The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-02-15
SAYS HE'S
DEAD.
Seymour Thinks
AsuinaIdo
Pau.

H. r. Seymour OF the Manila "Ameri-
can" who passed through Honolulu on
the Rio Janelro, thinks that Aguinaldo
has been dead for many weeks
THE last heard OF him." said Mr.. Sey-
mour, was three or four months ago,
when party of soldiers under General
Funston pushed up into the mountains,
The expedition captured IA lot of Agui-
naldos effects and papers, and the Cen
eral was told 10y Fnipinos that their
chief was dangerously wounded. They
said that he had been taken back fur
Their into the mountains. and nothing has
been heard from him since. If he were
alive he would undoubtedly have been
heard from, and 1t has become the fixed
belief of people iiA Manila that the trou-
blesome Filipino General has joined the
silent majority"
When asked about the war situation,
MIR. Seymour said that he beneNeu there
would soon be peace, and the insurrec-
ton would be thing of the past. Tine
war would have been ended long ago
said he, 'if too much confidence had not
been placed in the meaningless oath OF
allegiance. 1t was the custom Tor a
long time to allow prisoners to go upon
swearing allegiance to the United states,
and the result was that nine out OF ten
Of them would go back into their old
haunts and begin all over again. Under
the new rule captured officers are trans
ported to Guam and the soldiers are
held prisoners in stockade at Manila.
"Thirty-fve officers were taken to
Guam the day before our departure, and
there are now about 1900 prisoners in the
Manila stockade. Among the transport
ed officers was General Pillar, who took
the oath of allegiance when captured,
and afterWard made seditious speeches
with the intention of stirring up rebellion
again. He was re-arrested, and took the
oath over again, only to be detected in
carrying on correspondence with the
secretary of Aguinaldo. He Will be well
taken care of at Guam. If more strin-
gent measures had been taken at first
the trouble would probably have been all
over with by this time.
General Funston is still with his ex-
petition in the mountains and General
Grant is in command in Southern Lu-
zon.'
Seymour is on his way to the Coast
where he intends to purchase an entire
new plant for his newspaper, the Amer
lean. This will consist of new type, new
presses, linotypes and other things for
making the paper one of the best APP
pearing in Manila. At present the owner
is using the old Spanish type which
came into his possession with the paper
He is also the vice president of the
Manila Country Club, an establishment
near Fort Malate. where the track is
said to be fast. He was one of the or
ganZers of the club and is still actively
engaged in giving Manila clean sport.
He SAYS that Russell Colegrove. the
young man who became well known
here as one of the passengers on the
steamship City of Columbia and one of
the disturbing elements in the Berliner
family, has skipped out of Manila leav-
ing numerous creditors to mourn his
loss Colegrove secreteu himself aboard
an Army transport bound for San Fran
cisco. and is probably there at the pres
ent time.
A well-known celebrity who was wide
ly known in Honolulu last year and is at
present in Manila, is Lillian Leslie, the
singer who entranced Orpheum audi
ences during her several weeks engage
ment here. She is now engaged in busi-
ness in Manila, having left the stage
after her engagement was concluded in
Honolulu.