The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1900-03-23
AAES MANY ARRESTS.
Gen. Otis Reports the FILIPINO Junta
Active at Manila.
spanish Residents in Eorong Actively A.
sIstinE the Bebei-TEO FiIipinos to
Hsng-sensatiouaI Report About
Our soldiers.


Manila, March 2O.-Gen. Otis con-
sideTs Manila the most troublesome
center IN the situation to-day. The
insurgent jUnta here, in conjunction
with that IN Hong kORg. Is growing
active A number of representative
insurgent leaders from different parts
Of LuzOn have recently been in con-
ference in Manila Some have been
placed under arrest, but the others
thus far have not been interfered
with.
Reports are current here Of active
rebel organization in the province of
MOrong, where the insurgent leaders
are said to be assisted by prominent
Spanish residents It is also report
ed that the rebels are reOrganizing in
the province of Zambales. under
NascardO. Brigands are committing
atrocities in the province of Nueva
Eciga, where they have murdered 20
natives and Cinnamon. The Nueva
Eciga insurgents are heavily taxing
local traders and farmers. with the
result that business is paralyzed and
there Is general scarcity OF food.
The funds for maintaining this
guerrilla warfare are collected from
the various towns in the island,
whether occupied by the Americans
OF not, even including Manila.
Travel between the towns garri-
sOned by the Americans is becoming
more dangerous All wagon trains
must be escorted by heavy guards
in order to insure their safety.
Charged with Hutirating Themselves
New York, March 2O.-Fredericl1
Palmer, in letter to the World IN
der date OF Manila. says:
There are between % and 90 men in the
hospitals who shot OF their trigger I'm
gers while on outpost duty in order to
get discharged from the army and have
transportation to the states and perhaps
q pension But the officers are not 50
easily fooled Fhsy say. and the sur
EeOns say. that a man can discharge a
Krag rifle Just well with the second
as with the first finger Of the right hand
Therefore the wounded men viii keep
right on serving the United States, un-
less the board appointed to consider their
cases concludes that they ought to have
two or three years in that terror among
prisons. Bihbid- Manila SO the loss OF
trigger fingers on outpost duty is rapidly
going out OF fashion
The great thing about the volunteer
regiments is that they are living proof
Of the facility with which the war de-
Partment could transport $500 men hav-
ing arms and uniforms TO Manila These
men had little drill. except what they
got On shipbOard- They are able to stand
up to any OF the fighting that has been
IN store for US since the great northern
movements OF Lawton, Macarthur and
Wheaton, but where they fail is in the
foremost requirement of the sOIdfers-it
IS difficult to keep them in control
Whenever we take town It too often
happens that within an hour afterward
several OF our men are drunk on Dino"
Rarely IS a Filipino under the influence
Of the liquor, and natives have the ut
most contempt for a drunken man
To Be Given American Names.
Washington, March 2O.-American
names viii be submitted for those of
many Of the towns in the Philippines.
The greatest difficulty prevails in de-
hvering letters to officers and men
in the islands. Gen. Otis has advised
the war department as follows: son
account OF the duplication of names
of towns In the Philippines, 1t VIII be
necessary, until such time as there
can be a revision, to have all mail adj
dressed to the provinces inclose
q letter for SantO Tomas, P. I. There
are towns Of this name in the prov
ince Of Pampanga, IN the province Of
Union and in the province Of Batan-
gas Santa Cruz is in BIindOro, in La
Guna, In Illinois Sur, In Cavite, in
Zambales and DavaO. Unless the
names Of the province is stated on all
such letters it is impossible for this
Office to forward them inteIligently."
FnIpInOs to BE Hanged
Manila, March 2O.-A military com
mission at Bayambang has sentenced
to be hanged on March 80 the two na-
fives who have been found guilty Of
numbering their cOUntrymen.