Arizona silver belt., 1899-10-05
THE PHILIPPINE WAR.
1t Has Been Farce, Thus Far, ana
 Changes Are Necessary.

A. Frye to his son, l.. Frye, oi oai' ford. MT. Frye, Sr., is in the em- ploy of the government, m the quar- termaster's department, and his many acquaintances in Globe will read what he has to say with interest. He IS a privileged character Ill some respects, and says the quartermaster and he are the only persons who can ride on the railroad without passes. The govern ment has control of the railroad as far as San Fernando, distance of 10 miles from Manila, Auguinaldo being geu. eral manager the remainder of the dis. tance to Dagupan.
 Mir. Frye does not think well of General Otis management of the war, as the following excerpt from his letter shows;
 "Now l will say here that this war, 80 far. has been nothing but farce. ii our government don't change its way of dealing with these natives 1t will take 250, O0O soldiers and ten years hard work to subdue them, As Il IS, they are allowed to pass in and out of our lines ut will. All they have to do is to put on white suit, tie white rag to stIck and come in "mucho amigo, Filipino muy malo, Americana mucho bueno, me DO quiere bon, bom They come in and go where, ever they want to; go among the sol diers, get rested up and filled up, then go back to fight again. Our boys have captured quite a number of them and recognized them. Our boys will wade through mud. swim rivers, sleep Ill mud and water for eight or ten days, and get 1000 or 5000 of them sur rounded, where they could slaughter the whole bunch, then orders will come to cease firing then our lines will be opened and let them all out. Some times it is hard work to control the men. When our boys got after them when they were let out oi Mainbon our officers tried to stop oar boys. General Wheaton asked Colonel Stotts- enberg if he got his men stopped. Stottsenberg said: Stopped, be d-d; all h-l couldn't stop them, and away they went. But the ''gueus could outrun them, so they had to come back that night to get something to eat. Stottsenberg was killed sometime after wards in fight, and the soldiers mourned his loss very much He be- longed to the Nebraska regiment.
 Martial law has ruled nere ever since the outbreak At the commence ment of the martial law they had tO re- sort to harsh means. For five or six nights there would be three or four ''gugus' go to their long homes The guards would do the haltiug many times after they had shot them. That was the only way to do them, for If the guard halted them they would dodge and run away and the guard couldn't hit them, so by shooting them first 1t was easier halting them.
 Every now aud then they arrest some of Aguinaldo's officers right here intown The natives have been schem- ing to uprise in the city ever since the outbreak. They tired the experiment two or three times. About 300 of them tried it m the Tondo district one night: the soldiers killed almost all of them. The Tondo district was com pletely destroyed by fire.
 ''There have been qnitca number of fires started by the 'guSus. but they nave always got the worst of It. tGu- gus is what the soldiers call the natives; sometimes they call them nisgers).
 'The insurgents always fight behind the best made intrenehments in the world, so acknowledged by all the foreign military men that have exam med them A great many are actually bomb proof, so the only way to get the ''gngns" ont IS to charge them, and often times when our boys are ready to make the charge orders will come to lie down, while the ''gugus shoot ever them, every now and then pick ing off one of our boys, but when our boys do charge they get there, and although some of them fall, they don stop; that is what puts terror to the souls of the Filiplnos. IL there are any ''grgus' left iu the trenches when our boys get there. II is good-hy ''gugns" they don't waste any urnmu- nition on them; they just go at them with the butts of their guns and bnrst iheIr heads open Onr boys have q chance sometimes to kill two or three, and you bet they improve the oppor- tunity. Bat in all that our boys have killed don't amount to anything, as there are about ten ''gugus to one gun, and when one 'gngns' Is killed there is one to grab his gun and rnn. Their breastwofks are constructed with underground trenches coming out m some thicket 50 they can escape, 50 our boys cant sec them They have been years building their trenches, and in many places they improved them with railroad iron. They huild them il such a way that it is n hard matter tc flank them, so charging IS the only way.
 "Another thing to the great disad vantage of our volunteers was, tha' they were armed with Springfield rifles. The Springfield is q good gun at it's range of about 800 yards. When they hit "gugu" it puts him, as the