Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-08-02
TAYABAs /.

1--we Attacking People ia the
Towns several Sharp Fights.
TAYABAs, p. /.
June %, 1900.
FRIEND kuNkLE.-The band OF the
both is now the most exclusive organ
liza tion in the army. We are not al
! lowed TO associate with the coWmon
herd OF mortals, and no enc comes
within gun shot of our quarters If
/ they can avoid it. Or In other words
we have been Quarantined on account
of smallpox. A native family keep
store In the lower story Of the build
| ing and three of them have died OF
smallpox in the last few days, but we
did not know what was the matter
with them till night before last.
Yesterday morning the natives We're
made to leave the building, the hand
vaccinated and everything thoroughly
disinfeeted, and no more natives will
be allowed in the building. As some
of the men We're buying something in
the store every day, they certainly
have good chance to have the dis
ease but we will live in hopes that our
guardian angel will not desert us.
We have been most fortunate SO far.
| met the bandmaster of the 3lst re-
Gently. He was In the hospital with
rheumatism at the time. After we
relieved them at Pasay he lost one
man with fever, one with smallpox,
another was drowned and they sent a
fourth home TO die. A few days ago
the band OF the 10th was going from
linus to a nearby town with a small
escort, when they were fired into and
three band men and one guard killed
instantly.
You are very respectfully requested
to give the names of the members of
congress from West Virginia aud to
state whether they voted for or
against the bill TO increase the pay of
commissioned officers ten per cent and
do away with the soldiers travel pay.
We have just had one Of the most
delightful trips we have had since we
have been on the island Col Gard
ner went to Tairaya, pronounced
TaraD last Saturday and took the
band with him returning Tuesday.
The seven miles of road between here
and Tairaya is made Of stone blocks
and was made about the time the
church was built in that town 2T6
years ago. The road is good now and
will be about as good 500 years hence.
There are several concrete bridges all
built on grades as they should be. 1t
is hundred feet from the roadway
to the top Of the arch in some of these
bridges. On all of them the concrete
was run upon each side of the roadway
to form wall and seats for the people
to rest on. | wish the Filipinos had
had the building Of that South Nor
gantown bridge but / suppose the
councils thought it would answer for
the present and the next generation
could raise it up to the grade of the
streets, cut the towns down to suit
the bridge or continue to use it for a
toboggan slide just as they pleased.
Tairaya furnished more insurgents
than any town in this province and it
is very dangerous place TO soldier.
Co. + is stationed there and they are
obliged TO go ia squads when they go
on the back streets TO keep from being
killed. Their Filipino guide was late
ly killed on the principal street just
before noon, being stabbed seven
times. A spaniard is acting as their
guide now and has good reason TO
want to run down the insurgents as
they killed his wife after the most
brutal treatment and stole his two
little girls. He was an officer in the
Spanish army and is staying here to
get even and find his children If they
are living.
CO. e Is now stationed at Tyone
fifteen miles beyond Tairaya. Capt.
Fitzgerald of that company and the
priest went out for a short walk about
week ago and neither have been
heard of since. Whether the priest
led him intoa trap or whether they
were both killed OF captured IS not
known
The insurgents are growing bolder
every day. 1900 Of them gave the
soldiers at Santa Cruz quite scrap
two weeks ago All these towns are
connected by wire and the last heard
of the Santa Cruz operator on the day
Of the fight he was on his knees TO
give the bullets chance TO get
through the room and reaching up
over the table To work the instrument.
Tuesday evening many shots were
heard not far away and the soldiers,
those Of two companies who were not
sick were turned out TO defend the
town. However the men were disap-
pointed as the shots died out in the
distance. Next morning it was learn
ed that Gen. Kaillar had passed by
with 900 of the insurgents that had
been lighting az Santa Cruz. They
were foraging for rations and farmers
who did not deliver up promptly We're
shot. At sunset on Tuesday this
gang of insurgents were 10 cocoanut
grove less than mile away, several
natives knew it and were too badly
scared to let it be known.