The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-17

publican party dragged it in to help
ont the election in 1898.
''If anybody ever had heroitis, it was
that Willie Robbins. From the min.
ute be set foot on the soil OF the ty.
rants OF CASTLE he seemed TO engulf
danger as cat laps up cream. He
certainly astonished every man in our
company, from the captain up. You d
have expected him to gravitate uatur-
colonel. or typewriter in the commits
sary-but not any. He created the
part of the faxen-hsired boy hero who
lives and gets back home with the
goods, instead of dying with an i'm
portant dispatch in his hands at his
colonel s feet
.'Our company got into a section of
Cuban scenery where one of the mes
siest and most unsung portions of the
every day capering around in the
bushes, and having little skirmishes
with the Spanish troops that looked
more like kind of tired-out feuds than
anything else. The war was a Joke TO
us, and Of no interest TO them We
never could see il any other way than
as q bowling farce-comedy that the
San Augustine Rifles were actually
fighting to uphold the Stars and
didn' { get enough pay to make them
care whether they were patriots or
traitors Now and then somebody
would get killed. II seemed like a
waste OF life TO me. I was at Coney
Island when ] went to New York once.
and one Of them down hill skidding
apparatuses they call 'roller-coasters
flew tho track and killed a man in a
brown sack suit. Whenever the Span.
GOV .iaA d.
as just about as unnecessary and re.
grettable RS that was,
But I'm dropping Willie Robbins
out OF the conversation.
"He was out for blood dshed. laurels.
ambition. medals, recommen dations.
and all other forms OF military glory.
And he didn Z seem 70 be afraid of any
Of tho recognized forms of military dan.
ger, such as Spsniards, cannon balls.
canned beef. gunpowder. or nepotism.
He went forth with his pallid hair and
china-blue eyes and ate up Spaniards
like YOU would sardines IA canopy.
Wars and rumbles OF wars never Aus.
tered him. He would stand guard duty.
mosquitoes. hardtack. treat. and FIRE
with equally perfect unanimity. No
blondes in history ever come In com.
parison distance Of him except the Jack
OF Diamonds and Queen Catherine OF
Russia
az remember, one time. little
caballard OF Spanish men sauntered out
| from behind patch of sugarcaue and
shot Bob Turner, the first sergeant Of
our company, while we were eating
dinner. As required by the army rcpu,
lstions, we fellows went through the
usual tactics Of falling into line. salut-
ing the enemy. and loading aud firing.
| sneeliuE.
"That wasn't the Texas wav Of
scrappinC; but. being very iniport.
ant addendum and annex 70 the repu.
lar army. the San Augustine Rifles had
20 conform 20 the red-tape system OF
getting even.
"By ,he time We had got out our
Upton s Tactics. turned 10 page ffty.
seven, said onc-tvo-thrce-o
tvo-three a couple of timcs. and got
blank cartridges into our SurinEfclds.
the Spanish outfit had smiled repeated
". rolled aud lit cigarettes by squads.
aud walked away contcmptuously.
az went straight 20 Captain FLOYD,
and saws 20 him sam. / con 2 think
this war - straight game. You
know as well as 7 10 that Bob Turner
was one OF the whitcst fellows that
ever threw = leg over q saddle. ard
nov these wirepullers ir Washington
have fNei bic clock. Hes politically
and ostensibly dead II ain Z fair. Why
| should ihcy keep this thing upl II
thev want Spain licked. WHY don 7 they
turn the San Augustine Ridcs and Joe
| Scclv = TanCcr company ard carload