Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-02-28
FIRED At By F|[|PNOS
Lieut.. Ed G. Beeson Writes Interest.
ingly Of Life in the Philip
pine Islands
Is Seeing Active Service With the
Thirty.ninth- Fired at by Fill
Pine sharpshooters
Now in Charge of Hospital at Liepi,
and Says He is Having Exper-
fences Galore.

siiity -HiHtN VOLUNTEER lEiHutry, VINO
is seeing active service in Inc Philip
pines. vas received Tuesday BY his
parents. Gen and Mrs. IL A. f;seson.
The letter vas written at I-eipi, Ban
tangas province. Jan. 10 so il Is prac-
tically Of recent date. Lieut. I,eeson
letters have all been Vi interest, ard
Very readable owing g has Wide ac-
quaintancc in this city and county.
Des Moines and Cedar RAPIDS, whers
he is We'll known. The Company II
boys. with whom Mr.. Bees0n served in
the Spanish war in cuba, are also
greatly Interested in mis- career in the
PHILIPPINES. The letter is az follows.
We are sixty miles south Of Manila
and had quite a scrap in getting here,
as this WAS one of tbs insurgent
strongholas. 1t is the largest city on
the island excepting Manila. The
Thirty-elgnth and Thirty-ninth, with
one Calling gun, a 6-ponnd Hotehkiss
and small mountain cannon made up
our force. Wa came from Caiamoa by
way Of Santa Thomas. where We rested
about fifteen minutes and then pushed
two miles tola large hill. Mai. Chetum,
With battalion of the Thirty seventh.
was about ole hour ahead Of US and
had a small engage,nent9on the side of
this ilii. one man was killed and
three dead F'ilininoS We're left on the
field. We came here today, twelve
lniles, and mad fighting nearly all the
way. The Thirty eighth had one man
killed and several wounded. none ser
| i9usly We had one severely wounded
and he died this morning.
Maj WALKS and | We're riding along
| behind the regiment anslRin front Of the
rear guard When. without notice -four
shots were fired by the enemy. One OF
them cut my horses Setilers three
inches in front of the saddle. Tho cap
tain commanding the re{.r guard saw
/ four men in a tree 800 yards to our
fright and ordered them fired on They
ifell from the tree dead as smelts l was
4 glad of il.
THE enemy left the town without
oners with them. Col Bnliard 0f the
Thirty-ninth. took MS staff and all the
mounted officers and gave them chase.
! They found them six miles out and
fired on them. but they made no resist
ance and took TO the Moods with the
4 prisoners They value American pris-
toner's Very highly. tn they left s2ssooo
/ in Mexican silver that COL. Billiard
4 captured. Cen. sehwan came in later
with his command and ordered Col
i Billiard and one battalion back z
Santa Thomas. Gen. Scawan left III,
4 First battalion here to guard the city
Eand took the balance of the commune
\ and started 10 Bantangas, twenty mile.
Issouth. He left me here viii
-four hospital nurses to establish
a hospital and care for the SIX anf
wounded / am the only doctor here
land have my hands full. as all ths sicE
land wounded OF the command were lefj
& here.
The Thirtieth infantry came III lasi
lnight with one man wounded Today 4
load of provisions came from Santa
Thomas. One OF the guards Mas
wounded. The balance of the guards
/ opened on the instirgent who fired ant
4 wounded their co,8iade ard soon laie
.lhim cold on the ground. patched vi
/ the wound for tbs nan and ne IS doing
4 nicely. In addition % our own sick ane
: wounded there are eighteen wounded
4 Fflipinos in ailatnar hospital that
have to care for tfan. sehwan left or
ders for me TODD Niat could for then
4 after taking care aur own There arr
4 at least three of tllem who will not re-
Il cover. When the citizens heard W,
We're coming they all left abandoning
:. their sick and wounded and leaving
them nothing TO eat / Won't allow gu
boys 10 nurse them for fear 81 con
!. Itagious diseases. had a hog ksl9sd 10
them, sent them Il bushel Of rica. som
sugar, fifty pounds of salt. some eorne,
beef, hard tack ana coffee. 0nes ~ thei
number mustered strength enough t
cook and ] guess they will get along
have taken possession Of 4 arg
: dwelling. with a large number u good
comfortable rooms I also sort out
ldetail and got boiling enough 10 max
the boys Comfortable The eaalSin
utensils and ciinaware was all left (
the house and VIC have fouc Chines
cooks, so guess we will get alous
Maj. Milford. former colonel Of In
First Nebraska, estlle in today and pal
mea nice compliment. He said ! Ia
!. the neatest ana ieanest hospital II
had seen. We are 1.a0O fest ah0y
Calamba and ! think in heaiyhff
location. Malara md typhoid fever al
: prevalent at Calamba.
We nave good many sic
and three that are bad or
poor fellow has made up his min
to die and it viii be hard to save ilin
: The temperature is io5. Talk about eN
!, perience-I have had more in the las
, two years than most doctors set i
! twenty years Of common practice
Jan. ls-Thele We're sixty SPANS
prisoners captivss for eighteen month
past. left here by the insurgents. an
: when they realized that they We're fire
they shouted, shock hands with tn
i boys and performed all kinds OF antic
in token of theii lpve and affection Il
. Uncle SANS soldiers. They Will /
taken to Calamba and then by boat /
Manila or Spain, The sick man | spok
of yesterday died this morning at
e O'Clock. He belonged to the Thirty
i eighth infantry. The Second battaio
: of the Thirty-ninth had man kille
e yesterday on the way to Rosario.
e also just learned of the death of
r Company f man yesterday at the hos
e pital at Santa Thomas"
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