Evening star., 1901-10-31
INACTI0N IN LEYTE.
Filipino Insurrectionists About to
Dispense in That Island.
APPARENTLY AFRAID TO FIGHF
Small Detachments of Americans
Expose Themselves Freely.
URGENT NEED FOR SCHOOLS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

| Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
MALITBOG, Leyte P. T..
| August 20, 1901.
| From recent developments 1 am Of the
| opinion that the insurrection is about to
break up on this island. The rebels are
| beginning to be seriously alarmed and are
| informing on each other. Without doubt
all the people living In the vicinity Of this
bay are insurrectos active or passive. They
apparently do not want to fight, but SIM
ply defy the authority of the United States.
They are pretty strong in numbers and
arms. and why they have not attacked the
small detachments sent out from here is a
mystery. Several expeditions of ten men
only have gone into their strongholds,
searched houses for arms and rice, and re-
| turned to camp without meeting with any
resistance.
1 cannot understand what their object Is.
They have modern arms and are reported
to have an abundance of ammunition, and
the reason they don't show themselves
when they have sweeping odds can only be
abject cowardice.
Lieut. Ansell Of the 11th Infantry, who
has been in command of the troops on this
bay for the past three months, has been
continually on the move and has sent sew
eral challenges to the leader Capile through
natives he thought would carry them tndf-
rectly. He has taken only twenty men and
marched for days in the mountains. and
these are rugged mountains, without any
trails, trying to tempt the insurrectos. He
me with no resistance All the houses were
deserted as these people can carry all
their effects In their arms. They hide in
the bushes until the soldiers have passed
and then return.
No Insurrectos known.
1 heard the lieutenant tell the presidente
Of cannl who Ia n
doubtedly strong insurgent sympathizer,
that he was going to make this march and
the number of men he was going to take
with him. do you think Capile will fight
twenty Americans, senor?' he asked of the
presidente. II don't know, senor. I don't
know of any insurrectos, was the OLD ra-
zorback's (as the boys call h1m) reply.
The lieutenant has marched at the head
of every expedition which was supposed to
be in any way dangerous. He has time and
time again marched through the enemy's 8
country with a mere handful of men.
1 am not surprised that all these people
were, in the past, inSurrectos and tnat
there are now SO many sympathlzers among
them. After the Spaniards lost this island
they pulled up stakes for Spain. We had
no troops to send here and the people run m
the island themselves and they liked 1t SO
well that when the United States did send
an expedition to govern the island large
majority resisted.
We are nnQ1ng occasionally QOCuIHeHtS VI
the insurgents on which are signed the
most prominent men in this section. AS
there were no troops here before to amount
to anything, L suppose these men had 10
contribute to the fnSurrectoS TO protect
their large interests.
The presidente of this town has treated
us royalty and has granted our every wish
He has furnished much information of the
enemy and we have looked upon him as
good American. Imagine our surprise upon
looking through some insurgent papers
captured three nights ago to see his name
signed to several of them. well, well" >"
declared the lieutenant, another insurrec-
to-
The presidente is on a business visit to
Cebu at present, and think he will be ar
rested upon his return.
A system of correspondence with sup
posed loyal natives has been inaugurated,
with the result that headquarters is being
flooded with information. The leader of
the bolo men on this island is a young man
named Estaban Canonago Z,
SOrtie After q Leader.
We were informed that he was living
with woman in Consolation, and a de-
tachment of five men was sent four nights
ago to capture him. They reached the
village at in the morning. and, dragging
the presidente out of bed, they compelled
him to take them to the house, which he
did with trembling knees.
The night was pitch dark and there was
great danger of the men shooting one an
other. They surrounded the house. which
was not much stronger than paper, and
the corporal in charge knocked on the door,
| The woman appeared, and when she rec
| ognized the soldiers, exclaimed in a tragic
! manner, "Santiagor'
| The men say she was very cool after re-
| gaining her wits, as she barred the door
| with her arms and cried mo entire"
The corporal forced her to one side and
| entered with a lighted candle. The insur-
| recto was crouched near the door, and as
| the corporal entered he sprang out falling
| over one of the guards. The latter quickly
| recovered himself and began shooting right
| and left, with the result that a man and
| wife asleep in the next house were NOR
| tally wounded, both in the stomach, by the
same bullet. The inSurrecto escaped and
| the detachment returned here for the sur
geon. The latter proceeded post-haste to
Consolation, but he was not needed, as the
| man had died and the woman was past
| help, and has since died. This tragedy was
very unfortunate and adds two more vic
| tins to firearms nervously handled. 1t will