The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-29

ba., tolerated. hecause they viii work,
o,,5 . .e,tai-, amount of labor Is neees-
Soy~x, in snite of the Indifference OF tne
native In the northern portion OF LII
zOn-the part bordering on LlnSayeh
gulf. with DagapOre as It's largest eIt9 :
the population is more than oHe-it e.
Chinese. The people are nearer NliS
Chinese in physical proportions ailu
their language. or dialect, dlf1ers IrVii
the Taga1 This is explained by old
residents in the island, VINO say tnal
some years ago there was an uprising
against the Chinese in and ABOUT Nd
Mia. and that a few Chinese eScapSu
and. landing from a small boat on tne
coast finally intermarled with the
native women and founded the city
which is now the terminus OF the Ma
nila-Dagupan railway. But theSe Iol
lows were the strongest IN their oeIun
citation of Americans, and the most
eager to fight; moreover. they held out
we'll. for they have only surrehuereu
in the last month or So
The Chinese coolies live about as
well as the lower class OF natives A
dozen sleep in one room or twenty II
the room is large enough. They are
not clean. Once in a while you VIII
see them wetting their feet because
the sun and hot stones. have bllstered
them. Their heads are bare, no mat
ter how intense the suns rays are
They live on pork and rice ana stale
fish and are more or less diseased III
body on account of their food and their
ways of living.
The Chinese cemetery, a very short
distance from the famous La LOnea
church. was used by the insurgents on
Feb. 3, 1899, in an attempt 10 drive back
the Pennsylvania and Montana reSl-
ments.s 1t stands on hillside. Long
White mounds are made Of white
washed clay and cement and the dead
body in its box is put in, head down
wards and the end of the mound sealed
tightly. These mounds made excellent
barricades against the troops advanc-
ing up the hill.
The merchant class is far inferior in
numbers to the coolie class, and besides
merchants and coolies, there are in Ma
Mia numbers of hotel servants and
body servants whose pigeon or duty
keeps them in good surroundings and
more cleanly than the average. When
the table boys arrived at the Hotel de
Oriepte from HongkOng, however, they
were unmanagea BILE to such an extent
that a battle occurred in the dining
room one night after dinner with table
knives for weapons, and the Chinese
LdDl6 boys anu TIE II llAlJlIiO UeUiOolll
boys as opposing armies. Results
might have been weirdly disastrous,
but the knives were dull, as usual. On
" one Filipino died the next day from
his wounds and no Chinaman was kill
ed. The next night, when the manager
of the hotel tried to discuss affairs with
the Chinese steward. the latter pushed
him down stairs The manager could
not save himself. but grabbed the Chi
naman. and the two rolled comfortably
to the bottom the Chino biting, scratch
ing and yelled like a field.
WelI-to-Do Filipino Cinnamon.
And again. besides these classes, tLe-e
are some very wealthy and influential
men, married comfortably to Filipino
women, living with their families in as
great a luxury as the islands affords,
law-abiding and respectable individ-
nails who boast as good q social position
as anyone in the country, and who are