The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-26

States if he would lay down his arms.
That's not such a bad story for fellow in
in his position to tell, especially as he seems
| able TO make it go.
Captain Bell and other army officers
/ say this for him-that he is inspired by
a desire for independence. They do not
/ class him at all with the ladrones who
are mere highWaymen and robbers; Ih nS
| say there can be no other reason for his
keeping up the fight except his belief that
there is some chance for independence.
MEN FROM GEORGIA.
You find them everywhere. The second
man on board ship to-day was Georgia
boy whose home is Macon and who is
very well known in Atlanta. The first
was Captain Bell. who is acting quarter
master of the First Infantry and at the
same time in command of his regiment,
a rather unique combination. The colonel
is off sick leave, Lieutenant Colonel
Price is just transferring to another regi-
ment, and the other officers are out in
the field away from headquarters. This
! leaves Captain Bell in command. With
/ him came Sergeant Major Howard White,
of Macon. About four years ago White
disappeared and for a long time-over two
years, l believe-nothing could be learned
of him by his friends. He first went to
South America, then when war broke out
Went into the army as an enlisted man.
! His ability recognized and he is now
/ sergeant major of the First Infantry,
highly responsible position. His officers
recognize his ability and also, the fact
that he is a gentleman born, and he is
! treated like one of them so far as such
thing can be done without prejudice TO
discipline. He looks we'll and is enjoying
! life immensely.
The only thing to see ashore is an old
cathedral with a picture of a bleeding
Jesus, which seemed to me too realistic
to serve the purpose for which it is de-
signed. 1 should think il would keep
people out of church. rather than attract
them to it, The figure is life-size and there
! is blood, real blood, spattered all over il.
Speaking of Georgians, l had hoped 10
find Lieutenant Campbell King here, as
! he is with the First, but 1 find he is in
| command of his company at little
place called Guigan, way down at the
! foot of the island, where they are lucky
if they get a mail once in three months.
A beautiful life this. If anybody tells you
that the officers doing duty in the tropics
| are having an easy thing OF 1T, If pictures
are painted of their basking in the smiles
Of pretty senoritas and enjoying life of
| elegant ease, just say for me that men who
ing.
one of the doctors here is Captain Stock
| ard, of Greensboro, y. C. a kinsman OF
| DR.. StOckard, of Atlanta. DR.. St0ckard
believes that Samar could be made OF
the garden spots of the earth under proper
handling; that everything will grow in the
valleys and in profusion. He is not very
| enthusiastic over the possibility OF bring
| ing about that proper handling by means
of the native, and | think he is wise Ii
| and look for work when he does not have
to work, and there is no extreme poverty
in the tropics, where any man can get all
wear without lifting his hand TO a hard
days labor. However great the posi-
bilities of the soil in the valleys. there
fore, the blossOming process must be
slow one, for the native will work only
as he is inclined and 1T is beyond the
realms of possibility that American labor
he hrnr oh
and IT, when once here, the Americans
retained the energy of the Northern farm
er-then would this be as the Garden of
Eden: also will the millennium have
arrived, and then none of us will have to
think of work.
NATIVE SCOUTS AT WORK
The work being done by the native scouts
here and on the other islands has interested
me very much. The policy seems to be 10 use
one tribe against another; the Maccabebes
in Luzon against the Tagalogs, the Leyte
people here on Samar, the Panay people on
Cebu, and so on. Where they are we'll Of
fcered they do excellent service. The ma
tives. or, rather, those in arms, classify
them as Maccabebes, because that is a
name hated throughout the islands The
| Maccabebes inhabit a small section in
northern Luzon and are not very numerous
but from the early days of Spanish occu-
patton they seem 10 have been used by The
accentuated the feud already existing and
had il not been for the protection which
the Spanish accorded them. the Maccabebes
would long ago have been entirely wiped
out.
The scouts have come. as I have said
from Leyte. They Visayans as are the
people of Samar, but the relationship is
one of those which brings family feuds
rather than friendships. There are two
companies OF scouts here under the COM
mand of youngster who has magnificent
record and TO whose great fitness for this
service all the officers of the First and the
Ninth Infantry testify. He is Lieut. Roy
Hoover. who was a sergeant in the Forty
third and whose bravery and daring is re-
spOnsible not only for his present commits
sion. but for recommendation for medal
of honor. That recommendation gives in a
nutshell indication or the character of
the youngster Il is from Mai Henry T
I Allen, OF the FOrty-third. who is now the
head of the Philippine constabulary. and
reads this way:
1T is respectfully recommended. etc.
that Sergeant Roy Hoover Company /
Forty-thrd Regiment be granted a medal
of honor for the grit and courage he
showed by advancing on Lukban's strong
hold (San JOSEF March 81. 1900 with only
five men. Having surprised an innocent
courier carrying valuable dispatches he
| impressed him into his service and with
| this small force dared TO attack San Jose
this I'm spite Of the fact that he and his
men were practically shOeless and sore
footed from a very extended mountain
/ reconnaissance. His guide led them into
an ambush, where they were subjected 10
a fire of from twenty 10 thirty rifles which
brought down Private Charles DolIoff. shot
through the small OF the back Sergeant
Hoover and Private Taylor each put
shot into the guide, then nOby rescued
| their wounded companion, whom they
brought safely back 10 the base. Loquilo-
/ ken
That tells OF one episode in Hoovers
service In the army. He was regarded in
/ the volunteers as the best man in his regi-
! ment 10 have charge OF a scouting party,
and his commission in command OF scouts
| when the native forces were organized
| followed as a matter Of course. Colonel
| Price says he is a perfect daredevil; that
ne has no conception Of the meaning OF
the word fear; that when out on a trail he
seems TO have all the instincts OF an In