The Washington times., 1904-12-24
AMBUSH IN SAhAR
NOW CONF |RME D
Department Receives Mes
sage From Corbin.
LIEUTENANT HAYT KILLED
Governor Wright Has Reported Condi-
tions Existing and Says Such Out
LIEUTENANT HAYT KILLED

The War department today received
the following dispatch from Major Cen
eral Henry c. Corbin, commanding the
Department of the Philippines
1.-The Pulajanes are on the war path
ia Samar in considerable hunters, as
may be judged from the following:
On November 10. about 400 PlIajanes
and several hundred volunteers Joined
in an attack on detachment of twenty
Philippine Scouts. at Oras, Samar.
KILLED, one hospital corps man;
wounded, twelve Philippine Scouts;
missing, five, said to have been boleed
while in the river. All bodies badly
mutilated. And again, on December To-
Second Lieut. stephen Il Hayt and
thirty-seven enlisted men, Thirty-eight
Company, Philippine Scouts, were killed
by Pulajanes at Dolores, Samar First
Lieut. George F. Abbott requests help
from military authorities.
I Town threatened by 1000 Pulaj lanes.
Situation critical IL both instances. |
offered the Philippine Government all
the assistance desired. AS yet none has
been accepted"
Lieutenant Hayt's Career.
Lieut.. Stephen K Hayt, was a native
of New Mexico, where he was born
October "a, 1880. He recently lived in
Illinois. apS enlisted in the army from
that State as a private in Company A
Fifth Infantry, July 19, 1900 He was
later transferred to the Ninth Infantry.
serving in The Philippines, and rose TO
the rank of a sergeant.
He was appointed second lieutenant
of the Philippine Scouts August IS, 1903
Governor Wnght's Report.
The following mail report from Gov
ernor Wright in regard to conditions in
Samoa and other Islands. has been made
public by Secretary Taft.
The bulk of the civilized Fifipinos
live on or not remote from the coast
line, but there are scattered cornmunf-
ties living in the mountains who ere
little removed from savagery. 1t ire
quentfy happens that some enterpris-
ing man among them will obtain con-
siderable following and Will perpetrate
all sorts of outrages upon peaceful and
inoffensive inhabitants. This cannot be
changed at once. 1t, therefore, may be
inferred that Tor several years to come
there viii be eruptions from this source
and that they Will make raids upon the
civilized EilipinOS, living in the loWlapdS
as heretofore.
The commission so far as its finances
permit, is engaged in building roads to
open up these remote sections of the in
Instance Cited.
"A striking instance of the tendencies
Of these mountaineers is furnished by
recent occurrences in The island OF Sa-
mar. which is the third in point of size
in the archipelago Two months age
several hundred of these hiIImen, under
the leadership OF one ef their nuniper.
who styles himself Papa Pope Bulan,
and who. as is usually the case, claims
10 be dlvinely inspired, suddenly de-
scended upon the native towns along
the coast line, p!undered and burned the
outlying Darrlos. and tegan killing men,
women, and children .ndiscriminateIy.
Defrauded by Agents.
| The constabulary promptly took
the field against them and they were
soon broken up into small bands, and
are being pursued AMI killed or cap
tured- Captured members of the band
state that the immediate cause of the
outbreak was that certain of their
countrymen, who were prominent in the
insurcection, and who have been en-
ployes by mercantile houses as agents
for the purchase of hemp, had .op-
pressed them by paying them only a
nominal price for their hemp, there
after turning it into their principals at
much larger price.
The Spaniards Impressed them
selves less perhaps upon the people Of
Samar than upon the inhabitants of
| the other islands, and, except Miuda-
mao. the home of the Moros, there Is,
! therefore, more combustibIe material
| there than in the other islands Doubt
| less many of the inhabitants of these
mountain regions never have seen a
white man
The civilized F'iIipinos are in great
| terror Of them and eagerly co-operate.
SO far as their fears viii permit, with
| the constabulary and scouts in their
| elimination"