The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-29
NO SIGNS OF SURRENDER
Plenty of Fight Left in the Fill
pinos.
IT Is A LOVELY COUNTRY
All Kinds of Gold Said to Be Found In
the Mountains-War Is Tough
Proposition Rainy Sea-
son Starting In.

Great Falls, May 2s.-In view of the
many assertions that the Filipinos have
been licked and are now suing for peace
the following letter written by Russell
Hartop of Company I to his brother Fred
who lives near Lewistown, is interest
ing:
There has been some awful hard fight
ing going on every day since the 18th of
March. / am not with the company, as
am still on detached duty. The flying brig
ade, or rather two brigades. started out
through the country toward Malolos and
fought hard for a week to get there, but
they made, it and took the capital, which
is Malolos. But they did not capture
many niggers, as they left their capital
just as they left dozens of other towns.
They now burn every town that they see
we are going to take and then clear out.
We will have to whip them all over the
island. They have not shown any signs
of surrendering yet. We have undertaken
long, hard job with the few men we
have, and the way they fight makes it
all the harder
"Our loss has been pretty heavy this
last engagement. / do not know how
many the army lost or the regiment, but
we had four wounded in our company
They are Edwin J. Lynn, shot in the
groin; Corporal Lorenz shot in the body
Edward Weaver, shot in the wrist, and
James Addison, shot through the shoul-
der. Our killed and wounded in our regi-
ment up to date is something like 100, and
we are not as heavy a loser as one or two
regiments. They keep the, volunteers
right on the firing line all the time and
are holding the regulars in reserve. These
regulars haven't done much fighting yet.
The last regiment that came in can't
stand the heat; they fan over too quick.
Our boys stand it pretty well.
This is a lovely country. The noun
tains are not far off and they say there is
all kinds of gold in them. / wish you
were here to prospect them, but you had
better let well enough alone and stay in
Gods country. l was up on high build
ing and could see the hardest of the
fighting. 1t was a beautiful sight one
never to be forgotten.
WORD has just come in that the third
battalion of the Montana regiment which
are companies l. A and B. went out five
miles beyond Malolos and they only found
one company of niggers, and they killed
two of their officers and winged some
more. Then they returned and went in
swimming in creek and got to diving
and found 80 Mauser rifles; so, if 1t is true,
the niggers' army must be all shot to
pieces. The generals claim we have the
backbone of the army broken. Anyway,
] hope SO, because l tell you war is a
tough proposition. No sleep. eat Irregular
ly, no decent water; so. take it all
around. it's no picnic; sleep in the rain
without even a shelter tent or blanket |
stay up all night on the train when there
are any wounded to bring in and haul
ammunition to the front in daytime The
rainy season is just starting in, to make it
al! the more disagreeable.
Lieutenant Smith started home a few
weeks ago. The Old man was pretty bad
off. He has been in the hospital for five
or six months"