Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-03-22
ARMY AND NAVY.
UNITED STATES.


The squadron of the Fifth Cavalry,
stationed at Fort Myer, Va, has left
for San Francisco en- route to the Phil
ippines.
Captain Gulick of the Forty-seventh
Volunteer Infantry has received the
surrender of the insurgent Major Pulay,
with forty-nine officers and 240 men, at
the town of Gubat, Southern Luzon.
The War Department at Washington
has received word of the death of Cap
tain Richard B. Paddock, of the Sixth
Cavalry, at Tien-tsin, China, from
pneumonia. Captain Paddock was APP
pointed from Illinois in October, 1883
1t is reported that the small steam
ers Orlente and Caraman, plying on the
Pasig river and Laguna de Bay, have
been seized, it being alleged that they
We're trading with theinsurgents. Con-
traband articles were found aboard the
steamers. The Oriente had been seized
previously, but had been released, the
evidence against her not being suffi-
Gent to justify her being held. This
time, however, the evidence is stronger.
Private Jacob Henderson, Company
+, Twenty-ninth Infantry, was con-
victed in the Philippines of manslaugh-
ter for killing Corporal Herbert Chase
of the same regiment, and sentenced to
imprisonment for fifteen years at hard
labor in Bilibid Prison, Manila.
The transport Hancock, bearing the
Thirtieth Infantry, made up almost
wholly of men FROM Illinois and Michi-
gan, reached San Francisco March Is,
twenty-three days from Manila and
sixteen days and ten hours from Ma
gasaki. This time, while above the av-
erage of the transports, was slow for the
Hancock, which, while known as the
Arizona, was one of the speed wonders
of the Atlantic.
Officers in charge of the recruiting
service of the army are not meeting
with the success that attended the en-
listment of two years ago in the volun-
teer force provided for by Congress.
That force of 81, 600 was raised in three
months, an average of more than 5000
a month. Enlistment in February I'M
der the Army reorganization act was
| less than 5000. At that rate it would
take nearly year to bring the army to
the maximum of 100000. Officials do
not hope to raise the average above 81
600. They say they do not want to en-
list too rapidly, because if the $4,000
men now required should be obained
within too short a period they would all
be going out at about the same time
in three years from now, when another
reorganization would be necessary.
John L. Fox, a private of Company
A, Thirtieth Volunteer Infantry, who
returned from Manila on the transport
Hancock, spent half the time in the
Philippines as a prisoner in the hands
of the Filipinos. From January IS,
1899, until the 1st of September of the
same year, young Fox was held by the
semi-barbarous natives in mountain
Businesses, with no knowledge of his
whereabouts nor of the intentions of his
captors concerning his own disposition
He escaped several times, only to be re-
captured again and threatened with
summary punishment if he again at
temped to get away. He had reason to
believe that the threat might be carried
out, for a fellow prisoner named John
Kenney, from Illinois, also a private of
the Thirtieth, was deliberately shot by
the Filipinos for attempting to escape.
CHINA.
| lIetl0UuI Il
gate of the great wall, eighty miles west
of Paotingfu, and captured three guns.
A dispatch from Hasvogel Kop says
that General De Wet escaped north
ward by forced march with 400 men,
His objective is believed to be the vicin-
ity of Kroonstadt. Four other Boer
leaders are still in the southwestern
part of the Orange River Colony. Now
that Geneaal De Wet is back in his
country it will be almost impossible to
operate against him. Just so soon as he
is pressed his commando dissolves to
meet again few days later.
The Germans, led by Captain Lede-
buis, captured the Chung Shun pass be-
tween the provinces of Chilli and Shan
81, after several hours fighting The
result was brilliantly achieved by the
Bavarian battalion, which marched 125
miles from Paoting-fu in four days
through mountains and over difficult
mule tracks. The Chinese held an APP
parently impregnable position on the
wall at the highest point of the pass.
They had several hundred troops and
artillery of every description. The Ger
mans attacked them with 800 infantry
| and two hOwitzers. The turning move
ment, over an almost impossible coun-
try, occupied seven hours and was very
successful. The Chinese fled into the
province of Shan-si, leaving at least 100
dead and four Hotchkiss guns The
victory will have an excellent moral eff
feet, as the Chinese believed that their
fortified mountain belt was impene-
trable.
| SOUTH AFRICA.
Only few bands of Beers are now in
Cape Colony.
1t is asserted that Kruger, through
DIR. Leyds, has sent long telegram to
Schaldburger, acting President of the
South African Republic, asking for de-
tails regarding negotiations.
Colonel Pitchers column has cleared
the country of Beers between Blomfon-
tein and the Orange river. The column
arrived at Blomfontein, bringing thirty
prisoners and 5000 horses.
Advices from two great South African
commercial houses confirm the advices
that Lord Kitchener and Gen. Botha
have been in negotiation for SIX days.