Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-16
CIVIL RULE IN SAMAR
Commission Sent to the Island
 For That Purpose.
GENERAL AMNESTY ON JULY 4.
This Will Give Freedom to Filipino Prisoners on Guam-Peace Pros poets In Leyte Bright-A De-
 fense of West Pointers.

poets In Lcyte Bright-A De-
 fense of West Pointers.
 MANILA, June 16.-Friendly natives in Manila say a report is current among their countrymen that the five soldiers of the Fifth cavalry who were captured by the insurgents May 30 have been boloed to death near Teresa, in Morong province, Luzon. This re- port has not been confirmed by the American authorities of that district.
 Twenty-Five members of a band of insurgents who were captured while fighting with General Lukban in Sa- mar took the oath of allegiance to the United States and were subsequently released. Four members of the band were killed in the engagement which resulted in the capture of their com panions. The twenty-five who have sworn allegiance have seen General Chaffee and have promised to give him all the assistance i'll their power in the work of maintaining the present peace conditions in Samar.
 A commission has been sent to Samar to appoint Senor Llorentes governor of the island and to establish civil govern ment there.
 It is expected that a general amnesty will be declared July f. This amnesty will result in the release of the Filipino prisoners now on the island of Guam.
 The prospects in the island of Leyte for a speedy termination of the armed resistance there are bright. Since the ports of the island were closed sur- renders of insurgents to the native con- Stabulary have occurred daily.
 Speaking at the West Point centen- nial dinner which was held here last week Acting Civil Governor Wright said he did not think 'sthe strife now being waged in congress on the Philip pine government bill is as fierce and as irreconcilable as it appears to be" that the sober second thoughts of the. American people were always right and that they would ill time do justice to the Americans in the Philippine ls- lands.
 Speaking at the same dinner, Colonel Charles A. Woodruff, head of the sub- sistence department at Manila, said: 'sThe graduates of West Point may be charity boys but ill the Mexican war these boys saved the nation in money alone more than the military school has cost since it's foundation. The same boys led 2,000,OO0 men to victory in the greatest of modern wars. The charity boys have alL repaid their board and keep thousandfold. They can glory in the fact that wherever '25, 900 American troops have faced an enemy the commander of these men was a West Point graduate. The es- tablished reputation of the boys from West Point has become synonym for honor, integrity and the highest credit in the country. They have saved tic country millions of dollars and thou sands of lives, and the charity boys will no doubt uphold in the present the proud supremacy of the United States"
 The chamber of commerce has pre- sented to General Chaffee a set of reso- Iutions which express the regard with which General Chaffee and the army in the Philippines are held by the busi- ness men of Manila.
 An American sentry belonging to the engineers was badly cut up with bolo in the hands of a Moro while on duty near Wears.
 Several dattos under the sultan of NIindanao have called upon Colonel Frank D. Baldwin of the Twenty-sev- enth infantry and have asked him for American flags. This action on the part of the dattos is considered equivalent to taking the oath of allegiance to the United States.