The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-03-08

e~ssaaeas. al saose Year, rae taa,
leasas sssssVat % the eastses=y
aad how L evNsrs Out saAt Gel kress
Is tAe hasa 4eA 80 G0ieael Funston
Is told ey the Sioux CiU Tribune.
which VAS secured troa . Young
man NOW living N Sioux Cl0 and
ii viii De Interesting 10 the yoans
men NOW living IN Mitchell who YER
under The command OF Colonel
Frost.
Why, over in the Philippines,
when anyone talked about funston
swimming the Mariloa river in the
face of a fusilade OF bullets the sol
diers would Just laugh and treat it
as a camp joke. 1t WAS camp ru-
NOR that he crossed the river on a
raft"
So says Frank Seney, OF the shoe
firm OF Conyery x Seney, a member
OF Company /, First regiment, South
Dakota National Guards, in speaking
of the claim OF Colonel Albert S.
Frost, Eyanston's m%ayorality candi-
date, who says that his men and not
General Funston's are entitled 10 the
credit.
Mr.. Seney, with his comrades, who
had been fighting in the hot broiling
sun all day, were sitting on the other
bank when Funston crossed the river
several hours later in the dusk of
evening.
Although we could not distin-
guish whether Funston was on a
raft. yet we could see that it was the
twentieth Kansas. Funston's regi-
ment, which was coming across.
Il, as we'll as the rest of the mem
bers of our regiment, was very much
surprised when the papers said that
it was Funston and the Twentieth
Kansas which swan the river, and
kota boys. In reality the South Da-
the river first and cleared the way
for Funston and his men. There
! wasn't any fighting when he cross
ed"
Mr.. Seney accounts for the erro-
giving all the glory to Funston, in
this way. In the Twentieth Kansas
regiment there were a number of eX-
ceedingly bright fellows, among them
several newspaper men, who CORE
sponded for American newspapers,
and all the reports e favored their
commander and regiment. In
the case of the South Dakota regi-
ment the men were too busy fighting
to think of sending home detailed
accounts of the battle.
"All of the boys of the regiment
are pleased because the mistake is
being righted. 1t is time that both
Colonel Frost and the First South
Dakota received the credit due them.
And every surviving member wishes
every success to their old colonel -
he added.
Colonel Frost was unpopular with
his men before the battle of Marilao.
The a of this was that he was
very strict in the barracks. One in
Icident is pointed to as evidence of
this. On the Fourth o. July, when
every other regiment was celebrat-
ing, Colonel Frost kept the First
lSouth Dakota drilling all day.
Such things as this made the
boys pretty sore,' said Mr.. Seney,
,"but during the fight ne regained all
the popularity he had lost. He was
constantly on the firing line, cheer
ing his men and fighting like a de-
mon. Fe was in tine thickest of the
fight from the start. His handling
of his men showed that he was a sol
der and from that time there wasn't
"a man in the regiment who didn't
love him.
in this battle there were quite a
number Of South Dakota bows KILLED
and several wounded. Among the
killed was Regimental Adjutant 10.
mas Lien, of Sioux Falls. He was
one of the most popular men in the
regiment" said Mr.. Seney. "And he
was as plucky as he was popular.
He didn't seem to know what fear
was. l saw him when he was first
hit. He fell from his horse to the
' ground. Just as l was saying to a
comrade that Jonas was killed. | saw
him rise up and try to remount his
horse and fall again. He WIS carry
ing a message from Colouel Frost to
Lieutenant Colonel Slower when hit