The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-11
WHERE IS
AGU|NALOO? !?
May Have Been Killed
by |gorotes.
OTIS TALKS OF THE WAR
Thinks the Rebellion Practically Over.
Spanish Official Methods
at Manila.

NEW YORK, May "A Sun cable
from Manila says: General Otis win
probably start for home at the end of
this week. The transport Meade is here
awaiting his orders. In view of his near
departure, Otis consented last night to
talk for publication. The military situa-
ton was naturally the first topic with
which he dealt. He regarded the effect
uai stampout of the insurrection az per
haps the most substantial object he has
accomplished here
lie said: You know l am rather pes
sin istic. l am not inclined to take the
sahsulne view prevailing in certain quar-
ters, yet / have held the opinion for a
ufne that the thing is entirely over. |
cannot see where it is possible for the
cuEcsntrate IN any force or accomplish
anything serious. We have ll6 posts north
o! Manila and ninety-four south of the
city.
Everywhere the people are giving val
liable information and are almost daily
disclosing hidden arms and other insurg-
ent property. Filipinos who want peace
are beginning to appreciate the power of
the Americans to protect them, and are
Ewing effective cooperation. The rem
nantS of guerrilla bands are Thoroughly
scattered and they are unable to remain
for any time in any place. Even the in
sargent leaders recognize the necessity
ADMIT that strong government is es-
sential to the peace and prosperity of the
islands. | asked Senor Mabini, AguinaI-
dos Minister of Foreign Affairs, only the
other day If he did not know that the
United States We're necessary to the
Philippines. He replied that he did j
then asked him what the insurgents -wertsl
lighting for. and he answered their OBJ
iect was to get the best terms Even the
best of them have thus been deluded into
believing that they could wrest condi-
tIOnS from
General Funston has discovered a rebel
Warehouse near Cabanutaan, province of
New E11Ja, containing all the archives of
the Maiolos government, Aguinaldo's cor
respondence up to the time of his flight
and much valuable historical matter.
The belief is growing that Aguinaldo
was killed by the Igorotes There is no
proof that he has been alive since Major
Peyton c. March of the Twenty-third
Regiment abandoned the chase after the
Filipino leader in the Benquet mountains
An insurgent officer, who recently sur
rendered to General Young says that the
insurgent General Tinio holds this belief
Tinio held regular communication with
Aguinaldo until December 2sth, since
when he has heard nothing from him, and
Tinio thinks Aguinaldo would find means
to communicate with him if alive Major
March's information was that there were
only half dozen soldiers with Aeuinal-
do when he fled beyond the Bontoc will
derness. where the savages are hostile to
all strangers. Friends of Aguinaldo's
| wife assert that she has heard nothing
from MIN since lney parted. she Is IN a
delicate condition and nearly prostrated
| with worry. Therefore, she has not been
! informed of the death of her child, and
thinks it is with friends at Bacoor.
The Sultan of Sulu, with retnue, in
cludins several of his wives, has sailed
FOR Singapore, ostensibly on a religious
mission. A Hongkorg dispatch to a Ma
Mia paper says the Sultan has gone to
Singapore in order to protest to the Brit
! ish against the Americans establishing a
| tariff against imports, claiming that it
I n ha nf ha-
/ tween Spain, Great Britain and Ger
| many, Germany guaranteeing the Sulu
! Islands free trade, whereas the Ameri-
! cans have established a tariff, nearly
/ doubling the prices of tobacco, rice and
| the Sulu staples of life, most of which
are imported from Singapore.
The Filipino crew on the steamship Es-
| Cano recently mutinied in the channel be-
! tween Cebu and Leyte and killed the
| captain, the mate and the owners, Senior
| Escano and his son, with knives after
desperate struggle. The mutineers
| then scuttled the ship and escaped to the
! Leyte mountains with $2s 600.