Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-10

ridge into the chamber and the thing
stuck fast and refused to work. AS
went around the corner, a window
opened and rebel hit the ground
running. | ratified the bolt of my use
less krag and yelled at him in my
best Spanish to halt The bluff
stuck and he walked back to me as
meekly as a lamb. Taking his bolo
away from him / called one of the
men and ne took charge Of the pris.
oner.
Saw a Bolo Flash.
"They had not gone thirty feet be-
fore the same windSw opened and an
other one hit the ground. saw big
bolo flash as he swung it in the fight
ing position. and the next instant l
realized that | was out in the cold
wet night, with jammef rifle and q
bad combination of fighting Filipino
and shining bolo coming my way very
fast. thought of the CHASTITY sight
of few nights before and didn't pro-
pose to get done that way myself, So
| gave that cussed bolt one last de-
spairing juggle and the cartridge
slipped home, noisily and ioyfully,
like a city man coming home after
spending his vacation with his moth
er-in-law on a farm Then firing
from the hip, no time for anything
else, pinched that guerilla as neatly
in the left eye as an old maid in a
crowd could have done it with her
parasol.
Filipino Bites the Dust.
1.-TWO feet of bolo, and five feet of
Filipino pitched headlong in front of
me. | was STOPPING over him to get
the bolo when anther one dropped
out of the same window and went
around the corner of the house before
| could get at him. He ran into the
men there and paying no attention to
the order to halt, wheeled and dashed
across the yard for dry ravine, and
ran thru the corner of the garden.
A Krag barked from the other side
of the house and he Went down on
his knee, but he was UP in an instant
running like a deer, square left,
quarterer to me. | took a snap at him
| just as we used to take at habits
ana he lit on his head in the ravine
| The other mans ball had got him in
the thigh, from the rear, and mine
got him thru under the arms from
left to right. 1t was mighty good
! place for it. The column came uI
when the firing began and our long
legged captain came calmly around
| the house to see what we had found
He looked around and said, vol
didn't let EN- go very far, did your
I'VE then went on and struck the
town at daylight. Their trenches
didn't cut any ice and we went thru
the gang in about ten minutes. Sly
were killed and seventeen captured.
A Perilous Crossing.
"The streams and ravines were al
full when we started back and thai
gave us hard trip. In one place, IL
20-foot dug-out with both ends out
we ferried the Bicol river, which i.
/ 200 yards wide, and which has yer,
| swift current. To keep it from sink
ing we banked mud up in each end
We arrived again at Iriga, at $50 p
m. having marched 80 miles over cor
/ duroy roads and mountain trails, il
mud and water anywhere from TIL
/ ankles to our belts, thru a constan
4 pour of rain, without sleep and witt
4 only two light meals, and we We're re
warded by hearing the colonel ask tn
i captain if the rain scared him in
Il forgot to tell you that am fee
ing clear out of sight, and that
/ weigh 1856 pounds. Bad country, Ell?