The San Francisco call., 1904-07-15

Inc OHileu STATES transport IhOmaS
arrived yesterday from Manila, via Ma
gasah and Honolulu She is 29 days
from Manila, % from Nagasaki and
from Honolulu. The full passenger
list numbers nearly 1000 persons, in
cluding 100 in the cabin and S25 enlisted
men. The last are as follows: Compa
nies 10, 3S, So and 1OS of the Coast Ar
tillery, 3O4 men; casuals, 367; discharg
ed soldiers and employees, 129; general
prisoners, %. One insane man, Captain
j. D. Cook a former shipmaster, from
Honolulu, came up in care of an at
tendant and will be taken to the Ma
rine Hospital. Major General Mckay
Williamson, depot quartermaster at
Honolulu, reports here for new orders
Frederick w. Unger, a war correspond
ent, is returning from Korea after the
usual troubles with the military offi-
cials and press censors. p. @. McDon-
nell, member of the City Council of
Manila and correspondent of the New
York Sun; c. F. Stone, editor of the
Manila Times; DR.. and Mrs. H. A. Eb-
berly and daughter of Jolo; the Rev. F.
NJ. Price and wife from Guam; Chief
Engineer D. d. Wilson of the United
States ship Pompey; Brigadier General
and Mrs. p. NJ. Coke from Honolulu;
Lieutenant Colonel c. H. Lauchheimer
of the United States Marine Corps, and
the family of Judge F. n. Powell of
the Manila civil government, with
about thirty commissioned officers,
were among the passengers.
Frederick w Unger, the home-com-
ing newspaper man, echoed the plant
of all the returning war correspond
ents. He was unable to get near the
firing line and was only permitted to
view the progress of the war from a
long distance. The top of his head is
shaved in the Chinese style. This is
feature of the disguise he adopted in
his attempts to get into the zone of
conflict. He says he joined the Hung
Hutsus. or Red Haired Bandits, who
are Chinese irregulars now in the Jap
anese service. He drifted around
awhile with these fierce barbarians, but
his companions never seemed anxious
to get within lancing distance of the
equally fierce Cossacks. When he
heard that Etzel, another correspond
ent. had been killed by the Chinese
I
iization and severed his connection
with his red haired friends.
A story was started on the Thomas
that throws a shade of doubt over the
Hung Hutsus part of the narrative.
According to this story no Chinese
bandit ever saw Mr.. Unger's head
shaved, but the trick was done by the
transports barber after he had come
aboard. Passengers also declare that
Unger intends to lecture in connection
with his coming book on the situation
in the Far East. The passengers re-
peated the tale under their breaths fore
and aft, but Unger laughed at the re-
port and dubbed it nonsense.
When he boarded the Thomas at Ma
Mia he found no accommodations for
extra passengers and took UP his quar-
ters in a large stateroom which had
one occupant. Soon after entering the
door was locked and he learned that he
was fastened in with Captain j. d.
/ Cook, a violently insane man. Unger
was badly frightened when he was re-
leased next morning. Somebody had
told the attendant that Unger was
crazy also and must be watched con-
stantly.
The Rev. F. NJ. Price, from Guam,
gives a few interesting items concern
ing that mid-ocean station. The ISL
and's population numbers about 10, 900,
of whom 1900 are children between the
ages of and 13 The crying need of
the island is education. There are no
schools and the Government appears to
4 be lax in providing these for it's child
wards. Under the Spanish rule the peo-
pie were always illiterate and Uncle
+ Sam seems to have done nothing to
change that condition.
An important discovery has come out
from the East. Surgeon H. A. Elderly.
stationed on the island of Jolo. has
/ found the cause of the spread of
dengue, the malarial fever Of the Phil
ippines. 1t is simply the mosquito-the
same noxious insect that has been
found to be the spreader of yellow fe-
yer in Cuba. The doctor has prepared
and forwarded a voluminous report of
his important discovery to the surgeon
general in Washington.