The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-12

all the way over, l MADE the voyage
unmolested.
when / got to Cavite found a
monkey and l soon had a pet. Shortly
after big monkey from somewhere
scooted across our grounds and bound
ed into Lieutenant Colonel Wallaces
room. We all took after it and | rush
ed into the room. The monkey shot
out through a window. and Lieuten-
ant Colonel Wallace gave me boost
up to get out after the monkey. Then
he saw me for the first time since we
| left San Francisco. He looked at me
and said: Well. I'll be darned Go
after that monkey you little son of
but another fellow caught it. The
| whole regiment was after the monkey.
| O'Malley of Anaconda caught it and
| gave it to me.
From Cavite l went over to Manila
| with the LIST and I'd battalions. Quar-
| termaster Seadorf put me to work
| driving wagon and hauling stuff to
| the colonel's headquarters. After this
| l returned to Cavite to work for Slow
| Bill Hyman, who conducted kind or
a soldiers gambling house. did odd
| jobs around the place and he paid
| me well for my work. When the 30
| battalion went across to Manila l ac-
companied it. associating myself with
| Company B. Here my spirits went
| away down again.
TT was the 22d OF December, and I
was sent to the hospital with well de-
| fined case of smallpox. l was confined
until the list of February, when I met
| my old friends of Company K. Myles
Kelly and Lieutenant Greenan asked
me to come with them. Their company
was stationed at Gala Blobo de Orc in
Manila. My presence in the room was
the occasion of CONSERVATION, for it
was known that 1 had just been dis
charged from the smallpox hospital.
Captain Keown said that he feared I
might cause a spread of the disease,
but finally told Private Tanner of
Company X to take me in tow, at the
same time turning both of us over to
Colonel Kessler. The colonel here saw
me for the first time since leaving San
| Francisco, but he did not say much.
| He appointed Tanner my guardian and
gave me permission to stay in the
company.
ION the night of the 4th of Febru-
airy, when the bugle sounded, I went
with my company to the firing line and
remained all night. The next MORN
ing went after breakfast for the men.
| l helped the cook in the kitchen and
made myself generally useful. After
| the boys had captured the first
| trenches 1 drove out in a guilez Gear
| riage) to the line and there the colonel
| fired me in hurry, saying that that
| was no place for me. l went back to
| Manila crestfallen, but l returned to
the front with Company B, and man
aged to keep out of Colonel Kessler's
way. All this time l had rubbered
around without a gun. / found an old
| Remington in the trenches and car
ried it with me to Caloocan and fired
| many shots from it. After reaching
| Caloocan, l stayed in the trenches. l
threw the gun away and went into
business for myself. I sold papers
| Freedom and American-for 10 cents
| each, Mexican money. In this way !
earned considerable money. With it
l bought cigars and sold them on tick
to the boys of Company X, and the
first payday after l had $50 in gold.
Not one of the boys failed to pay me.
''In the advance from Laloma church
/ went with Company X. AS we neared
the trenches the bullets came thick and
fast. Captain Dillon came to me and
told me to &C to the rear. / went, but
before long l found myself with the
Pennsylvania, and with them l went
to the front again. Later Joined the
Sd battalian. While waiting for or
ders / ran upon Colonel Kessler who
had lost his orderly. He called me tc
his side and ordered me to hold his
horse, which ] did until the orderly
showed up. The colonel had evident
ly forgotten about having previously
ordered me out of the firing line, fol
he SdlQ no more u mt. III time re
joined my Company K at the watel
works, near Caloocan. From here
went with my company and tough
with it at Polo and Malinta.
After that the Montanas were helc
in reserve and the South Dakotas ad
vanced. / went with this regiment ant
was in on the capture of Maraiiao. II
this fight I had an experience I shall
never forget The Fiipinos scattered
going into their gateways (paths il
thick Jungle and other hiding places
I jumped headlong into a gatewa,
with four insurgent hats I had picke'
up in the wake of the flying niggers
. pango volunteers In the gateway
niger appeared. l had just aske,
; Lieutenant Morrison of the Dakota
for some ammunition and he CAV
; me four cartridges. l had fired tw
of them and had two left when tn
niger showed up in the gateway.
! let him have both of them and he fell
! Just then another niger came up an
saw his dead comrade. He made a.
attempt to take his gun from hi
shoulder straps, but I bristled up t
him and cooked my pistol and held
, close to his head and motioned to hir
: to follow me. He did, but you bet h
thought my pistol was loaded.
wasn't, though, and / didn't have
, cartridge on me. / took that big mig
. ger to the rear to General Macarthur
who supplied me with arms and order
! ed me to take my prisoner back t
! the station. Before sending him ava
General Macarthur pumped him an
found out a lot about the movement
of the insurgents.
when the South Dakotas went int
camp and We're relieved of the advanc
1 / Joined the Pennsylvania regimen
and went with it to the firing line
While waiting for orders the PennsyI
! vanias rested and / strolled over t
the Kansas camp and with a coupl
of the boys from there went into
big wine cellar near by. There
strapped onto my shoulder, cantee
fashion, a big bottle of vermouth.
also picked UP nice ebony cane. B
the time l reached the Pennsylvania
they were in the advance and the in
surgents were deploying to the lef
The main body of the regiment, how
4 ever, was back considerably to tn
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