The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-11
FROM |NSURGENT PAPERS
LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS OF Fill
IPISOs TAKEN ny FUNSTON.
Many Side Lights Thrown on Aguin-
aldo's Operations and Policy
Buencomino Says the Most I'M
pOrtant Were Not Discovered.

| Correspondence OF the Associated Press
| MANILA, May 12.-The great store oil
! insurgent documents discovered by Gen
! Funston, together with some interesting
| papers which Capt. Smith found In the
| possession OF Gen. Pantaieon Garcia,
| throw interesting sidelights upon the FIJI
| ipino government. Most important OF the
| lot IS Aguinaldos plan for the uprising
In Manila. which was drawn by him at
| Mslalos. is in his own handwriting In
| Tagalog language and bears the date
| January g. 1899. Pinned to the document
was a translation into Spanish. done in
the hand OF Buencamino. Aguinaldo's or
der was addressed to his valiant Sanda-
tihans." or bolomen. When the word for
the uprising was given they we're 10 STAY
all American soldiers I'm Manila The in
habitants were 10 repair to the house
tops, whence they were TO hurl down
upon the soldiers, heavy furniture and
any iron implements they might have
heated red hot. They were also to have
ready In their houses hot water which
was TO be thrown upon passing soldiers or
squirted Mt them from bamboo syringes.
The women and children were exhorted to
help In preparing the water and boiling
oil which they were to pass out 10 the
men for use. Afterward the bolo men
were To run through the streets slashing
Americans wherever they met them. They
were instructed not to stop TO pick UP
the guns Of soldiers they killed; those
could he collected afterward The boio
men were warned 10 restrain themselves
from the temptation TO lootlng because,
as Aguinaldo explained, he was particular
~ DESTROYS to make good in the eyes OF
foreign nations his assertions that the
Fflipinos were disciplined and civilized
people. Particular intunctions were given
for protecting the banks, even the Span
ish bank
other interesting papers related to the
purchase and Importation of arms One
letter concerning consignment of Maui
sers stated that the German government
would not allow them to be Skinned from
the country without a payment of $40 on
each gun. Filibustering must have been
costly enterprise to the revolutionary
government. 1t appears that one cargo
consisting OF 500 rifles and 500 900 rounds
OF ammunition cost $4,000 Mexican
money before 1t reached the insurgents.
Among the items included In the bill OF
the gentleman who engineered the deal
was one of 1900 for hotel bills In Hong
Kong and three other expenditures of
several thousand explained as squeeze.
which Is Interpreted as brides TO officials
10 keep their eyes closed. Other letters
Indicate that an American consul at a
chinese port sold several shipments of
arms to Aguinaldo In a letter from
Howard Brat, an Englishman belonging
TO the Hongkong junta. Aguinaldo is
warned that Mr.. Spencer Pratt the
American consul at Singapore Is "a d.
traitor. Aguinaldo's letter book con-
tains copies OF letters to all sorts Of
people. one TO the emperor of Japan ac-
companied gift OF a sword which was
sent as token OF appreciation of the
~ h.. TaNn
eminent to the Fillpinos. the nature OF
the Kindness being unexplained
These documents tho authorities are
sending TO the war department, and they
VIZ reiiceht aoout the contents. The
publication In the Manila papers that the
letters were found duplicating promI-
nenf business firms I'm the city In said
by the gossips at the English club TO
have brought great uneasiness to sundry
guilty consciencea Records OF contribu.
lions by Manila firms to the insurroction
appear. but these are not surprising
because foreigners in Manila considered
1t necessary to make such contributions
by way or Insurance upon their properties
in the province.
Buencamlno, the secretary OF state ar
the Filipino revolutionary government.
who Is In Manila, says that none OF the
really important secret papers were
found; that among them was correspon
dence with foreign governments and lot
ters from prominent anti-imperialiats Ia
Guiding Hon. w J. Bryan and Senator
Hosr. All OF these, he says. were Sent
TO Honskong last September for safe
Keeping In the handS ot the mnta Ths
purport OF the letters from antl-inuerInl
lists, according TO his recollection, was
that the f'ilipinos should adhere tn their
demands for Independence ana they would
eventually be sustained by tho American
voters
The life Of an insurgent general In
these times is like that ~ a fox with the
hounds on his trail Gen, pantaleon oar.
cia went to he'd last Saturday might IN
the house OF his friends al Jaen Tb-ee
days he had stayed IN Jaen because bo
was suffering from fever watch the ma
tves call caientura
The morning however. 10 womb tno,e
on. Before daylight a horse harnn4ssd
to caromRta waited nv the house A.
the unccromouiouS hour ~ i've ln Aruar{
ran ofncor and two soldiers entered Ina
room Trey saw shir; hanging over A
chat with the embroidered initial. .p
~ ana a man va bed with bis head t,sd
ua Ga tRndaees
Nv hat is your name asked Item,
pav
Pedro Gonzales" replied I'm, ma, in
bed at the same time handing a.. a ,lrf,'
ing card Wherein was printed "s,rar
Gonzales
lieut. DAY pulled down me 1,.rk..
lacked at the mans face and eafra.r.5
Il with a picture from Harqcs.s }ge..#
which he carried
'tcniaieon Garcia" ho exclaimed ,..,
conviction
The insurgeni general meauaiea .-,-
ment Then he r'rI's+i i7 Is como at t-..v.
nation ST senior"
The eodrlothcs helrs pulled DOWN -s-
ve,ticd "FaNta.' as tat .ar,t.a ...s tt.