Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-12-28
F|L|P|NOS ON WARPATH.
War Department Advised of Up.
rising in Samar.
SITUATION CRITICAL
Chicago Man Is Slain in Battle with Ma
tives-Americans Are
Ambushed.

department was officially advised today
by Gen. Corbin, commanding the depart
ment Of the Philippines, Of the uprising
in Samar, in which one Lieutenant and a
number of enlisted men of the Philippines
scouts were killed. The cablegram is as
follows:
1.-The Pulajones are on the warpath IN
Samar in considerable numbers, as may
be judged from the following:
On November 10 about 400 Pulajones
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 boloed while in the river. All
bodies badly mutilated
And again on December 10, Second
Lieut.. Stephen K. Hayt and thirty-seven
enlisted men, Thirty eighth company
Philippine scouts killed by Pulajones at
Dolores, Samar.
First Lieut.. George f. Abbott re-
quests help from military authority.
Town threatened by a thousand Pula-
jones. Situation critical in both in
stances.
Il offered the Philippine government
all the assistance desired. AS yet none
has been accepted"
Chicago Man Killed.
Manila, Dec. 24-Lieut. Stephen K
Hayt's home was in Chicago. News Of
the battle was received at army head
quarters here yesterday, and at the same
time adyices from Gen. William II. Car
ter addressed to Gen. Corbin told Of a
critical situation in the island caused by
the uprising of the Pulajones The town
of Dolores was in a state of siege, it was
understood, over 1000 natives forming the
surrounding army Over 1000 bOlOmen
were among the attackers.
1t is understood that it was at this
town thai Lieut.. Hayt and his company
were ambuShed.
Gen. Carter reporte, that Lieut. Gen.
scouts had reached Dolores and had sent
messengers to him at Iloilo, island Of
Panay, telling Of the situation and asking
for assistance. These messengers were
delayed five days in crossing the noun
tains.
Part of the Fourteenth infantry may
be sent into the field against the Prla-
jones.
Tells of Rebellion.
Washington, d. c., Dec. 24.-Secretary
Taft made public mail report just re-
ceived from Gov. Wright in regard to
the conditions of affairs in Samar and
other islands Of the Philippine group. 1t
is, in part, as follows:
1.-THE great bulk of the civilized Fill
pinos live on or not remote from the
coast line. but there are scattered COM
little removed from sayagery. 1t fire.
quenIy happens that some enterprising
men among them will obtain considerable
following and will perpetrate all sorts
of outrages upon peaceful and lnotfenslye
inhabitants.
Il l. H., -.
of these mountaineerS is furnished by
recent occurrences in the island of Samar,
which is the third i'll point of size in the
archipelago. Two months ago several
hundreds Of these hill men under the
leadership of one of their number, who
styles himself Papa Pope Bulan, and
who. as is usually the case, claims to be
divinely inspired, suddenly descended
upon the native towns along the coast
barrios. and began killing men, women
and children indiscriminately.
One Band Is Broken Up.
"The constabulary promptly took the
field against them, and they were soon
broken up in small bands and are being
pursued and killed or captured. Captured
members of the band state that the imme
date cause of their outbreak was that GER
tain of their countrymen who were prom
inent in the instruction and who have
been employed by mercantile houses as
agents for the purchase of hemp, had
oppressed them by paying them OILY a
nominal price for their hemp, thereafter
turning it into their principals at a much
larger price The Spaniards impressed
themselves less perhaps upon the people
Of Samar than upon the inhabitants of
the other islands, and, except Mindanao,
the home of the Moros, there is, there
fore. more combustible material there
than in the other islands. The civilized
Filipinos are in great terror of them and
eagerly cooperate, so far as their fears
will permit, with the constabulary and
scouts in their elimination"
Slain Lieutenant Was Young.
Chicago, Ill.,, Dec. 24.-Lieut Hayt
was the son of Walter V. Hayt. 3242
Dover street, chief deputy county re-
corder He enlisted in 1900 in the Fifth
infantry and was sent to the Philippines.
He came back in 1902 as sergeant in
the Ninth infantry and was assigned to
Fort Niagara, where he remained until
in 1903 he was appointed a second lieu
tenant and was assigned to the Thirty
eighth Philippine scouts. He went to the
Philippines soon afterwards.
He was born in Santa Fe twenty-four
years ago and had lived in Chicago six
teen years.
EXPENDITURES IN EXCESS.