Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-15

The Surrender of Gen. Juan Cables.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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The Courier has received from -Har.
ry j. Watson, of Ottumwa, now serv-
ing as surgeon in the United States.
army in the Philippine Islands. copy
of the New American, of June rs, pub
lished at Manila. This paper gives
under big three column display head,
a full account of the surrender on
June "a, of General Juan Cables and
his force to General Sumner. The &C.
count is an interesting one and will
give the American reader a better idea
of the Filipino soldier, and incident
ally of the character of the Filipino
people, than any newspaper publication
that we have yet seen. 1t will be read
with much interest.
Santa Cruz, Province of Laguna
June 24.-General Cables marched in
to Santa Cruz at o'clock this morn
ing, with about $50 men, $50 rifles,
three cannon and one flag, and formed
in three columns, facing the church
and directly in front of that edifice.
Cables and his staff, twenty-eight in
all, attended mass in the church while
the troops outside knelt in the street.
After mass had been celebrated the
insurrectos were formed in column of
fours, marched around the block and
into the Quartet, where they deposited
their arms in the quartermaster's de-
pot.
A check good for $50 Mexican was
given to each man who deposited a
gun. There came near being some
friction over this matter. Cables
made stipulation that the money
which the United States would pay for
the guns should go to the widows and
orphans caused by the war The Of
ficer uetalled by General Cables to
look after this matter desired that all
the checks should be paid him, but
this was refused by Quartermaster
Stafford. Uncle Sam insisted on buy
ing the guns from the men who car.
ried them. However, an Insurrecto
officer, representing General Cables,
was permitted to stand by and collect
ed all the checks from the men as they
received them. The money will there
fore, not be diverted from it's original
purpose.
While the arms were being received
and checked up, General Cables and
his officers had repaired to the quar-
tiers of General Sumner, where they
We're entertained, and where matters
wv FOIL cd
were made.
Leonardo Joaquin, member of the
federal party, made an impassioned
speech, which was we'll received by all
present. General Cables then intro
duced the presidentes and civil off
GERS.
Later, the surrendering troops
marched to the Plaza, where the bands
played and about which an immense
throng of people had assembled. Here
the oath Of allegiance was administer
ed by Father Hath, chaplain of the
United States army, and solemnly re-
ceived by General Cables staff, and
other officers. The men will take the
oath this afternoon. The officers re.
tanned their side arms and no swords
were presented
NeHeral CallleS ana stan cried when
the rifles were being turned in, as did
also Colonel Julio Infante. The scene
was pathetic and impressive one.
Frank Mekin and Carl Guenther, two
American deserters who had been with
Cables troops, are now under arrest
The reason Cables collected the
checks given in payment of the guns
is that he insisted the money should
be given to the widows and orphans
resultant from the revolution. The
guns, he contended, were not the prop
erty of the individual soldier, nor yet
of the officers or the commander him
self, but belonged to the revolutionary
army, and the money, he said, should
go to the widows and orphans of those
who had fallen in the lost cause.
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