Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-09

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| in this city as follows:
Manzanillo, Cuba, Dec. ~. Is
II take pleasure in writing you
how the Fourth Immunes are e.
along, as it has been a long TIM
since I last sent word. The boys are
all well and happy. and nearly all of
us have gained great deal in weight,
and so far none of us have a kick
coming. We drill twice a day, nearly
all of it skirmish drill, over the hills
and through the woods, and we also
have a sham battle nearly every day
1t is a good place for skirmish drills,
for there are block houses and small
forts all around US. All the drilling
is done by signals. The men hide in
signals are given. Company G won
good battle last Thursday from Com
pany E, after an hours hard fight.
Company G has but one officer now
Second Lieutenant Maloney. First
Lieutenant Huseman took sick about
two weeks ago, but he will be out of
the hospital in a few days. Capt.
Franzheim has charge of the INDECENT
natives, and he has hard job of it,
as the natives don't give him time to
\eat or sleep, and there are never less
than two hundred of three hundred
people following him wherever he
goes. At his headquarters you can
always find few thousand people, and
at the commissary they hang around
about twice as thick, so you can see
the captain has no snap of it. All he
can hear is: Capt, glib ne una
papelito, or Capt, glib me una papelito,
me madre, morta I'm me, padre En-
ferma!' That is all he hears all the
time
'We-that is, Sergeant Charles B.
Lukens, Thomas J. Wolvington and
Theodore Murdock-have a good deal
of trouble around the commissary, but
not as much as the captain. Louis
Salterbach comes along and helps us
every day. He is a valuable man, and
the colonel and adjutant could not get
along without him.
I'VE have great time hunting al
ligators. Captain Franzheim is after
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least thirty hides. Every time he
shoots it is good bye alligator.
THE Colonel is getting up two troops
of mounted infantry out of the regi-
ment. Major H. NJ. Langdon has re-
signed and left for home.
THE Swift Beef Company has erect
ed an ice house here. and will supply
us with fresh meat.
Private George w. Bauer is in the
hospital, suffering from slight attack
of fever. but will be all right in a
short time Carl Iseman is still hunt
ing relics and alligators, and Private
Jim Seybold has enough relics to start
a curiosity shop. He is also making
good Roadway with the Spanish Ian
guage. Private JOS. Schlick has
charge of the canteen. He is bigger
than ever, weighing PIP pounds. A lot
of clothing sent to us by the Red Cross
we gave to the poor people, and we
give as high as 10000 rations a day. A
ration is: one pound of roast beef or
bacon, in cans; one can of tomatoes,
one pound of hard tack or one and
half pounds of flour, half-pound of
rice, two ounces of coffee, two ounces of
sugar, one ounce of salt, half onuce of
pepper, and one pint of vinegar, and
the sick get can of milk extra.
eve had fine time Christmas eve,
going to the house of a Cuban friend,
where they had a fandango after sup
per.
Louis Salterbach went duck hunt
ing Christmas morning and came back
for dinner with eleven fine ducks Oh,
my, what a mess, Salterbach said;
ANY old time we get left; we will all,
go home or it will snow on Christmas
in Cuba
'"The gunboat May Flower has been
here for a few days; we are going out
this afternoon to take look at her
"This is all l can write for this time,
but our friend Salterbach, Of Main
street. formerly Of the Mutual Savings
Bank. will write few lines.
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