The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-10

crater. ,.4s- description given in the
dispa5C... This mountain was con-
tTolled by two dattos-Calbi and Joa-
kinine, the latter one of the chieftains
who signed the famous Bates"
treaty. The mountain is very steep,
and at it's apex is Moro fortress
which had never been trodden by
white troops
No Danger of Spreading.
Lieutenant General Bates, chief of
staff, who had extensive service in the
southern islands of the Philippine
group. and is well acquainted with the
JoIo country, has no fear that this last
trouble will extend throughout the
group. In the first place, he says,
there is no homogenity among these
island troops; strong jealousies exist.
and it has been impossible for them TO
cohere in opposition to the whites. 1t
is believed here, from the official dis
patch, that the Moros attacked were
really a set of robbers, and that the
action was undoubtedly precipitated
by General Woods determination to
exterminate them at any cost if they
could not be otherwise subdued.
The movements of the gunboats
which had been detailed from the
Asiatic fleet for duty in the southern
islands of the Philippine group are re-
of the Asiatic station at Manila and
the navy department consequently is
without information as to the where
abouts of the ships until a consider
able time has ELAPSED. However the
fact that Ensign II. S. Cooke. jr., is re-
pOrted to have been wounded estab-
fishes the further fact that the guRboat
Pampanga, a small craft of about 200
tons, was at Jolo, for this young officer
is the commander of the vessel. Cooke
is a native of the District of Columbia.
but was appointed TO the navy from
New York, where his father lives. He
has been on duty on the ASiatic sta
ton since 1903 and because of his good
record recently relieved Ensign Oscar
T. c. Cooper, in command of the Pah-
panga. of which prior to that time ne
had been acting as executive officer.
Bliss Commands In JoIo.
The department of Jolo is now in
command of Brigadier General TaSker
H. Bliss. 1t was formerly commanded
by Major General Leonard Wood, who
afterward became commander-in-chief
of the Philippine division upon the de-
parture of General Corbin.
Some of the army officers here who
have served in the JolO group say that
Mount DajO, the scene of the action,
is located about fourteen miles from
JOlo, the capital of the island. Moro
cOritO is on the very top of the noun
tain. Once before its garrison of ma
tives was induced TO vacate the place
by the exercise of diplomacy, but here
tofore no force has been able to cap
ture it.
The Sixth infantry, which seems to
have borne the brUnt of the fighting,
was from Fort LeaXenwOrth, and has
been in the Philippines about a year
no Of nf he tot full
acquainted with the habits of the Mo-
rOs say they have not the slightest
fear that the MorOs will try to retail
late for the crushing defeat. These Of
ficers judge from the dispatch from
Manila that there were really two ac-
tons. the first probably surprise and
serving merely to locate the position
and establish the strength of the Moro
defenders. This having been done, the
second day seems TO have been occu-
pied in hosting the artillery and am
munition supplies to positions from
which to operate upon the Moro fort
ress in the crater, and the second ac-
ton. fought under the conditions de-
scribed, on the slope of the mountain
at an angle of 80 degrees undoubtedly
broke the Moro strength in that local
ity for an indefinite time
The Officers Wounded.
Captain Tyree Rivers, who was
slightly wounded in the thigh, was born
May 10, 1862. in Mississippi; was ap-
pointed a cadet in the military acad-
envy from Tennessee July 1, 1879, sec
ond lieutenant Third cavalry Junt I3
1888: first lieutenant Third cavalry jan
Il, 1889. and captain Fourth cavalry
March 2, 1899.
First Lieutenant Gordon Johnston,
who was seriously wounded in the
shoulder, was born in North Carolina
in 1874. He is a graduate of Princeton
and an honor graduate of the Infantry
and Cavalry school in 1908. He first en-
tered the army at the outbreak of the
Spanish war, and was appointed from
Alabama as a sergeant in company NJ,
Second Mississippi infantry. In 1899
he became a second lieutenant in the
Forty-third United States infantry. In
1901 he entered the regular army as a
second lieutenant in the Tenth cavalry
In 1902 he became a lieutenant of the
Fifteenth cavalry, and in 1902 was ap-
pointed q first lieutenant in the signal
corps.
First Lieutenant Ernest Agnew in
1898 was a second lieutenant of tho
Twentieth Kansas volunteer infantry.
serving through the Spanish and Phil
ippine campaigns. and became captain
of the Eleventh United States voIun-
teer cavalry in 1899. He was appointed
second lieutenant in the regular army
Feb. 2, 1901. reaching the grade of first
lieutenant Feb. IS.
First Lieutenant wylie T. Conway. a
native of Illinois, entered the army as
a private on May q, 1898. and on Feb
2, 1901, he was commissioned a second
lieutenant.
MOROS ARE FANATICS.