The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-03-24
SOME FILIPINO LETTERS.
Interesting Official Correspondence
Captured.
INCLUDE SEVERAL LETTERS TO
AGUINALDO HIMSELF.
One toI His Secretary OF Treasury So
Called Was I'm Answer TO an Appeal
for Funds - Filipinos Evidently
short of Note Paper.

Called Was I'm Answer to an Appeal
for Funds - Filipinos Evidently
short of Note Paper.
Washington, March 90. Tho capture of
Caloocan, in the Philippine island of
Luzon by the United States forces recent
ly. resulted in the conflscation of consid
erable mail addressed to the insurgent
government. II includes number of
letters of Agrinaldo and other leaders
ard brings out some Interesting facts
about Filipino official methods. Postal
Agent vaille, at Manila, has forwarded
some Of this mail to Acting Postmaster
General Heath.
One letter is addressed to Aguinaldo' IS
so.called secretary of the treasury and is in
reply to a request for money. The writer
is apparently the fiscal officer at Lucena,
Luzon, to whom the insurgents had in
trusted the duty of squeezing" the mer-
chants, and he had apparently confiscated
for the insurgent'caus lot Of cocoa fibre
belonging to a large totaoco.company.
When asked to turn over the. proceeds,
the agent remarks that only $500 had
come into his hands aud that amount he
had paid to the troops who We're clamor :
Gus for more The letter Is written In
very fair Spanish.
Apparently Aguinaldo's treasury ofllc-
ials are running short Of paper, Tor the
outer covering of the letter Ia made OF
shee of paper, written all over, torn out
of a record book and 1t was tied around
x,{t fra nf Manila haupinn
Another captured letter received by the
post office department was sent from the
provincial governor of Antipolo. ad-
dressed to Aguinaldo's secretary OF the
int ior in which he apologies for not
being present Mt Maiolos at the promul-
gation of the constitution. Some inter.
cepted letters to Aguinaldo himself have
also come into the possession of the post
oiiice department.
HOW FILIPINOS TREAT PRISONERS
San Francisco, March 23-A letter from
Capt. McQueston surgeon OF the twenty
eighth regulars now at Manila. tells OF
the release of A. Is. Peters, IA photogra-
pher, who was captured and tortured by
the Fiiipinos.
Peters was made prisoner while taking
pictures outside the lines. He was thrust
into "a filthy jail where be was visited by
u native captain, who tested his sword
on his body and threatened to XII him.
The rebel chief then called in q number
of naked savages all armed, who executed
q war dance and made passes at Peters.
Tho next morning he was taken to
Malalos where he found eight Americans,
two Englishmen and Spaniard. From
here he finally secured his release through
the Intervention of the A merioan officials.
1.-The savapes who attacked Peters, !"
continues Captain McQueston, "were of
the tribe known as head hunters and
cannibals. They live in the interior of
the island and will show no mercy after
this to any unfortunate white man who
may fall into their hands. \"
THE FIGHTING AT ILOILO.
Manila, March 90 IS. 16 p. m.-Details
of the iigh ting at Iloilo on March l6,
show that four hundred rifiemen from
Pana were met by seven companies OF
the eighteenth regiment of the United
States infantry, and a battalion of the
Tennessee volunteers.
AS supports these troops had three two
inch Hotchkiss guns, under General
Miller, north of Jaro, across the river.
The Americans were met with heavy
fire, One man was killed and tiftee n
were wounded of the 18th regiment and
there were several cases of sunstroke.
General Miller estimates that fifty
rebels were killed and that one hundred