The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-06-07
LOGAN COUNTY BOY
IN PHILIPPINES
Writes Of His Adventures
In the l.ObO Noun
taiuS

Crescent City. q. T., June 7.-Lewis
Graham Of this place, writes home
as follows from the Philippines.
san Jose, P. T.. April IL. 1907
Dear Father AID Mother ~ hope this
will ana you an as well as it leaves
me. suppose you viii think l have
been killed by the Goo Goocs since
you have not heard from me in three
months We ieu Frisco February t
alright and stopped at Honolulu two
days TLai is a fine place We land
ed in Manila the 5th o., March. lwas
assigned to r Company OF the 2lst
San Jose, where they are statioae,!,
and then took a ten days bike in the
Lobo mountains. Therc Nas supposed
to have been $4,000 soldiers on the
trip There was line Of soldiers
from one end of the mountains to the
other After the line was formed we
started across the mountains which
are from 6 to IA miles across. IL
took our squad three days to cross.
We gathered at the town of Lobo
which is on the other side Of the
mountains. from where we started
and is on the coast. General Bell was
in charge From Lobo We came back
as far as Tisen, small town, and
from there some of the troops went to
another range of mountains, but we
came home. We captured between
200 and 300 natives, men, women and
children, and turned most Of them
loose. Such was my first hike on the
islands.
San Jose, where we are, is eight
miles from Manila. We have fine
quarters. a large convent room for
400 or 500 and there are only 100 OF
us in this room. It is oler here
than it is there in the sr time,
there is always cool e. fhe
rainy season begins abou, the miGdle
of August and lasts until January.
The soldiers are not allowed to eat
fruit of any kind and we drink moth
ing but sterilized water The 2lst
is coming home before long They
have been over here three years.
don't know If ! viii get to come home
with them or not Il has beer the
rule all along to transfer all men who
have over six month to serve, but
some say there has been a law passed
mot TO transfer any more Ii that is
the case I will be in the states no'
later than August II you could see
me trying to talk the natives language
you would say that ] was a natural
interpreter The natives build their
houses out Of the bamboo tree When
lthey get It built they call it bashy in
stead of house, have read about the
carribo but never saw Cne until
came here. They use them The same
as wo would oxen Their horses are
Just a little larger than a Shetland
pony and the hogs are the same Old
Arkansas rail splitters. They tbink
more of their chickens than anythine
they have. They have cock fights ey
cry Sunday. That is their only sport
They have Palm Sunday the same
day we do j suppose your visitors
have gone home l1ng ago have not
run across Parker and Roy over here
yet. Have they given mp the idea 81
coming? ] wonder what regiment
Jim Langston and Roy Fisher beIone
to. Are they over here or ia Frisco
I have not had a pay day yet an It is
four months since I enlisted but wait
until May and an win be weh Tel
Mary that j have not cooked a cannon
yet, but have got a gun and 100
rounds The last letters YOU and Earl
wrote followed me across the ocean
will write 10 Earl and Mond later
When you write my address Is Lewis
crabau, u 20 Yfet inf Manila u T.