Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-03-15
Billy BeadIe Writes Home From
the Philippines.
Arrayatt, p. l., Jan. "A, 1900.

Arrayatt, p. l., Jan. IA, 1900.
J. w. b. Cole
Dear Friend
j am well and hope these lines will
find You The same. got the box and
there was more than j expected for
did not expect anything. We came to
this town The 7th day of December.
You don't want to get mad if / miss
writing for a couple of weeks for duty
is quite hard. When we moved up to
this place our things did not come right
away, so had nothing to write with.
Tell Will Wilson that we are about q
mile and half from that big noun.
tain. There are fifteen mon from each
camp here to go up that mountain and
| am one of them. / think that the
detail will go tomorrow. l suppose il
is colder than the devil there now.
The watch comes in. very handy on
doing guard duty. You see there are
three men on one outpost, they have
two hours on watch and four hours off.
/ shared the fruit cake with Howard
and some more of my friends, and sew
eral of the boys in the company got a
piece of candy, the fruit cake was nice.
did not expect it would keep till
it got here but it did. That box was a
fine treat, for it contained things that
we can not possibly get in this part Of
the country. When you wrote you
said some of the boys were coming to
get in the army. / thought the boys
around Audubon had better sense than
l had, but see some of them have not.
What are Will Wilson and Clyde
doing now? / think we will be on the
road home in March sometime. The
chaplain said that March would find us
on the way home. The Army and
Navy Journal says that the 22nd Inf.
is going to Ft. Smelling, MINI. That
is close to st. Paul. You wrote let.
ter to the Co. Commander to find out
whether / got the box or not. He gave
me the letter.
Well, have got one year, eleven
months, and twenty three days to serve
yet, nearly two years, but 1 think
can get discharge when get back to
the States. There is no more fighting
to do up in the north end of the island
where we are. There is some fighting
on the south line. Eight and ten mel
can go any place up here in the north
They wont tackle one man any more
If he is armed.
There was fellow coming between
Condaba and Arrayatt short time age
and all. he had was an army pistol
There were four ringers" attacked
him with bolos. He was poor shot,
but he sent three of them to their
''happy hunting grounds This is q
fine country for flowers. There are a
lot of them here, but i don't think
they will have enough to decorate Their
dead comrades graves with next Deco
ration day unless there is some import.
ed into this country. There are lots
of ringers" left in this country. They
are little more friendly than they
were ten months ago. We are using
the same old guns that caused Spain
to be friendly in Cuba. Iwould rather
be friendly myself than to face Krag
Jorgensens.
I wish you would please give me the
names of the boys that passed the ex'
animation. There is no show for them
to get in my company. They might
get in the regiment, the company is
full now. Tell doc" Brooks that was
as nice present as he could have sent
me and it was something that was
very glad to get. 1 don't know as
will come home to Audubon to stay
if do come back. l think will go tc
railroading and settle down. / dom