Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1901-06-19
CABLES GIVES IT UP
lnsurgent Leader Agrees to Sur
render Himself and His
Band of Filipinos.
APPOINTED TO JUDICIAL PLACES
Eleven Judges from This Country Have
Posts-Cuban Color Line Is
Showing Up Already.

Manila. June 17.-Colonels Infant
and Guivara, representatives of Gen
eral Cables, yesterday signed the name
of their principal to an agreement to
surrender Under the terms of this
agreement General Cables is to assem-
bic his men at Santa Cruz, Laguna
province, as quickly as possible, and
there surrender himself and his COM
mand to the American authorities. The
exact number of his force is uncertain,
but there will probably be more than
800.
Pleases the Washington People.
Washington, June 17.-Officials of
the war department are very we'll
pleased with the prospective surrender
of General Cables, the Filipino In
surgent leader Cables is a man of
considerable influence, and with his
backing of some hundreds of men has
been Il menace to the efforts of the
military authorities to stamp out the
rebellion in Luzon. His capitulation,
therefore, is regarded with much salts
faction by the authorities here, who
say they see in it another evidence of
the general disintegration of the in
surgent forces.
Cables Was n Head Hunter.
For more than year past General
Cables has commanded the insurgent
forces operating on the east side of
Bay lake, north of Manila. He Is
said to be French half-caste. The
society of Mando-Ducats, whose prac-
tice it was to assassinate and bury
III, ,t,.,-, rlan
accepted United States sovereignty
| whenever the latter fell into their
hands, operated with the cognizance,
IL not the support, of General Cables.
| At one time Cables offered a reward
| of SO for the heads of all United
! States citizens brought to him, and,
more recently, he offered a reward of
$4,000 for the head of Captain Ed
ward n. Jones, Jr., of the Eighth in
fantry.
Hung on to the Last Ditch.
| Since the capture of Aguinaldo
J Cables, who was one of the few in.
surgent leaders who did not surrender
under the terms of amnesty, has been
persistently pursued by the United
| States troops. Negotiations for his
! surrender have been going on with
General Sumner for some weeks past
He was declared to be an outlaw by
! the United States authorities, and this
fact, which meant that he could not
expect to enjoy immunity for his past
deeds and violations of honorable war
fare, but would have to stand trial
doubtless compelled him to prolong his
resistance. The members of the Fed
eral party advised him to surrender
but this he persistently refused to d'
until he saw that his capture was in
evitable.
Judges Appointed for the philippines.
Seventeen judges have been appoint
ed to the court of first instance in the
| Philippines. Among these appoint
ments there are eleven Americans
who have been given the most import
ant circuits. as follows: Manila, Kin
kaid. of Texas, and Odkp os New
Hampshire; APART, Blount. of Geor
gia: Dagupan, Johnson, of Michigan
Batangas, Linebarger. of Illinois
Nueva Caceres, Carson. of Virginia
Iloilo. Bates. of Vermont: Negros, Nor
ris, of Nebraska: Cebu, Carlock. of ii
| llnois; Zamboanga. lexis. of Iowa, ant
Jolo. Whitsett of Missouri