The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-11-13

Before / left Texas my father SEEM
ga 10 have his mind set on the rescue
of Gilmore and his party said Colonel
Luther r. Hare at Kansas City recent
~. Let an other things 60 II pos
sible,' be would say. and get poor g
Gilmore out Of the Fllipinos' hands.
Dr. Lieberman OF Kansas City, was my
chief surgeon. and between the two
OF MS we got 800 men, physically NJ
10 70 anywhere. Fate and my father
seemed to be working together for
sooa after reaching Luzon General
Wheaton ordered me north to join
General Young's command. and Young
al once sent me out after Gilmore, we
were about in the center Of Northern
Luzon-at Bingnat. in Arara province
when we made the start with lS5
men and some natives. We passed
through the district producing the nm
est tobacco in all Luzon. and breech-
clout people grew It. Once we came to
a doubtful place IN the trail, and a
niece Of blue flannel shirt set as right
But the best guides we had were chalk
marks on the cliffs. These generally
took the form OF Drink Blanks Beer,
and we knew Americans had written
IT. but we wondered why they should
choose TO mark the trails with sugges-
tlons Of that nature. We had been out
eleven days. think. when we ran onto
a party OF ifteen insurgents escorting
three Americans. We attacked, KILL
ing five Filipinos, and the others fed
leaving the prisoners. They we're from
Gilmore's party, had escaped and been
recaptured. Gilmore, they said was
about two days ahead Early the sec
ond day later We came upon the naval
officer and his party. Their captors
had heard Of our coming and fed.
Gilmore begged them not TO leave him
without food Or arms, and his men
had had little except pony meat for
two days before we reached them.
Gilmore had been a prisoner nearly
eight months when we found him and
he seemed dazed. In fact none Of the
men were very demonstrative. True
Americans, they had never ceased to
hope. and the relief came rather as q
matter OF course Gilmore's authority
had always been recognized by his
men. and he had made a civilian nam
I'd Iangford his executive officer. And
here the beer advertisements on the
trail were explained Langford was
agent for an American brewery and
was captured while IN some out-of-the.
way place drumming trade. On the
march into the mountains he took
some chalk from a school house and
with this wrote Drink Blanks Beer
along the trail The Filipino officer In
charge caught him at It, and Of course
demonstrated.
'Oh. I'm only advertising my beer,
Iangford told him. and the insurgeni
thought it was a good Joke. One Of
Gnmore's men. a young fellow from
San Francisco had a little monkey
which he carried on al the trip. and
they made good use Of him In many
cases the fruits and berries in the Lu-
zon mountains are poisonous. These
hungry men would lead the monkey to
the fruit. and if he ate they would eat
otherwise the most tempting growth
would go untouched and the little
monkey never abused the trust placed
In him. We had 10 rations and decid-
ed it would be nearer 10 float down
the river to the northern coast than
TO try to 90 back Rats took us ou'
near ApawL where we found the
Princeton. in less than two weeks
Rice was pract.osIy the only food
we could find On the entire trip
lost only one man. He died Of small
pox, and we brought his body back On
a raft None OF the other men were
infected"