The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-24

ancestor worship Freycinct who COM
handed the Uranie in scientific expedition
to determine the figure of the earth, says
employing all their force, heroism and cum
ming in the defense of their customs and or
their independence. Twenty times beaten.
twenty times they rise again. But in the
end decimated by war and by diseases un-
til then unknown among them, they ceased
to oppose a useless resistance to the power
tut arms of European civilization Expa-
triation succeeds to these disasters; and
those who remain, the unhappy remnant,
ere taken from their towns and their native
isles. and are concentrated at Guam, at
Saipan, and at Rota. and placed as it were
under the guns of the forts-a guarantee OF
their obedience.
The third historical period. 1899 to 1885, is
chain of administration by a succession
OF governors appointed by the governor
general of the Philippines: the last OF
whom. General Marina. with his secretary,
Port Captain Duarta. Lieutenant Gutierrez
and two other lieutenants. Sergeant Romelo
and fifty-four soldiers. was taken prisoner
by the cruiser Charleston June Il, 1898.
The islands forming the Ladrones, begin
ming at the northernmost, are Farallon de
Pajaros, an active volcano 1900 feet IN
height; group of three rocky isiets known
as the Urracas: Assumption. partially ac-
tive. volcanic peak 2,S4S feet in height
Agrigan, seven miles in length, mountain
Gus, and the northernmost inhabited island;
Pagan. having three active cones. and PEG.
islands of Alamagan, Guguan. Anataxan
and Farallon de Medinila; Saipan, fifteen
miles long, fertile, and having about 100
Ihabitants; Tinian, originally possessing
80, 900 inhabitants, and now place of segre-
cation for lepers, with population OF 3OV;
Aguijan, of no Importance; Rota, with 800
inhabitants, and Guam.
Guam, or Guajan, the southernmost and
largest of the islands, is thirty-two miles
Icing and has a population of about 5000,
tWo-thirds of whom are in Agana, and
nearly all the rest upon the seaboard, the
country inland being almost without inhab-
itants, Agana, the capital, is also con-
vict settlement 1t is beautifully clean and
possesses good government officials, hos
pital schools and a church. The Spanish
residents have usually numbered about
all CHARTERED here The militia, comprising
about all the male population, is COM
manded by native officers. The civil gov
eminent is similar to that of the Philip
pines. Postal communication has been
quarterly
When first discovered the Ladrones had a
population of about $4,000. Not one of the
original race survives and the islands are
peopled chiefly by Tagals and Bisayans
South American Indians, a colony of Caro-
line islanders who founded Garapan, in the
Island of Saipan, and numerous Chamorroo
Spanish half-breedS. The census of 1888
reports a population of 6,476 in Agana, and
total of 1912 in all the islands, 5034 being
males and 5,13S females. There are eight
cen schools in the Island of Guam Only 10
per cent. of the Ladrone islanders are UNI
able to read and write. Spanish is the rec
ognized language; but many OF the natives
speak little English. The climate is good
grees Fahrenheit is the range of the Their
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