The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-03-07
In THE PHILIPPINES.
An 0skaloosa Boy Tells of Army
Experiences.

Tarlac, Mania, +. L., Jan. 10, 'Ul.-
To The Oskaloosa Daily Eoent7ag Her.
aid and It's Readers: IL guess you peo-
pie would like to hear how it goes |
with the regular army soldiers in the
Philippine Jungals. Well the most
of them have pretty fair time over
here. They can sleep at night with
out much fear, but all the work is at |
night. They have run the natives to
the mountains and you can not start |
out in the day time to get to them.
You have to start after night for they |
can see you coming in day time and
can get further away SO you can't
find them. We start out about 8 o.
clock and get where they are about
morning, and then the fun COM
mences. You first strike their out
post and they cry out halt as loud as
they can, and then fire their old Rem
ington rifle and when the rest of them
hears the shot they run and get out
of your way, for as they run you shoot
the outpost and then you may get in
their camp in time to get 10 or 20 of
them and that is about all. The
Fourth cavalry is stationed where we
are and a mounted detachment of
Company H, and they do the most of
the work. The last time we were out
was on the 2Sth day of December and
then we made good work of it. We
killed 16 and wounded of them, and
got IL prisoners. Among them was
a Filipino, General Sambramo and
Cannot Texan of their army, and they
find out all they can and hang them.
1t was a sight to see how our boys
butchered them up; they would have
killed them all if the officers would let
them, but the lieutenant in charge
said he wanted to keep as many alive
as they can to find out all about their
army, so we did, and since that time
we have found out where there rifles
were and went and got them. When
they run andlleave camp that way
they generally have their rifles hid
some place and when you go away
they come back and get them. They
have no uniform on and when they
get to little town they are friends.
and Americans and then you can not
take them. So you see they are very
smart people, but our McAbabie SOL
diers and our Filipino scouts know
them by talking to them.
| We do not return their soldier love
like we used to, but give them two
years in prison and fine of 81 900,
and they have not got the money 80
that means life time in prison and
the main. officers are hung to tree.
The war is over with here. 1t is moth
ing at all any more, mostly scouting
work. There has not been any of
our company shot for a year and
have not heard of any body being
shot so far. Well, may the good God
help us and keep us safe. They feed
the regular army better than they did
the volunteers. We have fresh beef
every day and sometimes fresh NUT
ton, potatoes, cabbage, sweet potatoes
and white bread. ! will state the bill
of fare we had for Christmas dinner,
roast turkey, roast beef, peas, toma-
toes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, celery,
cabbage, olives, pickles, cranberry
sauce, peach pie, turkey dressing,
cake and bottle of Schlitz beer. We
live pretty fare, as good as can be ex-
pected and have bamboo houses to
live in and good beds to sleep on.
From my window / can see all kinds
of sights and scenes. But the soldiers
do not care for them, they look more
for fight. If they cant get fight
they will go and see cock fight.
This is a great pleasure of the natives,
they all have a game chicken under
their arm when they go away from
home looking for match of some
kind. Every Sunday they have big
game fight and they bet all of their
money they make all week and lose
it, and then they know where the
soldiers stay. They want you to give
them some, but yon know what a
soldier tells them, and they do not
like it, but have to take it. Well
will have to close for taps has sounded.
Goodbye. From an Oskaloosa boy
who belonged to Co. F.
Yours truly,
CORP, JOHN HABER, U. s. R.,