The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-07-11
THE FAIR PATHS Of PEACE
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT FOR
CAV1TE PROVINCE.
Civn Officers Elected in the Towns.
Schools open in Manila-Southeru
Islands Are quite Peaceable.

MANILA. July 2.-According to the
latest reports from the province of
Cavite the nsurgent leaders there are
quarreling. Aguinaldo's cousin. Baldo-
nero Aguinaldo, has been killed or inn
prisoned by General Mariana Trias,
commander of the insurgents in the
southern department of Luzon and
most of his men have deserted to Trlas,
who is now at San Francisco de la Ma
labon.
Yesterday General Lawton and Pro-
fessor Worcester of the commission
visited the principal towns in the prov
ince of Cavite, out of which the natives
We're recently driven. Their chief pur-
pose was to direct the elections of the
presidents of linus, Bakoor and Par
anque and Las Pinas. Under the NUM-
cipal system thus inaugurated the pres
idents or the mayors of the towns are
empowered to appoint minor officials
and to levy taxes, which are to be eX-
pended solely in public improvements.
Before acting General Lawton and
| Mr.. Worcester had consulted with the
| leading men in each town and selected
candidates whose honesty and frendli-
ness to American rule were beyond
question. Wherever they went the Am
orleans were heartily cheered by the
| people.
| Tomorrow the public schools in Ma
Mia will open and it is expected that
there will be 5000 children in attend
ance.
One of the instructors is the widow of
the Filipino patriot. DR.. Rial, who
| prepared the statutes of the Philippine
| League, and who, when about to board
a steamer at Barcelona in the autumn
of 1885, WAS arrested by the Spanish au-
thorities and sent to Manila, where he
was tried by court martial on the
charge of having organized the upris-
| inc IL, fI, .,
death and shot on December 30 of that
year. After her husbands execution
Mrs. Rial, who is the stepdaughter of a
| Hongkong gentleman, went to linus
and was chosen captain of a company
of insurgents. English will be taught
in the schools one hour each day. The
| prescribed holidays include the twenty
church days observed in Manila. Wash
ington's birthday and the 4th of July.
| Almost every steamer brings mis-
siOnaries. The arrival of one in Cebu
made no little trouble, as the report
spread rapidly among the ignorant
| classes that the Americans intended 10
compel them to give up their churches.
The American authorities, in the inter
| est of harmony, requested him to with
draw, and he complied.
MANILA, July Professor ]. G..
Schurman of the united States adj
j viSpry Commission for the Philippines,
/
weeks trip in the southern islands. He
takes an entirely hopeful view of the
general conditions there. The intelligent
and. substantial citizens desire an Am
erican prOtectorate. The masses are
awaiting the settlement of the war in
the island of LuZon before declaring
| themselves. They are chiefly anxious
to be undisturbed The president of the
town of Santo Nicolas, in the Island of
Cebu, said to Mr. Schurman: I'VE want
peace, food and prosperity. We do not
wish to fight. We would be neutral"
WASHINGTON, July 2.-The Neb,
raska, Pennsylvania and Utah troops
which have been on duty in the Philip
pines, have started on their homeward
journey. The following dispatch from,
General Otis on the subject was recev-
ed by the War Department today:
MANILA, July 2.-The transports
Hancock and Senator, with the Neb-
raska, Pennsylvania and Utah troops
left for San Francisco yesterday. The
Nebraska carried forty-twO officers anC
So enlisted men, the Pennsylvania
thirty-four officers and 712 enlisted mer
and the Utah nine officers and 25S en-.
listed men. The Nebraska regiment lef
in Manila one sick, Private Leuterman
Company H. and thirty discharged
Pennsylvania, seven discharged; Utah
| twenty nine DISCHARGED