ANOTHER MANILA. LETTER'
Henry Landless Writes Concerning
the Fighting.
Feb. xo, 1S99.
Your lines duly received, also one
from Hattie Thompson stating that
she had got her shells, and that pa
had received his cane, the flag,
chamoise skin and such trash.
Possibly you would like to know !
where we are, as you can't tell by
the heading. I am writing this in
a sharp shooters nest, on the top of
a tree, beautifully situated for that
kind of business and right around
under me is a sweet potato patch
It is veiv warm and has been for a
week or more.
Long before this reaches you
you will know more of the scrap
than I do or probably will for a
lone time. It broke out last Satur
day night at about 9 o'clock, and
has not stopped yet only by lulls.
This morning we could hear the
heavy canonading and volly firing
by infantry and heard since it was
the other Oregon boys at work.
This battalion was sent or started
out to "Malate" Sunday afternoon
where the fighting was fast and
furious, the "Niggars" had begun
to waver badly, and was becoming
panic stricken .
We were held in reserve for
about 4 or 5 hours, the bullets
dropping like hail, but we could
not see a thing, a very unpleasant
place to be. We were then relieved
and taken back to the Cuartel for
supper after which we took up our
position down along the creek for
the night, this making the 2nd
night of such work. I walked
194 hours straight at one pull on
street police, so did Elmer. Mon
day Jour 3rd batalion was ordered
to the front with 4 companies of the
231IS we were to over take and help
the Colos Nebs, Kansas and
Tennessee'.. We got in sight of
the niggers twice but never in gun
shot and marched right along for 6
or 7 miles. It was expected they
would make a grand effort to hold
the water works, so we got no sport
at all to speak of; poor silly creatures
they are as ignoiant as monkeys. Up
to now it is estimated their entire
loss, killed, wounded and prisoners
from 15,000 to 20,000 we have no
conceivable idea, no way to esti
mate it. We have already buried
over 4,000 of them, have captured
lots of guns and ammunition. We
keep them drove to the water and
Dewey massacrees them, we burnt
one town yesterday and another
this morning. I can't think of
their names we burn most every
house (not stone) that we pass.
This country is certainly an
"Eden" when you get to looking it
over. Anything on earth grows
fine here. We have tramped over
thousands of acres of rice and cane
fields most of them not nnder culti
vation for years and the prettiest
valley I ever seen is theSanWaun
or San Juan river valley.
They are now killing off lots of
Fillipino officers for deceiving them
and telling them that the Ameri'
cans could not fight. Told them
we would run after 2 or 3 hours,
and they could walk m and take
Manila, but tneir nearest point to
it now is about 10 to 15 miles. We
see many comical sights, at first
the Spanish thought we could not
hold the city, now they are begging
to get out and help. They see we
can't keep in sight of our enemy
n - -
borne lew i;mnamen nave oeen in
it with clubs till some Fillipino fell,
and then grab their guns and go at
them. The English are strictly
with us and think we are the stuff.
They would haul ammunition ordo
any thing for us. Every regiment
to a man has done their part and
done it well, braver boys were
never at El Cancy or San Diego.
Braver stands and charges were
never performed by men and too
much cannot be said in their favor.
Co C has been under slight fire 2
or 3 times and every man cries on
to the front or charge if need be,
but such actions have not yet be
come necessary. I don't believe
any of the boys will ever let the
enemy see his back in battle, that
is about all we have seen of them
backs Our losses up as far as I
have heard was 68 dead and some
thing like 200 wonnded. I have
had about 12 hours of rest, that is
one nights sleep in S days. I feel
fine and am getting stronger al
ready out in the open country and
good fresh air. When I get back
to quarters I will write you a good
long letter. Good bye to all.
Your loving son and brother,
Henry Laxdbss.
Co C 2nd Ore., Vol.
THE PEERLESS OREGON.
Says the Chicago Inter-Ocean:
The battle-ship Oregon, after a
voyage of 21,000 miles, arrived at
Manila on .Friday "in fit condition
for any duty;" This is the longest
trip ever made by a modern battle
ship, but is no more remarkable
than the journey of the Oregon at
the beginning of the war from San
Francisco to Key West. This dis
tance of 15,000 miles was made at
the h ighest rate of sustained speed
ever attained by a battle-ship, and
at the end the Oregon reported to
Admiral Sampson "in fit condition
for any duty." In fact, she was at
once assigned to duty in front of
Santiago, and in the great naval
battle of July 3 did as much as any
vessel in the American fleet to make
the victory decisive.
The Oregon was built on the
Pacific coast and had in no way
distinguished herself up to the
declaration of war with Spain. She
was of the same class and size as the
Indiana and Massachusetts, built at
the ship yards on the Atlantic coast,
and was pronounced by naval
architects one of the finest battle
ships afloat But there were men
in congress to say that the $4,000,-
000 spent on the vessel and her
armament was practically thrown
away, tnat tne battleship was un
wieldy and unsea worthy, and would
go down at the first shot that struck
her in battle.
The fact that such an utterance
in congress seems impossible now
shows what a ereat chancre has
taken place not only in the attitude
of the public toward the navy but
in. the amount of information
possessed by the people as to war
vessels. When the Oregon started
on her journey around the conti
nent last spring she was as remote
from the every day life of the peo
ple as "a painted ship upon a painted
ocean." But as she went steaming
around Cape Horn, and came steam
ing up the eastern coast of South
America, menanced by the dangers
of real war, she took hold of the
imaginations and the hearts of men
women and children, and when
Captain Clark reported to Admiral
Sampson with ship "in condition
for any duty" every school boy
knew what a war ship was and
what it meant when the country
was in danger. And all the people
knew that the United States owned
in the Oregon one of the finest war
ships in the world, and glorified in
the fact.
Then came the battle off Santi
ago in which the Oregon made as
good speed as the fastest cruisers
and did splendid service with her
great guns. At the end of the war
the Oregon had an unexampled
I record for seaworthiness and speed
and as good a record as any other
battleship afloat in any sens. Many
i0f thecavilcrs of the Pacific const
1 states who had derided the Oregon
itook such pride in her achievements
that they clamored for her return
to the Pacific, anxious to associate
her splendid record with California
ship yards.
Early in November last the Ore
gon left New York for the return J
voyage around Cape Horn. Ac
companied by the Iowa, our largest
j battle-ship, she was received at
j every port in South America with
enthusiasm, naval and military men
' manifesting the greatest interest in
the two battle-ships and taking
! pains to show their appreciation.
'Th'Iowa proceeded from Callao to
San Fraucisco and the Oregon ' to
Honolulu, from which pomt she
was ordered, on February 25 to
Manila. The distance from New
York to San Francisco is 16,660
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lulu is more than 17,000 miles, and, XVaiyil t v xjl, cottaok Gxovk, 0.
from Honolulu to Manila is 4,000
miles, so that the Oregon has to her
credit two trips around the conti
nent measuring 36,000 miles, and is
still "in fit condition for any duty."
WHERE
AGUINALDO
HELP.
GETS
Mr. Vaille sums up the situation
in the islands in a letter to Assistant
Postmaster Cockett, of Seattle, as
follows:
"To one who has watched care
fully the development of the inde
pendent republic idea among these
people it appears that Aguinaldo
and his ships are drawing their sup
port from Europe and that from the
same source an attempt is being
made to aeate in the United States
a sentiment antagonistic to the re
tention of the islands. Self-inter
est alone could prompt such sup
port, and anyone who has lived but
a brief time among these people can
see that a Fllipinb republic would
be as evanescent as a castle in Spain
and that the islands would soon be
under control of some one, or more,
of the European nations. I would
not advocate holding them simply
because some one else wanted them
playing dog in the manger, but
I do believe that we ought to hold
them for a little while at least for
the same reason that humanity de
mands that the foundling left on
the door step shall be cared for un
til it can be placed in some home.
"These people in many ways are
no more than children. Like the
Japanese, they are quick to follow
copy and apt scholars. At present,
if left to themselves they would try
to run a republic in exactly the
same lines that Spain has used in
governing them. And it does not
require much of wisdom to know
how long such a government would
last. We must, if we would pre
serve our own self-respect and the
respect of the nations, carry out the
work we have to do. Let us show
them what just government is and
when they shall have learned the
lesson let them go." Oregonian.
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Horeaftor the sorvicss nt the Metho
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Preaching every 1st, 2nd and 3rd Sun
days at 11a. m. and 7:30 p. in. Kp.
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