The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-12-02
THE FILIPINQS
AS SEEN by A
BOY In BLUE.
Rumor Takes the Place Of the News
papsrontheFirins Line Says
Ernest 9. Smith.
ASTIRRING STORY Of BATTLE
At Angeles, with tho Seventeenth,
Who Were Hard Pressed by the
Dusky Filipiuos
ASTIRRlEG STORY Of BATTLE
r,om our soldier Correspondent.

rron Our Soldier Correspondent.
ANGELES, Luzon, P. l., oct. 22.-Ru-
NOR takes the place Of the newspaper
an the firing line. SONG orderly or
ether will hear headquarters discussing
= nroposed move or a new assignment
=, troops and, in less than an hour, and
perbaps days before the formal order As
promulgated. the news is being rehash-
cd TO willing listeners in all parts OF
the line. We're 1t not for the absence
NJ other means Of communication such
"a any civilized community affords, the
credence given to these numerous RUM
IRA would amaze a civilian. Nine out
NJ ton such premature stories are With
out foundation. yet they furnisha sEien-
did means Of dlvertug a soldiers at
tentlon from the hardshIps and har-
rowlng details Of his dangerous every
day lie. Thus, within a week, the
seventeenth has been ordered home TO
recruit ana recuperate; has been bril-
paded with the Twelfth and Ninth un-
der "Fighting Joe" Wheeler for the Inn
pending campaign, and to-day we are
10 be sent 10 Manila for rest after our
seven months active service, All these
things are to happen If the newsmonger
is 10 be relied upon,
II any one OF them happens the Sew
epteenth will be satisfied. The battered
old regiment sim has another fight or
two somewhere in reserve. even II at
times our list Of commissioned officers
is so scanty thatoften theFeIsn't an off,
Ger to a company. The fate OF the Sew
enteenth, however. will soon be settled.
There can be no doubt existing even in
Agulnaldo's mind that the greatest
campaign of the war is soon to be in
augurated. Brighter days betoken an
early close Of the rainy season; the
newly organized volunteer regiments
anchor in Manlla's harbOr with the arr
rival Of every transport and supplies
are being rushed to the frdntn rs rapidly
as transportation can be procured. The
..yets" have considerable fun at the ex-
pense Of their newly arrived comrades.
Like all new troops these '.rcokies" are
dead anxious to get on the line. In fact
their anxiety to reach the'front Is ex-
cecded only by the old rouhder's desire
to get to the rear for month OF so
where he can spend night nF 50 In the
peaceful assurance that hefwon't be
linked" out into the trenches before he
has gotten both eyes closed,
That Peace Conference,
Strange as 1t may appear, .Asulnaldo
seems to be doing all in his power to
hasten our preparations for the COM
ing campaign. Three weeks ago a
peace commission consisting of General
Alexjandrlno and two officers of lower
rank entered our lines at Angeles. They
brought fourteen American prisoners as
sort Of peace offering and healthier.
better clothed squad of captEYes never
howIed for Joy at seeing the old flag
again than were these. Hurried to Ma
nIla as fast as a special train could car
ry them, the Gorgeously uniformed re-
bells were soon closeted With General
Otis. The peace conferences was re-
markable chiefly for its brevity. Every
document the suave orientais bore saw
ored of Philippine republic and In fact
they declared themselves the author
lied representatives OF that very ner-
vous government. To treat with tRem
in that capacity were to formally rec
ognIze another government on Amert-
can soil, hence the commission was dis
missed with as much expedition as
courtesy would allow, A1aIrs OF state
having been attended to the rebel off,
GERS apparently turned the remainder
Of their stay in the city into a shopplns
tour
certain II was 'not "het t"ey ap-
peaFea at cur ou'p0s's VI 'ne 80, ~, y =
UP our troops ioaheu tle'E rel,'us =.
dusKy orderhes a carapoh cary upol
Wh'ch tne'r purchases were So'Sy ~;
among inc parcels wnl'n i ms, - U'