The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-27
WRITES OF MACABEBES.
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 Lieptsnant I. H. Hutchinson of the MAeAHebe Scouts, stationed In the pnilippinea, hns written an interesting sent to his r<letiyss In Montgomery. :,
 For scme tine Lieutenant Autchin- son waa . member of the Montgomery police department. He served with distinction as non-eommissiened ota- csr ia the voluntsef army under Cap- tain R. g. Tsasus ana Captain P. H.. gtsrn Of Mentgomery.
 When hG Mas mustered out Con- gressmAn \. A. Wiley secured the ficer In the Phiiippinex
 writing ef his company Lsutsnant Hutchinson says:
 'Ths company was ofgan,sed Jan- uary as, 1901. and was then known as company ID, 1st Destaifon Macabebe Scouts. The nrst 0fncers were Cap- tain R.. r. hassard. 1ith yolunteer Cavalry; FirAt Neutenant. O. P, M. Hasxafd. lith Volunteer Cavalry, and Second Lieuterant. e. K. Wilson, ssth Volunteer fnfantry.
 rEiGkty men Of this company. the captain and first lfeutsnant, formed the Thurston which resulted in the cap tuFe of General ATuinaldo. the com- maRding general of tho insurgent forces at the time. It Is useless to say thet thls insurgept general caused trouble for the United States, for any one that ever belonged to the regular or volunteer forces In the Philippines will be able to tell in years to come, good war stories of how they ha,. many | hike after Don Emilio and how the little brown Macabebe with only a few months service robbed them oi their prize.
 , "on April 30. 1901, the company was ordered to Santa Cruz, Laguna Prov ince, in the department of Southern , Luson, to take part, in the campaign against Generals Coiiles and CabaIlos. and had a very hard campaign until the insurgents surrendered. General Juan Cailles is now Governor of La- guna Province. and he says that all went we'll with he and his followers | until he had information that the Ma cabebes were coming.
 'on July l, 1901. the of1cers of the Philippine Scouts were commissioned. being First Lieutenant, Robert F. Brooks of Chicago. H., and Second lieutenant James B. Hutchinson, of Montgomery, Ala, and the designation was changed to the third company Ma cabebe Scouts. On July 22, 1901. the | company was ordered from Santa Cruz. Laguna. together with a battalion of the 30th Infantry, commanded by Ma jor Evans. 30th Infantry, to take part ! t, he AAx .fz.~ hard and trying servivce with the fol- lowing results. August 20. 1901. at Hajuan Mindoro. First Lieutenant Has- gard and one civilian scout. an Amerl- can Tanskley, now on police force pf Manila, entered the insurgent camp and | captured Colonel Arturo Howard, a de- serter; on September ts, Lieutenant
 Brooks with thirty enlisted men of the company, captured the commissary.
 treasurer, and the families of the in-
 surgent Governor of Mindoro (Atinza)
 and Colonel Encarnacion. which result
 ed in the surrender to the United
 States of the entire Island of Mindora,
 "on October 23, 1901. the company
 was ordered to Maeabehe. Pampanga Province. It was reorsanised and the designation of the company was again
 changed ta-Ithe seventh cempany Na- tive Scouts (Maoabebes), About sixty
 of the old men of the FuAston expedi-
 tion re-enIisted into the service of the
 United States, and with six exceptions
 all of the men enlisted for the com
 pany had been in the service of the
 United States from six to eighteen, months.
 This company was one of the first
 of the Macabebe companies to cornplete its organization for the regular service,
 was ordered to Balangas, Maiangas Pro-
 vlnce. to report to the commandins
 general of the third separate brigade
 to take part in the Bell campaign Iagainst General Malvar. This cam lpaign will be long remembered by the lnatives of Balangas, and Laguna.
 The company was stationed at Tay- Ison, Balangas Province, with Lieutea, ant Brooks commanding the town, Tay- Ison was the center of the operation, and the company took a very active part iu the campaign, and from reports did excellent work and saw very hard
 and trying serviee..
 Soon after the surrender of Malvar the last tnsurgent general in the field, the company was ordered to Raiangas $, then brigade headqnarters,
 The 7th company was the fsrst to be selected for duty to assist the civil gov, ernment in the policing of Batangas and Laguna Provinces. of the Ladrone bands and was ordered to Lipa- Later Lieutenant Hutchinson and fifty men were sent to Callahan Laguns, then to Bay. thence to Alaminos, where | am now stationed.
 'Ths headquarters of the company has since been ordered to Bay, with Lieutenant Brooks as commanding of flcer.
 "fhe company has been reorganized and recruited up to it's full strength. 104 men, and is now ready for duty any. where in the world that the United States sees 1t to send it.
 | Most of the scout ofioers have seen from seven to twenty-five years reg ular service. and the loyalty of the scouts has never been questioned. AS General Randall, commanding the De- partment of Luzon. says, there is not Ia case on record where a scout has sur, rendered his rife without frst surren- dering his life.
 | 'The officers of my company at pres- ent are: First Lieutenant, Robert E. Brooks. from Chicago, late Sergeant Company B, 7th United States Infant- ry, Captain; Second Lieutenant James B. Hutchinson, Montgomery, Ala, late Sergeant Company B, 9th United States Volunteer Infantry, (Tsague's Com pany) and Sergeant Company c, goth United States Infantry, Volunteer { (Stearns Company.)
 'The scouts at present are handi- fcapped. having two masters to serve, the army and the civil government.