The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-09-08
SAID TO Be true
Army Pigs Are Carried Off by
big Lizards.
A REMARKABLE TALE
Sent From the Philippine Islands BY
Capt Chas. E. kilbourne. Of the
United States Coast Artillery. Now
On Duty at Co:residor Island, Not
Farm From Manila

Farm From Manila
There comes from the Philippines
a thrilling story OF the army OF liz
ards that ate up the pigs OF the Coas,
Artillery Corps guarding Manila
Bay. 1t is given over the signature
OF Captain Charles Z. kilboucae.
commanding the Thirty-siIth Com
pany. and is about the best nature
that has ever gone into the records
Of the War Department Captain
nilboucne has just been promoted to
be a major In the Philippine con-
ssabularr. He was sent TO the Phil
ippines with his company from For;
Monroe. Va.
The Thirty-ffth Company was sen;
out as the frst company OF coast
artillery 20 men guns outside OF tie
! Seograp ph!cal limits of the United
States. II was the advance guard
| o. the big garrison TO be stationed
a, Cocreg!dor Island. which Is des-
tined to be the keep Of the Philip
| pine Islands aad one Of the strong
es, Notifications in the world.
n order to fill out the Straight
rations allowed by the Government.
the company Dot only planted its own
| little vegetable garden. LEFT found
a chanco Oh Cor-eg!dor Island for
pig raising on a large scale. They
laid in a stock. which included twelve
sows. Each produced litter OF pigs,
| and the company had enough pigs
and so~s for each soldier OF the
company to have a whole pig for
| himself. Nothing gave the company
more pleasure after hard days
work than to go down to the end
Of the company garden. look over
the stock Of pigs and think OF the
ane pork chops. sausages and chit
lings (; was to have the coming win
te.
Their pleasure. however. was
sho,tl!ved. for 1t was soon noticed
that the pigs were beginning to dis.
appear. The men got together logs
and stakes from the adjacent tropi.
cal forest and built q stockade SUI
! hcient in size and strength to keeI
IN the pigs and to keep out anything
which. according to tie American
standards. could possibly carry q
pig away.
: Still the pigs continued to disa7.
pear. and no explanation could be
found. Finally volunteers were call.
ed FOR to stand guard over the Digs
and a sentry walked beaten path
arouadt the stockade. Just abou,
daylight one morning the sentry saw
sight which he knew no one would
believe who had not seen 1t with bis
own eyes. So he rushed to the bar
racks and called out the company
When the men got TO the stockade
they found that q herd Of lizards
had come out OF the forest and had
succeeded IN getting into the stock.
ace.
| Lizards in the Philippines grow
be six feet long and stand up like
| a bench:egged oulIdog. and they can
run like a deer The report states
that the lizards had the sows At
bay IN one corner OF the stockade,
where they were biting the hogs and
| whipping them with their tails. while
other lizards. each With pig IN is
mouth. were climbing over the stock
ade and making OF for the forest.
/ Only one pig was left for the
company. and this one. Lizzie" was
taken up to the barracks and has
been made a pet The ThIrty-ftth
Company will come home from the
Philippines next Spring. and It hopes
that Il will sc: some pleasant East
| ern station. where Lizzie" can spend
the rest Of her days IN peace anc
happiness.