The San Francisco call., 1910-10-02

FIFE >Tag6anos are disconsolate;
for their man god. soldier king
IS dead: SaIip Akib and salip
Toni, the pirate Moro chiefs, are
again 6espoiling the peaceful and fer
tile island. Of Palawan. for was not the
man they. had come TO fear as the
devil. incarnate. seen TO tumble inglori-
ously from a boat, founder helpIessly
and sink TO the bottom?;
Lieute1aft Edward Y Miller, the
governor *of. the. most outlying: Of all
Uncle sam territory and the inspired
uplifter<. of its: people; has. been drowned
iTl.J the cloitrse: Of duty. and where is
thes rlstt3 Ez.lo will be- able TO. iii his
placer '...::' -: .:.: ::. ~.
..-Thl Is IS the :question that is facing the.
Philippine government and the: bureau
OF tpsular a.frairs. This. is the question
that is. bringing to.:light a piece of
work that has been carried forward in,
the. wilds of the great east that is as
fun Of romance and accomplishment
as the. most fanciful: yarn. ever spun
BY the. lima aglnation:
For Lieutenant Miller. U. s.. A, had
FOR eight years has been absolute ruler
loYer@s4.o0o people. wild. barbaric. un-
christian. He. had, single handed
brought peace to those. people m the
place of cont tlnuoiIs warfare He had
repelled. the Moro pirates in many
pitched .:battles, armed and drilled his
natives and made. his coasts place TO
be shunned. of all else by these gipsies
OF the sea ~
Yet Miller died ingloriously a few
weeks. ago from falling overheard from
a boat in. the still waters of an inland
stream. The Aoros have learned Of the
p nature Of his death in. such a simple
emergency. that any mere native would
have been able to save himself. The
fear: Of hin. and his kind has conse-
Quently vanished and the Moros are
again at war.
Dean C. Worcester, American secre-
tary Of the interior for the Philippines.
came a little later into Palawan to in
augurate Emergency Governor. Evans,
was attacked by the Moros and much
blood has been shed All is chaos in
Palawan. where peace has reigned for
six years. The insular bureau and the
provisional government are looking the
s0.0oO.000 over for a man who can fill
the place Of the dead governor king,
but with little hope Of success.
All Of which leads to the story OF
Lieutenant Miller. He was at the time
Of his death q member Of the Twenty
ninth infantry; but had never seen that
regiment and was unknown TO its
officers. This because of the fact that
he had been since the time Of his
appointment on detached duty as the
governor Of Palawan At the breaking
out OF the Spanish American war he
was an officer in the Chicago militia
and enlisted. His service was with
the Fifth Illinois volunteer infantry
and first took him to Porto Rico and
'ster to the Philippines. He served in
4 the outlying southern provinces and
Mis- superiors soon recognized his
genius for getting along with the ma
tives. Because Of it he received his
appointments in the regular army and
his detached detail
Lieutenant -Allller was DuI "a years
old when he first enlisted. Yet he left
a soldiers sweetheart behind him in
Illinois and when he received the per-
nanent detail the sweetheart went
into the wilds to him and they were
married. All the years between then
and now Mrs. Miller has spent at the
side Of her husband and hand in hand
-1ey have sought to lead the way for
their charges from the darkness of
barbarism TO the light of civilization
and to better living. They have left
behind q monument Of accomplishment
that is perhaps unequaled in the his
tory Of so small a force working for
the uplift.
Palawan is the very outpost OF the
Philippines. II lies in that great reach
Of the islands that runs out to the south
east, two days journey nearly to Bor-
neO, and separates the China sea from
Sulu ser. 1t is strip OF land 20 miles
wide and 275 miles long. Timbered
mountains store the moisture which
kmakes its valleys perennially fertile.
It's long coast lire offers itself to the
spoilation Of the Moro pirates. who
have swarmed through it's waters for
centuries and he~e Dreyed continuously