always. Among them are descendants OF
Crockett, Houston. Travers and Bowie, and
many another American pioneer who died
with his boots on while fighting to free Texas
from the Mexican yoke. Whole companies
Of the regiment have seen service In the
ranks of the Texas rangers, an organization
which fought Indians, bandits and cattle
thieves, the like of which no other state in
the union has ever possessed.
The commander of the Thirty-third is
Colonel Luther r. Hare, West Pointer of
the class of 1874 and a son Of Judge Silas
Hare. who ably represented one of the
Texas districts in congress for several terms,
but was finally succeeded by Joseph w.
Bailey, when the judges constituents learned
that he had been seen in Washington wear
ing Swallow tail'' coat at an evening
reception.
Colonel Hare was formerly captain In the
Seventh United States cavalry-the famous
regiment of the lamented Custer-and at the
battle of Little Big Horn. in which Custer
was killed, Captain Hare was in command of
a body Of Indian scouts At the beginning of
the war with Spain he was made colonel of
the First Texas cavalry.
Among the daredevil fighters in the rank
and file of the Thirty third regiment are
many men who have figured bravey both in
open battle and in typical Indian warfare.
One of the most notable of these is Lee Hall,
a first lieutenant. who for five years was a
captain of Texas rangers and was known to
and feared by almost every desperate in the
southwest. This mans life has been SO
crowded with thrilling incidents and epi-
sodes that one Of the foremost publishing
houses in America recently made him a
tempting offer to write history of his career
and proposed to have 1t illustrated by one
of the most famous artists in the country,
but Lee Hall preferred fighting in the Phil
ippines and declined the OFFER
How much of terror he was to the bad
men of Texas may be guessed from the fact
that in one year of his service in the rangers
he and his men captured seventy six mur-
derers, ITS cattle thieves and forty-five high
way robbers. In all they made 579 arrests
during that single year and never bothered
their heads to effect the capture of criminal
of lesser grade than a cattle thief. Six feet
tall, well proportioned and with a face
brown as a tanned skin. Captain Hall Is
soldier worth looking at In his company
are dozen men who served under him in
the Texas rangers, and all are like him,
brawny and muscular, fighters from their
youth up and trained to endure almost any
degree of hardship.
Second Lieutenant Donald G. McClelland is
another noted character In the Thirty-thlrd.
Brave did you ask? Well, for one thing he
rushed up the hill at San Juan, was shot in
the left shoulder, the right hip, the left side,
the right kneecap and the right arm, but In
spite of all this peppering with Mauser bull
let's he kept on. reached the summit Of the
hill and did his share of the fighting from
the captured blockhouse afterward.
There are a score OF Indians In the
Thirty-third, among them Charley" Grif-
fin, Robert Nave and Tilden Hayes, all half
blood Cherokees. Griffin Is one OF the
crack shots of the regiment. and just be-
fore 1t broke camp in San Francisco he