Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-19
MACARTHUR IS BACK
Former Governor General Of the
Philippines Returns on the
Sheridan.
Says the Situation on the Island,
Is Quite Satisfactory at
Present.
Fourteenth Infantry. Which Saw
Service in China. Came on
the Sheridan.

boarded lne snip.
S. NJ. Green, of Milwaukee, met Gen.
Macarthur here with a greeting from
the people of Milwaukee and an invita-
tion from the Merchants and Manufac-
turers Association of that city to a
banquet when he arrived home. Gen.
Macarthur left Manila on July 4, and
spent several days travelling in Japan.
After spending day or so here Gen.
Macarthur will leave for Washington
To report to the war department.
The transport brought several officers
and 500 enlisted men of the Fourteenth
Infantry and Company A of the battal-
ion engineers. twenty-six discharged
soldiers. thirty-nine prisoners, sixty
rine discharged civilian employees. five
marines ard twelve stowaways.
The prisoners are nearly all Short
term men, mostly from the Fourteenth.
They We're under the charge of Lieut..
Regain on the trip from Manila. Twenty
other prisoners, whose terms had eX-
PRED, We're released soon after leaving
Yokohama. The prisoners attempted to
escape while the Sheridan was at Maya
saki. but We're captured before fairly
reaching the main deck. Nearly all
| were in handouts which in some un-
/ known manner they managed TO wrest
1 from themselves, and at night they
broke open the hatch leading to the
/ main deck. The watchful sentry sum-
| moned assistance and the men We're
again placed in handouts.
At Yokohama the prisoners became
| exceedingly unruly and Sergt. Barry
Went among them to preserve order. The
prisoners set upon him and severely
beat him. In self-defense the sergeant
shot Alonzo b. Kelly, of the Twenty
fourth Regiment, a prisoner. in the leg.
The wound was slight but it had good
effect upon the other men in irons.
Sergt. Barry formerly had charge of the
military prisoners at Bilibid prison and
was supposed to know how to handle
the men.
Lieutenant Colonel Quinton IS in
command of eight companies of the
Fourteenth, which came back in the
Sheridan. Colonel Daggett was form
erly in command, but last March he was
made brigadier general, and was sue
ceeded as ranking officer of the Four
teenth by Colonel Jocelyn, who had been
ktn this city for some weeks on muster
Ing duty.
The Fourteenth left this port fer the
Philippines in May, 1885, and won dis
tinction in China as we'll as in the
islands. Four companies of the regi-
ment returned to this country year
ago, and are now stationed at Detroit.
The men saw four months service in
China during the Boxer campaign. and
u we ct ,1ft I,o
lean troops there. The Fourteenth par
ticipated in the battles of Yang Tsin
and Pekin, and were the first troops of
nese walls. These colors We're brought
back in the Sheridan by Lieutenant Col
onel Quinton.
| Calvin p. Titus. a young bugler who
| was the first foreigner to gain the wall
| and gained as asreward a cadetship tc
/ West Point, was a member of the regi-
ment The men fought their way thru
Pekin's gate to the threshold of the
Forbidden City, and it is said would
/ have entered but for interference of 9TH
er powers.
A notable passenger on the Sheridan
is Captain H. w. Newton of the Thirty
/ fourth volunteer regiment. who took 9
II n l.
aldo.
i Macarthur talked freely in regard
4 to the situation in the PHILIPPINES. He
said:
"a satisfactory condition exists in
the islands. 1t is not perfect of course
but is such that it is gratifying to both
/ army and civil officers. The insurrec-
ton is almost entirely extinguished
Il A few groups of armed insurgents are
u still at large and give some trouble
but they undoubtedly will surrender
within a short time.
u The campaign is practically con-
fined to scouting and occasional move
ment in force against some large party
7 These movements generally result III
the surrender of the natives with theil
! rifles and have the effect of bringing
in other natives who, thru fear, have
] kept away. The natives have nov
learned that to surrender does not NEAR
death, torture and other punishment
but securing of larger liberties, free.
dom and protection. am well salts.
fed with the conditions.
1.-The civil administration was in,
Quoted into office July a with impress
i've ceremonies An immense gather.
lHS u lidliNeS was present ana the.
seemed to appreciate the change.
see no reason why government unde
the civil commission should not be en-
tirely successful. The change was
welcome one to army officials, to whom
the civil tasks We're hard and tedious
altho no one shirked his duty. TIL
two departments are we'll set apart.
"The conditions in the provinces ar
much improved There is great dea
of freedom in movements thruou
\ northern Luzon, where the insured
4 ton has been dead for some time. w
have had no trouble at that end for g
\ long that 1T has ceased to worry us.
can not say that it is entirely safe 70
individuals as yet, for there is larg
criminal class among the natives whic
) wanders about, committing deprada
tions on all parties, American or ma
4 tives. The natives suffer most fror
) these marauders. These are the resul
Z of several years war, during wtic
s no government existed, and men wer
allowed to wreak their criminal pas
sions without restraint. 1t could nc
have been otherwise. But these Grim
mails are not insurgents and have n
connection with them. The insurgent
LEADERS repudiate the actions of thes
people. It 10 question of importance
s but 1t is being satisfactorily worke