The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-02-06

being lieutenant, q young fellow who
had just Joined, shot throug abdomen
and bowels, dying next day. We STAYED
at Pania that afternoon and night in
enemies headquarters and next morn.
ing continued on the insurectos capi.
tai. st. Barbara. They fired a few
cannon at us but several shots from
the artillery scared them out of the
town and we stayed there that night
counted three dead Spanish insurgent
officers and IL men in first trench ar
river besides there being a number of
others plainly to be seen in the rice
fields. Killed, after we took the tren-
ches, suppose, 81 or so were killed and
the natives told us that they took with
them rs bull carts full of wounded.
1t is very hard country to get
through when off the main Royal road.
The rice fields come right up to the
side of the road and being full of water
the men in deploying across these are
up to their waists, generally in water
and muck and the insurgents thinking
we would fight Spanish fashion, on
the roads only, had erected fine barri-
cades and trenches with sharpened
bamboos in front of them for several
hundred feet; but 1 imagine that they
now think these troops can swim in
both mud and water.
We left Santa Barbara the 3rd day
out from Jaro following them up to a
place called Lucania where they had
just burnt down the bridge. 1 slept
in a church while the bridge was being
rebuilt, which took two days; we then
went on to a place called Patalon, close
90, t1a l,,t Aak
would make no further stand at any
of their entrenchments of which they
had great many all the way up. They
have evidently had enough and have
separated into small bands, going into
the mountains. think the whole thing
in the islands is about over. having
few bands here and there. At Santa
Barbara we captured II cannons of
all sizes, sorts, and make; most of them,
with their carriages being made into
bonfire. 1 have q small insurgent's S
flag and some of their papers and docu-
ments from their headquarters at st.
Barbara with a couple of stabbing bolos.
We returned from Patalon by another
road, the first part of it being simply
| abominable for artillery to get through,
| ii took us from a. m. to l p. m. to get
through two miles of it. The mules, OF
| which there are four to gun, some
times almost completely disappearing
| in the wet clay sink holes and having
| to be lifted out with beams. At Zara-
qua we found a good modern steel
bridge, the floor however having beer
burnt off, this took some hours tc
refoor. Between this bridge and the
next small town found nine insurectos
with hands tied behind them and theil
| throats cut-as the dogs had been a
| them and they were putting up We
passed them very quickly, but a niggel
we captured told us that the insurgent!
had killed them because they refused t
| fight.
We got back here yesterday anC
pretty glad of it. 1 am all chewed III
by ants and mosquitoes. My boy-witl
a little toe persuasion-kept me wei
supplied with chickens and eggs ol
this trip and captured a turkey whicl
my chinese litter bearers carried bacl
and we ate it yesterday; little lat
for Thanksgiving but it tasted as well
The battery wounded are recovering
nicely, although shot with Remington
bullets, a good deal larger hole than
"Mauser" or "Krag". The insurgent
had all sorts of rifles, Remington
Springfield, Mauser and home made
with home made canister for thei
cannon, but they cannot stand our al
tillery with shrapnell; it puts the fea
of the Lord pretty deeply within then
1 don't believe the battery will go ou
again now that the enemy have divid
ed up and taken to the mountains, s
| will ho ait In
J it or be sent out with the infantry.
think that two men could now go prett
much all over this island, as over 80 pc
cent of the inhabitants never were,
my opinion, insurgents-but simply IL
timidated by the insurgent army and
notice many of them are back workin
in their fields, all having white fiae
set up here and there in the fields.
send you several yards of natiN
goods called "Housa" cloth, mao
from, 1 believe, a variety of the plaI
tani family and interspersed wit
Chinese silk. 1t is somewhat expensiN
but will make a summer dress for II
baby; and, also some pima" cloth,
4 one piece, for handkerchiefs; you wi
4 see by the figures where to cut the
, apart and then, l suppose, they shou
be hemmed. This material is mac
from banana fibre. Nearly every natiN
house has a loom in it. AS the govern
y ment has given notice that no du
will be charged on Christmas presen
1 send them to you, but wish you wou
y send half of them to mother.
: Send me some literature, If you ca
3 find it, on the cultivation of hem
p With capital there is barrel of mon'
y in it. The jobbers are now makil
enormous profits.
e T. H. LANDOR.
The souvenirs Of the campaign, me
{ toned in DR.. Landor's letter, may
!, | seem ON exhibition in the window of ID