Mexico weekly ledger., 1900-01-18

| nAuot OF tne enemy. haven't they g
pretty future before tbem2 Dishon-
orabie discharges; no characters.
Well, that Is enough for them.
There is a large river running
through Tarlac which we took advan-
tage OF BY bathing every day. The
largest building here is the Adminis-
tration building, where AguInaldo had
his headquarters On the walls Of
this building are these words written
In black paint; "Lawton, we will wait
for you ct Barrio Vints and fight you
to death" In another place: "There
Twill be no surrender; we will eight you
II there isn't but one man left.D Sew.
eral letters were found written by
Americans who were captured and
which were never sent. So you see
what kind OF people we are Eghting.
The enemy burned the round house
and destroyed several cars and en-
gines, That was the only damage
they did, and that was enough. A
large church with the largest dome |
ever saw In my life is here; beautiful
on the inside, all In gold and white.
This church is now used as hospital
and makes a good place for it.
The cemetery bad about three hun
dred newly dug graves. OF course,
We didn's know Il they were victims
of the "Kragn or not, but I think
they were. The people here seem
more intelligent thar the people
further down the country where we
came from.
We received orders to be ready to
move on the morning of November
2lst and at about O'Clock we were
marching out of the city OF Tarlac;
went out on the railroad about four
miles where there had been q wash
out and we had to wade the stream,
the water being up to our waists.
After we got across we went up the
railroad, marching through the coun-
| try and it was getting hot, / tell you.
Il was quite awhile before we rested
and then only twenty minutes. We
went through q town called Gercan,
fine place. Before NO reached there
we heard music like brass band and
as we marched into the city we found
| It to be band Of Filipinos playing In
front of a church.
As we marched through the town
they would shout; "Viva, Ameri-
canos, Viva" (welcome, Americans,
welcome) but we did not stay long, as
we had to make another town nine or
ten miles away. We marched on and
finally reached our destination--Pa Pani-
qui where we have been ever since.
We arrived at this place about 4:30,
making about fifteen miles In one
day. We went into our tents for the
night on @ beautiful common In front
of q beautiful church.
Shortly after eating our supper we
went to bed and never knew anything
until next morning, when / heard
that old call: "Can't get them up;
can't get them up this morning" AJAX
VIII Hutton II be remembers that
call. That same morning the Mayor
of the town turned everything over
to us, and soon we were In our
quarters.
The first thing we do when we move
into q native house is to clean up in
eide and around the house TO make 1t
better for our health. We make
brooms out OF native grass. Since we
came here the natives have caught
on to the way we keep our quarters
clean and l am glad Of II, for they are
dirty people, but those up here are
more clean than most Of them.
We are among q set OF insurgents
at least, they were. They acknowledg-
| ed that when General Luna was llv-
| Ing they fought under him, and they
loved him better than any person. He
was like Aguinaldo to his followers,
and they were In the last battle, or
skirmish, az Bamban, and escaped 10
this place, when they simply quit.G q
They say that Aguinaldo always
promised them "Mucher chro chro
POGO tempo, mucher denero," (much
to eat, very much money;) and cay IL
was always "Poco tempa, POGO tenn
pa,n (very soon, very soon.)
The priests say they have never re-
ceived q cent Of money from the rebel
army since they havs been fighting.
The poor, ignorant insurgents think
the Americans will kill them IL they
catch them.
Aguinaldo's mother and his wife's
brother were captured the other day
and were sent to Manila. She ie an
old woman, dresses fiue and speaks
very good English.
Aguinaldo is of to the mountains,
but Gems. Young, Wheaton, Lawton
1 HIu 0GlA aAU HltQL htAAAa 0Ald NAG A1k0As v
came In to-day that "Aggie" had been
wounded, but succeeded in getting
away.
On the 29th of November Col. Bell
captured nine field guns and more
, ammunition than bis carts could haul.
He destroyed powder mill and is hot
on HAggie'su heels. Some weeks ago
Wheaton landed with his troops at
Dagupan and captured that city.
Yesterday was Thanksgiving day,
but 1t was lonesome day to me. l
really felt homesiok, the first time
since arrived on this island. We had
good dinner, but 1t was not like my
old home dinner, but am soldier
now and must leave those memories
behind me.
Please don't put much confidence In
what the volunteers report, for they
really picture things worse than they
are. This island will be big thing for
the Government, and think peace is
near at hand, but even after peace
comes we will have to hunt down the
robbers, so you see We will not be
idle.
Aguinaldo will not get anything,
tHHb IL 6uEHe Az 10 uaRROaNA ta8t ~
has vessel waiting for him, but II he
has We have one waiting for IL and
will sink Il before Il can get away.
I will send you our bill OF fare;
i For breakfast-hash or fried bacon,
steak, cat meal, good coffee and hard
Itack.
Luneh-Roastm meat with gravy, corn,
Ipotatoes, peas, some kind Of dessert,
coffee and hard tack.
Dinner % o'clock)-Oold beef OF
corn beef, cold tomatoes, steamed
peaches or apples, coffee or tea and
hard tack.
4 We have not had fresh bread since
we left Angeles, but IL won't be long
until we do.
i Twill close, hoping to hear from you
soon. Give love to all my friends and
tell them Fred is getting better. Sue
cess to the LEDGER.
i Yours truly,
FRED LuCKIE,
%. d, 18th Infantry,
Manila, p. /.
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