The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-08
WAS MUCH APPRECIATED
Company A Is Proud of the City
of Great Falls.
ANXIOUS TO GET HOME
But They Must All Wait Until the Reg
iment Returns-The Invalids Are
Improvlng-A Great Dinner
Thanksgiving.

| Mia feel toward the people of Great
| Falls for their kindly acts and gifts.
Were there any such doubt it would be
dispelled by the following written by
Capt. J. E. Moran of Company A to w.
F. Tannhauser of this city under date
Of December II:
My Dear Friend-Your note enclosed
in one of the Christmas boxes was re-
ceived when the box was opened. The
three boxes were delivered here on the
18th. 1t was my intention not to open
them until the night of the oath, but
many of the boys wanted them opened
| at once, SO after drill l told them to
hold meeting and report after sup
| per what their wishes were and they
were what anticipated. They were
unanimous to have them opened at
| once. Even then 1 was 10th to COM
ply, but while considering it, the Of
fcers of our battalion We're ordered to
be in readiness to be called out at any
hour during the night. That of course
decided me, and with much pomp and
ceremony, DIR. Adams, Lieutenants
French and Boardman and l proceeded
to open said boxes and distribute the
kind membranes from relatives and
| friends at home, which were greatly
I
here, for me, convey to our friends in
| Great Falls my sincere thanks for the
! interest and care they have taken in
| the welfare of the company, from the
day they left, on the 9Th of May last
| 1t Is useless for me to say how deeply
it is appreciated by every member of
the company, or how proud they are of
the city from which they came and,
| with a few exceptions, they endeavor to
have record in the regiment that the
city may well be proud Of
| They are all anxious to get home
and five have sent in applications for
| discharge, on various grounds, that
will not be considered at headquarters
| but, of course, / forward them through
military channels to the adjutant gen
eral at Washington. Not approved as
| the first Endorsement made by myself
| hand the application to the regimental
adjutant, the colonel makes his indorse-
ment and forwards it to brigade head
quarters, again Endorsed and forwarded
| to Washington, then returned, and
expect we will be at home or on the way
before it will have reached me again.
l look at it in this way: The men all
enlisted for two years; the same cause
for them to stay at home existed then
| as they now give as a reason to go
home. and unless a man is physically
unable to perform some duty, he will
|
does. When that will be is hard to
tell, as it depends on what congress-
Spain and the insurgents do. The lat
ter are a very uncertain quantity, some
of them saying they will be satisfied
with nothing short of a republic of their
| own. They have quite number of men
under arms, and trouble may be precip-
itated at any time by the hot heads,
! but | do not look for any operations
| by them against us until congress de-
cides on the report of the peace COM
mission.
The boys are all in pretty good con
dition now. I have three in the hospi-
| tai. Elliott has been there ever since
we disembarked, last August, and will
| be examined by medical board next
week. Mccormick, who is in the quar-
antine hospital with variolid was
supposed at first to be smallpox,
but is now getting on fine. Billy Brown
was operated on about three weeks ago
for rupture and is doing fine He will
be out in a few days. Lambie returned
from the hospital Thursday. He had
an absess on his thigh, but is now o.
K. Herman had quite a siege of
| fever, but has been back from duty for
three weeks. kumpe also had very
severe siege of typhoid fever, but is in
fine condition now, and is the sergeant
major of our battalion. The rest are all
| L d.
| lost 30 pounds in about a month, but l
am getting too fleshy again Lieuten-
ant Boardman has been bothered some
with rheumatism, but has attended to
his duties right along.
! I'VE had a great dinner on Thanks
| giving, and if some one does not steal
our turkeys before the 25th, will have
| big feast. There are Is of them on
| hand. We have an oven built, so we
don't have to cook now with the field
| ovens. We have also had tables built
and benches so the men can sit down
and enjoy the meals. While we have
| great deal to contend with in many
ways. on the whole I think there is
not much cause for complaint, for when
| we left, / for one, had no idea we were
| going on a picnic or to a national guard
| encampment.
1.-THE only sad feature in connection
! with our company is the loss of three
| OF our members from fever. Had it
| occurred when in action, / would not
have minded it so much. but had no
| idea "a hours before that any of them
would die. 1t was the same thing
or cause that carried them away. Ad-
ans had been very sick with typhoid
and seemed to be on the mend. He had
no idea but he would be all right in
few weeks, when hemorrhage of the
stomach set in and he died from it in
|
| c. A. Taylor: he was sick on the boat,
and after being removed to the hospital
was given up as a hopeless case by
| the doctors, when he rallied and picked
| up for a few days, but the same thing
| happened with his stomach. McElliot
| was the same way; he was getting up
| in the afternoon and expecting to be
out of the hospital in a few days, but
! before morning he was dead. 1t seems
| the malarial poison eats away and per-
| forates the intestines, and when that
| occurs there is no show for them. They
! all were given a military funeral and
| do hope we will have no more deaths
from sickness in the company. / heard
that one of the boys who left on the
| Rio Janerio had died on the way to
Nagasaki and was worried, think ing it
might be Reid or Derrig, but l have
since learned that they arrived 0. K
| at Frisco, By the way, Kumpe was
greatly worried at the time for fear he
would be sent home, and when the