Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-10-02

took a few shots at us, then went int
camp just over q hill from where W
were camped. We could hear then
holding powwows and singing Will
making preparations to dangle GU
scalps in their belts the next day.
II remember l sat looking into tn
campfire that night, wishing 1 was bacl
home and wondering what in thunde
to do, when the old sergeant came owe
to me and asked:
Lieutenant, you don't think we ca,
lick tibet hull outfit, do your"
"rNo, sergeant; Idon't w do 70,
think we'd better do?
"'Well, I think we he'd better bulk
up a big fire, so they kin see it, the1
drift out of this
And we did. We struck a trail ant
followed it all that night. About day
light we found ourselves on a hill to,
and right in the center of An old, de
serted Indian village. It was tina,
nights trip that first gave me my high
appreciation of the much maligned ole
government mule. Every mule in that
pack train seemed to understand the
situation and there wasn't a whimpel
or a bray from any one of the lot until
we had put a good nights travel be.
tween us and that gang of redskins.
I'VE didn't have any more trouble in
getting back to the fort, though we
crossed a number of warm trails of
bands. I met the chief when he came
into the fort a long time after to make
peace, and he told me how many times
he had shot at me OF that trip and
couldn't understand how it was that
he never got me.
THE wound that I got at Los Quay
mas, in Cuba, was another lucky one.
too. You remember, Sellers, howA and
b troops of the regiment were lined up
that day at the foot of the hill, and
we were getting a perfect hell of fire
from the Spanish entrenched up on
top of the hill? Well, 1 was walking
up and down before my battalion, and
had orders to hold them fast to pro-
tect our right flank from the enflade
fire on the right. I had just turned
around and waved my glove at them to
hold fast, and dropped my hand to my
side again, when a Mauser struck me
in the arm. If I hadn't dropped my
arm just as I did, the ball would have
cut me straight through the center.
1t turned me around and knocked me
down, but in a short time l gathered
myself up, went to the real to see how
badly I was hit, and found that the
bone was badly shattered. 1t was
three days before l had the wound at
to. There was a lump on the
inside of my arm, and when the sur.
geon examined it he said it was a piece
Of bone sticking out, and that he would
have to cut it out. He made a cut across
the lump and out popped the bullet,
wrong end first. If it had come straight,
Is most of them do, it would never
have stopped in the arm, but went on
through me. ,
1.-THE following day I wandered
around back Of the firing line trying to
lelp the poor fellows that were worse
If than I was, and I remember seeing
of the A troop boys-Buck O'Niell's
company, coming down the road with
ears running down his cheeks and I
bought he must be wounded badly.
ae saw me and yelled:
"'Hello, major, where is the firing
ine!' I told him it was away on ahead
n the other direction, but the fight
vas over.
"Then he seemed to feel worse than
ver, and broke out with as choice a
OF ornamental cuss words as l ever
card a mule driver get rid of, and ,
round up by saying: I
"'It's a shame that a Teller comes 3
the way here from Arizona to fight
nd then gets knocked out by the eli
nate within Q few yards of the firing
me-
THAT forced march was the hardest y
ever saw. Packed down with about
} pounds of blankets, rations and 9TH f
r stuff in that hot country, we double d
tucked right by the regulars, that Fl
ere coming up at a good stiff gait, too, a
ght straight into trouble. Fellows
ould drop out of the ranks along the il
ne of march like they were shot, some S
'em wouldn't come to for a day or d
vo after and some never were right +,
"
"Teddy Roosevelt came over to my F
mt at four o'clock in the morning
ter the fight and woke me up to tell
e that the Arizona boys made his
giment. He said he knew that l knew D.
but wanted to tell me that he knew to
and wanted to tell it first.
There's a fellow, that Teddy; full p'
life, vigor and energy, that enjoys \, N
ing and fighting. 1 was in New AZ
'rk after he was elected governor and
over to Albany to call on him
the capitol. I hardly expected to es
, him, as he was busy, but thought W
just send in my card to let him m
I was in town. I met the secre- tn
~ at the door and asked him to D,
ke in my card to the governor. He he
d me there was NO use, the governor tic
IS busy on some important Ease or A,
Ter, and there were several delega- an
OF lawyers arguing something be- TO
him. I insisted that he take in at,
!. card. anyway, and handed it to tic
n. He took a look al it and went in. 70,
a minute he came back with a smile he
his face and said that the governor ne
nted me to come right in. RI
When I went in he squinted across isf
room to see who it was, held up his te,
Ids at the fellows talking, and Pr
he'd across the room to me with
h hands stuck out-the same old
ldy I knew in Cuba. After he -
ked a few minutes he turned, waved
hand at the waiting lawyers with
on his face as much as to say: n