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guns coald do to a sione wait. I made a coll cct’QD of empty shells from the Mauser rifles which were fir*d daring the battle.In Melate is a cemetery where for a consideration of $35 a corpse may be placed in a vault for hve years, at the ex* pirauon of which time rent bscomzs due and a cross mark is made oq the tomb. If the rent is not piid promptly ihe bones are thrown on the bone pile within the walls of the cemetery with several wagon loads of otber ' other deling-ent bones, and the vault is for rent again* Within the walls of this cemetery over 100 American soldiers are buried, but the formality of paying rent is dispensed with in such events, and i understand the bodies will be sent to ihe United StatesAguinal Jo's me a surround the entire__1___1___1 l:. ___a_____ ____cKeiBitprerevIpasda]6;iIMa11,IBtMe
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Lawrence Journal World
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Sat, Feb 11, 1899
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