The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-04
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leaving all the beaten trails and travel.
| ing through forests and along the beds
of streams. Toward evening, May 10
| Major March struck Aguinaldo's out.
| post about a mile outside of Lagat
| killing four Filipinos and capturing
| two. From the latter he learned that
iAguinaldo had camped there for the
night.
Although exhausted and half starved
Major Marchs men entered Lagat on
the run They saw the insurgents scat
tering into the bushes or over the pla-
teau. A thousand yards beyond the
town, on the mountainside, the figures
Of twenty-five Filipinos, dressed in
white, with their leader on a gray
horse, We're silhouetted against the sun
set The Americans fired a volley and
saw the officer drop from his horse. His
followers fled, carrying the body.
The Americans on reaching the spot
caught the horse, which was richly sad
died Blood from badly wounded
man was on the animal and on the
ground. The saddle bags contained
Aguinaldos diary and some private pa
pers including proclamations. One of
these was addressed: ITO the Civilized
Nations" 1t protested against the
American occupation of the Philippines.
| There were also found copies of Senator
| Beveridge's speech, translated into
Spanish and entitled 1.-THE Deathknell
of the Filipino People.
| Major March, believing that the Fill
pinos had taken to river which Is a
| tributary to the Chico, followed it for
two days, reaching Tiao. where he
| learned that a party of Filipinos had
descended the river on May 20 ON a
raft with the body of dead or wound
ed man upon q hitler, covered with
palm leaves.
There Major March reviewed his COM
mand, shoeless and exhausted, and
picked out tWenty-four of the freshest
men, with whom he beat the surround
ing country for six days longer but
without finding any trace of the insur-
gents. The Americans pushed on and
arrived at Apart May 25. The officer
shot was either Aguinaldo or his adj
jutant; and as the horse was richly
comparisoned, it is fair presumption
that it was Aguinaldo.
The soldiers of General Young, mill
tary governor of Northwestern Luzon,
captured early last month an insurgent
officer with papers revealing Aguinal-
dos whereabouts. General Young inn
mediately organized for pursuit, giving
Major March chance to finish the
work begun in November. Major
March left Candon May 10, hurrying
north towards Laboagan while Colonel
Hare, with a battalion divided into two
parts started from Rangued, province of
Abra, covering the trails westward, no
garrisons in the Cagayan valley were
disposed in such way az to guard t.e
avenues of escape eastward.
Spies heralded the approach of Ma
jor March with signal fires. On reach
ing Laboagan he apprehended a letter
in Aguinaldos handwriting. the ink of
which was hardly dry, addressed to an
officer of guerillas Of the Filipino army,
and saying: fH
There having arrived this morning
at Laboagan a hostile column from
Bokoc, have set out with all my force.
My road has no fixed destination"
Thie was signed "Colonel David"
soubriquet. Aguinaldo called at the
Presidencia, from which he issues de-
crees and where his followers celebrated
Easter with banquet at triangular
table, when speeches were made eulo-
giving Gregorio de Pillar
That night Major March's men slept
in the bamboo, resuming the advance in
the morning, and reaching Lagat, forty
miles distant, in twoidays, although it
was raining hard in the mountains all
the time.
Aguinaldo's papers are very import
ant. They show that he took in Isa-
bella province, where he remained until
he established himself at Laboagan,
province of Abra, where he proposed to
direct the rainy season operations. I'm
til recently he was ignorant of outside
events, making no pretense of directing
the instruction, happy If indeed he
might be able to keep alive among the
hostile Igorrotes, who killed several Of
his followers