Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-03-02
WOLF WAS WOUNDED.
LITTER FROM AN ABILENE BOY
IN MANILA.
Saws the Soldiers Want to Get Out
Of the Philippines They Find 1t
Very Hard Work-Callahan Is
Hurt.

VIM. Wolf, OF Abilene, private OF
Co. L, has been severely wounded in
the thigh in fighting with the Fill
ri, os. Lieut.. Callahan has a slight
wound, also Musician Tolando Blesh,
Of Hope, severe thigh wound. The
following letter from Mr.. Wolf will be
especially interesting:
MANILA, Jan. 2.-The mail came
to the officers about 10 O'Clock last
night and they were going to wait
until morning to distribute but we all
made such racket no one could sleep
for a mile around and they had to
give us our mail that night or no one
would get to sleep. was out on
guard on the outpost on New Years,
that is out in the country. | was
where could see the enemy but they
could not see me for my post was in
the timber. New Years night it was
50 dark you would run into trees |
never saw it so dark. Col. Little
says be thinks we will spend our 4th
Of July on the water
went to a native funeral the other
day and tell you it was a sight
They don't use collins. They dig a
hole about three feet deep and so
small they have to wedge the bodies
in and shove them down with their
feet. They have what they call a
Huliculi, that is big dance after the
funeral then they have big supper.
The big folks carry the children on
their shoulders. The rich people
bury in stone wall and pay SIS a
year rent. If they fail to pay the
bodies are thrown out on the bone
pile. Every graveyard has a bone
pile. You can get skulls or anything
YOU want from them.
Igot a box to keep my clothes in
They call them trunks but it is only
a box made of mahogany. 1t is the
cheapest wood here.
1t has been raining here for the
last three days and is still raining and
| guess it will always rain. We have
good place to stay in the dry but
we don't get to stay in very much for
we are on guard duty SO much. |
tell you there is sick lot of boys
around here, they are all soured on
the army. This is one place they
don't want to stay for it is so warm
here. You don't have any idea how
warm it gets here. This is nothing
like soldering in Frisco. 1t is as
much different as day and night.
When we 60 on guard here we 60
on with our haversacks and canteens
on with so rounds of ammunition in
our belts and 200 rounds in our
haversacks and one days rations.
Maybe you think that don't get heavy
to walk fast with all night, 1t gets
dark as a dungeon every night and
sometimes fellow runs up to the
other guard and he thinks he has got
somebody sure. If any noise is heard
while on post we give the order to
halt and if it doesn't stop fire. There
is nothing crosses the lines at all. We
have to keep our belts and guns where
we can grab them at any minute for
the insurgents are crowding in and
burning down bridges and we have to
have everything so we can capture
all of them that we do not kill or they
will have us for they control the
waterworks and they will shat off the
water.
The Spanish prisoners are going
home by the thousands now. The
Spanish people are the prettiest peo-
pie | ever saw, all of them.
We will all be Cinnamon when we
get back | guess for we have nothing
but rice and bareback to eat. Rice is
so cents a sack here and there are $50
pounds in a sack, so we are not living
very high you see. But there will
come time some day when we won't
have to eat rice. Chewing tobacco is
81 50 pound for Battle Ak.
This city is just like God used to
have the cities. 1t has big stone
wall around it about 30 feet high and
ten feet thick and all around on top
are cannon that they used in war
time but everything like that is over
now They have real old fashioned
cannon, some that George Washing
ton used guess. They are no good.
All around the outside Of the wall is I