The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1898-11-19


breath You would scarcely know the
city and suburbs now. The flowers
are blooming, the trees are covered
with foliage, the streets have been re.
paired, the electric lights and water
works are in running shape again the
street cars are running and the adyan-
Iages OF city life are beginning to come
10 hight. They have some fine bananas
ana cocoanuts here. For the Grst
month we could NOT get anything de-
eent, but now the good stuff is coming
10 ana It is fine. believe these islands
are al right, and | hope the United
states holds them, There is Of course.
a good many drawbacks. If the ma
ives were all dead this would be a
paradise, but here they are and our
people would rot, could not, ever ANAL
gamate with them. The future of
these islands now will be the suprem
acy OF the white race, and God pity the
dark skinned natives with their slow
Wit. 100000 natives will DO ruled by
a few until they are ruled out. There
need be n0 CLASH De, W eli them and us,
but the American is SO superior and
has such superior methods that he
would have everything his own way.
If we hold the islands you need have
no fear OF us having to fight the ma
tiges. They will be Lnly too glad to
have us take the islands and they will
lay down their arms. Everybody here
want America to stay, even the Span
iards. Lots of the Spanish prisoners
have made application to become citi-
Gems and enlist III our army. | antiCi-
pate no trouble from the natives. A
few like Auguinaldo would have to be
taken care of, but l am satisfied it
could, aud would be done without war.
The natives are afraid of us. The peo-
lie here never saw so much0money as
was turned loose pay day. Within two
weeks, more than aquarter of a million
dollars 10 gold was turned loose. May
be the old town didn't pop. The peO-
pie here meyer saw anybody spend
money until they saw an American
boy with $50 in gold to get away with
It was a revelation to them, They
have little huts of bamboo built along
the street for a store, and they will
have three or four shallow rush baskets
containing their store, consisting OF
few bananas, hundred cigars, al
many cigaretts, five or 6 bottles of pop
a few CoCoanuts and bucket of native
candy. The put it on a bench, ant
there you are. Well, one of our boy
would come up for something and il
they did not treat him as he though
he deserved, he would tell them to pu
a value on the outfit, they would NAM
some sum usually without any though
of selling and he would plank down tn
money and tell them to "Vamoos." Ill
would then take possession and tn
BOYS would proceed to clean the she
bang out and finally Wipd up by tear
ing the house down and throwing it il
an alley. They never saw it done tina
way before. We always have som
bad Americans that will do just tn
thing that they ought not to do, AM
many are the dishonest mean trick
that orr boys are guilty of, still, on tn
whole, we have an army of grand meE
l have not had any opportunity I
learn anything about the islands ye
hut will make them study before
leave here. An Englishman told n
that he owned gold mine up the Pasl
river, about twenty miles from the cit.
that he had been working for ten year
and in that time he had cleared aoou
100000. He paid tax to the SPANS
Government of 70 per cent of the gros
receipts all the time. If he did not II
to me. you see he had rather goo
thi. g.
It is indeed strange to be here, l can
begin to tell you how strange IN a 10