The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-03-16
FROM THE ISLANDS!
Claud Brogden Writes an Interesting
Letter to His Parents.
WILL REMAIN THERE.
Thinks an Opportunity to Make Money at
Present, he is on
Scout Duty.
ALAM1Nus, PHILIPPINE Is.
February /, 1900. !
WILL REMAIN THERE.
ALAMINus, PHILIPPINE Is.
February i, 1900. !

DEAR PARENTS:
Your Letter OF December at hand and
contents are carefully noted.
| am as we'll as usual and | hope this
will tiud you all the same. l am Lot
working in the kitchen any more. it was
not the best for my health, too much
smoke over a c emp fire, and | want to
keep my good health if possible. Then
they also cut the cooks wages $40 each,
| would have received $40 at that; good
enough wages. but | am not in the army
to make money, | wan to be a good sol.
dier, and get a good Disc arge. A cook
in the army is a dog robber for every
iady
| will send you my discharge from the
Iowa regiment, which wlllhe of interest
to ,ou G can see TART of what l went
through. And [ will have many more
battles ma ked on my discharge when
| get it from the SO h. will also send
yon soms Philippine stamps which we
ca ,fursd from tue insurgents, .sif l can
find them "
You tell the boys, Pa, that were over
here, if they could ger over being houe
SICK and see what | have seen of these
islands they would sas it beats old
Crawford ta,u! y vt
L ana really stuck on this country and
W zen my time is up. 1 i te d to stsy
he 9. ri .ess tor a while. | do not in
tend TO enlist gair, but [ believe | a
make a good piece of money here. THIS
is a ii g c me-. every thing green and
lovely the year round, and you can raise
most anything. Rice, tob Gee. hemp
cocoa. and sugar ere the prii cipal crops
raised here
No be sure and keep my discharge
for me, alse part of the stamps Yes,
the war ai,out over We just c me
in u few days ago from n SIX days
march through the mountains; only
had one small skirmish III which we had
n man killed and four wounded. The
II killed is the man who worked in
9 kitchen. w, aI- 30 in the
y u Ia us, twelve of us from Company
G, and | am of,e ut the Twelve, to scout
around for ten days We are 10 start
in a couple ~ days, but l hardly be.
lieve we will Il d was.y insurgents.
Yes, Gladys, there arc many pretty
flowers plants iefe, but they are
like the roses d seets; v, u have to
get IA start by getting a root or sprout.
We have gone IN quarters to do gar
rison duty IN this tow There are two
companies of us From one to three
companies are stationed in each town
to garrison it; we arc Ia the edge OF
the mountains aud thr . mil $ from
the bay. All of our stuff comes in by
way of a boat. Yesterday we got our
box and cots, so we are at home Good
bye, write often. Your son. Claude.
rln:a ~ratinsatl,as of the Chilean
Gains treaty We're exchanged at the
state department Monday by Secretary
Hay for the United States aud Minister
Moriu Nicunit for Chile.
The American Snuff company was in
corporated at Trenton Monday with an
authorized capital stock of Ss5, 900, 900.
The company is TO absorb the leading
snuff industries of the country.
A conference between the t%ypefound-
ers of the United States and their en-
ployes regarding wages and hours has
both sides. The new wage scale and
feet April !. The advance in wages
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