The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22
SOLDIERS AT HOME.
e. H. Gibson and Charles Hurd
Back From Philippines.

E. n. Gibson. late a corporal In co.
Z, Thirtieth United States infantry, has
been in Topeka a day or two after serv-
ing term of several years with the
American army in the Philippine Is
lands and China Gibson enlisted IN
the Fourteenth regular army at Iopeka
April 10, 1899, along with crowd OF TO
peka boys and after being heio IN Inc
hospital in San Francisco, arrived az
Manila in the fall of that year. Untn
the next summer he was in and about
Manila, when he was sent to China
with the American contlngen5 winch
composed a part of the allied FORCES
marching to the relief of the imprison-
ed foreigners in Pekin- AT the battle OF
Yang Tsun, some distance outside OF
Pekin Gibson caught rifle bullet fired
by boxer, in his right shoulder, and
had to be taken to the hospital where he
remained nearly month. Later he SO
far recovered as to be able to rejoin his
regiment in the Chinese capital ana
when that body of soldiers was with
drawn a few months later he accompan-
led it back to Manila
After that he was transferred to the
Thirtieth and was stationed in a num-
Der of places in the archipelago, the
last on the island of Mindaro, south
east of Manila. For a long time pre-
ceding his discharge his work was en-
tirely clerical, he taking the place of
the first sergeant who died and being
relieved thus from the regular routine
of army life.
What about the water cure'?" was
Queried him by a reporter.
II never saw it administered, though
] heard considerable about it while
over there 1 think it is all right. 1t is
simply gagging a man and making him
give up his information. Those people
are stubborn and unless you employ
some such means you can't make them
talk. The Americans must know what
they know and in order TO do that it is
essential to resort to fOrcible means. 1t
is no worse than has been done before
over and over in times of war and is
quite juStifiable.''
Corporal Gibson was detained in MAJ
Mia some weeks after he should have
started home, owing to the existence of
cholera He says the epidemic is to be
found chiefly among the Chinese and
natives and can probably be eradicated
through the drastic health measures
which the United States has begun en-
forcing in the city. 1t has claimed only
a few American soldiers thus far.
Gibson has been visiting his parents
near Willard for some days, but plans
to make Topeka his home
Charles Hurd, son OF A. A. Hurd.
Kansas and Nebraska legal solicitor for
the Santa Fe railroad, also is home from
military life in the antipodes Hurd
went out first with the Twentieth Kan
sas and came home with that regiment
but later returned and opened a res
taurant in Manila. Later he abandoned
business and for four and half months
was a member of the metropolitan po-
lice force of the city At that time
there were about eight hundred officers
in Manila composed mainly of Ameri-
can soldiers and making 1t the burden
of their duties to arrest such inSurrec-
tionists as appeared. Since that time
Australians have largely superseded the
Americans as policemen.
Mr.. Hurdle expects to remain in To-
peka.