The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-06-08
lis FILIPINO CHIEF DEAD?
Aguinaldo Reported Killed Near
La Cat
WAS SHOT FROM HIS HORSE.
His Companions Carried His Body Away
to Prevent Americans from Getting
knowledge of His Identity-Capture
of Important Papers.

Vigan, Luzon, June 2 (via Manila,
June 5).-Major March, with his de-
tachment of the Thirty-third regi-
ment, overlook what is believed TO
have been Aguinaldo's party on May
19, at La Cat, about 100 miles north
east of Vigan. The Americans killed
or wounded an officer, supposed to be
Aguinaldo, whose body was removed
by his followers. Agulnaldo had 100
men, Major March 1875. The Amer
lean commander reached Laboagan,
where Aguinaldo had made his head
quarters since March G, on May Z.
Aguinaldo had fed seven hours be-
fore, leaving all the beaten trails and
travelling through the forest along the
beds of streams. Toward evening,
May 10, Major March struck Aguinal-
dos outpost about a mile outside OF
turing two. From the latter he learned
that Aguinaldo had camped there for
the night. Although exhausted and
half starved, Major Marchs men en-
tered La Cat on the run. They saw
the insurgents scattering into the
bushes or over the plateau. A thou
sand yards beyond the town, on the
mountainside, the figures of twenty
five Filipinos, dressed in white with
their leader on gray horse, were sill
houetted against the sunset. The
Americans fired volley and saw the
officer drop from his horse His fol-
lowers fled, carrying the body. The
Americans on reaching the spot
caught the horse, which was richly
saddled Blood from badly wounded
man was on the animal and on the
ground. The saddle bags contained
Aguinaldo's diary and some private
papers, including proclamations. One
of these was addressed ITO the civil
lized nations" 1t protested against
the American occupation of the Phil
ippines. There were also found copies
Of Senator Beveridge's speech, trans
lated into Spanish and entitled The
Death Knell of the Filipino People"
Maj March, believing that the Fill
pinos had taken TO river which is a
tributary.to the Chico, followed it for
two days, reaching Tiao, where he
learned that a party of Filipinos had
descended the river May 20 on a raft
with the body of a dead or wounded
man upon litter covered with palm
leaves. There Maj. March reviewed
his command, shoeless and exhausted.
nj tUo ~ nf N
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 It APART May
20. The officer shot was either Agui-
naldo or his adjutant. and as the horse
was richly caparisoned it Is a fair pre-
sumption that it was Aguinaldo.
The soldiers Of Gen. Young, military
governor of northwestern LuZon, cap
tured early last month an insurgent
officer with papers revealing Agui-
naldos whereabouts.
Aguinaldos papers are very impor-
tant They show that he took refuge
in Isabella province, where he remained
until ne established himself at Laboa-
gan, province of Abra, where he pro-
posed to direct the rainy-season oper-
atoms. Until recently he was ignor-
ant of outside events, making no pre-
tense Of directing the insurrection,
happy if indeed he might be able to
keep alive among the hostile Igorrotes,
who killed several of his followers.