Show WRITES FROM MANUKA mr bert mcbride of this thia eity city haa fe calved a letter from C S sandberg of the hospital 1 corps who wenry zaw this city to manila with the utah be batteries the letter Is wr written litten from ION dry P 0 station no 1 cavite phao ahlup pine islands and dated sept sapt kam A by the tenor of the letter the die b hea the boyst boya Is remarkably which s speaks 0 volumes for the alf as compared with cuba and P port 66 6 after describing the trip over ir francisco Pran cisco in which he makes th abbi kick over the fare he cont continues inu As soon as we arrived here and myself were sent to the hospital kor for duty he was put t ing the typhoid fever cases anc awill awell that he was made ward was placed in charge of the adf which Is easy work ork but hours we hav bayef e 4 am an aver hundred and fifty pe bbs li AS idrus AM up to date dat there ethere has been seventeen won die the hospital force is thirty wk fi men including cooks cocks the hospital is in the quarters of tbt spanish officers it is a two story building with fifteen large rooms the city is surrounded by a stone wall 30 teet feet high by 20 feet thick and is mounted with seventeen century guns outside of the wall is the native villages built of bamboo and thatched with frith grass they are raised from the ground on four legs about 6 feet high the native women all smoke cigars ernd cigarettes in fact every one smokes from six years up out in the bay are lying the wrecked spanish war vessels six of them are within a stones htow throw of each other and shows S terrible the battle must had been the natives here have looted and wrecked wreck edall all they could lay aar hands bands on and what they have not balt ar our soldiers have secured as refes the of august wits was the first I 1 ever saw it started this way only thing they have to drink here lit IL native gin called anisel it costs aff centea cent a glass and three glasses peake make a man drunk some of the waif came over from manila aland and raised a row the insurgents to ta t 0 disarm 1 1 them and the fun f un id L the rhe fourth cavalry regulars 1 c called alle d out and when we got to head of the column we found corral rz anderson shot through the right fc and private hudson hudsen dead both aged to our bi baA tery ettery A little later jw snore more were brought in shot through tede legs the insurgents lost three men aad a number wounded in concluding his letter the writer sate expresses the hope of being in salt lake til tore ore christmas and declares that he n not the remotest idea of making biome in the philippines A letter has also been received from 11 keaner of this city in which he ap pp afa plains lains of having received no letters raw am home although not less than a aften deft have been sent him like nearly i the others he has had enough of the and will hall hail with delight alte flay of release the water has to be oe caged before it can be drunk the cli hiate is execrable and all there is that W i worth seeing does not require much time the boys health Is however fety good |