Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-28

mud. His language was sulphurous
to say the least. Matter of fact he
was swearing with right good will.
Jack and his men Strengthened things
out and the mired wagon was soon on
it's way. The officer thanked Jack;
the two saluted and departed on their
separate ways.
Jack has recognized the officer. He
was lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt.
Roosevelt had not recognized Jack
did not know him, And names were
not exchanged.
Several years afterward. when
Roosevelt was president and Jack was
captain and had won fame as the
conqueror of the Moros of Mindanao,
Roosevelt invited Jack to lunch at the
White House. Mrs, Roosevelt and sew
eral other women We're at the table.
Captain the president said, adj
! dressing Jack, You were with the dis
mounted cavalry division in Cuba
"Did l meet you there
! "'Yes. yes. captain he replied with
a chuckle, and what did l say?
| Say" exclaimed Jack That, Mr..
President. I cannot repeat in the pres
ence of the ladies'
"A great laugh followed and from
that moment the bond of friendship
was sealed between Jack Pershing and
IT. r."
Pershing was taken III shortly after
the battle of san Juan and was in
valided home to Montauk Point. He re-
manned there a short time, then Wis
tied his parents in Chicago and his sis
ter in Lincoln, Neb. On August Is,
1898, he was appointed a major of VOL
iunteers and ordered to the headquar-
tiers of the army in Washington. He
: reported there five days later and
, served on the staff of Lieut.. Gen. Mel
son A. Miles, then commanding general
Of the army OF the United States, as
, chief ordnance officer of volunteers
; He continued as such until December
; 20 1898, when he was transferred tc
; the office of the assistant secretary
of war While there he organized the
! bureau of insular affairs, made neces
sary by our occupation of Cuba and
r the Philippines, and was it's first chief
Ian office held today by his classmatt
! at West Point, Brig. Gen. Charles c
: Walcutt, jr., of whom l have written.
t MANY army officers would have beer
y content TO remain in Washington. No
i Black Jack Pershng There wa
t. fighting in the Philippines and III
h Ionged to go over to those Islands, o
e which in '9S Mr.. Dooley, in a charg'
It TO Mr.. Hennessey. declared the Ameri
c can army in the world war chafed un
e der restraint of administrative dutie
: in Washington. There still was wal
e lie wanted TO be in II.
Came September l. 1899, and fulfil
J, meut of his wish. He was ordered I
N the Philippines.
k The Philippines held much for HIN
They offered him his greatest oppor
! tunity.
l. The answer:
e Roosevelt made him brigadier
'f general; Wilson made him genera
sc Those years OF his in the PHILIP
De pines stand out above all others OF nj
g life. And, happily recording tn
er epochal years one does not have I
h, depend upon the reports OF other
a. There are the reports of Pershing MN
he self-reports which | shall embody
this story.
Pershing sailed for the Phiiippin'
Z, Immediately he received his orders. :
d, went by way of the Suez canal reacl
/ ing Manila on November 2s, iss
,k Meantime, on July IL, 1889 ne no
ne been honorably discharged from u
volunteers. only to be reappoin.'
again on June of the same year. IN
DIS time as a major also and as assista
Gu adjutant general. :,
nd He did not remain long in MANI
rs He was ordered from there to Mindan
ist Four hundred miles southwark ,tro
Manila lies Mindanao, one OF the larl
es est of the Philippine archipelago.
'ly 1899, wild, semi mysterious, lnhaoi
RS ed by savage Mohametans-Moro
at occupation and investment of the II
and meant the vanauishment ana So
jugation Of tribes than whom none ie
ed tractable ever existed
he Northward the islands Of the arcf