The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1901-03-20
a soldier Letter.
BAY PROVINCE LAaUNA,
SOUTHERN LUzoN, p. L.
JanuarY l5th, I9OI.


er and all at home, l will drop you
a few lines to let you know that l
am we'll at present, with the ex-
ception of bad cold / have not
had a letter from home since the
18th day of October until today
| L have had the chills and fever, Was
in the hospital long time but am
better now
The warm season has just set
in but it is no warmer than it is in
the states in the summer time.
This country is composed of high
mountains and swamps. There
are thousands of acres of cocoanuts
and bananas right together. The
people are unoivilized and will eat
human flesh just as quick as apys
thing elae They have very ugly,
bushy heads, and their finger nails
are three inches long. There is
lots of fighting going on here now.
On the South line, on New Years
day, the 10th Reg Colored Troops
was attacked by band of 1nsur-
gents, commanded by Gen. Cayles,
Frenohman. The battle lasted
about three hours. The 10th
chased them and hanked them on
both right and left They cap.
90, armed with Meuser rifles; sew
eral of the enemy we're killed; the
Americans lost mono. Gen. Cayles
Jumped on his horse, waved his
sword and took to the mountains.
On the first of the month, 90. x,
of the 9th Inft., captured a captain
of the Insurgent army, armed with
two Spanish revolvers; he came
from his regiment in the noun
tains, to this town to collect money
from the Filipinos, to pay his men.
One of the natives gave him away.
Our company surrounded the house
that he was in, about midnight,
and took him. He was the most
vicious looking Insurgent l ever
saw; he is a captain that has killed
more mon and cut them to pieces
with bolos, than any other captain
in command of the Insurgents. be-
ing captured twice before by the
9th Vols, and got away, but he
will not escape this time. He was
sent to Manila with his hands and
feet bound in iron bands. He will
be court martialed. / am wit
ness against him. He will be tried
before Gen. Macarthur, and L will
get to 90 to Manila when he is
tried. l will be in another trial at
Manila, too. The Captain of K.
Co., T.. N. Jones, was leading his
company out through the country
when he came to the suburbs of the
town of Callymon; we were fired
on by the Insurgents, and it made
the Captain so mad that he ordered
his men to fire the town. The In
surgents were concealed in store
house filled with bags of cocoanuts,
which firm had bought of the
Filipinos. The cocoanuts were
placed so as to form a barricade
around the Insurgents, and Capt.
Jones ordered us to burn it, and the
firm are going to try to make the
Government pay for the cocoanuts,
Belgium, Germany, The Roth
ohilds and the Standard Oil Co.
all have an interest in the COCOA
nuts. If the Captain can't prove
it was a barricade, he will have to
pay for the oocoanuts. He will be
tried by General Court Magistrate
and if the firm beats him, he will
be released of his command. There
will be hot time over it. He is
going to swear that the firm was
clicking in with the Insurgents; it
looks like the cocoanuts we're fixed
for that purpose; there we're several
thousand dollars worth of them.
But if Captain Jones oan prove it
was barricade, the U. S will make
it. hot for that firm. The firm that
buys the coooanuts ships them to
Australia; they make oil out of
them; they make the finest of oil.
The agent for the firm was in the
town, and the Captain arrested him
and is going to prefer charges
against him for aiding the Insur-
gents. But think the firm will
beat the Captain; it is rich firm
and if it does his "cake is dough "
Well, you asked me if L got
plenty to eat. Yes, L do. We
have beef all the time. The regu-
lar army feeds all right. L would
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