Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-10-19
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lous and not worthy of serious consideration.
never intimated such thing and have been
wrongly quoted in the m after.
The people must stop to consider when they
! are passing Judgment that there are countless
conditions to be constantly combatted and over
come there before Roadway can be made. IfeaI
that the exact difficulties OF the situation are
not fully understood Some mistakes have
| been made, but the campaign has been conduct
ed in most able and conscientious manner and
every man has done his best. No grave errors
have occurred, but it is always easy to look
back and comment upon what has been done,
even though that might have been accomplished
under trying circumstances.
The last mail the Kansas troops re-
ceived before arriving here left home
about July 1. AS result the mail &C
cumulated in San Francisco for the regi-
ment was enormous. boat load of it
went aboard the Tartar this morning.
The soldiers were in ignorance of af-
fairs at home and the mail was a vel
come visitor.
The regiment comes home without
any scandal and whatever differences
there may be between the officers and
men-and every regiment has it's diff
ferences-they are not allowed to come
to the surface. 1t has been the mis-
fortune of many of the returning regi-
the San Francisco papers, but the Kan
sans, it is understood, have agreed
among themselves to wait and settle
their differences after they get home.
They say they are not going to allow
their personal grievance to mar the
brilliant record of the regiment.
At 5:45 Tuesday afternoon the clang
of bells and shrek of whistles an
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Funston and the Twentieth Kansas on
board, had been sighted. The trans
port cast anchor just inside the Golden
Gate. The sea was very heavy and it
was with great difficulty that the
newspaper boat went alongside her.
Gen. Funston, Col. Metcalf and other
officers came to the railing and yelled
the information to the newspaper men
that there had been two deaths among
the Kansans since leaving Manila. Cor
poral Robert NJ. Lee, of f company,
and John M. Ingenthron, of L COM
pany, both died Of dysentery, the former
at Hong Kong, as previously reported,
the latter at Yokohama. Few on board
were sick, only one seriously, George
W. Mills. of [ company, who has dysen-
terry. Corporal Charles E. Rossman, of
L V,
inson and George Conrad, of NJ COM
pany, were left in the hospital at Ma
Mia.
The Tartar carried 707 enlisted men
of the Kansas regiment, exclusive of
Is Kansans who had been discharged
and were going home with the regi-
ment; 43 officers, 4OS discharged volun-
teer regulars and a large passenger list,
including the wives of Maj. Whitman
and Chaplain Schliemann and Lieut..
Willis Uline, of the Twelfth infantry,
and Miss Alice Spradlin. The long
voyage did wonders in restoring Lieut..
Uline to health. His escape from
death was most remarkable. The bull
let, which he received in an engage
ment at Angeles, August 10, passed
through his neck, just missing the
spinal column and coming out under
the right eye, but he is now almost en-
tirely well save for a stiffness in the
neck.
The story of the Kansas soldiers is
almost a history of the war in the Phil
ippines during their stay there. The
regiment took part in nearly 80 en-
gagements and bore the brunt of the
fighting in %. The daring and bravery
bal, and the example set by the men
from the Sunfiower state undoubtedly
had a salutary effect upon the other
troops. The heroic feats of Fred Funs-
ton and Privates Trembley and White
thrilled the nation and contributed to
the battle-won glory of the entire regi-
ment.
The regiment that once boosted of
off
tered but 7OS men and fl officers on the
morning of departure from Manila.
Death on the battlefield or by disease,
sick and wounded sent home and dis
charged to re-enlist'' thinned the ranks
of Kansas fighters. The regiment lost
more men killed in battle than any
other regiment and in proportion to its
strength more men re-enlisted than
from any other organization.
The precise date of the mastering
out of the regiment has not yet been
determined upon, but it will be done
with all possible haste. The men are
anxious to go home in time to vote.
Gen. Funston being no longer con-
nected with the regiment, will have no
part in it's muster out. General Off
GERS and general staff officers are dis
charged from service by special orders
from the secretary of war. It has not
yet been decided whether Gen. Funston
is to be discharged, and if so. how soon.
The tents of the adjutant and the
company clerks are scenes of activity.
Many of the company clerks prepared
their rolls ON their way across the sea
on the Tartar. The work of complet-
ing them is being pushed rapidly for
ward, and Col. Metcalf is thus able to
make a good representation to Gen.
Shafter in the argument for an early
discharge of the regiment.
Col. Metcalf caused joy in the regi-
ment by restoring to their command
three officers who were invalids home
on the hospital relief. Capt. Adna G.
Clarke went back to company II. Capt.