Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-10-13

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called upon and spoke briefly. Lieut..
Baldwin presented Captain Eddy with
a gold watch as a token of esteem.
from the company. Alfred Dickey
spoke, and Hon. Roderick Rose made
an interesting address. The decora-
ttion Of the stage was done by Mrs.
r. E. Wallace. and among THE feat
ures was. a Sdbley tent and a camp
scene on the stage.
VALLEY CITY.
Valley City promises to have a whole
week of celebration. Nearly every
night this week there is Il reception
or banquet scheduled in honor of the
returning company. The city's re-
ception ito Company G and Major
White was a magnificent one. The
company, led by Col. Peake, Major
White and Major J. D. Black, was
escorted ITO the armory, where 1000
people were banqueted. Before the
banquet there was a roll call of men,
bers of the company, and as each
member stepped forward he received
the amount of his transportation
money in gold.
DEVILS LAKE.
The Devils Lake company got home
Sunday night-a little sooner thanlex-
pected-and Judge Morgan got out
'handbills a little before telling that
the arrival Of THE company was X
pected. Bands were present in
abundance and the reception at the
depot was universal. A parade on
the following day began the cpre-
monies, followed by Il reception. At
the opera house speeches of welcome
We're made by Senator Hansbruugll,
Attorney General Cowan and Captain
COggswell and others.
LIFE IN THE ISLANDS.
The members of Company \ are
observing and talk interestingly of
the islands. All argue that they are
rich, and capable of enormous devel-
opment. The country back miles and
miles from the ocean is level and given
over mostly ito rice and cane planta-
ttions. North Of Manila the country
Us fertile and beautiful back to the
foothills, with many large towns,
splendid churches and farms capable
of raising great crops under a proper
state of cultivation. The native
method of tiling THE soil is exceeding
" primitive. It is scratched with IL
wooden plow drawn by a watdAi. buff
falo. There are few modern agri-
cultural implements-one of the boys
says he saw a couple Of sugar cane
%crushers. When the soil had been
observation-disclosures being rice paddles
along the fields to dam up the water
the rice is sowed and farming opera
lions are over until it is time to cut it.
The rice fields resemble wheat fields
to Il certain extent, and the. natives
cut it with sickles, and tramp out the
grain from the heads. or pound it out
with mallets. Rice. is the staple food
of the natives.
The boys had experience with waiter
buffalo on their marches. These ami
mails are to be found in the waiter
wherever they can reach it and are
to be seen, their bodies immersed and
with only their heads protruding.
sometimes 300 or 400 Of them in a
body of water. Out of the water
they have little endurance. and fire.
quently dropped owe dead. when
hitched to the carts carrying supplies.
Then the boys hitclled themselves up
and took up the white mans burden.
In many places roads had to be broken
for the wagon trains. and on one oc-
casion the train advanced just Il mile
and a half in a day.
The native shacks are of bamboo.
which grows in thick clumps, almost
impenetrable, and to an enormous
IniO11,t fIu,n 1or,1,Dno QUO .-,1:A ,.1
opened UP into a fiat board. These
structures are matched With nipa, a
long, narrow leaf, which serves as a
Single. Floors are of bamboo and
sometimes Of malogany-so common
is this valuable wood. All of the
wood in the islands is hard and would
be Of great value in a country reach
ing a higher state Of civilization.
In Manila, up to a couple of months
before the outbreak, the North Dako-
tans did garrison duty ut Malate, a
suburb of Manila. The duty was
monotonous, but the place was health
full, and to the fact of their having
been stationed there is due, perhaps,
the remarkable health record of
the regiment. Their quarters were
Of bamboo, only a stones throw from
the bay, and the sen breeze was
healthful and cool. In fact the tenn
perature about Manila is not oppres-
sively hot, unless it is necessary to be
exposed to the sun, whose heat is
fierce. But it is seldom that a COM
Portable shade cannot be found, and
with light and proper clothing, and
abstinence from labor in the sun,
Manila is not an uncomfortable place,
On the march, 'hiking' along in the
u and hauling carts by way of de.
Walton from monotony, the boys at
times suffered intensely from the heat