Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-14
LIFE IN PHILIPPINES
 IS QUITE STRENUOUS
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM THE LEADER OF THE FOUR
 TEENTH CAVALRY BAND.

Wm Oste-man. the leader of the Fourteenth Cayary band. who was in Douglas two years ago. becoming ac- cuainted with many of our citizens. has written a letter to B. W. Lincoln under rate Of "JolO JolO. Philippine Islands. May 9th" from which the following is an extract;
 "A Moro chief who had recently made a raid on an English settlement ct Sandaken. BOrneO. and killed about thirty pacrie. came to this island flaw month ago and drumCed up quite @ following and proceeded to uaake war on the Americans. An sfempt to take cur stables the hrst s{Eht we came here and since then fling is a nightly Occurance. After warning them to bring in their arms General Wood gave them an uiti- matun and all who were not lnhlde certain sections of the Island on the 1st of May were to be treated as hos tiles. Eight troops of our regiment. two batallions of infantry, a field bat terv and engineer corps, in all about Q00 n,er were sent out under Gener- al Wood and found that only few wished to be considered ''amigoes
 Our Third squadron was in the ad- vance and were about to pass a oe- serted colta lforrl when they were met with two volleys from either side of the trail: the MorOs had a trench so deftly concealed with bamboo palm trees. vines and cOcoanut trees that 4be troops were within twenty-five feet Of them when fired upon
 Three cav2lrymen were Eiled out right and seven wounded.
 The No-0s had large caIlbre Ger man express rifles which shot a brass coated bullet. Remington shot guns loaded with siugs. etc. company oL the 22ud infantry then came up anu lost four killed and eight wounded. None of the MorOs were WOUNDED and none escaped from the trencn es. The dead were buried n the neil and the wounded brougIt io CT -A- supply boat.
 Tba second day the 17Jh infantry and a company Cf scouts got lnt2 U and lost four killed and six wOu1de-. We buried the four poor fellows and while We were playing the dirSe on tbe way t3 the cemetery about one hundred DIcrcs suddenly appeared on a hill few hundred yards from the burial grounds. we went on with the ceremony and even the officer S wives pluckily refused to leave until "taps" was blown. then they were hustled into ambulances and the band ztruck A quick march, as is the GUS fom afta- the funeral, and part oi sbe escort started after the Mcros who quickly disappeared when they saw the troops coming after them.
 The Moro will not fight in the open but will ambush the troops and then get into the swamps and JuaSiei where the troops have to force their way through and the Moro. who of course knows every turn Of the trali and paths. pick of the poor fellows who are so exhausted by the time they come to an open space that they can scarcely get their arms to tneIr shoulder. ,,
 So far We have had eleven killed tyyeutv-fou- wounded. the largest list casualties since "99" and big colta said to contain Q thousand 8Ioros, will be attacked today and | am afraid few more will be added to the list.
 The band put in written appii. cation to be allowed to accompany the troops as an armed body, but Ae would not allow us to go, so we are doing our usual duty ana are held III readiness 10 repel an attack On Jne city. should one occur. So far not an officer has been hurt and the women folks i've have about eighteen officer s wives here) are all UnstrunS and while dreading to see the supply boat come in they rush down to the doci as soon as she is sighted and worry until news comes in. If the Moros had sense enough to concentrate their forces they would prove formidable enemy. but the Daltos are all jealous of each other and each one collects as many followers as possible and will not help the other fellow fight. The fellow who stirred up the trouble was called Paula. He was killed the sec ond day and said 10 have resem OleO Q huge gorilla and was Q ferocious looking fellow We have received no order about our return to the States yet and are of course anxiOusly await ing to find out where we vii be sta toned Our mail has not been for warded to us and we have not heard from home for six weeks"