| Show OUR BOYS AT r ANilA J Chick Varian Tells of the Conditions Surrounding Them 4 HOSPITAL SERVICE BAD 4 CONSIDERABLE IMPROVEMENT MADE I THS RATIONS 4 Angus Nicholson and Isaac Russell May Stay and Start a Newspaper Utah Soldiers Smart Under the Injustice of Not Being Mustered Out Why Chick Resigned + i Chick Varian in home He came from Manila arriving here yesterday forenoon and though he has had the goldamdest experience of his lire lIe looks none the worse for wear Chick was the most popular man in I the Utah batteries as letters from the I land of the noonday sun testify He j I vas one of the first to enlist last year I and up to a short time ago wore corporal i cor-poral stripes but he resigned this poI po-I biUon and just why he did so he re j fused to state for publication I is I i pat well understood however that Corporal Varian Jed the onslaught i against the commissary department and its management which a resultant i result-ant of much good But after this some j of the officers made It hot for the corporal I cor-poral and he quit on the spot i Chick in a interview last night I had very little to say against anybody but when the matter of hospital service was approached the soldier replied Now youre getting at It That is I something I will talk about The conditions con-ditions existing in the hospitals are something fearful The management is worse than rotten Why I could tell I you of cases coming under my notice I while I was sick that would make any I Americans blood boil One thing I remember member happened along in August An I Oregon man was brought to the hospital i hos-pital suffering with erysipelas and he i received no care whatever They didnt even give him a jath and after three I days he died with no one near him The I body remained where it was untouched t un-touched for thirtysix hours and two of us who were patients had to sit up with the body all day and night I i makes me sick to think of it now But after all continued the speaker the grub preposition is stmiglneneU out pretty well The boys a doing firstrate in this respect but want to come home Trilby Nicholson and Ike Russell are going to stay there I believe and run a newspaper but a a rule the wholo crowd are coming as soon a they can Speaking of annexation Mr Varian said the government certainly should hold the islands now that they have been conquered As to the Filipinos fighting its all rot and the frequent scares in camp have gotten to be farcical farci-cal with the men of the batteries In th first place the insurgents are poorly poor-ly I equipped and in the second place they are a pack of cowards and could not fight if they had to We could take two welldrilled regiments of infantry in-fantry and clean out the whole lot Two Apache braves could do the same I Chick says thatFrank SheJley did all the campaigning for Roberts and Znne and carried the election easily He tells many funny stories on the soldiers and a princely tale anent Trilby Nicholson The Tenth Pennsylvanians and the Third artillery he says are now the nearest friends of the Utah boys Jlr Varian was in the hospital about thirty days suffering with dysentery and malaria He was in command of battery As gun No 1 on the night of I the fight and served with distinction he does not regret I is a experience regt but is not desirous of going through the campaign again He was discharged dis-charged on Dec 13 and sailed for America on the Ohio on the ISth His trip homeward was tfiore enjoyable than his first experience on the ocean I but he ia glad to be again in Gods country I |
