The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-07-20
Not a Stranger to the use of Krag-Jorgesen.
a Crisp Racy Letter Which Fault Finding In it.
Joseph Capse Received the Following Letter from his son De
Who is Doing Good Service for his Country in the Philippines
Everybody will be Interested in it.

could never find out their exact loss In any OF
the places, as they always carried away the
killed and wounded if possible, May II we
went to San Isedro They put up pretty
good fight here, but after number of shots
from the big guns they took to their heels and
we marched in to San Isedro This is quite a
town. They had fine barracks. formerly
used by the Spanish Here Is where the Am
erican prisoners were kept until May four-
teen or fifteen of them. We found their
names written on the walls, also adetter con-
cealed under one of the stones, giving short
account of their lives as prisoners They are
having pretty tough time Of It. Il Here the
Insurgents had their headquarters after
losing Malolos and they had a foundry and
work shop, where they tried to make some
cannons and shells. etc. At 3,p. m. we went
to Gapon, i've miles from San Isedr9s and ION
the river. This town is fine. cleaHh laSeand
here the insurgents had hospital :whAfF8 800
wounded were quartered at one time acpprd-
ing to papers found there. This is the town
which has the fine church which I spoke OF,
before We had no fighting here May Is we
returned to San Isedro and it was here that
we saw Gen. Del Palar and Luna and several
other insurgent leaders, who went to Manila
to see Gen. Otis and the peace commission
May 20 we marched to Cable. No fighting at
all after leaving San Isedro. May q we
marched to Aryat. Had quite a time here, as
we had to cross wide river and had to- build
RATS and take the entire bull train across.
1t took us until p. m. May p we went to
Candaba, also on the river. VIII say here
that all towns from San Isedro on are on the
river, and the Insurgents expected we would
Al t. Is M rav~T}S nv
coming back this way. The entire bank for
miles is nothing but trenches and the roads
have breastworks every mile or so thrown
across also deep holes cut in bad places9t AT
Candaba we saw the small gun boat, La
Grenade Bay, which has done some excellent
work along the river, and also up the Pasig
and at Santa Cruze
May g we went through ST. Louis to St.
Simon and on the 24th to Calumpit, where
we struck the railroad, thus making a COM
plete circle Of about $50 miles, but counting
the distance travelled from one town to an
other and back again would make it very near
25o miles of march All the provisions and
ammunition for the trip were carried by the
bull train. Each company had two or three
bull carts, two wheeled carts drawn by one
native bull. and they go as slow as our oxen,
or even slower. On marching days we had
breakfast of coffee and haldtack and some
times slice of bacon or some beans. We
carried dinner and supper with us consisting
of bareback and one can of ssembalmed''
meat or two cans of salmon to two men. We
oJ.- oor~;aJ ovr copteap baversa with Eftv
extra rounds of ammunition, one rubber
| blanket and shelter tent, made into roll and
carried on the left shoulder. with ends tied
under the left arm May 16 we came to our
present place, and we have fine quarters, lots
of room and plenty to eat, things which we
well know how to enjoy, after being out on the
march for over month. During the past
month my drum was quiet, but did lots Of
shooting with my Krag Jorgensep
i Our entire regiment is. now on the track
again at different stations The Ore
| gon regiment goes on board the transport
Hancock, Thursday the first of the volunteer:
to leave for home. The California boys lef
! here also to join the rest of the regiment OF
Negros Island and we hear they will proceed
on their way also Moth Dakota boys are il
Manila and by the looks Of things now thu
18th will be on the way before many moons
Gen. Lawton and others speak very highly 0
the 18th, and am proud to be one of them
There is one thing am sorry for, and that is
that for some unaccountable reason onl,
twenty-uine out of forty mine officers were il
the field during this campaign They ma,
have been sick Twill not say they were no
At any rate, no, they were in Manila. Maj
Bean is now acting colonel, but he was put il
since we came back Capt. Masterman wa
colonel after Maj Diggles was shot. for
got to mention that he was shot at Maasil
viii out with scouting party and died a fes
day $ ago. Aword about Capt Metz H,