Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-25
A GUNb0AT
IS CAPTURED
The Filipin0S Have Taken
the Urdaneta.
CREW'SFATE IS UNKNOWN
The Vessel Was a Small One
and Names of Her Men
Are Not Given.
MESSAGE FROM GEN. OTIS
In Regard 10 Situation on the Islands
Inhabitants Of Panay Are Now
in a Mood to Surrender--N0 Prom
iSeS Have Been Made.
MESSAGE FROM GEN. OTIS

|SuiseHtS nave captured the United
States gunboat Urdancta in the Orani
river on the northwest side of Manila
bay where she was patrolling. One Off
Ger and nine of her crew are missing.
The gunboat Petrol, sent to investigate.
returned and reported the Urdaneta
beached opposite the town of Orani on
the Orani river She was burned and
the following guns with their ammuni-
tion We're captured:
A one FOUNDER. one Colt automatic gun
and one Nordenfeldt 25 milimetre gun.
The crew of the Urdaneta are pris-
oners or have been killed. Further de-
tails are lacking.
| Washington, Sept. 25.-Two important
dispatches from Otis at Manila We're
made public to-day by the war depart
ment. They are as follows:
Manila, Sept. 25.-Adjutant General,
Washington: Hughes at Iloilo reports
Lopez and GA armed men surrendered to
Byrnes at Castellano. Negros. Election
in that island October q Sought confer
ence. The chief insurgents of Panay
wished to know what promise could be
given them in case of formal submission.
Were told no answer was possible until
surrender and the force disbanded"
"OTIS"
Manila, Sept. 25.-Adjutant General,
Washington: Bates returned from Jolo,
21st, having placed garrisons at Sassi
and Bungam, Tawaii group. one COM
pany at each place. Affairs in the archi-
! pelago satisfactory. Bates says the
chief insurgents of Zamboaga. are still
anxious to receive the United States
garrison on condition of Withdrawals
should Aguinaldo succeed in Luzon. The
proposition was not entertained. Zam-
boanga is having trouble with more Da-
| tos in the vicinity who have raised the
Unied States flag. Dato Cagayan, Zulu
island, visited Jolo, gave Adhesion and
desired to raise the American flag in
stead of the Spanish flag on the island
The American flag will be raised there
ready to six months notice in order to
establish in the archipelago customs reg
ulations under the protocol between
Spain, Germany and Great Britain of
1885. Bates report by mail"
"OTIS,"
Washington. Sept. 25--The gunboat
Urdaneta which was captured with her
crew about 25 miles from Manila. is a
l
much larger than a small tug. She was
captured by the navy early in the war
and has been on police duty in the bay
for months past. The records of the
navy department show that she was one
of the boats of which the Oregon is the
parent ship. That u.s. she was supposed
to draw all of her supplies from the bat
tleship, to be manned from the Oregon's
crew and to act under instructions of the
Oregon's commander.
| According to last reports to the de-
partment, the little boat was last May
under command of Naval Cadet Welborn
c. Wood, but the personnel of crew is not
matter of record being subject to fire.
quent changes.
Wood was appointed to the naval aca-
denny from Oregon, had passed his aca-
demic course, and was performing sea
service at the time of his capture
Naturally the department officials are
vexed that the difficulties of the negoti-
ations looking to the release of Lieuten-
ant Gilmore of the Yorktown and his
men should be added to by this last mis-
fortune. Still there is no disposition un-
necessarily to curb the junior officers of
| the navy, who are rendering such gallant
service in the PHILIPPINES