Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-11-09

now for mail, and as it is so seldom
that we can get mail now, I thought
had better write you, for l think we
will have mail tomorrow or next day,
and it is hard telling when we will get
another. l surmise a letter from you
in the mail coming. 1t is over a month
now since we got any mail On account
of the inclemency Of the weather.
Last week the water was so high
we had to make our nightly patrols in
boats. The whole country was one
grand lake; you could hardly stand up
on the main street with water up 10
your waist and al extra swift current.
1t puts me in mind OF the old Indian
paintings where they are in their
anoes with one standing propelling
the canoe and the rest on the alert
with gun in a position where it can be
instantly called into play, while the
moon sheds her pitiful light over the
scene. 1t is getting what you may
call very uncertain around here
again now that the rainy season has
set in. We very o1ten get out where
the bullets say ("where are you?") all
around you, but you have not the sand
to face the deadly muzzle of the
"Krag" very long before they scatter,
fnnca yyhn onI fhou o11x,oyc M ,,rx,
off their dead is there is any possible
chance. l just got back from Manila
on the 9th inst. We went down on
horseback, a distance of ITO miles.
There were just ten of us down look
ing after regimental stuff. We were
gone just three weeks and that was
the first time I have been near Manila
for ten months and was the first time
l saw a white since we left
Honolulu. I tell you it put me in
mind of home. The people of Manila
are almost as ignorant of the doings
of the army in the interior as you are.
They think all is quiet; but we know
different. had my picture taken
while there and 1 had them sent home;
I told the folks at home to send you
one; the dress l am in is the uniform
soldiers dress for over here, a blue
shirt, khaki pants, leggings, shoes and
campaign hat.
stFThn ra0r11 ~ %h;o o1,,~%rxv ooo =
cowardly, t~reacherous and deceiving
class of people; they will be all sugar
to your face and at the sametime are
plotting for your life. We have had
two incidents Of like nature. One
was a padre or preacher who used to
be so friendly he gave dinners to our
officers and they returned the compli-
ment and all went we'll, but papers
now and again we captured implicated
him a little, but it was never
thought anything of until we captured
the climax in which he had the plans
laid how and when to capture us, and
again, the p%residente has just been
found out to he a traitor; a letter was
captured wherein was stated: On the
night of September 4 he was going &c
head a band of bolo men and over.
towering the barracks guard, entel
the barracks stealthily and bolo us be-
fore We could awake and form. Blu
the result is he was placed in Jail.
1.-THE wires connecting Aliaga witt
the outside world have been cut for {
week O and we are completely iso-
lated from all. We got word from
headquarters yesterday by a nativ,
courier, that the Ladrones were assem-
bling at a town about five miles from
here and it was not known what theil
intention was, hut we are ready If the,
move against us. We have trenches
thrown up around our barracks AM
commissary. They attacked a steam