Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-11-24
Morning Press Dispatches.

When General Macarthur returned to
Tarlac he was met by a brass band
that had been with the insurgent army,
and the natives gave him an ovation
and parade, in carriage with the al
calde. Explaining the Americans in
tentions, he announced that they in
tended to garrison all towns on the rail-
road. Hundreds of men are now in the
field harvesting the rice crop along the
railroad. Foreigners in the territory
assert that Aguinaldo was not expecting
the American advance for month, when
the rains would have been over. He
had permitted large part of his army
to scatter to their homes and do their
harvesting. Many soldiers had hidden
their rifles about their homes. If this
is true, many rifles are likely to be
brought in to secure the sum of $50 Of
fered for each weapon seized. An Of
ficer describing the recent night capture
of the Filipino town of Odonnel] says.
AFTER the town had been surprised with
out a shot being fired, negro soldiers
were pouring out of every house, drag
ging sleepy, frightened Filipino warriors
by the collar, and kicking them into the
street. 1t was race to see which com
pany would corral the most Filipinos
The women and children, believing the
stories told that negro soldiers were can
nibals, shrieked frightfully. After all
the rifles had been secured, the Filipinos
were surprised by being told to go to
their homes and attend to work.
A Spanish corporal captured from the
Filipinos says he saw Aguinaldo, ac-
companied by prominent leader and Is
men, arrive at Bayombong during the
night of November 10, hatless, his
clothes torn and spattered with mud
and his horse exhausted. Aguinaldo, it
appears, rode short time, but seemed
anxious and consulted with his compan-
ions, and villagers as to the nature of
the roads and then secured fresh horses
and proceeded Immediately toward Man
glaren, in Pangasinan province, west of
Bayombong.
An official dispatch from Sir Alfred
Miner to Mr.. Chamberlain reports that
| thus far the efforts of the Beers to pro.
woke an uprising among the Basutos OF
| to start q civil war, have been unsuc'
cessful. The governor of Cape Colony
says: The Beers informed Chief Jonathan
that If he would join them he would be
defended. If he refused, they told hin
he would not be molested, but they
declared he must expel the British
magistrate and allow his fellow tribes tt
pass freely into the Orange Free State
whose government in return woult
guarantee Basutoland to the Basutos ir
perpetuity. The great concern of thu
Beers is their crops, which will rot unless
Basuto labor can be obtained. Evidently
the natives have been affected by reports
of repeated Boer successes, but thei
general attitude is satisfactory"
The Knights of Labor general assembl,
in Boston yesterday passed resolutions
protesting against what was styled al
attempt to smother honest investigation
by the industrial commission, condemn
ing combinations and trusts, and tn,
attitude of the government toward labo
in Cuba, Wardner and Idaho ant
characterizing President Mckinley as
"bitter eaemy of labor" urging tn
labor men to vote against him and hi
associates. A resolution opposing tn
efforts to subjugate the Philippines wa
passed.