The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-12-04

tionS here in Cavite province. Now
there are no wagon trains allowed to
leave this post without an escort of ten
men, while / have been on them time
after time acting as escort from here
to Bacoor, a distance of % miles, when
there was only one man to a team and
we never had any trouble. l have gone
from here to Benan. II miles. with a
party of five men, now no less than 20
are allowed to go out that trail. Does
that look as If everything was quiet
here? Does that look as IL 1.-The insur-
'rection was over?" Just let some OF
the people who think that way come
over here and be called up any hour OF
the night and fall in and then spend
the rest of the night standing or lying
out in the jungle in a pouring rain, or
go out on a hike for three or four days
most of the time in mud and water up
TO our waist and in a pouring rain
most all the time. The end of the am
nesty granted by the peace commits
sioners expired the 22d of this month
but l can't see that it will make any
difference in the situation here as the
ultimatum is death to all natives found
with fire. arms in their possession after
that date. We have always had orders
to shoot any native we saw who car
ried arms and now the only difference
will be that we take no prisoners. The
activity the natives are now showing
is not only confined to this part of the
island. but on the north line as we'll,
we hear reports of fighting every day
from different islands around and in
fact all over. The Manila papers do not
publish a tenth part of the trouble we
are having over here. Only last We'd
nesday the Fifteenth regiment, fresh
from the states and thinking they were
just coming over here on a Sunday
school picnic were ambushed up near
Colombo. and in killed and wounded
lost 27. 1 am pretty sure they have
changed their opinion by this time and
before they have been over here two
months they will be fully convinced
that they are on anything but pic
mic. Why, we met some of them after
they had their Scrap and were all COW
cred with mud and dirt and they
thought 1t awful when they saw us fell
lows pull off our clothes, wash the mud
out of them and put them right on
One fellow told me he couldn't stand II
to have wet clothes on and hike in
them J. would like to take that poor fell
low home with me as he will be in that
condition most all of his time over here
The troops coming over here and the
people in the states have no more idea
of how we are situated here or what VIZ
have to go through than rabbit has
Any enemy have l would not evsn
wish they had to serve two years over
here. Only yesterday we had to go ou,
with a full company and 80 mounted
scouts to escort a captain and lieuten-
ant half way to Dos Marinas where we
met an equally large escort waiting rc
take them the rest of the way. l viii
not take any more of your valuable
space as / feel as though l have al
ready imposed more on your good
nature than l should, but after reading
some of the articles published at home
l could not help trying to set few OF
the misguided right Hoping old Lis
bon will keep up the boom she seems
to have and get the talked of pottery,
will close Yours very truly,
GEORGE M. CROWL."