Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-09-14
TAYABAs, p.I.

MeStrezat feils some More about
Philippine Fruits.
TAYABAs, T. /.
July %, 1900,
Saturday word was received from
Co Il at Tyone, % miles west OF Tay
abas saying large force of insurgents
had captured pony train after kill
ing one man and cutting anothers
arm off, and were then building a
trench. One hundred men were sent
TO re-enforce Co E but the insurgents
had sought pastures new. Our men
surrounded one house and made find
OF one colonel, Il lieutenant and tlf-
teen privates also some mausers and
ammunition. Between sickness and
gugus Co e has been having a hard
time of it. Last night sixty men
were sent over to remain with them a
few weeks.
| Yesterday the insurgents cut down
twenty four telegraph poles between
Lairaya aud Tyene. This morning
seven men from Go L stationed at
Lairaya were sent out to repair the
line When three miles out they
were fred on by large number of in
Esurgents and two killed and one
wounded the bullet entering the eft
side and coming out under the right
shoulder blade and passing through
the right arm. His name Is Gard
ener from Chicago, and after being
wounded he fired ten rounds at the
gugus How is that for sand? The
four gninjured men fought their way
/ towards Lairaya carrying Gardener
with them till the company came TO
their relief. One of the dead was
found cut up with bolo after he had
been shot and the other had crawled
off into the brush and died.
The Manila people are doing con-
siderable kicking about the custom
duties on American canned goods.
i For instances Californian tomatoes
worth two dollars per case must pay a
duty of four dollars. There are the
old Spanish duties intended 10 keep
American goods out OF the market and
Congress will no doubt give them re-
lief soon as possible.
What do you think of palm tree
bearing from one to two bushels Of
fruit on one stem? From large
stem many strings Of fruit hang down
! for about four feee looking like small
green apples on string. Each palm
generally bears four or five clusters of
/ fruit.
We ind the squashes quite treat,
they are the same as those at home.
/ ~ tk1t 10 No
troit hotel makes many experiments
with the native fruits, his latest is d
pineapple pie fit for the gods Here
In the band we live better than the
average family in the states could af-
fore to live. suppose we now have
the largest band ia the army and as
we have the same instruments as the
marine band at Washington you had
better come and hear the band and
see the regiment when we get to Chi
cage. Uncle Sam has been very kind
in furnishing instruments having just
honored our third requisition.
We cannot get good oranges here
like we could at Manila. THERE'S very
large orange here but very poor in
quality. We buy them when green
and they are very apt to rot before
they get ripe. With bamboo can
non the insurgents should have done
some execution with the oranges.
The swallows are the same as those
at home. The king fishers is also the
same except in plumage. His back
is light blue, wings dark blue, white
around the neck, breast red and legs
red and each color very brilliant.
When frightened he makes exactly
the same chatter as those along the
Monongahela. He is very wild and /
was obliged to hide in a bamboo
thicket several times before l was fav-
ored with an opportunity to size him
up. There are many varieties OF
small birds with magnificent plum
age and / hope the natives will not
learn of their value for the head gear
/ in the states.
This is the real chicken paradise.
They hatch them out the year round,
aud find there are no chicken dis
eases known on the island. Eggs are
thirty cents gold per dozen.
Dorsey is now in the Lucerna hos
| pital where final attempt Is being
made TO restore his health failing in
which he will be discharged and sent
home. He could have gone to Hong
Kong on the Relief some weeks ago
and the trip might have been benefi-
cial, but he does not want to leave the
band aud has been lighting against
being discharged for three months.
a VIA 49, \ n
| he will ever recover on the island we
hope for the best.
Notwithstanding the health OF the
regiment seems to be improving the
death list has crowded up to forty,
! four members Of the regiment having
died yesterday from disease and four
to-day making loss OF six to-day.
! Harry Caldwell who enlisted at Jack
son, Mich, died last Monday. His
death was unusually sad. For sever