The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-11
WILL MEYER SEE
INOCENTE AGAIN
BATS TRAGIC DEATH IN MU-
scum FIRE sPoILs PLANS.
Corporal Adams Intelligent Simian, a
Veteran Of Many Philippine Battles,
Would Have Been Taken Back to
Batac, Luzon, Had He Lived-How
Adams Came by Him.

Corporal Farley Adams of the TWEEN
[tyfrst infantry will feel mighty sorry |
when he reads in the newspapers, or is
| informed by personal friend, OF the
death of all the animals in the Palace
museum in the fire which occurred there
Wednesday night.
i One of the decedents was a monkey
known to the corporal and his comrades
as "Bat, who had been his companion,
memorable campaign thru which Adams
fought with the insurrectos in the
Ilocano provinces, northern Luzon. The
loss of ''Bat," will be a hard blow for
his master, particularly hard because
of the tragic manner of his taking off.
"Why," Adams said to the officer
at Smelling who had ordered the little
Simian removed from the fort because
of some trifing depredations he had
committed, "Bat' knows heap more
! about war than you do, Captain, with
all due respect to your learning and
experience. ...,5 Is
That made the captain, fiery mad and
ing and weighing his fingers at the cap
tain, enough to make any man mad:
Corporal Adams knows when he has had
enough in a tilt with superior, and ne
grabbed the squeaking monk under his
arm and liked off the reservation with
him. Then he put "Bat' in the mu-
scum, not telling the manager what a
wonderful animal he was, and said that
he might show him for his board and
keep. .5"t.~4 4. ~ -..
Often during his long: stay at Smell:
ing, Adams would go to the museum and
visit the pet who never forgot him.
And then the regiment got orders to
prepare for the trip to the Preside and
from there back to the islands across
the Pacific. -..= I.
Maybe "Bato didn't know much
} about the intricate convolutions of the
armies of Kuropatkip and Kuroki, and
{ maybe he knew less about the man
euvers of the, Baltic fleet, and it is
I probable that he never heard of traWl-
7 ers. But when he came to guerrilla
warfare such as "the niggers', in the
} Philippines wage, his knowledge was
I surprising, for his former master, lno-
( cente Ticzon, was veteran Of many
s such wars, and in his short life 'Bat'
! had, smelled more powder and seen more
( splitting of blood than most OF his KIND.
The manner of Corporal Adams. &C
I ouisition of "Bat' illustrates how
; deeply in the thick of battle the sim
ian was. 1t was a scorching hot day
early in the Twenty frst's campaign IN
Luzon that Adams was sent with a
squad to rout small band or lnsur-
gents who were concealed in the home
Of Senior Taczon, "presidente munich
q pal de Batac.' IT,, =
5 Tt had been learned that Taczon, who
I had been posing as staunch friend OF
{ the Americans, was playing double, and
was one of the chief leaders of the
! instruction; in fact that he had been
s secretary to. Apolinario Nadine, the
: most interesting figure, after Agulnal-
5 do, among the insurgents. He had been
I sent to Batac ostensibly as mayor of the
q town, but really to direct the campaign
5 from there.
I The dozen st'niggers' were driven
5 from the house and they made across
! the field to the wooded mountains .tc
( the west, Adams and his comrades NIX
{ ing after them their very worst. But
5 the insurgents escaped and along to-
I wards nightfall the bluecoats came
I struggling back into town. It was or
5 this walk that Adams found "Bat.'
I The poor little animal, driven from
s the house by the excitement of the raid
- had taken refuge IN a fence corner
- off across the field, but Adams set out
determined to get him at any cost. III
e monkey was impeded in his fight by
long chain which hung from his neck
A It was a hard run for Adams, the
N principally because of the deviou
" course, and it is likely that he neve
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he had not got just close enough to ste
N on the chain. It was sin and a sham
- the way the simian tried to kill himsel
then, Adams once told some friends a
" Smelling.
II The poor animals head was jerke
between his forefeet and he turned
somersault in considerably less than tn
twinking of an eye. Then he lay still
Adams took him back to camp, nurse
be him, and found him to be the most il
)n telligent monkey he had ever seen Q
~ heard of. He didn It have a name fo
him then, and 50 selected "Bat,' COZ
tracing the name Of the town. > An
lso "Bat'' he was to the regiment and a
~ it's visitors in all it's peregrinations.
~ Adams had read recently in som
se war department reports a I'd {
~ Ticzon's conversion to the America
Ia cause, and of the good work he is no
" doing to bring about the best result
and when the Twenty was ordere
An back to the islands he decided to tax
" the monkey back to its former maste
n He was going to make arrangements :
DC San Francisco for "Bat 50 extraditio