Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-10
Disoemforts Of Soldier Life In the
Rainy Season Artillery De-
tail Released.


charged are:
Company B-Charles Sanders.
Company Crank Bacon. Claude c.
Brogden and Richard Paul.
Company D-Corp. Arthur d. Worth
ington and Lewis Shade.
Company Corp. and Cook James T
Moran, George Merrill, William j. Man
ion and Ralph p. Cromer.
Company F-G. Edward Fisher and
Harry l.. Kramer.
Company Corp. Everett L. Hea-
ton. Daniel NJ. Simero. Charles A. Hun
ter and Corp. Harry Carver.
Company H-Corp. Noel Kinnaman.
Otto Jensen and Robert H. Lee.
Company Windsor r. Stanley,
George II. Cusick, Elmer NJ. DAVIS and
Don Carlos Hedrick.
Company Louis Wegener
The travel pay which each private
will receive on re-enlistment in the new
organizations amounts to slightly over
$500.
The Fifty-first is getting we'll ac-
auainted with the rainy season, and
everybody is satisfied its discomforts
have been none too vividly painted.
The Iowans are the only volunteers not
north line, and they are still doing their
full part at outpost duty. This sort of
work is not particularly edifying. con-
sidering the fact that the rice and corn
fields about San Fernando are becoming
muddy and sloughlike. To make things
more unpleasant, the Ftlipinos have
now taken it into their heads to harass
and annoy the Americans by night at
Il, a
rainy season. A large body of insur-
gents Is massed about San Fernando
land alarms are frequent. The night of
June 90 at 1890 there was an attack at
several points about the city. 1t was
Irepulsed with ease. though it required
q large amount of scurrying and turn-
bling over muddy rice dikes ana
through wet cornfields in the rain and
darkness. One Iowa man, Private r.. F.
Brown, of Company c, was wounded in
the hip but not seriously The seven
tenth Infantry lost one man killed and
several wounded. The companies re-
turned to quarters after being on the
lime for several hours.
The night of Thursday. June 90, the
insurgents also made an attack, but it
was so forestalled that it was given up
after hot skirmisn. There We're no
casualties to this regiment member
lof Company L was barely touched by a
spent bullet.
The Iowa men wounded in the tight OF
June 16 are doing We'll and all are con-
sidered out of danger.
There is much sickness. but large
number of the sick and wounded are
on their way back to the states on the
hospital ships. Private Paul b. Pugh. OF
Company L. died yesterday at the First
Reserve hospital in Manila from fever.
He was resident of Council Bluffs.
and when the regiment left Honolulu he
remained there in the hospital 10Y
treatment. Later he took his depart
ure from Hawaii without leave, and se-
creting himself on the transport re.
Joined his company and regiment.
| The men generally resent the policy
that is keeping them at the front, need
llessly as they believe. Many OF them
have been on the fighting line since
February without q break. a record
that is equalled by few organizations in
| the island.
| AS a sample of what the belief is as
/ to the regiments home-going. Well
known field officer is making bets to-
day that the Fifty-first will have en-
barked for San Francisco by Sept. l.
| Capt. Pryor, of Company L. of Coun-
lcil Bluffs, has resigned. Ill health Is
given as the cause.
| Capt. Joseph Davidson, regimental
adjutant, has been made acting bri-
gade quartermaster. 1t IS likely to be
permanent detail. Lieut.. E. r. Ben
nett, of Company II, has been Temporal
riiy detailed as resimental ad1utanr.
! In view of the commissioning Of Capt
IWilliam Gibson, of Company A, as Sec
lond lieutenant in the regular army, the
following promotions have been recon-
mended:
First Lieut.. Frank kilbaum to be
captain; Second Lieut.. Park Findley tc
be first lieutenant: William e. Parvin
first sergeant, to be second lieutenant.
The much mooted question of the
seniority of the three majors of this
regiment has finally been decided by lot
The tickle goddess of fortune. operating
through the medium of dingy China
man drawing slips of paper from an ole
That, determined the rank as follows
Maj. w. j. Duggan, first: Maj. Sterling
Up. Moore, second: Maj. John G. Hume
third.
] Lowry A. Caldwell. of Company H
has been appointed corporal.
II. D. Russell, until lately company
clerk of Company H. has been detailed
for service as clerk at Gen. Hale's head
quarters in Manila. Private William
Kersey succeeded Private Russell a:
company clerk.
The men detailed for service witt
Hawthornes Batterly from Companie!
A and F have returned to their com
panies. Up to their return little wa!
known Of the particulars of the death
of Walter Wagner. of Company A. WHIT
was instantly killed in action June /:
on the south line, near Las Pinas. Thu
other members of Company A detailed
with the battery at the time were Pri
Yates Beck. Hutchinson, Ben Mathel
and b. j. Ness. The latter was stand.
Ing close to Wagner when he wa:
struck. The guns had been run up t
lforty o. NIFTY yards Of the insurgsn'