The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-04
SENTENCE OF DEATH
PUNISHMENT Melted OUT TO FILL
PINO MURDER ERS-A TALE OF
FIENDISH CRUELTY
ASSIGNMENTS IN THE ARMY
Stations Designated for Troops
Returning From Service
in the Philippine
Islands.

WASHINGTON July "a remarkable
story of Filipino cruelty comes to the war
department in the shape of a general or
der containing the records of the trial Of
seven natives charged with abduction,
assault with intent to kill, murder and
guerrilla warfare, in violation of the rules
of war before a military commission con-
yened at Nueva Caceres
One of these men, Zamidio by name,
while residing in the barrio of Ca
bausao, conceived a plan of deception
and cruelty which is worthy of note
With the other six men, Zamidio formed
band, of which he was made chief.
Notice was served on the people of the
barrio that they must assemble at a
given place in order to be presented to
Gen. Santos, who would punish them If
they failed to appear Men, women ana
children Obeyed the mandate. Zamidio
received them and required them to take
an oath to resist American authority to
the death The people were to form IN
ranks and start out to be presented to
Gen. Santos, who had not yet made his
appearance. Nor did he for it developed
that Santos was a myth, and that the
name had been used as a deception by
which to commit wholesale murder. The
victims of the band were selected from
the friends and relatives of a native pilot
Mia and Nueva Caceres. Upon the slen-
der preteXt that the pilot must be an
"AmerfcaniSta,' or a friend of the Amer
leans, eleven persons, among them an
aged woman and four young children
We're taken into the fields, assaulted with
clubs and bolos, and left for dead. Three
of the victims revived and two Of them
reached safety, but the other, a girl, was
betrayed in a house where she sought
Of
the band. Her almost lifeless body was
taken back to the fields on a carabao
cart since when she has not been seen.
Sentences Of death and Imprisonment
at hard labor were imposed.
ARMY ASSIGNMENTS.
Secretary Root has issued orders as
signing to stations in the Unitd States the
troops just returned from the Philippines
The order assigns the Fourth cavalry
headquarters, staff and band and two
squadrons to Fort Assinniboine, Mont;
the remaining squadron to the department
of the Columbia.
Coast artillery: The Twenty ninth and
Thirtieth companies to the department of
California; the Thirty-second and Thirty
third companies to the department Of
the Columbia.
Field artillery: First battery, to San
IdIlClSCO, NISiIIH DdULSIy, dI oHSOONCh
barracks, Washington; Twelfth battery,
at Fort Douglass Utah; Thirteenth bat
terry, at Fort Logan, Colorado.
Fourteenth infantry: The headquarters,
staff and band, and the second battalion
at Madison barracks, N. Y; two COM
panies at Fort Porter, N. Y, and two
companies at Fort Niagara, N. Y.
Eighteenth infantry: Headquarters.
staff and band, and the second and third
battalions to the department Of Colorado,
the headquarters, staff and band to take
station at Fort Douglasf Utah
Twenty third United States infantry:
Headquarters, staff and band, and one
battalion, at Fort Logan, Colorado; one
battalion to the department of the Mis-
souri,; company H, Fifteenth infantry.
will proceed from Fort Porter to Fort
Ontario, N C.
The following changes in the stations of
troops are ordered:
Troops and C, Thirteenth cavalry,
from the department of Dakota to the de-
partment of the Missouri.
One troop, Eighth cavalry, from Fort
Riley, Kansas, to Fort Reno Oklahoma
territory, and one troop Eighth cavalry
from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Fort Sill,
Oklahoma territory.