The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-22

Mrs. J. H Gre. OF 1102 Wichita street
has received the following letter from
Oscar Schsar, her brother, a Wichita
boy at Manila. His letter shows that
there is still lots of hard campaigning in
the Philippines. It is as follows;/
Camp Erenas. Samar. P. /, March 21 1901
Dear Sister
L just received your letter Of January %
yesterday, March 20, 1902 l was very
glad to hear from you. I'm well, except
ing sore feet which I received during
our hike in February last, but they
are getting better. Wen, 1 have good
news, but 1 guess you know about il
by the time you get this letter It is
General Lukpan. the insurgent leader
of Samar, who was captured on February
p. after hard hiking marches through
rice fields and swamps and over noun
tains, rocks and through timber so thick
that we could not see anything after sun
down. l viii tell you a part of our
hiking. On February l, 1902. we, Co c. L,
and Co. II, and the 24tn Co. of Native
Scouts had orders that Luban was in
our vicinity and to so and drive him
and his force as hard as we could and
try 10 capture him and his force On
February we started out for Tap Tap.
his stronghold, marched every day until
February 1. We reached there and the
insurgents fired on us and wounded Sergt.
Dick. scout in charge of the native
scouts. All three companies charged the
hill. The insurgents had fed and we
could find no trace of them. only few
dead that they had left behind We
dead that they had left behind. We
hft<af r~,f,~
then started back for Erenas for rations.
We were all out at the feed except
some carabans water bufaIoes) which
we took in with Us. we went out on
February Is again. This time ten Amer
lean soldiers and thirty scouts for San
Jose. I was selected as one Of the best
mixers IN L c.. so it came that / was
again Sn this trip which was to be for
six days over the mountains rocks and
bad country. where their supposed bolo
gang was operating We got 70 san Jose
without seeing any natives which looked
strange to Us, but the captain OF the
native scouts told US then that II was
a general hike an through this section
of the country for the purpose Of catch
Ing the noted cutthroat General Lukban.
We returned 10 Erinas on February a.
all sore foot. worn out and most OF the
scouts are stn sick in quarters. II was
the hercest hike 7 was ever on. We slept
on the rocks without shelter and It raiued
ali the time; we was out and We felt
discouraged for not getting any insurg-
ents. but alas. on February q. the gun
boat brought Us the news that the hike
was q great success as II drove all the
insurgents back into bunch and affected
Lukbans capture and the insurgents are
surrendering by hundreds wild yell
came from all the comrades. that put ne
in mind OF a presidents election in the
United States. Lukban Is no more az
large The last words he said when he
saw there was no more chance Tor lib
erty vas I'm Luzhaa tho irsurEeut
general and ye:ir prisoner Oh. We were
aM glad 20 get lit,le rest The ia-
sur gents arc gathering herr. Two end a
half miles from ETiras ana an Tuesday.
March =. General James Smith VIII he
lere as The Insurgents have sent in The
word that they vented 20 surrender III
orce they claim they aare over sts
s9es and ove~ -N ba,os end th,r they
re e9e TO Io9o strong. This is supposed
@ De the lasf sans ~ them ost in the I
ield in Sanar So GOV. - island where :
spain could never gaia success has BEEN {
'rought % tine ~ Ken tkat fought un-
er the stars and stripes although we
sunot forget tbs treacherous Esassacrss ?
hat they done ca this irisn5 II which c
many q our solder comrades lost their 2
ives Il rrust row cease ard WI crase 3
hey found out AT last ,hat The Au7sri- =
ans would not Do driven away Ike the p
parish before Americans came here 7 g
III row close n hops 20 hs1r from ycu x
oon. I remain your sincere brother.
scar =
dsress oscar c. schaar. q
co. L. 3 Ia1sntrv, Sams- 2 e
received the bunch ~ papers you G.
snt me and was very glad q sex them. q
;hsnk you Thousand times IS Il p
rings al The news that We never hear 81
T out here IN the back woods s.,