Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1901-03-21
PHILIPPINE MATTERS
Acts Promulgated by the Commits.
sion Received at Washington.
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT.
Schools to BE Established In Every Pueblo
In the Archipelago Records Of Ma
tives Charged with Murder
and Other Grimes.

In the Archipelago Records Of Ma
tives Charged with Murder
and Other Grimes.
Washington, March 19.-Quite
number OF the acts of the Philippine
commission as promulgated by the
military authorities in the islands
have been received at the war depart
Inent. One of the most important
that for establishing a department of
public instruction in the islands
ready has been briefly reported by
cable from Manila. 1t provides for
general department of public instruc-
ton with central office at Manila
under the direction of general SUI
perintendent to be appointed by the
commission at salary of $4,000 per
nnnum. Schools are to be established
In every pueblo in the archipelago,
where practicable, and those already
established shall be reorganized where
necessary. According to the terms of
the act the English language, as soon
as practicable, shall be made the basis
of oil public instruction, and soldiers
may be detailed as instructors until
replaced by trained teachers. Au-
thority is given to the general super
fntendent TO obtain from the United
States 1000 trained teachers at sal
aries Of not less than SIS nor more
than 500 per month, the exact sal
ary to be fixed according to the eff
cheney Of the teacher. The act pro-
yides that no teacher or other person
"shall teach or criticise the doctrines
n any church, religious sect or de-
nomination, nor shall attempt to in
nuence the pupils for or against any
church or religious sect in any pub
lie school," 1t is provided, however,
that II may be lawful for the priest
Or minister Of the pueblo where the
school Is situated to teach religion
for one-half hour, three times week,
In the school building, to pupils whose
parents desire 1t.
Among the other acts Is one declar-
Ing all persons in arms against the
authority Of the United States in the
Philippine islands and all persons aid
Ing or abetting them on the LIST day
Of April, 1901, or thereafter, ineligible
to hold any Office Of honor, trust or
profit in the Philippine islands. An
other act regulates the hours OF Ia
bor. It provides that the heads OF
departments and officers in the Phil
ippine civil service shall require of
all employees, Of whatever grade or
class, not less than six hours of labor
each day, not including the time for
lunch and exclusive Of Sundays and
public holidays.
The records In the cases of "a I'll
ipino natives, charged with various Of
lenses against military discipline in
the Philippines, including murder
treason and other acts Of violence,
have been received at the war depart
ment. These records make plain the
methods pursued by the insurgents
to terrorize the native inhabitants OF
the islands and show cases OF atroci-
ties committed upon the latter where
they declined TO comply with the de-
nands and the exactions of the 80
called Filipino government. In one
case nine insurcent sympatbizers.
iully armed, seized in the night
family Of five persons and killed them
with bolos. The motive for the muir,
der was the punishment Of the family
for refusing to pay taxes in support
Of the insurgent government. The
guilty natives were sentenced to hard
labor for 80 years The most afro
cious, according to records, is that of
Eusebio Roias, styling himself lieu
tenant Of infantry in the insurgcnt
forces under the command Of Aleia
drino, an outlaw, who claimed to ex-
ercise summary power over the lives
and property of the natives who did
not bear arms against the United
States, and who conceived it to be his
duty to rob and murder peaceful and
law-abiding people living within his
so-called military jurisdiction. Going
In ordinary dress and taking with
him few followers, he secretly
seized his unsuspecting neighbors,
man at q time, and taking them into
the forest he proceeded, in two in
stances, to bury them alive. Roias
denied his responsibility for the muir
der of the men buried alive, but CON
cluded by saying AL my actions have
been in pursuance to the orders of
my superior officer" This man was
ordered to be hanged.
Disastrous Fire at Bismarck, Mo.
St. Louis, March 10.--The little town
Of Bismarck, Mo-, situated rs miles
~ 4. .A.s.