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The San Francisco call., 1899-07-31
TWYITING THEIR
LOYUL. SOLDIERS

OMAHA July 30-The welcome news
that the First Nebraska had arrived at
San Francisco was received in Omaha to-
day with great rejoicing. Company l., the
old Thurstou Rifles, is from this city,
and Colonel H. B. Mulford went away
from Omaha in May, 1898, as major. Plans
are about completed TO give the company
a great send-off upon their return to
Omaha.
LINCOLN, Neb.. July 30-Noisy dem
onstrations and joyful celebrations fol-
lowed the news of the arrival of the First
Lincoln and other Nebraska towns cannon
were fired, whistles were footed and bells
were rung The soldiers are expected to
leave San Francisco for home in about
three weeks and an elaborate reception
to the regiment is being arranged.
CHICAGO. July 30.-A committee of
prominent Pennsylvania politicians Of
ficials. newspaper men and railroad men,
travelling in a special coach, passed
through Chicago tonight bound for the
Pacific Coast to welcome home the Tenth
PENNSYLVANIA Volunteer Infantry, which
is expected to arrive in San Francisco
from. Manila on August or s. The COM
rnittee carries a fund of $4,000 raised by
citizens of Western Pennsylvania with
which to bring home the returning SOL
diers and provide welcome for them. In
addition to the citizens fund of S50.000 the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad subscribed $4,000
BY special arrangement with the War De-
partment there will be pay car Attached
TO each of the military trains that pulls
out of San Francisco. and in each pay
car will be the paymaster and Government
officials who will give the officers and
men their pay and discharge papers. Over
5000 900 will be distributed in this manner.
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without building roads, and the coun-
try is not a good one for road building.
And chasing the ninble Filipino in his
native haunts is much like chasing the
will -the-wisp. 1t is generally
thought too, that even should Agul-
naldo decide to surrender there Would
be another in his place in a day, and
should he propose. surrender to his men
they would probably kill him. Ihese
are the sentiments Of the men VINO
have just come home.
AS for the service, the men are tired
of il. though they say so In d1gnlheo
way and not altogether with a note 0i
regret over their enlistment. They VIII
MOI re-enlist. however, for they have
rod their fill. Three men of the Ne
braska Regiment stayed behind in the
islands. two because they had Govern
ment positions and wished TO holo
them, and the other to go back INTO
the service. And there are nearly .looO
men in the regiment.
The men will be mustered out here
in SAN Francisco. An effort will be
made to get the Nebraska men to come
together after they arrive home and
then the State will give them recep-
tion worthy of them, but 1t Is feared
that if the organization once breaks up
there will be no chance of it coming
together again.
w nat the men "eili' -
shows on every line of their faces; it
shines from their eyes; it crops out in
their walk and in their stopped Shout
ders and their listless bearing. They
are tired of a life in the trenches, in
the camps. on the transports and under
a. tropical sun; they want home and
they want their friends, and the nation
can do them no greater service than to
let them go as soon as possible. They
are sick Of the Philippines and sick of
the war, and thev are content to let
others talk of holding the islands. while
still others chase the little brown men
deep into their jungles and wrest from
them their .malarial homes.
"Glad" echoed Captain Talbot of the
Nebraskas ''iust go out there on the
bridge and shout that question to the
men on the deck"
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Held on Board
Until Fifty
Clad.

COS after that. and Lawton's junction
with Kobbe was rendered easy.
Lieutenant Webb was also with the de-
tachment which discovered and wrested
from the Filipinos the. body. of assassi-
mated DR.. Young, the battalion surgeon;
who was caught outside the lines and
murdered by the Tagals. In the reports
which came to this country the body of
Surgeon Young was as said to his nave i7, rres 1een
sion it is Lieutenant Webb's desire 10
correct. - ~.
thing was wrong with him was when we
found one of his stirrups in the road,
said he "A mile or so farther on we
blood stain on the saddle blanket. Two
miles farther on we found his body. He
had been shot and wounded and then
fhspatched he with ,s kniie, 6Ft "hich had oeeh
Lieutenant Barron of Company D of the
Nebraskas had the unique experience of
one of the hottest fights of the cam
paign. His experience was unusual in
that at that time he was plain corporal,
but he made a hard and winning fight for
all his modest rank. and he earned his
shoulder straps because of it. Every
commissioned officer and ''non-com OF
the company had either been shot down
or prostrated by the terrific heat while
the fight was al its hardest before Cal
umpit, and Corporal Barron, who is not
much bigger in years than IN physique.
Jumped into the command He fought his
company all through the engagement and
was afterward recommended for gall
lantry in action and for promotion.
AFTER that battle at Calumpit,' saiu
Major killian. who likes TO tell of young
Barron's heroism, there were only
thirteen officers and $50 men of all the
regiment who were able to report for
duty
Major Kilian himself won promotion on
the other side by his excellent work in
the field. When he left Camp Merritt
year ago he was the captain commanding
Company K. He has returned fourth II
rank in his regiment.
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comfortably take back to Salt Lake with
him, and also his commission in the regu-
lar army as commander of another of the
"tinclads,' the Covagonda. When Gen
eral Lawton was attempting 10 lead his
division down through the province of
Pampagna to connect with the forces of
Major Kobbe. who was trying 10 lead his
up, Lieutenant Webb was put in command
of the Covagonda and sent up the Rio
Grande de Pampagna to look into the dis
position of the natives, and if it were not
friendly to give them the best he had
From Calumpit up he found them peace
able, but when he got to San Luis he ran
into the fire of $50 concealed rifles not
twenty yards from the boat 1t was here
Sergeant Ford Fisher was killed.
I'VE turned loose the Cats on them
said Lieutenant Webb. "and it took us fif-
teen minutes TO fire 5000 bullets and 100
percussion shells at them. We found over
fifty of them dead in the brush.
The natives of .he district were all ami
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-31
THOSE WHO IRE
SICKs in HOSPITAL

Ambulances from the general hospital
at the Presidio were in waiting when the
transport docked. and they took the help
less sick away at once. The list is as fol-
lows:
Nebraska-Co A Frank Stevens;
Company B. Albert S. Hisey. Second Lieu
tenant Albert Wadsworth. Baron Chew
rout:: Company c. John w PillshurY,
William Bowling; Company F, Charles X.
Porter: Company NJ, Alvin II. Browning,
George Merquin-
Utah Artillery-Troop A. Hans Soren-
son. First Lieutenant George W. Gibbs.
Ralph Kidder: Troop B. Sergeant John
Buchi Marshal Quick. A. Bender (nu-
sician), Private Bjarensen; Troop E, Har-
ry Jacobs,
First Casoraaee Gorupsuy n Harry
Kerr.
Thirteenth Minnesota-Com b,
Charles Belle. Chauncey Jacobson.
First Montana-Company D, Ray Zieg
Ter: Company c. John Mclaughlin.
Private Richard Ralph. Battery A. Utah
Artillery. died at Nagasaki of typhoid fe-
yer. His body was left there.
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KEADY TUX T7ETK WELL-EAF

Hon. H. E. Cary and Lieutenant Grow,
who returned TO Salt Lake four months
ago to get well of a wound received in
action.
All told 1136 men came in on the Han
cock-the two batteries of the Utah 1-rtil-
lery. under command of Major Grant. and
the Nebraskans, under command OF Colo
mel Muford. Both commanders won their
rank by conspicuous bravery in action.
Major Grant succeeded Major Young in
command of the battalion when the latter
was made a Justice of the Supreme Court
of the Island of Luzon. Colonel Mulford
succeeded Colonel Stotsenburg when he
was shot down at Calumpit. Both officers
are immensely popular with their men,
and are as glad as the men that the fight
ing is over
Concerning the administration of affairs
in the Philippines the officers declined to
talk for quotation. although they We're
nearly unanimous in the opinion that. the
archipelago is not worth the money that
has already been expended said prom
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-31
BRAVE FIGHTERS OF UTAH AND NEBRASI
ARE READY EQR THEIR WEII LEARNED REST on

their lines. We ordered them away from
ours and they told US that tonight the
Americanos would move back or the Fill
pinos would know why That lieutenant
was a particularly aggravating cuss and
he bothered US all day. cursing US in
Spanish and choice Tagallo.
''That night Private Miller and / heard
a signal to our left and an answer to our
right, and then a red light flashed in the
tower of the Filipino blockhouse and We
knew there was something doing. A
minute later the Filipino lieutenant raised
UP in the brush ahead of us and inside
our line / called twice upon him to halt.
but he wouldn't do it and L pulled the
trigger A little later we caught two
more of them inside and Miller got one
and I the other; then the rifles began to
crack all around US and the fight was on. +"
There are other heroes on the boat be-
sides Grayson. Every other man on the
roster has got either wound or rec
ord. and neither the one nor the other
was obtained except by some conspicuous
act of bravery in a class of battle that
afforded ample opportunity for 1ndlVld-
nal daring Major Frank Grant, COM
mander of the now famous little fleet of
'tinclads' which made good niggers' OF
so many Filipinos along Luzon's rivers,
earned the title of Dewey by his dash
and fearlessness in action; and action was
a thing he had plenty Of. 1t was he who
took his flagship, the Laguna de Bal, UP
the Pasig and with Lieutenant Frank
Hines as his second in command captured
the towns of Sexmoan and Guagua, with
not many more men that two full gun
crews. There isn't man in all the Utah
battery who does not nonor him with the
title of Dewey when he heaves in sight,
and Lieutenant Hines is just as much ad-
mired.
Lieutenant W. c. Webb of Battery Oh
tho ITtahs won more honors than he can
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-31
HOW SOME HEROES
WON THEIR STURS

TPOTTED him all right enough" said
Private w. w. Grayson OF Company
D of the Nebraskas, but 1 didn't
know when l did 1t it was going to
start the fun going" 1t was Private
Grayson who fired the first shot of the
present .unpleasantness. and of this oc-
currence which has made him famous he
tells a modest, plain tale.
1--WE were detailed at outpost No. 2 in
front of Santa Mesa said he. land when
we went down there on the morning of
the 4th of February we went out to re-
connofter and see what we had in front of
us in the way or tlIiplnos. we pumped
of men, and they ordered us to keep off
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so they could be in the column when
the troops march to camp. As many
Of these will not be able to stand the
long journey on foot Major Gerard,
surgeon in charge Of the general hos
pitaI. has ordered ten ambulances to be
at the dock to take these men along.
At O'Clock this morning the troops
will disembark. General Shafter has
ordered an escort, which will include
Troop f of the Sixth Cavalry, Light
Battery c OF the Third Artillery, Heavy
Batteries I. O and + of the Third Artil-
Iery, and the regimentaI band. The
whole will be under the command of
Captain Pratt, Third Artillery The
Oregon Regiment will not be in the
escort 1t is a long walk and the regi-
ment has performed its social duties
when it has taken that walk once. The
real reason is. however. that the work
of mastering out the regiment must not
be neglected and it is only by hard
work that it can be finished on time;
so the Oregon men will stay in camp
and work
The most prominent feature of the
troops on the Hancock is their joy at
being home again. The thousand or so
miles to Nebraska and Utah they do
1act -Seraitr ~ iSesf- rs t1le s-re-sD Mr. =
America the rest seems easy. and as
they hung over the side and gazed at
the city, while the transport drew slow
ly in to the dock, they showed plainly
what was perhaps the hardest trial of
all-they showed the effects of home
sickness. Not that any individual was
evidently homesick: it was a collective
mental complaint and the whole boat
load had it. 1t was expected that the
men would diSembark at once end so
the wharf was partially cleared to al
low them to do so, but when it became
known that they would stay aboard for
the night. friends broke through the
line of police and got past the customs
men at the gangway by pass, by per
suasion or by strategy. Any ay they
got aboard and a good part of the
crowd on the transports decks was
made up of civilians.
The tug Governor Irwin met the
transport out III the stream before she
started for the dock. on board We're
Mayor Phelan and the mother and sister
Of Lieutenant Colonel Eager. The ladies
were taken on board but the Mayor
STAYED only to assure the troops of the
city's welcome. Then he returned to
the wharf 10 start the cheering, as he
explained. There was little need to
start it or to keep it going. It did both
by itself and it needed no help. The
boilers along the front had not had
time 10 heat up to blowing pressure, but
the engineers opened out their whistles
anyway and blew pailfuls Of hot water
over the surrounding houses in Leu of
noise and steam.
Governor Poynter, Adjutant General
Barry and Congressman Stark from
Nebraska came aboard before the
transports lines were well made fast,
and they at once paid their respects to
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-31
WHERE AND WHEN THE
UTAH BOYS WON FAME

T of service
campo ready
x attached
r. w:
f eXpedi-
Spanish lines below Mae most gallant ana
Of
n
the the
repeng pumping
s
10 and did fine
with tie
i
Maoo
April a. Company accompanied Eas column by OF
in
Tomas
Fernando
Sergeant Young Corporal
Young killed and others
hills marked bloody results of fierce lighting
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~ HE transport Hancock docked
yesterday afternoon, but the
mon did not come ashore. They
are rot clad for a climate such
&C has beer the rule in San
Francisco for q week back. so it was
decided to keep them one more day on
board in order tn lave them furnished
with extra clothing
/ was at frs, ted on the water
front that the delay was caused by the
fact that the army people were not
ready TO receive the men at the Pre-
zidiC. ard because Of this they were to
be detained OF board. There was no
truth l. The report. however. for it was
found that the request came from
Colonel bIulr0rd, who wished to have
his men better clothed before exposing
them. even for q day, to the fog and
the winds which sweep over the Pre-
side.
As for the camp, It has been ready for
nearly q week. and yesterday morning
meat enough to do the troops until
this evening was taken out there.
Everything was prepared for the men,
-s. II -Ess s-ys--7zi- -sIf4t fIFat
early they might ha-ve had their break
fasts IN camp, for there was nothing
more necessary beyond starting the
fires in the cooking ranges. COmmis
sary stores and quartermasters' stores
, more than sufficient for the men have
been sent out to the storehouses at the
camp. and all the men viii have TO do
is to take possession and make them
selves comfortable
It was q sore isappOintment TO
many. both on the transport and among
the thousands who stood waiting along
the water front and on the streets. It
was announced that the men would
march Up Market street between 1 and
. O'Clock, and as the hour passed, peo-
PIE began to form along the sidewalks
in the good old Fourth of July way.
Along the water front the factorymen
gathered together their stokers, and
every one who owned q boiler began TO
get up steam as soon as it was
learned that the transport was about
TO come 10 the dock. General Sum
ners, commanding the Oregon regi-
ment. formed his men and marched
down to the wharf and two batteries
OF light artillery and troop Of cavalry
from the Presidio followed to escort
the homecomers to their camp. They
took the matter od-uaturedly and
turned back without complaint, while
the men on the troopship resigned
themselves to another day on the water
within sight and sound Of the city.
The regiment looks We'll. The sick
list is a small one. and the sick men
who needed immediate attention were
taken in ambulances 10 the general hos
pital at the Presidio at once. There
were twenty-five in all, not all from
the Nebraska regiment or the Utah Ar
tillery, however, and there are more
who desired to be left on the transport
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-31

. HE transport Hancock docked
yesterday afternoon, but the
men did not come ashore. They
are rot clad for a climate such
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-31
FIGHTING RECORD OF
NEBRASKA'S HEROES


Ia lines
fromb
America andt the
upeior number
the
and O
end a Gati gun.Io killed
ade the
and a
doubled
with
led
before
o
the which ensu Colonel Sotsenbg and euten
the
conn
Of
capturing latter place with loss OF
and FOUR
they
an
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Colonel Mulford. Governor Poynter
explained the situation to Colonel Null
ford and together they discussed what
was to be done. The experience of the
Oregon regiment suggested the plan OF
keeping the men on the vessel where
they would at least be warm. so Colo
mel Mulford requested leave from Cen
eral Shafter to keep his men aboard
until this morning. His request was
granted at once, and orders were issued
that no liberty be given man or officer
The men on the Hancock have had
their experience and they have re-
turned anything but expansionists.
They are not all against expansion, but
there is not one who thinks the Phil
ippines will ever pay for the time and
the money they have cost so far, nor
for the blood that has been spilled in
their 5uAeEes and rict 0piGs ~ q t.Cst-
ing too much the men think, and 1t
will cost much more before the end is
even in sight. Having gone so far the
soldiers see no way but TO go on, but
if there could be found an honorable
way out of the War-a way that Will
allow this country to withdraw its
troops and leave the islands to them
selves while not sacrificing any of its
dignity as a nation. then let them 60
is the cry Of the volunteers
In the judgment of the officers of the
troops the war in the Philippines may
be ended in a month and it may keep
going for twenty years. 1t will not be
hard to take and hold the seaboard
towns, but it will take years to sub
due the interior. 1t is not the difficulty
of getting the troops through the ISL
ands, for a skirmish line can go wher
ever man can squeeze through, but
they cannot keep up their supply trains
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"WERE JILL GLHD TO GIT HOWE.

naeu gadto OF
OF the memo ono
aaemto N IN p art
island TO otpt tp am o nc
thin the regimen
d ar
TbTet sad
d 1emd
hetn the boys No
home
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Wdr-WOrn Men
VIII Land To-
Day.
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MOVEMENTS OF
THE TRANSPORTS

yVosPITAL ship Relief
with sick and wounded
a L soldiers had been aground
on the Saratoga Spit and was
at Yokohama July 12.
Transport Senator with
First Pennsylvanians left Yo-
kohama July 16. Due here
about August Z.
Transport LeeIanaw with
sick and wounded soldiers
sailed from Nagasaki July IL,
now due.
Transport Warren with
First Colorado Regiment, Is
days out from Manila Due
here about August Is.
Transport Sherman with the
California Volunteers is 5
days out from Manila. She
viii stop at Nsgasaki and Yo-
hama on the way and
should get here about August
20
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-11
LYNCHBURG.
Dsath of n Prominent Citihe"-
t,ops in bankruptcy.

,vNc,uRIJRG. VA, January W'-'0pe
c,ol,-Mr. ]. A. Ford. a prominent clu-
zon died to-day; aged 6S years un'il
Gov, voors ago he was leading tobacco
&c, On which business he accumulated
fortuna. His estate is worth between
saoO coo and 100000. He is survived by HIS
wife and daughter. 70
Tho following citizens of Roanoke 10
dov aIed petitions in bankruptcy IN tne
1 80 states Court: John l.. keliey' WIN VIZ
,,ai,u,ties amounting to s2@S22, the eleuis-
hoIne rrms in Roanoke, Rlchfnonu'
pa1tinore. and Lynehburg; charles ~ 49,,
t1oaftar liabilities 50, 4576l the ereullois
heir9 firms in Roanoke. ROCKY MouI,,'
VTar,,nsville. and DanVlle; w. ). hhlsn-
,o., liabilities S216.l4, the creditors peIne
- 49,, a. Roanoke and Lexington; Leon
, ,r,i,ls liabilities $1,16.79; George w.
II,rray liabilities s1,5sSO2, the credi,ors
-, arms in Roanoke, Harrisonpul 3 .
Hrt crawford, va; Robert A. eihi.n,
T.bilities a,OS53S, the creators oe,ms
inns in Roanoke; Mrs Carrie T. Blow o21 ~ ~
- salem. liabilities amounting 70 Sl'VT,OV'
u ,,racted bv the firm OF Brown biu-
.tnrs Of which petitioner was menl ,oo.
| -, business at Salem from lss2 10 Ie'9'
~ 9oroditors are firms and banks IN bar
, 80 richmond, Philadelphia Ne"
vnrIr BOSTON. Lynchburg, Peleispuis
t-radericksburg, and Salem.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-11
HORRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS
g., IN. Facts, as Alleged Ar


NORFOLK, VA, January "'-''peNi'''
II fine facts as alleged in an app''o''''O
from preachers and other prominent cor
ored citizens asking for better treatment
Of smallpox patients at the county p's'
houea are true, a frightful state OF aflaiiS
let. AZ that institution. The appllca,
s s,oo which was presented to the Boaro
- County Supervisors by Delegation "
~ 1av was accompanied by number Oh ~.
Ca by men and women VINO wer ',
a,,ona the lO4 inmates treated IN inc Sih"''
e iix rnom structure during December
T. Go alleged that there has been over
ornvding eight persons frequently sleepl
mo an the floor of one ROOM men anu
Yemen living and sleeping IN the sn,aS
arartments, and none having iacii I've.
,Sor changing their clothing. IL Is Luz
ther alleged that the institution III
snsted with vermin. while the inmate
re in a filthy condition. IL IS aIso
obarged that there is improper huIsine
end one man declared his beIef tlldt :
natient died from exposure 10 o.aus -
through a broken pane Of glass. An III
yestigation will probably be instituted i"''
mediately.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-11
THE FIRST PRIZE
,rrtxes mt Newport News-poh"'e"
Lot.

NEWPORT NEWS, VA, January w.
1cneciaIo-The steamship Buena ventura
the first prize taken in the war between
~ Irnited States and Spain, she having
been captured by the trim little sunool'
Nashville. which was built by the New D,,
mort News ship-yard, arrived mere 'o go,
N load cargo. She came uireotIy III. Ia
New York, The Buena ventura vs. ia
by order OF the United states O0u'''
brought 5000. wi. has given
~ consreeation of St. Pauls Episcopal
oburcb here a valuable piece OF WASH
i Ington-avenuo property, worth $500. 1t
was given TO the church for building purI
moses but il had previously purchased
cher lots on a side street. and II IS I'M
derstood that the church will sell us new
ly-acquired property
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-11
RICHMOND LIVESTOCK MARKET.

Richmond. Va, January TO- lss, ga
Receipts: Cattle, 800 n Sco head l"'p '
i' GaIes Cattle. 500 head; sheep anu
,anbs 200 head; hogs. 1000 head. .s.
iS Prices: Cattie.Best u to &C. gross:
medium to good az to eros gross; bulls
coiiinohe 80 gross: sheep and lambs,
n41.2c. gross; hogs, $3.50 to g. gross