The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-02-03
An interesting Letter From Former
School Inspector Henry S.
Townsend of Mindanao.
The Natives Are Afraid to Have Their Houses
Cleaned and Accuse the Americans
of Trying to Poison Them.
Zamboanga, Mindanao, P. l., Dec. 27, 1902.

DR.. w. D. Moore, Honolulu, H. I.
Dear Will:
already knowt have engaged the cholera
fight, you howe completely up
Neither you know how hard we have been hit Zamboanga is small
population being
thousand people within five miles of this place say
Honolulu District When the death this be from
fifty sixty Corresponding with death of hundred and
fifty three hundred day Honouu of volunteered
inspect up, dnec place this
have with tAng difficulties which you appreciate In
the first place almost all the people believed that they did not have co
but that the Americans poisoning them This of made
welcome the native houses equivoca AS the
which patized considerable
popular belief this subject way with the
AS the
army place evening
riding public The officer accepted the challenge implied
side of the head with such aacity that the attacking
party asy undgnfed The night
guard of thirty forty stationed around his
house to see & II ne was bad @ man nam as was aerw3[d war xped m Gf
he kept his Light % burning and hd % g @ m across % @ m & knees G
the immediate of the the responsibility for
the poisoning having been Tagaogs
belief poisoning disappearing the
the Americans and the Tagaogs still have bear the
blame One Tagalog arrested and brought to trial
this for poisoning the from which the water supply
other in the house of the Tagalog The reasoning seemed
be like this why should that bottle have been placed the
ld i he xcePt the one living nearest Finally mysterious bottle
police the house the Iagalog and what
should contain poson The end OF all was that the Ia
gao brought where American judge presided and
shattered by the discovery that the
ordered the prisoner released did
the suspicion from the Tagogs and they are still bong un
ed suspicion about twelve miles from here and te report seems
good of it. When first started out to inspect
people feared exceedingly Women would cover up their
and when happened between
would the tcktS like rabbits
voices had with native Off
firmly, and Illuminating o
that thee
had poison With Now this
disappeared in the section OF the country where have
reminded of it to-day by three whoI
covered up their approach At Hr We had
no dnants except the people OF that oe
had houghtsy hands into i as Il lay Ill the cart
poS5 with water made
boiling which they had and ee which they f
caroic acid however, managed to get
The houses of the corn are OF scn
that would be praccDe TO u1
gate SO the washing with dnfectans about our limit III cases
whe the dreadd disease has done its work
of till started tbs and
of Yet have TO
more and more of disnfecng with hands, and in
the process have myself more and more O
set this however with and more caCetu III the
clothes after such exposure as nave TO
endure When the assignment places made the surgeon IN
charge remarked that cholera IN 1etan an III any
would send there lh1 hrs day
had sixteen cases had many any other day In the
this work. have dlsntected more ta
had IN mouse hus
the knowledge OF the natives ana 0st o
conclusion that am not there TO poison
sufficiently skiiiul III i
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