Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-12
some NATIVES DEFIANT
Formidable Bands ofInsurgents
Keeping the American Sol
diers Very Busy.
Conditions in Samoa Described
as serious--The Chief City
Surrounded.
lnsursent Flags Flaunted and
the Town Fired Upon.
Bohol Organized.

correspondence of Associated Press.
Tacoban, Leyte Province, April "a
Altho the war in the Philippines for
some time has been officially described
as practically over" the recent opera
tion of the United States Philippine
commission has been about the edge of
the localities which are still nothin.
more or less than the '.nemy.s terri
tory" The commissioners had heard all
about the doings of Maxilon, the Cebu
insurgent, who still manages to keep
more than regiment of soldiers con-
fined to the coast towns of Cebu: OF
Samson, Tagalog leader on the island of
Bohol who, with several hundred fol-
lowers, Keeps the peaceful Inhabitants
and American officers guessing as to his
whereabouts. and of Mojlcan. chief dis
turber of Leyte.
But when the representatives of the
United States found the real condition
IN Samai they saw a very serious s.tua-
tion--insurgent banners Haunted In the
hills round about Catbaiosan. the chief
city of the island. Shots fired into towns
garrisoned by American troops is a
very common occurrence, and the in
habitants are cowed into inaction by
fear of the vengeance of Luban, the
dominant insurgent commander IN Sa-
mar.
When the Americans first entered Bo-
hol they We're surprised to learn the re
public of Bohol'' was about being
founded. Agunaldo's picture hung
prominently in the provincial building
and the Boholians believed in him as
their leader out of Spanish tyranny; but
when all is said and the victory is Won.
they resolved that Bohol itself should be
free and independent AL that time.
Samson, the present insurgent coulnan-
Ger, was living at Tagdiliran, and was
on friendly terms with the Americans.
but he frankly told the army officers his
principles would never permit him to
cherish any lesser ideal for his people
| than absolute Independence. He was
given charge of the local police. One
day he went out to make pretended
tour Of inspection in other towns and
never returned.
A very marked characteristic of Tag
bilaran and the smaller towns is the
progressive character of their inhapi-
bury. military commander, have taken
special interest in the children. The
night of the committees arrival the
Young Niscayans were out to the NUM-.
ber of several hundred, carrying fsncy
lanterns, torches and emblems Seem
ingly of innumerable native design. and
shouting "Nivas" in from, of the houses
occupied by the American guests.
u
spirited singing OF america" by those
children who We're good at English pro-
nunciation, accompanied by native
bands.
Leyte has suffered badly from the raw
ages of war and the consequent idleness
of its people but the aggres essiveness of
the Forty-thlrd Infantry and rapid
spread Of the federal party in the island
have combined to bring about almost
| perfect peace.
Col Murray, OF the Forty-third Regi-
ment. had hoped TO have the rebellion
entirely wound up before the arrival OF
the commission. The influential native
| president, Tacoban, had seconded his
| efforts to such an extent that even then
| he was out hiking for Mojican. accom-
| panied by twenty-five of his townsmen-
Leyte was. the following day. organized
| into a province without delay.
Crossing the narrow channel between
Ieyte and Sama to Tally. there is a
different state of affairs 1t was known
that the insurgents occasionally took
some shots at Catbalogan from the adj
! jacent hillside. which almost surrounds
| the city, but the visitors We're quite
amazed to learn that the defiant waving
of rlags on the hills was common oc-
| currence. and that the garrisons in Cat
balogan and other Samar towns We're
shot at so often that little was really
thought of such incidents. On the very
| day of the arrival of the commissioners
| the town was fired into