The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-14

/ veteran OF Two wars. lie Went out 10
/ the Philippines as major surgeon of the
! Colorado regiment. Instead Of staying
/ behind with the ambulances and neld
/ hospitals, he picked himself out a hot
/ place on the firing line. There he stayed
/ until Mauser bullet pinked his left
I foot.
Il went all through the civil war
without a scratch" saio Sze doctor,
smilingly, speaking OF this incident
3 yesterday, and the very first time
/ got in range of a Spanish rifle I was
I hit. The wound didn't disable me at
1 all, but IL was annoying I lost a toe
nail only few weeks ago as the re-
suit Of that injury
In the civil war DR.. Locke was in
( Rurnside's division and participated IL
a number Of important battles.
Colonel Metcalfe of the Twentieth
I Kansas didn't get to the Philippines in
/ time TO be present at the tail OF Ma
nile. He was a junior major when he
/ went out, and the first real fighting
ne saw was against the insurgents.
I There he acquitted himself SO well
/ that, when Funston was made a brig
/ adler, he recommended Major Metcalfe
i for the colOnelcy, and his recommended
/ ton was adopted in spite CT the fact
/ that there was a senior major and Il
/ lieutenant colonel ahead of him
A particularly pleasant feature OF the
D
+ commissioned officers in the regiment.
with single exception. Joined in the
Z request for Metcalfe's promotion. The
only war training that Colonel hIetcalfe
had prior to his Philippine duty was in
/ the Kansas National Guard, where he
+ commanded a battalion at his home in
( Lawrence.
The Utah boys and the men Of tho
/ Kansas regiment became fast friends "
said Colonel Metcalfe. They were fire.
D mt AF,sl-
I had admirable opportunities for the
/ testing OF their courage 1 never saw a
mere gallant lot OF soldiers than those
/ in the Utah batteries, and I don't be-
l lieVe anybody else ever did" Colonel
MetCalfe is a warm friend of Major r.
/ W Young One OF his scnoolmstes was
q classmate at West Point OF Major
/ Young
( Colonel Pope Of Denver is one of the
regular army men in attendance. He
{ was chief quartermaster in the PhfliD-
/ pines and accomplished great work
I there before the fall of Manila and at
/ terWard. Where was I three years
ago tOday?" he repeated by way If
answering a question. Then he thought
/ a minute and broke out with: "Oh yes
/ was on the rattly Old SideWheel river
! steamer Quay Hoy. taking a battalion
/ OF the Oregon regiment into Manila
/ pay. L chartered that boat for $500 a
[ day Mex or $3.50 Americana, and she
I was p tub, sure L remem Der we had
I tough time landing the troops. We
couldn't get up to the dock and had to
( put them ashore in row boats. As we
Z passed up the bay We saw the Span
lards setting fire to the shipping in the
harbor. They burned one boat, which
was loaded with valuable stuff. to the
stopped
Like his brother officers, Colonel Pope
I IS enthusiastic over the record made
by the Utah soldiers as well as all other
volunteers Although of the regular
establishment, Colonel Pope has no
hesitation in saying that the raw re-
crults who went out of the western
states made as good fighters as any Of
the regular regiments.
You had a shade the best of me with
your boat" said Major Foote of the
wyoming battalion who came up while
Colonel Pope was talking. Three years
ago today L was hiking over the road
along the bay shore leading into Ma
Mia. a battalion of the Eighteenth in
/ 1antry, the Colorado and the Nebraska
regiments. were with the Wyoming bat
. talon We were the third to reach the
Spanish trenches just outside the city"
Major FOote made a splendid record in
the Philippines He is a brother of
James f. FOOte Of Salt Lake.
The major is as fond of a joke as any
man in Wyoming, and he doesn't care
much who his victim is Toward the
close of one session of the legislature
at Cheyenne, when acting gov
ernOr, Dr.. n. W. Barber was very
busy looking over bills, Major Foote
concluded its was time TO have some
fun. So he and a crowd Of joyial spirits
assembled at the Cheyenne club and
telephoned up to the state house for
the doctor to come there at once, as
Major Feote had broken his leg.
DR.. Barber stayed not on the order
Of his coming. He jumped on the first
Dlcy Gle ne could ind and fairly tore
down to the club. When he arrived III
out of breath he was shown into the
billiard room. where Major Foote was
lying stretched out with a table cloth
around his Les Handle me easy, doc
tor" he moaned. family, as the physi-
clan stopped over him. Inch by inch
DR. Barber unwOund that table cloth.
working as gently and as deity rs he
could in order to spare his patient all
possible pain When the last roll came
away Major Foote sprang up, kicked
his physician gently in the stomach
and then everybody smiled at DR.. Bar
ber's expense. It was a long time,
though, before DR.. Barber could be con
WINGED that there was anything humor-
Gus in the proceeding. And it really
was a shame" said Major FOote, with
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the story
Harry Allen Of the Montana regi-
ment reached Salt Lake yesterday
morning. Mr.. Aliens home is at Dill
Ion. Mont, but he has q position at
Idaho Falls as cashier for the Short
Line He was a corporal in company
E The Montana regiment was bri-
gaded with the Utah batteries said
Mr.. Allen. "snd we learned TO like each
other very much. 1 have met a num-
Der of old friends since I came in and
am anticipating a splendid time here"
Twelve members Of the Idaho bat
talon are here Not a commissioned
officer came. A member Of the party
is Corporal A. II. Derbyshire of com
pany G, who lives at Oakley. Mr.. Der
byshire said he had thought there
would be a bigger delegation from his
state, but at the last minute many Of
those who had contemplated coming
were compelled to abandon the trip.
John Seaman, the old Democratic
wheelhOrse of Weber county. was one OF
the interested spectators at the business