The Newtown bee., 1901-12-13

very far before Mir Scout punctured him with a 45 calibre Springfield. There was a funeral at the church next day and what surprised us the most was that the Padre of the church gave him burial. You need not eX- pcct to hear from me for nearly a month as it will take me nearly that long to reach my regiment and settle down. Ben.
 Tingazen, Island of Luzon, August 2l, 1901. have at last reached my regiment and have been assigned to Company D of the 17th. l had to wait 13 days in Cebu before 1 could get boat for Ma nila and had to wait another week in Manila for orders to join my regiment. I left Manila on the Manila x Dagu pan railroad on August l7, and arrived in Dagupan late in the afternoon. Re- ported to Col Ward, my re:imental commander, and he introduced me to the other officers of the regiment that were stationed there and finer lot of men have never met. In the eycn- ing l went to a ball and met Gen Smith and his wife. When Gen Smith heard that l was from the 10th h. fantry he asked me about all the old officers in it. He was d captain in the 10th a number of years ago and our Capt Smith was his lieutenant at that time. Mrs Smith, the generals wife, called to me when she was sitting and had me tell her all about Capt Smiths death. She was very much affected by it as she had been very well acquainted with Capt Smith and his family. The next morning Col Ward assigned me to Company D. stationed at Lingayen, seven miles from Dagupan. I left Dagupan that morning for Lingayen and upon arriv- ing reported to Maj Williams, the post commander, for duty. There are now five of us officers in the town and two companies of the l7th and as it is the finest town in the province 1 feel perfectly satisfied. I was told this afternoon that I would probably have to take command of the company in a few days as the first lieutenant, acting adjutant, of the battalion. 1 hope won't have to take command right away as 1 want to get used to- every- thing. At first it's rather rough on a second lieutenant when he has to take a captains place. By the way I re- ceived two letters from you, June 2l and July 3. 1 received the July letter first. l presume my mail will go all over the Philippines, trying to find me until you find out where I am. Most of the mail went to Cebu and then was sent here. 1 won't be able to take many pictures now that am up here on Luzon, at this time of the year as the rainy season is on full blast. l started this letter this afternoon but have been so busy to-day that 1 had to put off finishing it until this evening. 1 am officer of the day and have just come in from an inspection of the guard and military prison. In the prison there are over POO native priS- onerS and nearly 100 white prisoners, so you see the officer of the day has no picnic. One of the native prisoners has been sentenced to be hanged and he has bOaSted that the Americans could never hang him so we have to keep a strict watch over his actions Had just about finished this when 1 received word that the regiment was to leave this island. We are ordered to the extreme southern part of the islands down to Mindano and the SuluS. We are to relieve the 23d h. fantry as they have been ordered home. Well I have never had so much work and responsibility thrown on me in my life as l have just at present. It's just four days since 1 began this letter and will try and finish before we leave here. Yesterday the first | lieutenant, who has been in command, was ordered to take charge of Com pany F. and was kept busy all day yesterday receipting for the con- pany', property. Last night was up until after midnight making out pa
 pers for a board of survey. This morn ing 1 am officer of the day and on the top of it all we have started to pack up our property and have it ready for shipment this afternoon. Although work has been coming in rather fast, yet have managed to keep ahead of it, and so far have had no trouble.
 Maj Williams, my post commander, is very nice man and if get stuck on anything 1 go to him for advice and he StraightcnS me out. shall close
 this; now have sp much work to do. Ben.