Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-11
war department has received the fol-
MANILA. November 10.


Gen. Lawton experiences some diff
culties On account Of the continued
unprecedented rains in that section OF
the country. His advance reached San
Jose yesterday, and is at Carranglan
to-day. A strong force is being put
through on the Aliago route. CD.
Young captured yesterday considerable
additional Cubanatuan arsenal proper
ty in transit north, among which were
IA two inch and % boxes / 65-10O inch
ammunition for Hotchkiss guns. so
proJectiles for five and eight-inch
breech-loading rife cannon, two boxes
of granades, considerable other ord
nance property and two tons of cast
lngs and arsenal machinery in parts.
He is meeting with opposition but his
advance is not much impeded there
by.
Gen. Macarthur was accommodating
north OF Mabalacat yesterday and Col
Bell to the left; Slaven's scouts are di-
rected to the front and Smith. with
the Seventeenth infantry is on the Mag
alang and Conception road. Col. Bell,
OF the Thirty-sixth regiment, with five
OF his officers and two privates of his
regiment mounted, one officer and tea
men OF the Fourth cavalry struck 100
insurgents IN the mountains west Of
Mabalacat He charged them, killing
and wounding 10, capturing six and 80
Mauser rifles. The railroad from An
geles to Bamban is destroyed.
Gen. Macarthur will have 10000 rations
to the front to-day and will take UP the
advance to Tarlac tomorrow.
Gen. Wheaton reports % Spanish prison.
ers secured. Three hundred insurgent re-
cruits escaped to the mountains from the
enemy during the battle at San Fabian.
These recruits were en- route to Dagupan.
Wheaton says everything is favorable to
carrying out successfully his instructions
and that the cooperation of the navy is
complete. OTIS
A second dispatch from Gen. Otis re-
ceived to-day, follows: THE report re-
eeived yesterday concerning Wheaton
movement was erroneous. He did land at
San Fabian as directed and drove the
bulk of the enemy back in the desired d.
rection toward Dagupan His operations
were completely successful in every par
ticular."
Great interest is felt in the War Depart
ment over Aguinaldo's sudden ckange of
base northeastward from Tarlac to Bay
ombon, about 100 miles distant There are
numerous spellings of the latter place but
the form given is the one most generally
adhered to on the maps in possession of
the War Department. The most interest
ing feature of the new situation is that
Aguinaldo has been forced out of Tagalo
country into region to the north where
Taga,o is not spoken, and where the noun
tain sides are filled with Negrtos and other
savage tribes who are hostile to the Tag
alos. This is about the most mountainous
and inaccessible part of the island.
To the south base of Carabelo mountain
there is a narrow break in the mountain
range, and within a few miles around the
base of Caraybello mountain on it's north
ern slope one strikes the headwaters of
the Magat, which is the beginning of the
great river Cagayan, that flows northward
go miles into the China sea. It is on the
headwaters of the Magat thet Aguinaido
is now located. The way is open for him
down the long stretch of the river to Apar-
ri, at the mouth of the Cagayan, where it
flows into the sea. This is one of the Wild
est but richest valleys in the island 1t is
believed that the river Cagayan is naviga-
Bile for our tin-clad gunboats $50 miles
from its mouth and for cascoes much fur
Their. 1t is expected as soon as Aguinaldo
shows any disposition to move down the
valley toward the China sea that warships
and gunboats will be sent around the
northern end of the island to meet him and
cut off his escape
If it is his intention to escape from Luz
ION he would naturally seek Aparri or
some northern port, but the country
around Carabello mountain is such that
he could probably stand off the whole
American force in a game of hide and seek
in the hills for the greater part of the com
ing season.