Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-23
Gen. Grants Magnanimity.

General Grant treated the defeated insur-
gents with great liberaIity at the surrender
at Catabalogan. He allowed quite num-
Der of the officers to retain their arms and
ammunition. which means great deal in
country where every revolver has to be
registered The officer that had the late
Captain Connells sword zone Of the Balan-
giga victims, whose body was frightfully
maltreated) made a request for same, but,
of course the general would not listen to It,
He promised the holder that he would see
that he got new sword.
The men have been requested to put in
their names if they have any dental work
to be done, there will probably be one
Of those muchly desired officials around in
the near future. They put in their names
without much hopes of hearing any more of
1t, as they have done the same before, but
no dentist has come and their teeth are In
bad way. The soldiers heard Of dentists
being added to the army, and hailed the
news with delight, and now If one really
does come in the flesh he will receive a
cordial reception the ration over here
Is not the kind furnished in the states and
the teeth have a great deal to do.
The cholera at Manila and Tacloban has
played havoc with furnishing provisions to
the troops. The men this island are
principally living on canned corn beef and
bacon at the present writing. Until two
weeks ago a beef could be purchased occa-
sonally. bat now the natives claim there
are no more i'll the country. Up north they
get the Australian frozen beef which is of
excellent quality. but We are too far away
Lieut.. Pedro Pao.
Lieut.. Pedro Pao. 3Sth Company. Philip
pine Scouts arrived here this week and has
entered on his new duties with a very high
opinion of himself. He is, was. the Fill
Pine sergeant that was mainly instrumental
in capturing Aukban, the noted chieftain.
He is an ugly little native and the men
NS toll htA iS fpr aly
uorant, but he can draw his pay after some
one has made out his pay voucher for him.
Probably some day he will make bad
break and Will he tried and made to go
way back" He takes Keen enjoyment in
being saluted by American soldiers, and
while on leave in this town, spent most of
his time parading the streets, which are
frequented by Americans simply to swell
with pride at being continually saluted.
l understand that some OF the men walk
around the block rather than be compelled
TO salute him. but this is not soldierly. A
young kentUcki,sn would not salute and the
brown lieutenant stopped him, made him
put his heels together and salute three
times. The kentuckian did 1t in boiling
frame OF mind. and when released got full
of bad whiskey and went cunning, but for
tunately without result, the officer left
town shortly after. 1t is reported here that
the lieutenant has been placed under arrest
for overstaying his leave while here.
The Morcs over on the neighbcring island
stage. The battle OF Bayan was fright
fu. affair from all accounts. Datto Maundi
was very much like drunken longshore-
man. He was spelling for scrap. With a
chip on his shoulder he is said to have Of
fered 100 pesos and two Remington rifles
for a chance to go against the Americans.
He got 1t to his fill. They are still very
ugly and we are expecting orders to send
US over there.
On the Island of Paragua. which Is in the
Moro group there is said to be an American
chief or datto, by the name of Charles
Gray He halls from Delaware, but has
forgotten all about his native land. He has
5000 followers in his tribe. all of whom
will fight to the death for him. 1t Is said
he does not like the idea of the American
invasion of his island and shows signs of
fight. He was shipwrecked some years ago
and this accounts for his being in such an
out-of-the-way place.
Leyte Insurgents to Surrender.
1t Is understood here that the insurgents
on the Island of Leyte are about to sur
render. This will add one more to the
list Mindanao Is the only one out at
present. 1 am of the opinion that that
island OF fanatics will give more trouble
in the future than all the rest of the islands
combined.
Apropos to the water-cure excitement. I
notice that some statements have been
made of the fatal results Of this applica ton
In this town today lives a man who has
taken the cure three times and has suffered
no i'll effects. 1t was given to him to In
duce him TO tell where the insurgents were,
as he was collecting revenues for them In
this town under the Americans eyes
In the testimony Of the now Infamous
Corporal O. Brien before the Senate commit-
tee l noticed that he stated that the gov
eminent was using the Dunn dunn bullets
on the insurrectos. These bullets when
they enter a human being explode like a
shell
O'Brien possibly thought he was telling
the truth as l am OF the opinion that there
are any number of soldiers In the Philip
pines today who would tell you the car
tridges in their belts are dum-dums When
we relieved the ADD Volunteers In Leyte in