Daily inter mountain., 1899-04-03
COMPANY C
RAISEO FLAG
Butte'S Soldiers Were Among
First in Mal0l0s.
THE TROOPS ARE RESTING
l! is Believed by Americans Ihat the
Insurrecti0n Has Been
Broken.
THE TROOPS ARE RESTING

Manila. April $50 p. m-The Amer
lean troops under Gen. Macarthur are
still resting at Malolos. where every
thing has been quiet today. Hosullties
clsaWhere-so far as officially reported
have been limited during the last II
hours to occasional exchange OF shots
between the insurgents and troops
forming the lines of Gen Lawton and
Cen Hail, exteni ling from the water
works to La Lonia. But this shooting
has been just active enough to make
the lives of the soldiers a burden and
to coTaDcl the officers to sleep IN
trenches clothed and in readienss to re-
pei possible attacks.
Most of the Americans are bacomins
convinced that the backbone ot the in
surgent opposition is broken Ihere
are numerous ru,nors pointing 70 an
early collapse Of the insurrGction. One
of these is that. Geu. Pho del Iila. the
best fighter among the Filipino officers,
viii desert Aguinaldo and give his sup
port to the Americans. The span
iards, reasoning from their experience
of the rebels refuse to believe that the
rebellion is anywhere near put down..
They declare that the Filipinos will not
take their defeat at Malolos. with the
loss of the city ard the removal Of
their so-called government to heart.
On the contrary, the Spaniards predict
that the insurgents will hover near TIE
American lines, bothering them as
much as possible. and when attacked
in force. dissolve. only to reappear at
other points This sort of tactics, the
Spaniards say, will be followed unit!
the wet season conpels the Americans
to be housed in barracks, and then the
F'ilipinos will return and reoccupy such
towns as the United States troops do
no. garrison. With the next dry sea-
son a repetition of the present operate rs
viii begin.
Time alone will show how much there
is IN this theory. but it must be borne
that the Spaniards, with all their domin-
alton of the Philippines. never gave the
inha hitants demonstra ton of power
comparable in effectiveness to that Civ.
en- them by the United States.
A priest and twp members of the So
called Filipino congress, who hid them
selves in the woods during the fighting
which preceded the capture to MalOlos
returned there this morning and declared
that 1000 Of the Filipino soldiers We're
willing TO give up and would do so but
arms. The whole country between Ma
lolOs aEd C8loocan is now full of friend
less women, children and old people, who
are returning to their homes, carrying
white flags. The Americans are trying
to gain the confidence of the inhabitants
by proving to them that if they will re-
tu!n and attend to their ordinary work
peacefully, no harm would befall them
Two hundred and fifty civilians came
back TO their homes in Malolos last
evening. Two thousand women and
children, with q sprinklirg of unarmeC
men, supposed to be warriors. came tc
| the outskirts of Maloos outside of the
city and afterwards sneaked away. car.
| rylng al! the goods they could.
There has b"en no little good-natureG
rivalry as to which regimept-the Firs
Montana or the Twentieth Kansas i.
entitled to the honor of having raised itt
nag trst in Malolos. Col. Funston anf
20 men of Company f. Kansas volun
| tee1S. claim the distinction on the ero,,p,
| as already cabIed of entering the town q
double quick and raised the comnanv,
! f'aG, but the first fla to be recognized of
nIIallN Vas that or Company G. of tn
| Montana infantry