The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-09
TWO DAYS BATTLE
In SULU ISLANDS
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fortress which had never been taken by
white troops.
Lieutenant General Bates, chief of
staff, who has had extensive service i'll
the southern islands Of the Philippine
archipelago and is as we'll acquainted
with the Jolo country, probably, as any
officer here, has no fear that this last
trouble will extend thruout the group.
In the first place, he says, there is no
strong jealousies exist and it has been
| impossible for them to cohere in op-
position to the whites.
Set Of Robbers.
It is also believed here, from the
official dispatch, that the Moros at.
tackled were really a set Of robbers and
| that the action was undoubtedly pre-
cipitated by General Woods determine
|: ton to exterminate them at any cost
If they could not be otherwise subdued.
The movements of the gunboats
which had been detailed from the Ash
islands Of the Philippine archipelago
are reported only to the commander-in
chief Of the Asfatic station at Manila
and the navy department. consequently
| is without information as to the where
abouts Of the ships until considerable
! time has elapsed. However, the fact
| that Ensign H. D. Cooke, Jr., is re
/ ported to have been wounded establish
es the further fact that the gunboat
Pampanga, small craft of about zoo
tons, was at, .Jolo, for this young Officer
4 is the commander Of the vessel
Cooke is a native of the District Of
Columbia, but was appointed to thu
navy from New York, and his father
lives at 1865 West Fifty-ffth street, il
that city, He has been on duty on thu
4. Asiatic station since 1908, and because
of his good record, recently relieved En-
sign Oscar F. Cooper in command of tn
Pamanga, of which, prior to that time
he had been acting as executive officer
/ General Bliss in Command.
The department of Jolo is now il
command Of Brigadier-General Taske
by Major General Leonard Wood, VIII
afterward became ommander-in-c chic
Of the Philippine division upon the de
parture Of General Corbin. <"'
4. Some Of the army officers here VIII
have served in the rJolo group, say tina
Mount Daio, the scene Of the action,
about fourteen miles from Jolo, the car
ital of the island. Moro Coto is on tn
very top Of the mountain. Once be
fore, the garrison of natives was in
duced to vacate the place by the exc,
force has been able to capture it,,
= The Sixth infantry, which seems t
have borne the brunt Of the fighting
was from Fort. Ieavenworth and ha
been in the Philippines about year:
The officers Of the general staff full
acquainted with the habits of the Moro
say they have not the slightest fea
that the Moros will, try to retaliate fo
the crushing defeat administered t
them. -. =. - .~.r
Two Actions.
Il These officers judge from the di'
patch from *ManiIa that there we1
really two actions, the first probably
: surprise and serving, merely. to locat
:. the position anffastssblish the sstrengt
$ Of the Moro <det1}nders. This havin
been done the seddpd day seems to hav
been occupied &. hoishng the artilier
I from which to- operate upon the Nor
fortress in the crater and the secon
=. action, fought under the conditions
. scribed, on. the slopeF Of the mountai
at an angle of fifty degrees, undoubte,
! ly broke the Moro strength in that !
: cality for an indefinite time.
0 - The Wounded Officers.
Captain Tyree R. Rivers, who W,
{ slightly wounded in the thigh, was boz
/, May 10, 1862, in Mississippi, and w
? academy from Tennessee July l, 1877
8 second lieutenant Third cavalry Jul
h IS, 1883; first lieutenant Third cavalr
s Jan. II, 1889, and captain Fourth ca
q airy March 3, 1899.
t First Lieutenant Gordon Johnsto
t who was seriously wounded in Il
It shoulder was born in North Carolil
e in 1874. He is graduate Of Princet'
le and an honor graduate of the infant
= and cavalry school in 1908. He fiji
entered the army at the outbreak of t.
VI Spanish war and was appointed frc
II Alabama as a sergeant in Company
Second Mississippi infantry. In '18
he became q second lieutenant in t
Forty:third United States infantry.
1901 he entered the regular army as
second lieutenant in the Tenth caval1
J Fifteenth cavalry, and in 1903 was q
pointed a first lieutenant in the sigr
corps. = r. r.
First Lieutenant Ernest H. Agnew
:, 1898 was a second lieutenant Of t
a. a. Twentieth Kansas Volunteer infant
" and succeeded to the rank Of captain
u the Eleventh United States Volunte
: cavalry in 1899. He was appointed S,
~ ond lieutenant in the regular army F.
81 2, 1901, reaching the grade Of first liz
a. tenant on the 2Sth of the same mon
x T. First Lieutenant Wylie T.. Conway
~ native Of Illinois, entered the army
y. ~ a private May 81, 1898, and on Feb.
= 1901, he was commissioned a seco
lieutenant. AZ ~.