La Junta tribune., 1901-03-13
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T. M. HARRISON, OF the Hol-
brook country. received a letter
last week from his son. who is now
serving Uncle Sam 10 the Philip
pines. MIR. Harrison enlisted in
the Sixth Cavalry, in December,
1899, and has been in the Philip
pines nearly year. His father
has permitted us to publish ex-
tracts from the letter, which reads
as follows:
-BiNAN, PHILIPPINES.
January as, 1901
Folks AT HONE: We have left
Manila at last and are now sta
toned about thirty miles from the
coast at town called Bipan.
There are also three heavy bat
teries here acting as infantry. The
whole troop was ont the night
before last searching for arms that
were supposed to be concealed in
town about ten miles from here,
in the foothills. We started at 2
o'clock in the morning and after
marching for about three hours
through almost impassable marshes
1 we came to the little town where
the arms were supposed to be,
We Immediately surrounded the
town, and few men dismounted
and searched every hut without
results. Finally we captured two.
or three "umbras" and gave them
the "water cure" till they were
glad to get chance to tell all they
knew. With the information we
succeeded in wringing from them
we found about eight rifles Of diff
ferent makes and calibre, twelve
"bolos" and ten pistols. Now that
is about all the "hghting" there is
going on at present.
A little major OF the Filipino
army came in the other day and
took the oath OF allegiance to the
United States. He says that he
could take four cavalrymen and go
anywhere on the island Still
some things happen here once IN
a while that are rather exciting.
About week ago two batteries OF
artillery and Troop c captured
about twenty "umbras," and
twenty-five men were detailed as q.
guard to take them back to the
post. AS we were coming back
about sixty "umbras," attacked us
/ with the intention of releasing the
| prisoners, but the rest of the troop
came up and we managed to
capture all of the attacking force
and took the whole bunch to the
post.
/ | have been in good health ever
since ! left the states, and am not
sorry that | enlisted, for have
had lots Of experience, seen
great deal OF the world and learned
many things that will be OF value
to me some day. Now that trip
to China for instance. 1t would
take pile Of money for a civilian
to take that trip and see the sights
that l did. China is very fine
country, and would be a good
place to live in il they had the
right kind Of government. The
soil is very productive and the
climate is about the same ~ in
Colorado, except that they have q.
little more rain there. In north
ern China, where we were, nearly
all the land is under irrigation.
We have been having good
time since we came here, till now,
and even now it is not so very
hard. We have no main guard to|
do. nothing but stable guard, but
we have to do all the "hiklng. y
Here march is called "hike.
The insurgents are called "gugus.
A friendly Filipino is called an
.tunbra," from the Spanish word,
! meaning a man.
We are getting the Filipinos
pretty well blufed all around here
now. We 80 out nearly every
night and surround some town,