Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-04-07
MANILA NEWS.
What the Manila Papers Have Been
Talking About Since the 1nsur-
gent Trouble.

Copies of three Manila newspapers
received since the beginning of the
battles with the insurgents relate
some interesting items and incidents
which do not appear in the tclegraphic
reports and yet are among the most
interesting of the new that comes
from the islands. Some of them are
as follows:
Freedom, Feb. is: A. few days ago
after the Kansas boys had made Il
charge and swept everything before
them, they. or at least Il few of them,
suddenly become aware of singing
Mausers coming from the rear. Ping!
ping! the little lcaden messengers
whiZZed about their heads and raised
the dirt and dust about their feet. The
foliage was dencc overhead; Il whole
squad could have hidden up there.
At length, after considerable search
the tree was located in which the hid
den gunner was doing his deadly work,
but the thick leaves screened him per-
fcctly from those lie was shooting ut.
VOlleys were fired into those thickly
clustered branches before the lifeless
fingers let the Mauscr drop Gathering
to the ground. And what kind OF Il
man do you suppose it was those Kan
sas veterans found there? They
found an old Filipino who had lost n
limb in somc past trouble, perhaps in
some fight with the Spaniards. His
comrades had tied him up in the tree
so that he couldn't fall down, and
there he stayed, shooting rs long rs
his fingers could hold his rifle. Amer
lean bullets had riddlcd his body, but
the rope that bound him to his post
kept the lifclcss clay still there. He
died Il hero fighting in Il lost cause.
Freedom. Feb. IS: What's the mat
ter with the Chinamen? They're all
right. The South Dakota regiment
has fifteen Of them employed as cooks.
These %long-haircd sons of the tiowcry
kingdom have been supplied with
Springfields and ammunition, and when
they are not cooking they are out in the
trenches killing. The boys say they
put up Il good fight and show Il whole
lot of nerve and courage.
The South Dakota band boys have
cast aside their Instruments and in
their place they WELD the rifle. Adit.
j. II. Lien is in command Of the band
company, and from all reports they
are doing grand work. Q-ien wa
killed a few days ago in the gallant
charge Of the South Dakota boys.)
Freedom, Feb. IL: Early on Thurs
day morning the bodies Of two Amer
lean soldiers, with their throats cut
and %shockingly mutilated, were dis
covered by the Cavite provost guard.
Provost Marshal Geary was at once
informed of this, and he promptly "
dered the collection of shacks which
surround the town and prove Il veri-
table harbOr Of refuse to hundreds of
ill-disposed Filipinos, to be fired.
AT h same time similar orders were
given to fire San Rogue, but the in
surgents saved Uncle Sans soldiers
the trouble Of doing this by very neatly
accomplishing the job themselves, and
soon a dense pail of smoke hanging
over the district announced that thou
sands Of Filipinos were asked to seek
quarters elsewhere.
Freedom. Feb. is: One of the Ten
nessee boys was wounded the other
uay, n taken to division headau:ist-
ters, No. 2 hospital, where it was
found his arm was quite seriously
affected. The wounded member was
carefully dressed and placed in a
plaster of paris bandage, and the pa
tent from the moonshine country was
ordered to bed and told to remain
quiet. Yes, he remained quiet. He
scarcely moved for ten minutes. And
then he reached for his rifle and with
Il "By - Pm going to get satisfac-
tion," he started out and has been do
ing n soldiers duty ever since.
Freedom. Feb IL: Two renegades.
at least, have met their Just doom, II
of these eX-CorporAl John W.. Hayes.
of the First California. He had mar
ried a Filipino woman and gone over
to the enemy. Ills body. clothed in
the uniform of a lieutenant and full
of bullet holes, was found on Tuesday
last and thrown into a trench with
those of a number Of Filipinos. The
other man was a Liverpool lrishman
named Walsh, who had been acting
as cook for several companies in var
ious regiments. and had also been en-
ployed at the Englishman hotel. The
man was found lea Pace, dressed in
an insurgent captains uniform and
badly wounded. and died whilst being
brought in to the hospital.
Freedom. Feb. Il: After the Spring
field hits there is little use for sur
geons and a great many Of the dead
were shot through the head, bearing
excellent testimony toward the marks
manship of the American soldiers.
At Mr.. r. r. Coney's house at Concor-
dia not a square foot in all the house
but bears marks Of bullets. The fur
niture is entirely demolished. Moth
ing but Gods providence spared his
life and that Of his wife and children;
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