The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-01-29
lTLE VOICE Kate %ksa wf as B u IN BISHOPS PALACE

never cook anything. bat eat everything
raw. They catch fish and leave them hang
in the sun. with entraIls and all. for TWO
or three days before eating them. and in
the interior OF these Islands some OF them
even eat one another. and there are places
where white men have never been.
II don't know how long we viii stop in
Manila. 1 don't think long. for the United
States troops hold nothing but the city
and Cavite and they are anxious 20 get
possession OF the whole island. and that
the insurgents and Spanish won't have.
The insurgents are camned al around Ma
Mia and We have lot OF trouble With
them. We have outposts within FIVE hun
dred yards OF them. l don't think they
can ever get into the city. for We have
il well protected and fortified. We have
about twenty thousand troops here. all
told. The insurgents have about eighty CT
hundred thousand men. We can hold
Manila and Cavite. but / think when we
go 10 take the rest OF the island we Ril
get all the fight that We are looking for.
and maybe a little more. The Spanlards
are treated very good hs-e. They thought
when they were captured that they all
would be killed. That Is what the prizes,
told them. They say Americans are funny
msn-fght and shoot you. and then divide
what they have 10 eat with you after ghey
have captured you.
There are lost of broken guns and car
tridges lying all arolra. and thodSanis
and thousands Of tons OF ammunition thar
they have captured here from the Span
iards, and there are lot Of vaults or mag
ha
United States officers are very careful how
they open them. too. for they fear that
they have gun cotton in them and Il will
explode and kill some one. II one OF these
magazines should explode It would XIII
everybody close around. or even blocks
away.
1.-THE city is under marshal law and she
soldiers do police duty. The feeins here
toward Americans is very bitter. because
they are not used 70 the ways Of the
Americans They want 10 go along just
as they have been accustomed 20. They
will throw bricks or rocks az sentry
or guard II they think that they can run
and get away. Ny first guard in Manila
was "a patrol or provost guard. There
are two OF us who walk together. - II
we get into any trouble we can nelp each
other. We were walking down our beat.
along the business part OF town enc night
when a Spaniard threw pan OF slop out
~ a second story window on US and We
thought he did il az an insult. We went
up stairs TO his door to arrest him and
he would not let us in and We broke down
the door and took him 70 the guard house.
This town is very filthy and dirty.
The people have no modesty about them.
Such a thing as a closet Is not known 60
them.
I'VE have an American newspaper here
and j VIII send IL to you go YOU viii know
just what we are doing. Tell Bertha 7
am going 10 send her a present. II will be
a Krag-Jorgensen cartridge made into a
breastpin-the first cartridge / used. on
guard at Manila. II will be washed in
gold and II will be quite a relic and look
good too. and when ! come home l will
bring Jessie a little monkey that 7 have
got II is great pet. There are just lots