The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-12
FROM MANILA.
Guy Churchill sends HIs Brother Curiou
Old Documents.

Guy churchtii sends His Brother eurtou
Old Documents.
Guy Churchill. now in the Philippines
with the Montana regiment. has writ
ten a letter to his brother in this city
which was received yesterday. The let
ter is written on curious old parchment
paper which dates back 10 lSi9. taken
from the custom house at Cavite. In
closed are other interesting old docu-
ments one OF them dating back to l176.
The letter reads:
philippine Islands, Aug. 29-Dear
Brother: / wrote you a note from the
pennsylvania. We were all trans
ported the same night on shore just In
time TO see a small scrap between the
4th cavalry and the natives. Two OF
the 9Th were killed outright and
three wounded and two OF the ma
ives were killed and two put under
arrest by the insurgents. rhey will
be shot tomorrow. The insurgents
have abou 100 prisoners, while the SOL
diers have about the same number Of
Spanish prisoners and 30 officers. One
among them is the governor of the Ia
drone islands. The night we landed
they took US W to the fort. You can
imagine the size of the fort barracks
and Notifications when i say there are
over 1900 soldiers quartered comfort
ably In the buildings.
Besides this there are three churches
tiiaA navy ont u NNO ttiipdiANo
eating and sleeping in them. There are
two towns here that they call the new
and old town. The new town IL where
we are camped. Before we came, moth
Ing but S~paniards lived here. while the
natives LIVED in the old town, which Is
only ~ minu walk from here. In the
old town there are only native houses.
the same that you see in pictures.
"One of the best sights / have seen
yet Is the native market place. You
can buy anything they grow. They all
sit down on the ground like monkeys;
they have more varieties of fish than |
have seen I'm my life, and I saw a lot
of them in Frisco. Cigars are the
cheapest in comparison with anything.
You can get cigars from one cent up.
You can buy a cigar as good as the
Harvard or N Of the 15-cent cigars.
for s. a hundred in their money. That
is only $3.50 in American. You know
We get two for one here. N s22 for
$40 in gold. We heard that gre
had passed a bill doubling the soldiers
pay: IL that is so. you see We will be
getting over $50 in Philippine money per
month.
Every one here thinks we will have
to scrap Aguinaldo before we get
through. i have not been up to Ma
Mia yet; expect to go up next week.
There are over 10000 soldiers in Manila.
They have TO do the work of policemen.
one on every corner. A~guinaldo is be-
tween us m Manila. He has about
one or two Spanish prisoners; he also
has an army of so, 0O0. They are the
smallest. meanest. ~scrubbiest, scurviest
looking lot Of people l ever saw. and
the most of the Spaniards are small.
The insurgents treat the prisoners very
bad. There are about so of them sick
In the Red Cross, run by the insur-
gents. and they are what you would
coll .rnIIfnH aEa1gNn.a n.N pfnkN tNNT2
Spanish prisoners escaped from Aguin-
aldo n gave themselves up to our
regiment. They said they were starv-
ing to death, and they looked IL. II N
guard takes out 10 Spanish prisoners
to do some work outside Of the town.
they are liable to bring back 90. The
insurgents say they have been treated
so badly by the Spanish that they can
help being cruel to them. Within 100
yards from where / sit, i can see five
Spanish men-of-war sunk with only
the masts and boiler pipe sticking out.
Dewey must Ia pounded shot into
them until they could not rest. The in
surgents have been stealing the brass
and lead TO make bullets and the SOL
diers have been firing at them every
night from shore. Up to the time we
came the first night we landed. Captain
Jensen heard them pounding on the
nearest ship, which is about 100 yards
ITOTl tnDTt. AdIldln JfIlNtn WIS plllCtT
of the day, so he took six men in a
small boat about 70 o'clock and rowed
around the boats and got up on the
ship, told them (of course IL was so
dark you could not see a thing) to sur
render He did not hear a sound. so he
fired his revolver in the air, but that
did not bring them out. and he told
his men II they thought they could see
any one to shoot. They fred four shots
and looked all over the boat. but could
not fnd hide nor hair of any one. They
came back to shore. The next morning
they wen over to the boat and found
n native dead and one wounded.
They are a lot Of thieves. They will
steal anything they can get their hands
on. They tell us his is a great fever
climate. We a to boil all the water
before we drink II. The people here
very thin undershirt and white duck
~ long. made out Of mosquito netting.
Everyone wears n different color.
Everything around was looted by the
insurgents before the soldiers got here.
Uncle Sam Is using all the government
buildings for their store houses. You
see this Is official paper I am writing
on. 7 got this out Of the old custom
house building; thought I would write
on II, as you might like Il as n souv-
enir. We have been unloading the
boats. You know we have SIX months
stores for LOO men. II will take two
weeks to unload. They unload by
lighters. These have big tanks that
they save all the rain water TO drink
when the rainy season is over: for three
months we may not get n drop OF rain.
n $3.50 ~ a N