Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-03-28

military life and command. Now he
is the leader Of the federal council ant
goes about among the people organis
ing and electioneering. When the fu-
ture insular government Is organized
he will run for Office and always be q
prominent figure before the people,
| and that is what Pablo AID these
| other leaders want.
Knowing people shake their heads
and sey old Pablo Is stil Ian insurrecto
and secretly aiding his former com
rades, but do not think so. There is
only ragtaS and bobtail of an insur-
rection going on now and 1t has ever
been human nature to climb on to the
loaded wagon.
With Major Pickett.
! found SI'dro full of officers. An
examination board was being held be-
fore which all first and second lieuten'
| ants entitled to advance to the next
highest grade who were on duty in
this district had been summoned.
The town also had a respectable mum.
Der OF American women-the wives
and daughters Of the officers. l made
calls upon all OF them and fully en-
joyed the privilege and pleasure OF
meeting accomplished and intelligent
countrywomen again. Mrs. Newell
had cat, the first glance at which
gave me an impression that 1t was not
a Filipino. It's neatness and self-con-
fdence spoke its descent, and learned
it was born on the transport Sherman
Of pure American parentage.
The following morning we escorted
a paymaster. Major Pickett. a son OF
the confederate general Pickett who
made the famous charge at Gettys.
burg The major was on his way to
pay company OF the gath to this
north OF us. | rode in the Doherty
wagon with him. A wagon with IN
Irish name would naturally suggest
| nothing more imposing than a wheel
| barrow or at most a dump-caIt, but a
Doherty is very fine ambulance with
side doors and seats arranged like
those Of stage coach that can be
| changed to foreand-aft seats when
required.
The major proved good talker and
| story-teller and he made our ride very
enjoyable. He is rotund and Jolly
and speaks with a rich Virginia inflec.
| ton. AS we neared Cabanatuan we
met the burial corps with long, lugu
| brious procession of wagons loaded
xxyif1 lN,,t 1ay,t, s,,t "a,
dead soldiers going home" poor fell
lows, to sadly waiting friends and rel
atives. The escort reported they had
been fired upon by Mausers just below
the town. | closed up our cavalcade
and left the Doherty's grateful shad 2
and mounted my black pony. AS W.
neared the lower end of Santa Rosa q
rifle cracked spitefully in front of us
We have become used to the distinc.
tive qualities of the discharges OF the
various firearms used in the islands
and always guess the character Of thu
men discharging them by the sound
This discharge did not have the rerd.
| ing quality OF the krag. report. nor
was it as dead as the Mauser
forced my horse rapidly to the front
dismounted the advance guard and
rushed through a field Of growing
vegetation, full Of thistles AM ptN
only to find that the alarm had been
an innocent one. We heard SO ne
men shouting in English on our right
and presently discovered three men
| hot
on permission to go hunting. They
had fired in the rice fields and
alarmed the burial corps.
| Major Picket took breakfast with us
and pushed on to Cabanatuan. In the
evening he returned and passed the
night
Today Captain Dowdy with the
mounted men went by order Of Gen.
| Funston to Cabanatuan to meet very
| impatient hombre who was coming
down the pike and escort him this
way. The party returned at three in
the afternoon with the man who In
sisted he was no less a parsonage
| than a special messenger from the elu-
| sive and retiring Aguinaldo. He said
I
| he had left Aggie on the 18th OF Janu'
airy in Isabella province in the north
eastern part OF the island near the
coast and that he was commissioned
to believer communication to all the
insurrecto generals. He had found
! the sentiments OF the people undergo
| ing such a change in favor OF the
| Americans that he had tred OF his iof
| and tried to surrender himself and
men to Major Detchmendy at Baler
but the Americans had driven them
away with mucho boom-boom. They
had then wandered on and finally got
lost in the wilderness, become foot
sore and weary. and desperately
hungry for chow-chow, when por la
gracia de Dios they found themselves
AT Funta Bangan and were kindly re,
ee!yod by the Americanos. He further
said that General Emilio's army is
] muy POGO and that they have very
little chow or anything else. A cav
airy detachment took the saddened
insurGent TO San lsfdro accompanies