Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-11-12
THE RESCUE OF GILMORE.

Before left Texas my father SEEM
ed to have his mind set on the rescue
OF Gilmore and his party" said Colonel
Luther II. Hare at Kansas City recent
ly Let all other things go, II pos
sible.' he would say. and get poor
Gilmore out of the Filipinos' hands.
DR.. Lieberman OF Kansas Ci.y. was my
chief surgeon, and between the two
OF us we got 300 men, physically ft
to go anywhere. Fate and my flther
seemed to be w rk ng together, for
soon after reaching Luzon General
Wheaton ordered me ncrth to join
General Young's command. and Young
at once sent me out aft r Gilmore. We
were about in the center of Northern
Luzon-at Bingnat, in Arara province
when We made the start with 1S5
men and some natives. We passed
through the district p, oducing the fin
est tobacco in all LuZon. and breech-
clout people grew It, Once we came to
doubtful pace in the trail, and
piece OF blue flannel shirt set us right
But the best guides we had were chalk
marks on the cliffs. These generally
took the form of d ink Blanks Beer
and we knew Americans had written
e. but We wondered why they should
choose to mark the trails with sugges-
tions of that nature. We had been out
eleven days. think, when we ian onto
party of fifteen insu gents escorting
three Americans. We attacked. kill
ing five Filipinos. and the others fled.
leaving the prisoners. They were from
Gilmore,s party, had escaped and been
recaptured. Gilmore. they said, was
about two days ahead. Early the sec
ond day later we came upon the naval
officer and his party. Their cap.ors
had heard of cur coming and fed.
Gilmore begged them not to leave him
thout food or arms, and his men
had had little except pony meat for
two days b fore we reached them.
Gilmore had been prisoner nearly
eight months when we found him and
ne seemed dazed. In fact. none of the
men were vry monst at.ve. True
Americans, they had never ceased to
hope, and the relief came rather as a
matter OF course Giimore's authority
had ways b en- recognized by his
men, and he had made civilian nam
d Langford his executive officer. And
here the beer advertisements on the
trail were explained. Langford was
agent for an American brewery and
was captured while in some out-of-the-
way place drumming trade. On the
march into the mountains he took
some chalk from a school house and
with this wrote Drink Blanks Beer
along the trail. The Filipino officer in
charge caught him at 1t. and OF course
demonstrated.
"Oh. I'm only advertising my beer
Langford told him, and the insurgent
thought II was a good ] Ike. One OF
Gilmore's men. young fellow from
San Francisco, had a little monkey
which he carried on al the trip. and
hey made good use OF h m. In many
cases the fruits and berries in the Lu-
zon mountains are poisonous. These
hungry men would lead the monkey to
the fruit, and II he ate they would eat.
otherwise the most tempting growth
would go untouched, AID the little
monkey never abused the trust placed
In him. We had no rations and decid-
ed II would be nearer to float down
the river to the northern coast than
to try to go back. Rats took us out
near Apawi where we found the
Princeton, In less than two weeks.
Rice was practically the only food
We could find. On the entire trip
lost only one man. He died OF small
pox. and we brought his body back on
raft. None OF the other men were
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