The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-04

live Indian just down from the noun
tains with bow and arrows and shield,
made of wood. He must have been
half scared to death at the heavy fir
ing, as when he was found he was ly-
ing in a tomb face down. They had
to haul him out. He was dressed in
an abdominal bandage-that was all.
Five thousand of these from the noun
tains have Joined Agey. All the boys
of G company, you know, were in the
battle except King, DAILY and Hardcas-
tie, who are in the hospital. The chap
lain was right behind the line with a
six shooter and canteen of WhisRey.
1t gets mighty cold down here at night
and the night after the battle of CAL
ocean we slept on the ground with
only what we had on, but l did not
hear a complaint from the boys. The
first night we laid in water for three
hours. For the present we are very
comfortably situated, having our
blankets, ponchos, shelter tents and
towels and soap. The country over
which we have passed is one vast rice
field, owned mostly by English and
Germans. We are on the edge of NAL
abon, city of probably 10000. The
ships or the batteries can shell it at a
moments notice. I understand General
Otis don't want to lombard the city
on account Of so many foreigners liv-
ing there. We can see lots of English
and German flags flying from the tops
of the buildings.
Yesterday the insurgents tried to
break the lines on our right about IL
miles from here, where the Washington
and California boys are located. They
We're driven back with great loss. We
have a fight at some point along the
line every day. I tell you it was fun
to see those niggers run when we got
Hry
some of them are going yet, the way
they started down the pike We have
captured the railroad as far as CAL
ocean and use it to haul supplies from
Manila. We have christened it the
Montana. Kansas & Utah Short Line,
and underneath is written, Filipino
Routed.
Homer Richards has not been in very
good health. The first three days he
was left at General MacArthur's head
quarters. Then he was sent out to
be Colonel Wallace's aid but was taken
sick the day before the battle and went
into quarters. | believe he is back with
E company at present.
1 would like to see one of those Stand
ards right now with the news of the
battle. President Mckinley and Gov
ernor Smith sent congratulations to the
regiment Firing is heard along the
line every night. Every one in the
company does three hours of guard
duty every night. Nine men at a time
are posted at intervals in front of the
company about 800 yards in advance,
and our orders are if we see a body
of men coming up to us to shoot once.
and run like hell for the trenches. Any
one can get within 100 yards of us be-
fore we can see them, it is so dark
at night"
A"nnpr 10 tnct 11f{
Mia is one written by Charles Brinton.
one of the wounded Montana men, to
his mother, Mrs. c. P. Brinton of 1922
South Jackson street. From the light
manner in which the young man speaks
of his wound and the fighting neither
has impressed itself upon him as a very
serious matter. Private Brinton's let
ter is dated February II. 1t reads:
Since writing you last I have been
wounded. The first night we were
called out our company marched out
five miles to reinforce the Kansas in
fantry and Utah artillery. From there
we marched down to Balabic and
can1ped there as reserves. The next
morning 10 men, including myself and
Wilmer the writer's brother) in
charge of an officer, hauled a load Of
ammunition out to the Nebraskas
about eight miles. AS they were nearly
out we had to go double time nearly
all the way. Bullets were falling pret-
ty thick all around us. AS we went
around turn in the road an insurgent
jumped out of the brush and ran across
the road. A couple of the fellows took
shot at him. and he threw his rife
away and came running toward us with
his hands up. He had about 200 rounds
of ammunition and "a Mauser rifle.
We were ordered on the firing line
the next day, where we built breast
works to protect us from the sharp
shooters who were pecking away at us
all the time. But it is an accident If
they hit anything They are the poor
est shots I ever saw. The next Friday
we attacked and captured a town which
they had fortified, Caloocan. We dug
trenches the next day, Saturday Sun
day We worked around the trenches
and pitched our tents behind them
That night the sharpshooters got to
pecking away again, and I got a bull
let through the fleshy part of my fore
arm, which luckily missed the bones.
I am in the hospital now. recovering.
1t does not give me any trouble, and
will be well in a few days.
The New Orient, one of the English
papers published at Manila. contains
the following with reference to Lieu
tenant sullivan, recently returned from
the Philippines:
Lieutenant Sullivan of Montana
though composed of clay like other men,
has few sterling qualities to which no
clay clings When Informed that he
was relieved of his command he i'm
mediately took off his shoulder straps
he has worn so faithfully and well in
the service Of Uncle Sam. But his pa
triotism runs deeper than outward dis
play. Trouble was expected with the
insurgents the same night. Although
he could not accompany his command
as lieutenant. there was no law which
prohibited him from serving as pri-
vate Special permission was required
and Colonel Kessler gave him the
choice of - companies in which he
might have the privilege of serving as
a private. He selected G company, and
forthwith procured himself a SPRING
field fatigue suit, canteen and belt,
which he donned ready for the nights
work, which never came. however.
If this is not a brave act of a brave
soldier, what then constitutes bravery?
And thus does the nobility, patriotism
and devotion of an American soldier