The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-01-05
SANTA Rosa, P. l., Nov. 3. 100.
Ny. Dear Father, Mother and ALI

MY. Dear rather, Mother ana ALI
This finds me on the firing line in
the a"Tagallas" country, north of
Manila about one hundred miles We
are brigaded with the 22nd and 25th,
anderiGeneral Lawton, and are exc
cutting flank movement to the north
and east of the insurgent capital
preparatory to taking 1t. Gems. Mac.
Arthur and Wheeler are on the
south and we expect to take 1t with
out much of a stand, as 1t Is well
known fact here that the hardest part
of battle is, to find some one to fight
There is some light artillery firing TO
the right of us, and every night our
outposts are engaged with bands of
insurgents, but as yet the insurgents
have kept up their remarkable record
and have hit no one. Private Shae,
of Co. G. was attacked last night while
enroute to Gen. Young's headquarters
with kilograms, but, to use his own
words he said: "Legs, do your duty"
they did. We don't expect much re-
hard campaigning will come in after
we take that point, and we will pursue
them en- maese. The health of all is
excellent. There is only one thing to
do-keep clean and keep your blood
pure.
We left Pasay, south of Manila, on
the 9th of October and reached san
Fernando (by rail- that evening. The
first man j saw to recognize was Gen.
eral Wheeler, flying about as usual
and the busiest man of the many
hundreds of soldiers there. I went
up TO him and he nearly jerked the
cork out OF my canteeu when he took
hold of me. He said, "Gosh, Pm
glad to see you here, and let me tell
you something, it Is grand thing to
he mixed up in this war, and after it
is over no one will take the trouble to
enquire whether you were an enlisted
man or q general" When he had
finished this speech he added, "When
can do anything for you let me
for any assistance from the General
as l know am in line for promotion,
though 1t is hard to tell when a
vacancy will occur. but will be in
line when it does. 1 haven't seen the
General since we left San Fernando
which was the 2Sth of October, since
which time we have been pushing
right across the leland.
The marches have been hard for
many of the boys as they
have. not been accustomed to
linking it, but my much hunting
and continually being in the water
while fishing stands me in good
stead as we are in the swamps half
the time. We are away from the
base of supplies so we are on half
Iations-that is, we are ordered on
half ration-but yesterday Captain
Gibson, myself together with eight
others went foraging. In this country
the popular beast of burden is the
caribou (karabo) or water buffalo.
We needed some caribou to pull
our supplies so we rounded up last
night with sixteen, two goats,
twenty chickens, two shoats and five
sheep. Sayi Well there Is Il sugar
mill and rice granary five miles from
here. Iappointed detail to go after
wood this morning and supplied them
with sacks. Well when they re-
turned short time since they had
200 pounds OF rice and 300 pounds OF
sugar. So you see we are on double
rations instead of half Not a one OF
us propose to go hungry so long as
there IL goat or caribou on the
island.
| have not seen Decker from lola
for some time. He is with the End
Battalion behind us. There are more
red ants here to the square inch than
there is In America to the square mile
and they are all energetic, too,
l enclose two rusty, worn letters
Keep them for me somewhere, fol
they are souvenirs, that are valuable
At least have been offered $40 fol
the one on the large sheet. Col. Ken
more wants 1t. 1t was written tC
Aguinaldo by a citizen CORNER citizen.
of this town. say former citizen be-
cause since the town was taken there
is scarcely 200 people here. In it the
writer asks the Honorable Presi
dantj (2l and asks for the simDle
privilege of carrying a shot gun with
which to defend himself. Imagine
one Filipino, defending himsel
with a shot gun against the army o
invasion! What farce some people
make of war. The other as you will
see was written by the Spanish snot
whom pTeaident McKinly assisted on