The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-05
MONTANA BOYS PAY DAY
Paymaster Will Pay the Regiment
a Visit This Morning.
LYNN CARRIES A BULLET
The Doctors Thought He Would Die,
but He Is Growing Fat-TwentyT Two
Cases OF Eye and Ear Trouble.
The Valencias Cigars.
Special Dispatch to tine Standard.

SpecidI iJlSpdlCA ~ Liz
San Francisco, Oct. 4.-The official
oft-postponed payday for the Montana
boys is at hand at last. Tomorrow
morning according to the announce
ment of PaSmaster Rees. each man of
the rank and file will receive his SIS
and order for the month of October, 1t
will be welcome, for nearly every one
has some little obligation that he wants
to wipe out, and then, too, a man feels
better when he has something to jingle
in his pocket.
OF the wounded men in hospital. of
which there are fortunately only few,
the case of Private Edward j. Lynn
presents the most peculiar feature.
lynn was hit by a Filipino bullet in
the fierce engagement at La Iona, the
ball penetrating his lower bowels. Ever
since then the poor fellow has carried
the bullet with him, the doctors being
unable to locate it even with the as
estance of X rays. A strange feature
of ,the case is that, Notwithstanding
the unusually serious character of the
wound and the prediction Of the doctors
ithat Lynn had but short time to live,
tthe patient is apparently well and
growing fat.
An affection that has attacked men
of all the regiments that have done
service in the Philippines has also found
many victims among the LIST Montana.
This particular disease, if disease it can
be called, affects the eyes and ears, par
1icularly the latter, causing deafness
more or less acute. On the medical
examination for the muster out roll of
the LIST Montana regiment there are y
scredited with this affection They are:
Major James F. Keown, Captain An
idrew Jensen, Oscar Mcintosh, David
C. Hines, James M. Harvey. William d.
Brown and Hay H. Longwell of Com
.pany E; George W. Post. Company c;
John H. Mclean, Company G; Charles
L. Rice, Barney O'Neill, James Casey,
William Reilly, William P. Fisher,
Company NJ; Nathan D. Root and An
drew S. Jensen, Company B; Lawrence
.Keegan and Henry Watt, Company K;
iGeorge F. Meadel, Thomas J. Cober
lick Charles H. Evans and Frederick
A. Chaxel, Company F.
Besides these "a or &c more were sent
home while the regiment was in the
Philippines. Army doctors don't seem
to be able to explain the cause of the
affection, but generally credit it to the
damp condition of the atmosphere,
characteristic of swampy lands in ISL
ands which causes the wax in the ear
to harden. In the opinion of army sur
geons as high as SO per cent. of men
SO afflicted will be eligible to receive
pensions.
A morning paper, in trying to find an
explanation for the disappearance OF
some cigars from the supply Lieu
tenant Loudenheimer mad aboard the
Valencia, has at this late day hit upon
the Montana boys as the responsible
parties. This imputation on their hon
esty they strongly resent. While they
do not deny the charge that they know
good cigars when they see them, and
lal l1a
transport coming over, they assert that
they bought them in Manila with money
& Uncle Sam paid them for licking mig
gers. If the commssary officer was
short after the customs officers got
through with the vessel they think he
might with profit ask these gentlemen
for an explanation. The Objectionable
article in question, taken from the EX-
aminer. is printed herewith:
THE Montana volunteers who re-
turned from Manila on the transport
Valencia were smoking choice cigars
all during their trip across the Pacific
1t was common remark among the
officers of the steamer that the soldiers
from Montana had remarkably fine
taste for tobacco. They smoked only
the best cigars and they seemed to have
an inexhaustible supply. Lieutenant
Ioudenheimer, commissary officer OF
the vessel laid in a large supply of CT
CARS to sell to the returning soldiers.
He purchased the best he could get in
Manila and proposed selling them at
reasonable prices. They were carefully
slowed away, but as the voyage prog
ressed he was surprised that there was
mo demand-though the soldiers We're
consuming tobacco at an awful rate
Not once during the voyage across the
Pacific was the locker in which the
commssary officer slowed his cigars
opened, and on the vessels arrival in
the locker SAILED DV the GUS
toms officers. Yesterday the officers of
the vessel We're taking stock and the
locker was opened for them to count the
cigars. Then it was found that 1000 OF
the original supply We're gone. Lieu
tenant Loudenheimer cannot account
for their disappearance, yet he knows
the soldiers who made the trip across
the Pacific from Manila with him
smoked good cigars during the whole
voyage"
Oakland's Reception.
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