Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-08-31
NEWS FROM MANILA.
Scout Ferguson Executes Daring
Feat and Captures Deserter.
He Went Funston Ono Better and Invaded
u Filipino Camp, Disguised. with Only
Eight Comrades-Increasing the
Patrol ut Manila.

Manila, Aug. 27.-Pitchers' first dis
patch from Mindoro tells how Lieut..
Hazard, Of the Third cavalry, COM
manding a troop of Macabebe scouts,
captured the American deserter, How
ard, who, as q leader of the Filipinos,
had been annoying the Americans
for many months. Ferguson, one Of
Lieut.. Hazards civilian scouts, dis
guised as an insurgent, with eight
Macabebes, penetrated into the camp
of Col. Athena, commanding 240 rifle
men and 200 bolomen, at night, located
Howard, bound and gagged him and led
him away without disturbing TIE
camp.
Capt. Harold L. jackson, of the First
infantry, surprised Gen. Lukban at
Pambukan, in the mountains of the
island of Samar. Three of the gen.
erals guard were killed and Lukban
was wounded, but escaped. His fam
lily were captured. A captain and q
lieutenant were also made prisoners.
De Omcers Fear Trouble?
Manila, Aug. Elm the city of Ma
Mia there are now less than 1000 eff
fective soldiers and it has been decided
to increase this number by four COM
panies of infantry. There is feeling
that, although there is no apparent
prospect of trouble, nevertheless in
the event of an uprising in the fu-
ture such as is always possible among
the Malays, it would be better to have
a sufficient body of troops available.
Many army officers say they are graf
flied ut the increase in the military
force. They think that, with the mill
tary guard withdrawn from the pris-
on, another uprising there might re-
suit in the release of about 1880 pris-
oners. This possibility is regarded
as n menace to the city by those who
take that view of the case, as they
regard the white guard as insufficient.
Macarthur Praises Natives.
Chicago, Aug. 27.-Gen. Arthur Mac
Arthur, late commander in the Philip
pines, returns home strong in his faith
in the power of American institutions
to solve every problem in the islands.
He is optimistic also concerning tho
native gifts OF the Filipinos. and their
possibilities of development. He be-
lieves, moreover, that there is no army
like the army Of the United States,
volunteers and regulars combined. OF,
that delicate problem, the church
question, the matter of the friars, he
said this: ~ am persuaded that the
application of American institutions,
the spirit of the constitution and the
fundamental law of the separation Of
church and state, will solve every
problem growing out of the ecclesias-
teal situation, and hope that appli-
cation will be no whit abated."
Asked If the Philippines would af-
ford a theater for American expan-
sion, he said: "No white man can do
physical labor in the Philippines. Nor
will the Filipinos come to the United
States. They are used to a climate
with variation of only four or five
would they get along in
one with q variation of 100? The is
lands are marvelously rich, and when
developed will demand population
much greater than they now have.
White leadership and capital will be q
to the natives who in the
midst of great resources are underfed
a nd lindersnnnliad