Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-03-28

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goes about among the people organic
ing and electioneering. When the fu-
ture insular government is organized
he will run for Office and always be a
prominent figure before the people,
and that is what Pablo and these
other leaders want.
Knowing people shake their heads
and say old Pablo is still Ian insurrecto
and secretly aiding his former com
rades, but do not think so. There is
only ragtaS and bobtail of an insur.
rection going ON now and it has ever
been human nature to climb on to the
loaded wagon.
With Major Pickett.
| found S'I'dro full of officers. An
examination board was being held be-
fore which all first and second lieuten-
ants entitled to advance to the next
highest grade who were on duty in
this district had been summoned.
The town also had q respectable num-
Der of American womenZthe wives
and daughters of the officers. | made
calls upon all of them and fully en-
joyed the privilege and pleasure of
meeting accomplished and intelligent
countrywomen again. Mrs. Newell
had cat, the first glance at which
gave me an impression that it was not
Filipino. It's neatness and self-con-
fidence spoke its descent, and learned
it was born on the transport Sherman
of pure American parentage.
Z.
la paymaster, Major Pickett, son of
the confederate general Pickett who
made the famous charge at Gettys-
burg. The major was on his way to
\ pay company of the Oath to the
north of us. | rode in the Doherty
wagon with him. A wagon with IN
Irish name would naturally suggest
nothing more imposing than wheel
barrow or at most dump-cart, but a
Doherty is very fine ambulance with
side doors and seats arranged like
those of a stage coach that can be
changed to fore-and-aft seats when
required.
The major proved good talker and
story-teller and he made our ride very
| NhJOy obiO. AlS 10 lOtullh anu July
and speaks with a rich Virginia infiec-
ton. AS we neared Cabanatuan we
met the burial corps with long, lugu-
brious procession of wagons loaded
with long wooden boxes containing
dead soldiers going home" poor Eel
lows, to sadly waiting friends and rel
atives. The escort reported they had
been fired upon by Mausers just below
the town. | closed up our cavalcade
and left the Doherty's grateful shad a
and mounted my blaCS pony. AS WI
neared the lower end OF Santa Rosa q
rifle cracked spitefully in front of us
We have become used to the distinc
tive qualities of the discharges of the
various firearms used in the islands
and always guess the character of tbs
men discharging them by the sound
This discharge did not have the rend
ing quality of the Krag. report, nol
was it as dead as the Mauser
| forced my horse rapidly to the front
, dismounted the advance guard and
, rushed through field of growing
vegetation, full of thistles ana Metre
only to find that the alarm Lad been
an innocent one. We heard some
men shouting in English on our right
, and presently discovered three men
from the garrison with shotguns out
on permission to go hunting. They
had fired in the rice fields and
alarmed the burial corps.
Major Picket took breakfast with us
and pushed on to Cabanatuan. In the
! evening he returned and passed the
night
/ Today captain Dowdy with the
, mounted men went by order of Gen.
Funston to Cabanatuan to meet very
impatient hombre who was coming
: down the pike and escort him this
: way. The party returned at three in
the afternoon with the man who in
t sisted he was no less a parsonage
! than special messenger from the elu.
sive and retiring Aguinaldo. He said
he had left Aggie on the 18th of Janu-
airy in Isabella province in the north
eastern part of the island near the
: coast and that he was commissioned
to believer communications to all the
insurrecto generals. He had found
the sentiments of the people undergo.
ing such a change in favor OF the
Americans that he had Jlred of his job
, and tried to surrender himself and
men to Major Detchmendy at Baler.
but the Americans had driven them
| away with mucho boom-boom. They
/ had then wandered on and finally got
lost in the wilderness, become foot
sore and weary, and desperately
: hungry for chow-chow, when por la
e gracia de Dios they found themselves
at Punta Bangan and were kindly re-
| ceived by the Americanos. He further
) said that General Emilio's army is
muy POGO and that they have very
little chow or anything else. A cav
airy detachment took the saddened
I insurgent to San Isidro accompanied
t by the paymaster and his clerk.
t Lncoln's Forgiveness.
Y Among the stories told me by Major
+ Picket while | rode beside him in the
q Doherty was one of President Lincoln
g which | think Of some interest. He
4 said that the appointment of his
n | father IN West Point in 1S42 WAS &c.