The Newtown bee., 1901-06-07
Ten Pages.
I,ITCHFIELD COUNTY.
WASHINGTON.


 It is nearly two weeks since wrote last so thought it about time l wrote again. lam having vacation of about two months. The Commission CTS are forming a new school system and nearly all the schools are closed until it goes into effect. Duty has been quite hard on the company for several months so I asked to be re- turned to duty while the school is closed and am now on duty with the company. l have just returned from a "bike" in the mountains with Lieut. Hunt; we were out four days and had great time. We left here last Friday and after marching all day camped in the mountains for the night. We got very little sleep as the mosquitoes kept us busy all night. In the morn- ing we arrived at Toledo, a town on west coast of the island. Here we found Capt French with his company. He had come down the coast from Balambau to cooperate with us. We were all after Gen Luega, the chief in- surgent general on the island and we would have caught him had it not been for the treachery Of the native sengers to warn him. We caught one of the messenger returning and made him tell all he knew. The president tried to escape but we caught him be- fore he could leave the town and with him several of the leading men of the town. We ought to have burned the town to the ground as it was hotbed of insurrectiOn. Even the church, the largest building in the town, was pierced with holes for the purpose of firing through and there we read arti- cles in the papers about the soldiers desecrating the churches in the Phil ippines. We left Toledo Saturday af ternoon and marched down the coast about II miles, when we ran into small force Of Ladrones. They fired few shots and then started to run away but not before We had shot four of them. We burned the village and then went down the coast few miles farther and camped for the night. The next day, Easter Sunday, we sur prised band of insurgents in the town Penamungayan while they were having great celebration. We cap tured nearly every one of the band and left that afternoon for Naga arriving there the following afternoon. Yes terday a band of insurgents command ed by a generalcame in and surrender ed to Lieut. Hunt. This is the first band that has ever surrendered to the Americans on this island, hence we feel quite happy to think they surrendered to our com pany. This is one of the last islands to give in but the insurgents are be- ginning to lose heart and it wont be long before they will all be glad to come in. For the last two days the doctor has been busy vaccinatin every man, women and child in the town and it certainly is a sight all day long. There is a crowd in the sea washing off two or three years accumulation OI HULL "do SdCNlHdUCu dSdIll thinking it would do no harm after being thrown among the Filipinos several months teaching school. This is the time when we feel the heat most, but it is not as hot in this town during the hottest season as it is at home, during the summer months
 Gen Hughes came over from Iloilo on the same boat that 1 return ed on. He expects to start a campaign on this island. Nearly every island in the group has surrendered but thls one and the neighboring one of Bohol. This island was never subdued by the Span iards because of the many mountains to which the insurgents could flee. Our regiment has driven them from one place to another and has defeated them so often that it will be but a short time before they will be under complete control. Now that Gen Hughes is here in person we expect great things as he never lets grass grow under his feet.-[ Ben.