The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-07-14

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90 he thinking about when they say, as
each new improvement In transportation
Is adopted, well, now. the horse has hao
his day, and viii soon be thing OF the
past"
The stone church at Dupax was sold
enough to stand all the artillery that
could be brought to bear on 1T. so we
could make ourselves safe there. Bu'
these fiying refugees were carrying the
news to Venandro Canon and before long
his scouts would be back accommodating
us.
he ahead of US was too much, even TOT
| Lieut. Monroe. He decided upon STRAIT
! agem Calling aside. he said:
II wish message delivered to General
venandro Canon Immediately l sna,i
not order you to do it, but you may vol
unteer if you wish. How many men DC
you want?"
/ told him that 1 would prefer to &c |
alone, as thought that the less ms 1orce
was weakened the better. Also l Eel
that / could depend upon my ability &c
force my way through by dash If nee
essary, but to take six men through was
a harder matter and against a thousane
it made little difference whether tnere
were one or six OIL US.
Lieut.. Monroe not satisfied that
should go alone, for ne said he wished K
know what happened to me and where.
/ started with .ne message ana 81
men. We rode peli-mell trying to get to
headquarters before any active steps to
: ward advance should have been taken
, and if possible even before any plan O.
action was adopted.
The country through Whicn we vert
J; passing must have been thckly settle, |
n for the trails were we'll worn ana ther'
were everywhere signs of such slight cul |
- tivation as Is practiced there, but not
n living being was in sight. nor We're the.
IS present anywhere about. All had bee
driven to Bayombong by the dreadful fear
that they had of lie Americans.
81 Even the stations of the outpostS were
1t deserted and we dashed from the wilder
N ness full into the town and garrison
NV inability to handle the Filipino an,
ee Tagalog dialects left In doubt as TO whom
should deliver the letter An attempt
of to hand 1t to inferior might result IL
his s,perstitiouS or malicious destruction
of il and put an emo to any hope Oh sue
cess. At what appeared to be the mead
r. quarters j held the letter out 10 man
ph who was evidently an orderly. he l.
turn delivered it to the General himself
" We were pIAced under painful scrutiny.
I'm We were but pinch of men. Zen mile
,e- away there was handful to back us
- But there was the letter VIII It's denant
- for surrender and Statement-whdt that
INT was / will not say. Then there were oui
rth faces. / have stayed in poker game OF
of a very small hand once in a While, pu
that was the smallest yet Still the hanc
49, could not be played to win. A bluff was
is1 all that we could make and our lives Were
m at stake. .
Questions were
,nt cry way possible, seeking to discover al
-. fairs for yenandro Canon was maj
% who had been educated in France, AM
no had Western skill grated upon Orienta
OH cunning.
Co For each question there was the sam
answer "Tne letter" Upon that gu
San ives were hanging. What was In II w
IDS did not know. but we could we'll imagin
nd that it gave no inkling of the weakness
,ha ! of our party. We had to control on
hiiaa | faces our gestures, even our heartbeat
mn that seemed first trying to break on
80 ribs and then stopping still. We whitene
as the spirit of the soldier MOB Vaci
rca- lated.
-. A. last II was over The words of tt
~ letter the manner of the bearers, pc
sin 4 haps; something told them that their hoI
oth- of life lay only in surrender.
nc When all was ready 500 men, the ma
49, | body of Agunaldo's army, were draw
I'D on one side of the street; on the 9th
Cor were IT'S Spanish and nine American PR
yon oners The Fiiipinos were ordered TO a
~, vance In single file, unload their GU
~ and nile them on the ground tcgeth
80 with their cartridge belts and carrier
anS When all were in one great neap, we
roop oereu theH " go ca, ,,a ,ha on,
nroe. men 10 plihe iuei GU pH oon Re than r
49, we had enough to 90 with, and there W
bod no way of disposing of those guns IN |
k UP enemy county sAp ,, =. oryay Iyo,
~ have made us a mark for recapture.
100 was hard blow to the natives to
To he their guns being prepared for the sac
~ Of fee.
eople Ever since tdaseia., 49,, uanti
guns, but it was against the Spanish ru
NOT for any persons to have firearms IN TN
rooTe possession, unless by permission OF
80 officer in very high authority.
When the rebellion began they were
o,7 armed with knives only, for the Span
.hav had no law against knives Ihen
,.nrs freedom came gunpowder, which v
lot to Droush. III ps ~ l,,,ns x,,ora harder
~ g get but they had enough models
:, of they copied after them, making g
" out of iron pipe by plugging the END
~ the barrel and then boring small to-
5 ~, hole i'm the breach. With this noun
- on a homemade stock, a horn OF p'
,.itf der, some round stones for bullets,
&c a box of matches to touch OF the e
"a - the Filipino was off to the war TO
T. against the taxation which ne said
~ ir more than he could pay.
=, .7l OF course a man who will go out
nart fight with such poor weapons is
pa ty serious sort of a person, and he
f that not reauhy yieiu' even
draw superior force.
m the FOR nearly Ao ' .,:.htf 30 beirg r
'ierht men, with guns to shoot and no take
pay For few months, which
.r.,, passed all too quickly in the pleasur
q side rush of war, they had tasted the dehl
hun Oh aiiouiai ~ e., ,,,on+bS :
ahead, tl,he SANE ,e, o., E,r,b If Inlv "a
, American boy. Now there were I
,ugh uaiiins soiis 500 49,, the eyrea &c
% ~ the carefully polished barrels and st
Va e,. and the cartridges commenced craci
aded in the peaesh oo - afrai5 81
found perhaps e.. .n af sha1is that were
cended ing suucA Ny 80 " 49, oouId not
4 their ing anu iiiole 80. soa,,, 30 the re,
nee the TO saze upon .iieia -, ola Witch
rushed les ehuiis III ~ - ,sn.h;ng less
a shot, from d Plie .i,o. -, zion
." But there was another thing that
ade to caruiuses $3.50 80, 900 ,.ri.onars anl
the To- hoeratio - =, .'s...i,nt aaath of a !
n were escape lioiii tn,e., troo,ars
manner pinch VI very 49,
ar trail
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