Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-09
THE ROUGH RIDERS
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many instances the same that had sent after
the guerrillas (ncluding Fred Herrig, Ben
Daniels, the two Bulls, Fortescue, and Cow
din), and arranged that each should take his
canteen and little food They were to slip
into the jungle between us and the Spanish
lines before etc dawn next morning. and there to
spend the day getting as close to the Spanish
lines as possible moving about with great
stealth and picking off any hostile sharpshooter,
we'll any soldier who exposed himself in
the trenches. l had plenty Of men who pos
sessed training in woodcraft that fitted them
for this work. and as soon the rumor got
abroad what | was planning volunteers
thronged to me-.
The judiciary committee of the Senate
favorably reported the appointment of Dan
made inquiries, and when he found that Dan
iels had killed his man in self defense. promised
to gamble no more, and vowed he had clean
forgotten" to tell the President about the lar
ceny of a Government mule for which he went
to prison, the committee again reported the
appointment This time there was a grand
row in the Senate, and Ben Daniels's marshall
ship was left in the air and he lost his warden
ship of the penitentiary
The President had nothing to do with Red
Musgrove's job as mail carrier at Ell Reno,
Oklahoma. and Reds official dereliction is
rather taken as joke by most, even if he is
still in prison for it. The word had gone forth
that the San Antonio reunion of the Rough
Riders IN 1905 was to be the last the regiment
would hold, their official duties having come
to take up too much of their time as a Santa
re opposition paper expressed it. Red Mus
grove was determined to go, and when he
found letter with five hundred dollars in it
he took the money and paid the expenses of
two other Rough Riders and himself to San
Antonio.
Two Rough Riders held up a Southern
Pacific express train and got away. In the
party that went in pursuit were two men out
of their own troop. One of these was Lieuten-
ant Rymning, now in command of the Arizona
Rangers. Only when he was about to be
hanged did Harry Williams disclose the fact
that he had gone up San Juan hill. He and
man named Carr were both convicts in the
State camp near Beaumont, Texas, and Carr
1e;ng tra as was was APPOINTED subguard
he shot Carr and escaped. Rather than dis
grace his comrades he kept SILENT till driven
to make a final but vain appeal.
There were five Rough Riders in Colonel
Bill Greene's little private war at Canannea,
Mexico, all under assumed names, so it is
said
One characteristic story of the region is
that about three years ago former Rough
Rider sent substantially the following letter
to the President:
DEAR CoLoNEL.-I am in trouble have
been arrested. l need two hundred dollars
for my defense. Please send it to me at once
for the sake of old times
Some little time after the President had
sent a check for two hundred dollars he re-
ceived second letter, returning the check
and saying
DEAR COLONEL return this check YOU
so kindly sent me. l am still in jail; but l
won't need it now, as you have appointed our
comrade. Ma jor Llewellyn, District Attorney"
What the Others Are Doing
OF the jority of the regiment who have
neither got in trouble nor in Office, little
has been heard; but this is what some of
them doing:
Lieutenant Josh Carter is mining operator
at Prescott, Arizona. Ned Waller is an official
of an insurance COMPANY. Lieutenant Charles