The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-04
FOUND AGU|NALDO'S DIARY.
TAKEN FROM sADDLEBAGs OF A
WOUNDED FILIPINO.
Maj. March Followed the Rebel
Leader TIL Hi. Men Were shoe
less and Exbaustcd-Papers show
His Recent Whereabouts.

VIGAN. Luzon. via Manila June 3.-Maj
March with his detachment Of the Thirty
third regiment overlook what is believed
To- have been Aguinaldo's party on MAY
10. at Lagat. about 100 miles northeast Of
Vigan. The Americans killed or wounded
an officer supposed to BE- Agtinaldo'
whose body was removed by his followers
Aguinaldo had 100 men. Mai. March l25,
the American comma nder reaching La
Boagan. where AguInaldo had made his
headquarters since March 6, on MAY T.
AguinAldc had fed seven hours before,
leaving all the beaten trails and travelling
through the forest along the beds Of
streams. Toward evening. May 10. Maj.
March struck AgIiinaldos orpost about
nile outside Of Ia Ciatat. killing four
Fflpinos and capturing two From the
latter he learned that Aguinaido had
camped there for the night, although tx
hausted and half starved. Maj March's
men entered IAgat en- the run. They saw
the insurgents scattering into the bushes
or over the plateau
A thousand yards beyond the town on
the mountain side. the figures of twenty
1--WE Fiipinos. dressed I'm white. with their
leader on a gray horse. were silhouetted
against the sunset. The Americans fired
a vnlley and saw the officer drop from
his horse His followers fed. carrying the
body. The Americans on reaching the
spot caught the morse which was richly
saddled Blood from badly wounded man
was on the animal and on the ground.
The saddle bags contained Aguinalio's
diary and some private papers, including
proclamations One of these was address
ed. To the civilized nations" II pro-
tested against the American occupa ticn
Of the Philippines. There was also found
copies Of Senator Beverdges speech.
translated into Spanish and entitled: The
death kpell OF the Filipino people"
Mai March. believing that the Filipinos
had taken to river which Is n tributary
10 the Chico. followed 1t for two days.
reaching Tfac. where he learned that a
rarity OF Filipinos had descended the river
May 90 on a raft with the body of dead
or wounded man upon a litter covered with
palm leaves.
There Mat March reviewed his COM
mand, shoeless and exhausted. and picked
out twenty-four of the freshest men. with
whom he beat the surrounding country
for six days longer. hut without finding
any trace of the insurgents. The Ameri-
cans pushed on and arrived at Apart May
% The officer shot was either Aguinaldo
or his ad1utant. and as the horse was
richly caparisoned, 1t is fair presump-
ton that II was Aguinaldo.
The soldiers Of Gen. Young. military
governor of Northwestern LuZon, captured
early last month one insurgent officer with
papers revealing Aguinaldos whereabouts.
| Gen Young Immediately organized pur-
suit giving Mai. March a chance to nm
ish the work begun IN November. Maj.
March left Candon May 10. and hurrying
north toward I4aboagan. while Col. Hart
with "A battalion divided into two parts.
started from the province OF Abra, cover
ings the trails westward. The garrison in
the Cagayan valley were disposed of in
such a way as to guard the avenues of
I'D ZntA hara lad ha
proach OF Maj. March with signal fires.
on reaching Labaogsn he apprehended
letter In Aguinaldo's handwriting, the ink
OF which was hardly dry, addressed to the
officer Of the guerrillas OF the Filipino
army and saying:
There having arrived this morning Mt
T.aboagan hostile column from Bokok.
| have set out with all my force. My road
has no destination"
This was signed col. David" a sobri-
quet Aguinaldo called at the presidency
from whence he issued DEGREES, and where
hts followers celebrated Easter with a
banquet at triangular table, when
speeches were made eulogizing Gregorio
Del Pillar. That night Mai. March's men
slept IN the bamboo. resuming the ad-
vance In the morning and reaching Lagat
forty miles distant in two days, although
It was raining hard In the mountains all
the time
Asuinaldo's papers were all very impor-
tAnt- They show that he took refuge In
Isabella province. where he remained until
he established himself IN Laboagan. prov
! ince Of Abra. where he proposed to direct
I the rainy season operations Untu re-
Z Gently he was ignorant % outside events
making no pretenSe ~ directing the in
surrectlon. happy H. indeed he might he
able 20 keep alive among the hostile Ig-
orrotes, who Killed several OF his fol-
I lowers.