The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11


MANILA, P. l., April 1S.-It was the
fourth day after Gen. Lawtons force had
left Manila on its dash into Laguna. We
were approaching the town of Paete, and
a squad of five of Weissenberger' sharp
shooters, men from the North Dakota
regiment, were working their way
through the bamboo thicket. 1t had been
the boast of the North Dakotans that
they had as yet lost no men in action.
Suddenly the squad received a Volley
of fifty shots from an insurgent trench
fifteen yards in front Two men were
killed, one MORALLY wounded, one slightly
wounded, and the fifth unhurt. He was
Slutland, big and red-cheeked. He does
not think he did anything remarkable;
but instead of running he dropped behind
a rock, yelled for assistance and emptied
the chamber of his rife into the enemy.
He had held his ground till assistance
came, and then he Joined in the charge
of our line, which emptied the trenches.
WHISTLED AND DIED.
That night two North Dakota men who
knew that their wounds were mortal were
lying on Qots side by side.
Lets smile and die game" said one.
1--WE might as we'll whistle, too,' was
the reply.
They whistled until their breath gave
out, and then they died smiling.
al have heard that the American vol
unteers didn't do well in Cuba, - said an
Englishman who accompanied the expe-
dition. "Damme, won't you please ex-
plain?''
Maj. Fame was the saddest man in the
army the next day.
THE major eusses US a lot" said one
of his men, but seeing how he took this
TO heart, guess his cussin's pretty well
on the surface, and he cusses mostly for
our good and to cover up his own feel
ms
The expedition having spent three days
I'm the field, proceeded to eat up it's ten
day rations. While it rested in the
towns it ate cocoanuts and managed
and got the diarrhoea. Then it went
home on the seventh day.
The three days work was magnificent
and exhibited the endurance of our men,
Before taking part in the final fight at
Paete the North Dakotans marched
twelve miles, carrying ammunition and
blankets and fording streams. This is
equal to about thirty-five miles unac-
coutred on Broadway in August.
LAWTON's LEGS AND HELMET.
No officer had horse. Gen. Lawton
himself walked. AS none of his staff
has as large legs as he, or has ac-
quired tie art of long and easy strides,
they had to tret to keep up with him.
Maj. Edwards, his adjutant general.
offered him SIS if he would give up the
white helmet which he wears When
ever a Filipino sees that white helmet
he shoots at 1t. The general himself
did not mind, but his staff believed that
a live general is better than a dead one.
especially when Brig. Gen. King, next
in rank, was incapacitated by sickness.
and had been compelled to return to Ma
Mia.
That's a frst-rate helmet" said the
general Il bought 1t in Suez and I
don't believe you can get one in Ma
Mia like it. 1t will get soiled by and
by and then the color will be all right
WRECK ON A PHILIPPINE LAKE
The difficulty with the six launches
captured in the Santa Cruz river was
that every day it took still another dav
to get them off the bar. man with
two stars on his shoulder straps turn
ing wrecker on a Philippine lake while
there are 1900 men under his command
who are supposed to be on the advance
is not Il picture in keeping with the
dignity of the regular army as officers
understand it. The general stood on
the deck of the Laguna de Bay super
intending the operations, while Capt.
Grant put into practice all that he had
learned in the navigation of Great Salt
lake, and the dredger brought up from
Manila worked lcisurely, no matter how
many oaths were expended on the Fill
pino laborers. That dredger came along
with orders from Manila, although Cen
Lawton was said in Manila to have
carte blanche for his movements on the
lake.
There was no connection with Manila
by telegraph or by wig-wag, and the
only way the general could hear from
his superior was by launches, which are
as uncertain as the Filipino pilots who
ground them SO often
we did not take Calumbi; we did not
march around to Paranaque, closing in
on the rebels on the south, or carry ont
any of the plans which had been pro-
posed. We returned without leaving an
American soldier in the towns taken
but in their place 1000 copies of the
commissions proclamation which were
doubtless torn to pieces by the returning