Evening star., 1900-10-27
FROM THOSE WHO FIGHT
IMPRESSIVE MESSAGES SENT BY
REGULARS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Telling Extracts From the Aparrt
News-Hew Antis Are Regard
ed by Soldiers.

From far-off Aparri, in northern Luzon,
there comes to The Evening Star the first
issue of the first newspaper printed in
| English in that part of the Philippines. It
is the Aparri News. of the date of Satur-
day, March 10, 190o and its salutatory an
nounces that it is edited. printed and pub
lished by of the 10th United States In
fantry, with Allan Gray editor: Seuel J.
| Crawford, assistant editor, and Charles
| Trudell, business manager. 1t is four
page folio, neatly printed, and the first is
sue contains two striking features, one in
the news and the other in the editorial COLI
| umns.
| The first is as follows:
While returning from Tuguegarao to
| Aparri a detachment, consisting of Sergt.
Luer and three privateS of Company B,
10th Infantry, discovered the dead body of
! a man lying on the bank of the river few
| miles above Iguig, about s am. on the
morning of February -. The man, evi-
IDENTIFY a soldier, had to all appearances been
murdered by bolo men. His body was hor-
ribly mutilated, no skin being left on his
face and only small tuft of black hair On
his head. Four fingers of right hand and
| all his toes on right foot had been severed.
He cut in about sixteen places, and
| when found had bamboo rope about eight
feet long tied around his right leg. The
body had apparently been in the water
for four or five days, and represented that
| of a wel-built man between twenty-five
and thirty years of age, about five feet six
! inches in height; clothing consisted of a
pair of trousers, made from a flour sack
| (Frisco brandt, a light undershirt and a
| Filipino pink overshirt, no shoes or stock
ings.
HE was buried about six miles above
| Iguig, the burial service being conducted by
Red Cross doctor, who was accompany
ing the party down the river. Nothing TO
prove his identity was found.
Soldiers Views of Antis.
The second is commended to the careful
consideration of all patriots. 1t follows:
Had we the facile pen of Watterson. the
| witty pen of 'Dooley' and the scorching pen
of the late lamented Braun, would still
be unable 10 write article that would
show our utter contempt OF the class that
has arisen in the states called 'antis.'
During civil war the Union army
| had the 'copperhead' to deal with, and it is
! with a great deal of satisfaction that we
! notice all of the copperheads now living are
prominent in the ranks of the anti-eNpan-
| sionists.
we do not hegrudge any man the right
| to his opinion, that being one of the privi-
leges granted under our great and glorious
| freedom, but when some lOcOed. notoriety-
| seeking fanatic expresses a wish that the
American army be driven into the sea, then
that man is an insult to those that bore
him, a disgrace to the country he claims
and pimple on the clear face of civiliza-
ton.
are with us, heart and soul, crediting our
hardships and lauding our efforts we give
thanks"
Letter From VIM. McIntire.
The newspaper was inclosed in a letter
from William McIntre, formerly Of
| Washington, where he is well and favora-
bly, known, and who is now a private in
Company B, 10th United States Infantry.
| 1t was dated at Lalloc, northern Luzon,
late in March last, and was in part as
| follows:
LAS we are at present scattered over
three of the richest provinces here, writes
Private McIntire, ''it will be of interest to
| your readers to know something OF the
northern part of our new possessions, lsla
de LuZon. The provinces are Cogayan 1sa-
bella and Nueva Niscaya, and glance at
the map will show how they are situated
at the extreme north of the island with the
largest river in the island, the Cogayan,
traversing the three provinces for about
$50 miles. The principal product Is to-
hacco, the dealers being mostly Germans.
1t is of a high grade, and if properly cured.
is, I think, superior to any grown in the
states. Australia takes the most of output
of these three provinces
1.-The 18th Regiment is split into three
battalions, with headquarters at Apart
at the mouth of the river and at Tugve-
garao and Echague. The last named place
is very unhealthy, and quite a number
have died there of rSountain fever since
January of this year.
Covering AguinaIdo's Flight.
| 'COgayan province Is lnnaDlteQ DN q
rather domestic race of people, the only
residents here who give us any trouble
being uocanas, who came from the ad-
jacent province of nocos Norte. They gave
us trouble for quite a while in March and
incdently put several of our off post
forever, but that. of course, is the fortune
Of war 1t is generally thought that the
uprising simply blind to cover ASui-
naldos retreat to the mountains or to sea.
1t is possible that he has escaped to Hong
Kong, but it cost his followers very heav-
lily, for they lost a large number in killed
and wounded, as they were compelled to
fight, on account of other regiments press
ing them north, compelling them to cut
their way to the mountains.
Meanwhile, Col. Hood relying chiefly
upon the battalion commanders TO do the
fighting one of whom Maj. Henry Ward,
was wounded while leading Company
into the attack upon Linao, was naugurat-
ing a plan for giving these people civil gov
ernment and efficient police protection in
order to take little of the hard work out
of the soldiers hands. After the turmoil
was over he established municipal offices
and small garrisons of soldiers to guard
and police in all the towns. being able to
do this by the timely arrival of the 10th
United States Volunteers, colored. Most all
of the garrisons have had trouble at various
times, but chiefly with bands of ladrones,
who are compelled to pass through our lines
on account of the cleaning-out process
which is being carried on in the provinces
further south
| Dangers of the Water.
Drinking water is chief source Of
anxiety, it being very hard to obtain an
adequate supply of good water during the
dry season. This latter accounts for the
most of our sickness, which consists chiefly
of dysentery and fevers. Previous to our
taking possession here, ours being the first
regiment to reach so northern a point,
had been stationed around the various
firing lines guarding Manila. Our Sd Bat
TALON in August. 80. took part in the battle
of San Fernando, which at that time was
the most northern town in our possession,
fifty-eight miles from Manila. The insur-
gent army in front of it numbered -, 900,
with 5000 American troops forcing the
fighting in the midst of the rainy season,
which has to be experienced to be realized.
The onerous task of guarding the railroad
was ours until December, when a third of
our force was relieved by the 9th United
States Volunteers, in order to take part in
an expedition to San Mateo where Gen.
Lawton was killed. just afterward."