Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-05-08
-, AND FUNSTON HAVE
g10O ZEN GIVEN MEDALS OF
A. .oR BY CONGRESS,
!. by PERSONAL BRAVERY
49, About the Careers of These
FH'' Generals of the United
~ states Army, Again In
Active Service.
>, GEORGE CLINTON.

F'' wilson addressed congress, ask
in .,st It support him in the use OF
% ~. forces of the United States
% . NC about order in Mexico, three
~. nm' Of the United States army
!' Dss.I Generals Leonard Wood and ].
sAstlin Bell and Brig. Gen. Freder-
I. IlI Tnnston, were notified that their
'.d.ss might be required as com
aD 1.-Two officers of an army of inter-
l l.s.n n Intervention were to come.
s Y .sroa officers are medal-of-honor
~ ordar to win a medal of hon
;, tba kind which these three
..srsIs wear, an officer must per-
~ some act of conspicuous per-
w., w. pallantry and the act must be at
.,tss by eye-witnesses. Congress
wards the medal.
General Wood, who is named as the
1,sf Of the prospective army of inter-
.,,,ion IL known as a great execu-
j.. and as a great pacif1cator. His
.,rico in Cuba in the work of bring
i, about order in that island, added
! M service as colonel of the Rough
n,,.ro coused President Mckinley to
make him brigadier general. There
), some criticism of this rapid pro-
ndiOn and curiously enough, to this
NV Il seems that the majority OF
american people think Theodore
Roosevelt promoted General Wood.
n tbe time of Woods promotion
Roosevelt was governor of the state
II New York.
Bell One of the Most Daring.
There Is no use in mincing words;
Major General Bell is considered one
ii the most daring and dashing Off
pS in tie American service. He
Years medal Of honor for charging
snglehanded and alone" a body of
armed Filipinos. He was shot at re-
nstedy from every quarter. In army
mrance, they didn't get him." but
h got seven Of them, not dead but
alive, and he led back to the Ameri-
an lines his septet Of prisoners all
covering under his pointed pistol.
though every man jack Of them was
armed
When the Seventh cavalry, in which
General Bell was then a lieutenant,
cached the Philippines, the Spanish
troops we're still in possession, for
Dewey had reduced the feet, but not
Manila city and its immediate de-
lenses, Information was wanted con-
ernng the Spanish earthworks.
Lieutenant Bell volunteered to get it.
He did not tell any one how he was
going to get it. His method was dar-
hg and novel.
Bold Feat at Manila.
Under cover Of darkness he went
% the water front, stripped off his
clothes and plunged in. He is a pow
aIul swimmer. On that night he
swan the entire distance around the
ay landing now and then to get a
cOse look at the enemy's waterfront
afancations. He did this unseen of
my sentinel. If discovery had come
! meant almost certain death to the
WINNER He came back to his start
4s point with full knowledge of the
@ensth of the Spaniards In heavy
guns and when the time for the as
saIl came the information was of
HeeleSS service.
0ngadier General Funston is forty
.4e years of age. He has been in
!. service only since May, 1898, when
y was commissioned as a colonel of
y twentieth Kansas infantry. He
'0a MS medal of honor in the Philip
'ISS When he crossed a river on a
"a. Faft exposed all the way to a con-
,'uudte0 lire from the Philippine
seny
As to the Philippines.
j .u' OF the best evidences perhaps.
4. aae may say If with "a twinkle, 2
/. ~ me Philippine islands are advanc-
T., / aaaer the American rule is to be
-. NY IN the charges which are being
,s,a a1 uaily by some men that the civil
~ ''e law is being violated in the
~ Of our wards.
n WI : some time past the administra-
Il, ', aHalrs in the Philippines has
NJ ~ tue subject of severe criticism
,,,i,I uea who under former admins
ia.,D, neld Office in the islands. 1t
III ''s'ea that American employees in
gitbOn x''''ions are being discharged
i ~ reason and that other things
,os,su s done counter to the spirit Of
M MS and good government.
i, administration in Washington
Istso n Us hands completely prepared
avs IA against the charges which
tsbo eea made, but the question is
i ssss. or not President Wilson and
ant ,e'ary of war, in whose depart
n ,ss NC control of Philippine mat
p.ts s - is lodged, win care to
sss fss - issue of the matter unless it
! b. ,'. r. than it has gone. It seems
Nsst,ou" 0sy in some cases a plain
10 nal. VI veracity between the men
i r rass the charges and those who
nssaU ny to answer them.
ssast ., ore SO many charges made
Ssislsnao administration of affairs in
i n. u them at least were mt - bssad