Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-12
Americans Are in Pursuit
Of Aguinaldo.
YOUNG'S FORCE
Was Divided and He Took a Few Men
With Him to Prevent General limo
From Joining Forces With His
Leader Near Vigan. =

Manila, Dec. II, GAS p. m.-The adj
vance guard of General rants COM
mand. under Major Spence arrived at
Olangapo. Subig bay, during the night Of
Dec. 9, which place was occupied with
little resistance, the enemy fleeing. Ma
jor Spence had an arduous march over
the mountain trails. Yesterday morn
ing the Baltimore and Oregon and a char
tered transport arrived at OlanSapo from
Manila. The W. WAS disappointed to
find the army in possession of the place
which they had hoped to capture. A
detachment of marines under Captain
Myers, occupied the navy yard at Olan-
sapo and will hold n occupy it as a
naval station. The yard consists of
seven new large buildings and some re-
pairing and machinery shops, all damag-
ed by the boTlbardment of Sept. 90. Dur
ing the morning of Dec. 10, the navy
transported Major Spence's command
from Olansapo to the town of Subig, five
miles distant. The enemy soon desert
ed Subig n the troops occupied it with
out resistance. They found the place
abandoned by the retreating enemy, who
fired a few shots. The Americans de-
IioS GU ~ XIX liSil olu ltil VI tuG lONI
and killed one of the enemy.
General Grant ana the remainder of his
command arrived at Olangapo yesterday
afternoon. He will proceed today to
Subig and join Major Spence. General
Grant VIII move north along the coast and
will effect a juncture with the Twenty
fifth infantry under Colonel andrew S.
Burt, who was reported eight miles from
Iba, Dec. I. The enemy encountered in
General Grants advance fled to the
mountains n scattered. General Grant
is not garrisOning the wv ne occu-
pies. No casualties are reported in his
command.
Dispatches dated Conception, Dec. 2,
from a correspondent of the Associated
Press with the. detachment pursuing
AguinafdO, have just reached Manila by
messenger. The military wires on all lines
to the north Were continually cut by the
natives or are crowded with government
business when working.
According to these advices General
Young was at Condor, Nov. 30, having
three troops of the Third cavalry. Cum
nirlsham's scouts and Major March's
battalion of the Thirty-third infantry.
The nomina strength of his
has been reduced one-third by sickness.
The horses We're worn out and handi-
capped by lack of shoes. The infantry,
after a march of 100 miles from San ia
cintO, were shoelesS and all were living on
the country. The troops had no anmu-
milton except what they carried in their
berts.
General Young. having then been With
out communication with General LaWton
for 10 daysc and not knowing the dispo-
sition of the other troops, or whether sup
port was being sent forward, resolved to
keep moving. Having received Informal
ton that the insurgent General Tine with
/ 900 men was somewhere to the north
md that AuJliJ1nlHn with cny,ncn1 Di1n
five women and 400 soldiers Of his faith
full Bulucan battalion, was in the mount
aims to the east. General Young decided
on Nov. 80 to divid his force. He pro-
ceeded himself toward Vigan, hoping to
attack Tino with his handful of men and
to prevent him joining Aguinaldo. Ma
jor March. with his battalion and Cum
ningham'S scouts, started over the
mountains toward Cervantes after Agui-s
naldo, who was reported to have been