The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-17
LIEUT.. CARRIER WRITES


NJ. c. CARRIER, postmaster at Madison,
Ind, and one of the most prominent and
influential citizens of 1.-The City Meath the
Hills" has a son, Guilford s. CARRIER, of
whom he feels justly proud. Guilford is a
lieutenant of the Thirtieth United States
Volunteer Infantry. stationed at Lucban
in the Philippine islands. In a letter to his
father dated March a. received few days
ago. Lieutenant CARRIER tells some interest
ing facts and gossip about the natives of
those islands who are just now giving
Uncle Sam so much trouble. The letter
says:
I'VE know a good deal about the province
now. AT every garrison our companies have
gone out and released Spanish prisoners.
who have told us with knowledge the
strength and whereabouts OF the Insurrec-
tos. / don't know myself the facts in de-
tail about the southern and southeastern
end of this province, but there are twenty
five rifles at Sampaloc and fifteen at Maui
ban, in our end. General Manolos has fifty
rifles and he is running 20 and fro in the
mountain Businesses, trying to keep away
from US. The parts of the province garri-
soned by the rest of the regiment contains
few scattered bands like the smaller ones
mentioned but not many. The Spaniards all
say the Filipinos are terribly afraid OF US.
The band at Sampoloc are the mountaineers
that live there, scattered over the almost
inaccessible sides of the mountain valley.
Spaniard escaped from there Monday
week ago, and made his way here travelling
at night, getting here at a.. m. Major
Steele hid him during the day and that
night we went to Sampoloc and got there
at a. m. From then till dawn we climbed
over the mountain side, guided by the Span
lard, from one house to another, and liber-
ated nine Spaniards and captured eleven In
surrectos and some rifles. The Spaniards
have been held in slavery. That is the pre-
I.oo oh Cvap nj rI had "A
different Filipino whom he called his .arno'
or master, and the Filipino called the Span
lard his 'muchacho' or boy which signi-
fies mental servant. They were half clothed
and had been forced to do work in the rice
field, kitchen, etc.; In fact, all the mental
work about the mountaineers establish
ment The same system prevailed all over
Tayabas province, and still does In the more
accessible provinces that we have thus far
been unable to penetrate, but which we
know exists, just as we know of these be-
fore we found them. We went into Mauban
and liberated one Spaniard and searched
for others, but had no guide and met with
no more success. Coming back we were
fired on in a gorge, either by nfteen men
who we knew are stationed near MauDon.
or by Manolos's fifty-we don't know winch
-as our men replied from the road and the
Insurrectos quit within fifteen minutes and
got away through the underground.
To-day a Spaniard came into Lucban
who escaped at Mauban a day or two ago
and has travelled here by night. He saw us
at Mauban when we were there on the
above mentioned trip, but could not get 10
us. He was with fifty insurgents with
Manolos, who he says lay In the woods and
watched our camp the whole night and day
we were there, but who were too afraid of
the Americans to shoot at us.
General Caniles is<in Laguna province.
and has few more men and does some
depredating. Company G had half hour
fight with 100 men of his troops, while we
were returning from Majayjay some time
ago. l mailed you letter just before we
started out from here, saying we were GO
ing out to spend three days and nights
providing among the hills
Eve are still making some exhausting
forays and having small skirmishes every
little bit. Between times We work, beauti-
fying our city, which has a population of
six thousand and are enjoying life very
much. Yesterday we got all our possessions
from the warehouse at Manila and are now
prepared to stay here until July, 1901