YESTERYEARS: 104 years ago
104 YEARS AGO
July 1, 1898
The initial fight of Colonel Wood's Rough Riders and the troopers of the First and Tenth regular cavalry will be known in history as the battle of La Quasina. That it did not and in the complete slaughter of the Americans was not due to a miscalculation in the plan of the Spaniards, for as perfect an ambush as was ever formed in the brain of an Apache Indian was prepared, and Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt and his men walked squarely into it. For an hour and a half they held their ground under a perfect storm of bullets from the front and sides, and then Colonel Wood at the right, and Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt at the left, led a charge which turned the tide of battle and sent the enemy flying over the hills.
The brakemen find it more work to keep the tramps off the trains than to do the regular freight business. The brakemen ought to bombard the bums a few times. Brakeman George Kirk had his leg broken at El Dorado the other day. He put a tramp off the train, whereupon the hobo shied a rock at George and broke his leg. The tramp ought to be hung.
