Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-04-17
MESTREZAT HOME.
South Morgantown Band Mas
ter Reaches Here.

He has Invented Specific fer Philip
pine Skin Diseases Fortune Comes
of a Stroke of Ill Fortune South
Morgant0Wn Council Rejects Paying
Bids.
Walter A. Mestrezat, the band
master of the Both regiment has
reached home. He Is very glad TO
get back among white people and
civilized cooking again. He says
however that he expects to return to
the Philippines before very long He
has been offered several places with
new regiments but will probably re
main IN civil life.
While ia the islands he in compa-
ny with everyone else had a severe
seige with the peculiar skin diseases
that infest the islands. However he
turned the i'll fortune to good ac-
count. Experimenting on his own
hook he discovered a remedy that
will cure the worst form Of the dis
ease in few days For hundreds
of years the natives and visitors have
been intensely annoyed with nothing
to stop the course of the outbreaks.
He expects to start manufactury
of the remedy in Morgantown as soon
as he can get room All of the in
gradients are to be had IN this coan-
try except one and that is to be i'm
ported from Manila The stuff has
already been placed on the market
and has found large sale. 1t is ex-
pected to make a very handsome
thing for the inventor.
Mestrezat thinks that that the re
bellion is ended There is no troub-
lie now from any except ladrones who
plumber and kill natives as well as
Americans The policy adopted now
is to hang and kill all caught en-
gagged in this pursuit and it is
thought that after thousand or SO
more go the hemp route that the
bands will be broken up,
The islands are claimed to be i'm
mensely fertile and worth great
deal to the United States. The ma
tives are getting accustomed to their
new citizenship and they having
more freedom than ever before are
being reconciled to the new order of
things.
All kinds Of crops are raised in
great profusion and several crops
year can be gathered. Everyone has
money and even the poorest have a
pocket full of coin
All 90 to church on Sunday and
after church have cockfghts of which
the natives are passionately fond.
They Will wager large sums on the
outcome of these battles and they
fight among themselves over the
merits of the birds.
The heat is the worst thing to
contend with. There is form of
heat stroke which is different from
sun stroke. The men suffer from
this a great deal. They go crazy and
as far as Mestrezat discovered none
of them ever got over the stroke.
Much of the blood and treasure
cost by the war would have been
avoided if the o. S had been ready
for fighting. The insurgents were
better armed and equipped than the
Americans were but now things are
better fixed.
The band was very good one and
taking it all in ali the experience
was a very pleasant one and one
highly enjoyed by ali who were along
with it.
The council rejected all of the
bids for street paving as they were
considered too high. Some Of them
were not submitted in proper form
They will receive bids until next
Monday night. The South Park
people were allowed to connect with
the South Morgantown peoples sew
ers. They will lay Is Inch pipe
from the place Of connection to the
river. A 10 inch onehas been provid
ed for