Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-04
AGUINALDO DEAD.
FILIPINO LEADER BELIEVED TO
HAVE BEEN KILLED.
Was Wounded at Lagat-Capture the
Chieftain's Diary and Some Pri-
vate Papers.

Vigan, Luzon, via Manila, June g.
Major March. with his detachment of the
2Srd regiment, overlook what is believed
to have been ~Aguinaldo's party on May
10, at Lagat. about 100 miles northeast
of Vigan. The Americans killed or
wounded an officer, supposed to be Aguf-
naldo. whose body was removed by his
followers. Aguinaldo had 100 men, Ma
jor March 125, the American commander
reaching La Boagen. where Aguinaldo
had made his headquarters since March
IS on May Aguinaldo had fled seven
hours before. leaving all he beaten trails
and travelling through the forest along
the beds of streams. Toward evening,
May Is, Major March struck A~guinaldo's
outposts about a mile outside of Lagat.
killing four F%iiipinos and capturing two.
From the latter he learned that Aguinal-
do had camped there for the night. al
though hauste and half starved. Ma
jor March'S men entered Lagat on the
run. They saw the Insurgents scatter
ing into the bushes or over the plateau.
A thousand yards beyond the town, on
the mountain side, the figures of 25 Fill
pinos dressed in white with their leade
on a gray horse We're shilhouetted
against the sunset. The Americans
fired a volley and saw the officer drop
from his horse. His followers fled, car
rying the body. The Americans. on
reaching tllt Spol Caught Tie lloISS HIGH
was richly saddled Blood from a badly
wounded man was on the animal and on
the ground. The saddle bags contained
AguinaldO'S diary and some private pa
pers,, including p~roclamations. One of
these We're addressed: ITO the civilized
nations" 1t protested against the AM
erican occupation of the Philippines.
There was also found copies of Senator
Beveridge's speech translated. into Span
ish. and entitled The Death Knell of
the Filipino People r.
Major March believing that the Fill
pinos had taken to a river which is a
tributary to the Chico, ollowed it for
two days, reaching Tiao. where he learn
ed that a party of Filipinos had descend
ed the river May Goth, on a raft with the
body of a dead or ounde man upon
a liter covered with palm leaves.
There Major March reviewed his COM
mand, shoeless and exhausted and pck-
ed out "a of the freshest men, with whom
he beat the surrounding country for six
days longer. but without finding any
trace of the insurgents. The Americans
pushed on and arrived at APART May 20.
The officer shot was either Aguinaldo or
his adjutant, and as the horse was richly
caparisoned it is a fair presumption that
it was Aguinaldo.
The soldiers of General Young. mill
tary governor of the northeastern Luzon
captured early last non an insurgent
oIl1SS viii "a pNiS as e
whereabouts General Young immedi-
ately organized for pusuit. giving Major
March a chance to finish the work begun
n November. Major March left Candon
May 10, and hurrying north towardd La
Began, while Colonel Hare with a bat
talon divided into two parts started
from Rangue, province Of Abra. covering
the trails westward. The garrison in the
Cagayan valley We're disposed of in such
a way as to guard the of escape
eastward. Spies heralded the approach
of Major March with signal fires. On
reaching La Boagan he a~pprehended a
letter in Aguinaldo's handwriting. the
ink of which was hardly dry. addressed
to officer of Guerillas of the Filipino
army and saying:
There having arrived this morning al
La Boagan a hostile column from oko
I have set out with all my force. My
road has no destination
This was signed Colonel David" a sob
riquet Aguinaldo called at the presi-
dencia, from whence he issued DEGREES
and where his followers celebrated easter
with a banquet at a triangular table
when speeches We're made eulOgizine
Gregorio del Pillar That night. Major
March's men slept in the bamboo, resum
ing the advance in the morning an6
reaching La Cat. 40 miles distant in two
days. although it was raining hard if
the mountains al the time.
Aguinaldo's papers We're all very i'm
p%ortant. They show that he took refuge
in Isabella province. where he remained
l until he established himself in La Boagar
province of Abra. where he proposed tt
direct the rainy season operations. Unit
I recently he was ignorant of outside
events. making no pretense of directing
the insurrection, happy if indeed HI
might he able to keen alive among thu
hostile Igorrots, who killed several of hi!
I ~noWers.