Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-09-12
lOWANSIN NEW ARMY
Every New Volunteer Regiment to
Have Iowa Represented in 1t.
OTTUMWAHASHER SHAREOFOFFICERS
The Twenty-finh iowa Regiment Will
Hold Reunion at Burlington on
Its Anniversary, September27
-Was In Many Battles.

Dies Moines, Sept. 7.-aIowa is going
to be pretty well represented in the
new army said Adjutant General BY
ers, the other day. Not only have a
large number of men received commits
sions in this state recently, but the en-
listments for the army are large. The
regular and volunteer forces have been
recruited alike, but the latter has got
the largest number, of course.
In the regular army the First cav
airy is already composed largely of
Iowa men. Among the Des Moines
men in it is Lieutenant Charles Saitz-
man. who was in Cuba with the reei-
ment, and recently L. A. L. Chapman,
OF the Register editorial force, has been
given a commission in that regiment.
1t is chartered in the west.
VI do not know whether Colonel Will
Dows, of the Forty-ninth Iowa, is 60
ing o accept the offer made him by
the government to take majors place
in the new volunteer army. but | do
not believe he will do it. He was the
only Iowa man appointed 10 a majors
commission in the new army, although
Governor Tanner has charged Secretary
Root. of the war department, with Civ
ing Iowa seven majors. colonel Hum
phrev, of the Fifty-second Iowa in the
Spanish war, was. given a captains
commission He is in the east aud i
do not know whether he will take it or
not. si
Among the other Iowans who have
commissions are the following in the
new volunteer service: Thirty-second
regiment, Brandt, of Des Moines; Eek
ers, of 0ttumwa; Heaton. oil Fairfield;
McMannus, of Davenport; and two 9TH
ers whose; names cannot recall. In
the Thirty-fourth there is Wyman, of
Ottumwa. and Goedefe. of Burlington:
. in the Thirty ninth, Long, of Burling-
ton, and Parks, of Dallas county; in
the Thirty-eighth, Nichols. of Waukon;
In the. Fortieth, Franz, of Tipton; in
the signal corps, Lyman, of Des
Moines.
''R. A. Nichols. of Wauken, who was
lieutenant in the Forty-ninth and
gets a captains commission in the
Thirty-eighth, was here Saturday and
said that he had accepted the commits
sion. He will make good officer. His
regiment will rendezvous al st. Louis,
Jefferson barracks. 1t will be taken 10
Manila probably the latter part of the
month. Mr.. Nichols when here called
my attention to an interesting obser-
walton he had made while in Cuba.
He said that so'afar as his notice went
: II ssyysissss mot the men who drank who
were attacked by disease, necessarily.
He said that of his regiment he believed
that a majority of those who died were
not drinkers. This. however, is prob
al 1, 4 Ia, AZ.
non-drinkers were largely in the ma
jority in the Forty-ninth. as they were
in all the Iowa regiments, Mr.. Mich
OILS stated that the drinkers, when at
tackled, however, are the ones who
most readily succumb to disease Most
soldiers agree that cleanliness and alb
stinence from drink are the surest pre-
ventives of disease and fatal results
of disease in the army.
In this connection / want to call
your attention to the fact that the
death rate of the soldiers in the Phil.
ippines is very small l see that Ser
geant Harry Brookoyer, of the, First
Nebraska, who lives here and returned
Saturday. refers 10 the same thing in
an interview, he has given OUT. Lool,
at the Fifty-first. 1t lost many men in
San Francisco, but has not lost great
many in the Philippines. While many
are i'll all the time with minor disor.
ders there are few fatal cases.
Captain Nichols has been ordered te
Dubuque to recruit a part of his com
pany for the Thirty-eighth and will
spend ten days at it. Most of the cap.
tains are being given these orders. i