The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-07-25

The entire regiment, under Colonel
John H. Page, sailed from New York
February 2. 1888, en- route to Manila
by way of the Suez canal, being among
the first troops sent that way News
was received at Gibraltar of the Fill
pino insurrection and attack on Ma
Mia. and orders were received to pro-
coed without unnecessary delay, reach
ing Manila, March %. just 81 days out.
The regiment was rushed to the front
the day after landing. participated in
General McArthur's advance on Ma
lolo5. suffering many casualties, and
afterward with General Lawton in his
advance to the north.
From that time until its return to the
United states the regiment was en-
gagged in suppressing the guerrilla war
than ensued. In whole or in part the
regiment was in more than A engage
ments. There We're killed in action and
died of wounds received one officer and
~ men; wounded, three officers and 80
men. Companies and attachments gar
risoned 81 towns in the middle prov
inceS.
Constant Scouting.
tr5ii the final establishment Of civil
government, July 4 1901, the Third
was occupied in constant scouting in
search Of Insurgents and criminals.
That district was full of noted ladrOne
bands and chiefs and the swamp coun-
try between the Rio Grande river and
Polo was infested with pirates and in
surrectos. The task of clearing out
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Involved much labor and risk, and cost
the lives of many men. After three
years ON the islands the regiment
sailed on March II, 1907. for san Fran
! cisco. by way of Nagasah'. Japan. On
I arrival the majority Of tEe officers and
\ men We're sent to Fort Thomas, oppo-
site Cincinnati. With others in the vi
cinity, having crcumnavigateu the
globe.
In the early spring Of 1904 the Third
received notification t. make imme-
! diate preparations to take station on
! the Isthmus of Panama as guard for
the canal. After supplying itself with
tropical raiment and appurtenances,
the orders We're changed to Alaska, for
which rather different CLINE the regi-
ment sailed from San Francisco on
July under Colonel Thomas G. Wood
bury, commandment
! The regiment was scattered over
Alaska at small posts, thousands of
4 miles apart the most northern being
4 Fort Gibson near the Arctic circle and
Fort Davis, at Nome, almost in sight
of Asia.
The regiment remained in Alaska two
years, during which time it was var
iously occupied in protecting caribou
herds from indiscrininate slaughter fo1
commercial purposes and looking after
destitute and starving natives, bul
principally IN building and repairing
the military telegraph lines throughout
the country. The latter work was at
tended to winter and summer indis-
criminately and was accompanied BY
hardships, while the distances covered
always on foot, were vast. Working
in winter with temperature fire.
quently 60 and at times 10 degrees be-
low zero, the sun in places not appear
ing above the horizon for 50 consecu-
tive days, and during that time living
AZ IN tents. frost bites Were Of such COM
mon occurrence that they finally re,
ceived only little attention
Mosquito Pest.
The summers We're hardly better ex-
cept for the presence of the sun. The
pest Of mosquitoes was almost unen
durable and sleep could not be OBJ
tanned for days at Il time on that &C
count, the country then being one i'm
mense bog, where ones foot would dis
appear at every step But the work al
ways Went on and the business inter
ests of that PARKWAY Northland, whose
only communication With the outside
world was the military telegraph line
We're seldom Interrupted, and then only
for a short period.
The regiment was relieved from duty
in Alaska during the summer of 1906
!, when it accomplished a march tina
will always have a place in militar,