Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1899-03-28
STRATTON SAID TO HAVE SOLD HIS NINE
The Beef Board in Session at Wsshington--No End is
in Sight Yet.
sANDERsoN, THE KANSAS MURDERER, LYNcHED

NEW YORK, March 2s.-Dispatches
from Manila to the Journal today re-
port that General MacArthur's division,
after short rest st,fcaptured the city of
Marilao and took up its advance to-
ward Malolos at $3.50 this morning. The
immediate objective point was the
town of Bocave. five miles north of
Msrilao. The Filipino prisoners taken
yesterday, according to the Journals
dispatches, informed the Americans
ttat AguinaIdo will make last grand
stand &C Malol0s and if defeated would
make no further resistance.
YESTERDAYS BATTLE.
WASHINGTON, March 28.--The fol-
lowing was received today from Gen.
eral Otis: "Manila-There was severe
fighting yesterday afternoon beyond
Marilao. A brilliant charge was made
by the South Dakotas led by Frost.
They repulst d the enemy with slaughter.
Adjutant Lien, Lieutenants Adams and
Morrison and four enlisted men of the
regiment were killed. Lieut.. McClel-
land and twenty-five enlisted men we're
wounded. The loss yesterday was
mostly confined to this regiment. The
partial destruction of the railroads,
which Is being rapidly repaired, impedes
McArthurs progress. Supply trains
have now reachhd Marilao and MacAr-
thur is pushing on. Our small gun
boats are in the Bulacan river where
great execution was done yesterday.
They will relieve the pressure ON Mac
Arthur's front materially. The troops
are in excellent condition and spirits.
A proclamation signed Luna, general
in chief Of the insurgent forces, directs
that all towns abandoned shall be burn
ed. In consequence thereof, much Of
the country north is in flames"
THE BULACAN FIGHT.
MANILA, March 22-The gunboat
Lsguna de Bay attacked the insurgents
at Bulacan. Three Americans we're
wounded MacArthur's division crossed
Marilao river and is advancing north
ward. The insurgents attacked the
Americans last evening at Marllao, but
were repulsed with severe loss.
OUR LOSS
is five killed and fourteen wounded.
Later Garcia, a native general. came
from Dagupan by train with thousand
rifemen and four thousand botOmen
and took positions. The Marilao river
was between the Americans and the in
surgent forces. The South Dakota
volunteers and the Third artillery, act
ing as infantry, were thrown forward.
The South Dakotas
CHARGED BRILLIANTLY
across the open space on the east of the
railway to the edge of the woods. They
lost ten killed and eleven wounded, In
Cluding three Iieutenants. The Third
artillery on the right of the railroad
charged and lost nine wounded, two
mortaIly. On the left the insurgents
In the trench east of the river made
A STUBBORN RESISTANCE.
Lieut.. Critchlow, with two guns of the
Utah battery, and Lieut.. Davis, with
navy Colt gun, forced thirty insurgents
in the trench on the opposite side OF
the river to surrender at close quarters,
q hundred yards. The rest Of the in
surgents got out with severe loss.
Ninety dead insurgents were counted.
WILL ATTACK BULAGAN.
General MacArthur's division ad-
wanced nearly two miles without en-
conntering opposition this morning.
On Approaching Bulacan, a town of
Sstwenty five thousand people, he halted,
preparatory to attacking it.
EXTREME HEAT.
The heat, being ninety degrees on the
coast and fully one hundred degrees In
the interior, made the Americans suffer
. great deal. In spite of the heat, how
ever, every man was eager to preceed
towards The enemy. A detachment OF
ninety-six
FILIPINO PRISONERS
was.escorted into Manila today. Their
appearance aroused great interest as
they were marched from the railroad
depot to the prison.
The rebels unloadeds about 800 men
from train
HALF A MILE
in front of General MacArthur's forces
with the object of reinforcing the Fill
pin0 garrison at Bulacan and Guiguin-
to, on either side of the railroad leading
10 MaIolOs. The fact that the road
Is in operation from here to our front
fasslitates tne
TRANSPORTATION OF SUPPLIES
xo our troops. Before the break In the
sunn;ss su4u = vas sa verv e M nncertain All i
1uiet in front of the lines of Generals
0vershine and HALL A battalion OF
SkaG.iisn~o;., ~ IsIIs ro,;snant which hos been