Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-04-06
to the Americans.

Manila. April 4. The American
troops under Gen. Macarthur, are still
resting at Malolos, where everything
was quiet yesterday. Hostilities. else
where-so far as officially reported
have been limited during the last
tw~enty-four hours TO an occasional ex-
change Of shots between the insur-
gents and the troops forming II lines
Of Gen. Iawton and Cen Hall, eX-
tending from the water works TO La
Lonia. But this shooting has been
Just active enough to make the lives
Of the soldiers n burden and TO compel
the officers to sleep in trenches, clothed
and in readiness 10 repel possible at
lacks. Most of the Americans are be-
roning convinced hat the
Of the insurgent opposition is broken.
There are numerous rumors pointing
to an early collapse of the nsurrectlon.
One of these is hat Gen. Pho del Pllar,
the best fighter among the Filipino Of
icers. will desert Aguinaldo and give
his support TO the Americans. The
Spaniards, reasoning from their eX-
p%erience OF the natives, refuse TO be-
lieve that the rebellion is anywhere
near put down. They declare that the
tilipinos will not
Take Their Defeat
at Malolos. with the loss of the city
and the removal Of their so-called
government. seriously to heart. On
the contrary. the Spaniards predict
chat the insurgents will hover near
the American lines, bothering them as
much as possible, and when attacked
In force. dissolve. only to reappear at
other points. This sort of tactics, the
Spaniards say, will be followed until
the wet season compels h Americans
TO be housed In barracks, and then the
Fillpinos will return and reoccupy
such towns as the United States troops
! DO not garrison. With the next dry
season a repetition of the present ope.
rations will begin. Time alone Will
show how much there is in the theory,
but, as against it, 1t must be borne in
mind that the Spaniards in all their
domination of the Philippines, neve
gave the inhabitants a demonstration
of W comparable in effectiveness
10 that given them by the United
! States. A priest and two members or
the so-called Filipino congress. who
hid themselves in the weed during the
fighting which preceded the capture or
| Malolos, returned there and declared
that 1000 of the Filipino soldiers We're
anxious to
Give Up Fighting
! and would do so but for their officers,
| who kept them under arms. The
| whole country between Malolos and
Caloocan is now full of friendless
! women. children and old people who
are returning { o their homes, carrying
white flags. The Americans are try
ing to gain the confidence of the in
habitants by proving to them that IL
they will return and attend to their
ordinary work, peacefully, no harm
will befall them. Two hundred and
fifty civilians have come back to their
homes in Malolos. Two thousand wo-
men and children, with a ~sprinkling of
unarmed men. supposed to be war
riors, came to the outskirts of Malolos
on the sea side of the city and after
ward sneaked away, carrying all the
goods they could. There has been no
little good rivalry as to which regiment
the First Montana or the Twentieth
Kansas-is entitled to the honor of
having raised its flag first in Malolos.
Col. Funston and twenty men of Com
pany b, Kansas volunteers, claim the
distinction on the ground. as already
cabled, Of having entered the town at
double-guick and raised the company's
flag. but the first to be recognized Of
ficially was that Of Germany G., OF
the Montana infantry.
Casualties Reported.
Washington. April 4-Gen. Otis re-
port of casualties contains the names
Of the following from the Northwest:
Deaths from smallpox, Edward Pratt,
private, Company l., Thirteenth Min
nesota; Nelson Mcclellan, First South
Dakota. From wounds in action,
Charles Preachers and VIII May,
First South Dakota.