The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-16
INTERESTING
MANILA NOTES

The owners of sugar producing es-
tates in the islands of Panay and Ne
gros have united in petition address
ed to Governor Taft, requesting his
aid and influence in removing the duty
on sugar imported to the United States
from these ISLANDS, or at least, place
them on an equal footing with the pro-
ducers of Porto Rico.
The neWly-elected board of directors
of the Federal party has ratified the
action taken by the old board and rec
commended Senior Tomas del Rosario as
delegate to represent the party at
Washington during the next session of
Congress. Senior Rosario has not yet
decided TO accept this important mis-
sion, but it is believed that he is in
clined to follow the expressed desires
of the party leaders.
One of the young sons Of Gen. w. A.
Kobbe, lately in command of the de-
partment of Mindanao and Jolo, has
been arrested and held for murderous
assault. His victim is young Paul
Wissig, whom the boy shot in the
lungs with his rifle. Eric and Hermann
Kobbe, fifteen and sixteen years old,
respectively, for several weeks have
been shooting on the rife range at
Fort Mason, where their mother lives
Men in boats have complained of the
boys recklesSneSs. One oarSman came
near having his boat sunk under him,
because the boys peppered 1T with null
let's. On July 18th, Wissig, with three
companions, was in a rowboat when
several shots fell about them, and
Wissig received a bullet wound
through the lungs which, the surgeons
at the hospital fear, will prove fatal.
The Kobbe boys told their mother
when they read of the shooting, and
soon after a detective arrived and
charged them with the shooting. The
younger brother admitted he must
have shot Wissig, but both asserted
that they did not see any boat. Eric
was held for trial.
There is some speculation as to the
motives inducing S.xto Lopez to return
to the Philippines. For the past two
years he has been enjoying tour Of
the United States and Europe, living in
! the best hotels and generally taking
things comfortably at the expense Of
the Filipino junta. He is due to arrive
| In Hongkong within the next week, and
| it is said that he is accompanied by
member of the American Anti-Imperial-
| ist League, who is great sympathizer
of Aguinaldo
CAPTAIN Draper of the Marine Corps,
who died on his way to Hongkong from
| Manila was born in Kansas and grad
uated from the Naval Academy in 1885,
and has had very distinguished career
| in the Philippines, where he had seen
much service and done considerable good
work The body of Captain Draper is
now on its way to Manila for shipment
to the States, whittier it will be accom-
panied by Mrs. Draper and her child.
Much sympathy is felt for Mrs. Draper
| in her sad bereavement.
| The teachers are not finding the Phil
| ippines bed of roses. One young man
| says he entered his village with the
greatest interest in the welfare of those
who were to be under his care, in their
rise to American citizenship. He found
no school and no teacher. He sent for
the presidente. This dignitary he found
clad in the article termed a Gee string,
wallowing in a mudhole: With consid-
cradle vigor the presidente Informed the
| pedagogue that he was not wanted in
| that village at all, and advised him to
leave at once. There was a detachment
of soldiers in the place. who said he
had better follow the directions of the
presidente.