Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-06-02
THE MACAB[BES FRIENDLY
A Delegation Asks Gen. Macarthur
for Arms in Order to Fight
the Tagals.
FILIPINO REBELS TO BE WHIPPED.
No More Par1eys with ENJOYS Will BE Made
Unless They Indicate They Want to Sur
render-Utah Regiment Report-Fii-
Pine Account of the Situation-Guer-
riIla Tactics Adopted by Rebels.


Manila, May 2s.-Gen. Macarthur is
In favor of the experiment of enlisting
the Macabebes against their old
enemies, the Tagals. A delegation Of
the leading MacabebeS has visited the
general and its spokesman read an adj
dress assuring the American command
er of the friendship of the Macabebes
and their willingness to transfer their
allegiance from Spain to the United
States. They complained that the
Tagals murdered them and burned
their villages and they asked to be
protected and given arms to protect
themselves. The MacabebeS have
greatly assisted in posting the Ameri-
cans on the country and the positions
of the enemy. Gen. Macarthur would
arm 100 of these men and use them as
scouts and. if the experiment proved
successful, he would enlist more of
them. Maj. Gen. Otis has issued
orders inviting volunteers to re-enlist
for six months, according to the act OF
congress bearing on the matter.
The United States transport Morgan
City, which left San Francisco April
25 with 600 recruits for various regi-
ments here on board, has arrived and
will proceed to uoilo. Maj. A. NJ. Dig
giles, of the Thirteenth Minnesota regl-
ment, who was wounded in the head
while accommodating May at a point
near San Miguel and who was brought
to hospital here, is dead. Col. j. d.
Miley, of Gen. Lawton's staff, has been
appointed collector of the port of
Manila.
Filfpinos to Be Whipped.
Washington, May %. The president
1 \
cided to support Gen. Otis views of
the Philippine situation and there will
be no more parleys with Aguinaldo's
ENJOYS unless they indicate before en-
tering the American lines that they
are prepared for unconditional sur
render. The administration is in
formed that the optimistic views OF
Chairman Schurman and other mem
bers of the commission at Manila are
without foundation and that the Fill
pinos will have to be whipped into
submission. Conquered territory is be-
| ing reoccupied and the American troops
are being harassed daily. To end this
more troops will be sent to Gen. Otis
and preparations made to deliver a
crushing blow. The Twenty-fourth
| infantry (colored) will probably be sent
| to Manila.
Report About the Utah Regiment.
Washington, May 2S.-Next in the Sc
! ries of reports of the operations near
Manila, which the war department is
making public in connection with that
of Mai. Gen. Macarthur. is that of Maj.
Richard w. Young, of the famous Utah
| light artillery. Maj. Young's report is
accompanied by a report from his sub
ordinate officers. All of these are in
large part purely technical and give
detailed accounts of the various move
ments made by the component parts of
this organization, which appears to
have participated at an important point
| in every engagement which has taken
place in Luzon.
| A Filipino Account of the Situation.
| Paris May 2S.-The Matin to-day
prints Filipino dispatch from Hong
Kong which repeats the assertion that
Admiral Dewey left Manila because
the chickering's of Gen. Otis and Prof.
Schurman, of the Philippine commits
sion, made his position there untena-
BILE. The dispatch also says that dis
ease is ravaging the American troops
and that the victorious Filipinos under
Aguinaldo's lead are encamped under
the very walls of Manila.
| Guerrilla Tactics Adopted by Rebels.
| Manila, May 2S.-Skirmishes are fire.
quent in the vicinity of San Fernando,
where small bands of rebels make night
attacks on the American lines. Their
plan evidently is to worry and harass
the American troops. The Americans
are shifting troops about north and
south of Manila. evidently with the
purpose of garrisoning important points
during the rainy season.
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.