The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-27
THE MOROS OF MINDANA0.
CLOSE VIEW or SOME MEN WITH a
PIRATICAL REPUTATION.
American Occupation Of Northern hin"smAo
Effected without Fighting The Dresdeo
Moros Come to Market and Put " Prices
Natives Go. operate With ,AmerIcsns.

been 50 long associated in my NINA WIN III
sorts Of tales Of fierce Moros and deadll Ia
Mates who went about with eyebrows sha'ec
and faces PARTED. swearing TO die h'l'hs
Christians. that more than hall expected "heh
We came In here the other day to find a gang oil
them down on the wharf waiting 10 D~elh on III
with their crooked knives and long spears bu'
il wasn't that way at all. and the appetite We
had whelted on gor, stories during the long wal'
that followed our departure from Mania was
met with disappointment The expedition for
the occupation of the northern ports oil MIN
danau was the last Ol lis kind in the archipelago.
| Col Godwin's Furtieth Volunteer Infantry was
the regiment selected for this work Craig
hilrs battalion had been helping out the Forty
seventh about Alba> and Iega-pi, aud the o'her
two batlalions had been having a lot OF work
under Gen. J VI Bell about Nueya Caceres and
in North Camartines. Gen. Bates lett Manila
IN he gunboat Manila with his stan on Narcf
%. The transport Francisco Re, a., which had
taken tralghlll's battalion 10 legaspi, had
waited there for ii. The Venus and the Sal
vadora went down from Manila for the other
two battalionS, and the Custellano was picked
mp with them in san Miguel Bay Aweek was
spen, thus IN getting ready after the good-by
to Manila.
Early on the morning Of March - the five
ships of the little squadron steamed into the
harbor Of Surigao II Is a small harbor, but
there IL a turn in the channel which gives very
good protection 10 the ships well inside There
Is deep water close inshore and the ships 20
alongside IA pier built ont IN front Of the DodOwn
OF Aldecoa 4 Co, the only hemp dealing firm in
the place. Crowds Of men and women were
along the beach To see MS come in and soldiers IN
the red-legged uniforms uf the Insurgents were
running ny aud down the streets and i'ocktnR
toward the wharf OfNcef> wearing Their
sword, aud revolv.rs were almost as nuner-
Gus IL the men, and Il dozen or more cavalry
men came along to see that every thing went
well A. the Castellano drew IN to the pier Ia
land Capt kendricks's company. which Is the
garrison, We saw the band collecting from all
parts of the town, running NJ with horns, wood
winds and drums undrr their arms all eager To
get into the reception to the Americans A.
soon ~ our men were ashore the band began To
play and it was apparent that there would he no
fighting II also was apparent from the crowd
about the landing that there We're no MoroN OF
dangerous proCllvitlrs about Surlgao.
The native officers came dow and talked Ia
Capt. Hendricks and began to tell him how
glad they were to have III" Americans come Ia
their town He kept his men on IA" pier and
got their baggage of the ship while waiting
for Gen. Bates to come ashore The Manila
had anchored outside aud it was some time be-
fore the General got in When he did, there
was a conference in the house of the hemp mer-
chant, Aldecoa, Just back from II" pier All
the native officers were there. with ten Prl-
.la,.,. a. ,lAr. F....nIt,. ia . l,At E.,.
Garcia had an interesting story Of his efforts To
keep the peace To tell to Gen. Bates. lie had
been twenty years IN the service of the Span
iards, the Las, ten of them a. an officer. When
they left Mindanao he undertook ~ run things
In his province. He made his Headquarters al
Baganga. a town further dow The cUast than
Surigao. In Surigao. he had a small police
force and he employed a S%pan,ard named Vas
uueI H. It's commander and general Pooh-Bah
In March of last ear there came TO Surigaoa
Tagal named Gonzales with a small force OF
armed men. Gonlale, announced that he was
thu inSurgent Governor of the province and
would collect taxes for his government aud
rule IN accordance with the orders from Ma
lolos. Nasquez sent word 10 Garcia, who came
up from Baganga with a few men and beat
Gonzales. Gonzales was captured hut hap
pened to be killed while attempting 10 es-
cape, " like 80 many of the brethren and fel-
lows who have gone that way before The
net result Of this trouble was that Garcia had
about forty more rifles than before and was
considerably stronger tie now made his head
quarters at Snrigao and looked out for hrs
province from this place
Over in leyte. Iukan heard Of the defeat
of Gonzales and sent All expedition 10 avenge
II. Garcia beat this force and got mos, of its
guns. Then he wrote TO Gen. OTIS that they We're
were making the place pretty hot for him and
he didn't know whether he could hold out much
longer unless he got some assistance. There
were no inSurreCtOS down there and all they
wanted was peace and quiet, and would Gen,
Oty please send some American soldiers to help
them. OTIS had no soldiers to spare. and 50
Garcia had to hang on unassi,ted. tie did il
and when a third attempt was made to Dust him, !
a second expedition from lpyta, he beat
that and got more guns. But all this time his I
port was bloCkaded by the Americans and il
rather difficult sometimes for hin TO CON
vince his people that the Americans who were
awaythe ships that should have brought
them rice to eat were in reality their friends.
He might not have been able to do il n long A.
he did If IT were moi for the fact that his family
in the province i. 50 large that he
was able 10 recruit a fairly good-~i2ed force
rom among his relatives and 50 get men in his
command upon whom he could rely. Now no
was glad that AZ last the Americans hai come
and the port would he opened aud bushes,
'onld 20 on a. under the old times. He was
'eady 10 surrender all the arms and men no had
md to assist the Americans as much ~ he could.
While the IpufpFappp Wl. going nm "a ,Io,,