Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-01-03
.SPANG|ED BANNER
WAS FIRED upon
By Bandits From Noun
tains of Negroes
Island, P. |.
But IT WAS PRESERVED
| And SENT TO HONOLULU
As q Present to b. N. Dow Of High
Sheriffs Ctfce Who
is Now Proud
POSseSSor.

tne ItlSn SnerlH once, received as Y
Christmas present from Eddie A. Lev.
is, known in Honolulu by the name Of
Colorado" or Denver" and now a
sergeant in the Sixth U. s. Infantry. n
battle torn flag which was accompani-
ed by only the latter part of letter.
BY the Gaelic, MIR. Dow received full
description of the flag from Lewis AMI
has been kind enough to allow the
Bulletin to have It for publication. The
letter contains other information be-
sides that bearing on the flag and is, in
part. as follows:
"As we have often read letters OF the
boys in the different stations in the
Philippines in the newspapers that arc
sent out to us from time to time and
we never see our own island mentioned
thought would write you few lines
to let our Honolulu friends know that
there is also an Island of Negroes whe q
the 9Th Infantry is stationed in abor:
thirty garrisons. In one of these gar.
risons am stationed to guard the las;
remnants Of one Of the Union flags
which has seen many a rough day in
all kinds of weather and has been up
and down over the hills and mountains
of Negros since March 10, 1899. The fac
was issued to the native troops or Re.
serves as post flag. After 1t had been
hoisted at various places and carried
back and forth from one place to an
other. II was finally hoisted at Cana.
yam. a town on the southwest coast
there to stay for while. This was In
November Of 1899. On the Sth day oi
December. the revolution in Negros
broke out in fight at Ginigaran where
the insurgents attacked the garrison
Lieut.. Z. G. Peyton was then in com
mand of the Negros Reserves. He or
dered that body Of troops back to thi'
station to strengthen it. or course. the
flag was brought back with the Re
serves and hoisted. II remained herr
until April of 1900 when again Cana
yam was made a station and the fla'
went there the second time, guardc,
by the Negros Reserves in charge o
Lieut. Jose Ramos.
81 must now leave the flag and Re
serves for while to say something o
the Others who belong here. In thu
mountains of Negros is a bandit chic
by the name Of Segubela. He is oftei
called Papa Isio." Papa" because h
is religious fanatic. He has succeed
ed in making all his followers believ'
he Is a prophet and that prayers am
other things of the kind written b.
him. will save those who carry then
plements of war.
Whatever these prayers are o
whatever are the talismans, they prov
ed to be of no account in the fight O
these fanatics against the Americans
especially the 9th Infantry, durin
July, August and September of 1S9
when Lieut.. Col. Bynes made an expo
dition against Papa Isio and pushe
him farther and farther toward tn
southern part of the island. In the lat
ter part of July, 1900, Papa Isio es
tablished himself at Iuaiauan on tn
southern coast of the island and joine
his forces with those of one called Ruff
Hoyes, another but less active nativ
bandit who had also established lit
tie republic of his own which he turnc
over to Dionisio Segubela upon tn
latter's arrival on the southern coas
"Segubela was, of course, not satid
fed with the size Of his republic so h
planned an attack on Isiu, town abou
four miles south of Canayan. On arriN
ing there, he found that Lieut.. RamH
had already occupied the town this
very day. He sent out his right han
man. Rufus Hoyes, together with tn
bandits Of his own band and attacke
Canayan at about o'clock on the lat
day of July 1900. Lieut.. Ramos, Away
on the Qul vive. received notice of III
attack at about a. m. and in less thu
ten minutes, he was on the march ,
the relief of Canayan.
Ramos Immediately located I'll
mountain bandits and marched bold
forward to engage them. He was M
by volley which hurt no one on 4,
coutn of the rring aim of the bandit
The flag which have sent to you WI
in the midst of the Reserves and the
carried 1t forward with yell, the
minds set on exterminating the FAM
. tics of the mountains whom he four
, fought like tigers on account of the
S fanaticism and belief that nothir
could hurt them.
!, "At the end of three hours fghtin
{ the Reserves were forced to retire b
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