Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-10-06

Gs2KkXsAakssaEszss rlOuSly from DodI,
founder helplessly and
sink to the bottom. Lieut.. Edward Y.
Miller, the governor of the most out
lying of all Uncle Sans territory, and
the inspired uplifter of it's people, has
been drowned in the course of duty
and where is the man who will be able
to fill his place?
This is the question that Is facing
the Filipino government and the Blu
reau of Insular Affairs. This is the
question that is bringing to light
piece of work that has been carried
forward in the wilds of the great East
that is as full of romance and accom-
plishment as the most fanciful yarn
ever spun by the imagination.
For Lieut. Miller, U. S. A., has for
eight years been absolutely ruler over
81 900 people; wild, barbaric, unchris-
ton. He has single-handed brought
peace to those people in the place OF
continuous warfare. He has repelled
the Moro pirates in many pitched bat
ties, armed and drilled his natives and
made his coasts a place to be stunned
Yet Miller died ingloriously a month
ago from falling overheard from
boat in the still waters of an inland
stream The Moros have learned Of
the nature of his death in such sim
pie emergency that any mere native
would have been able to save himself.
The fear of him and his kind has con-
lNy nj MnrnC
again at war
Dean G.. Worcester, American Sec
retary of the interior for the Philip
pines, came little later into Pala~an
to inaugurate 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 bu-
reau and the provisional government IS
looking the 90000,000 over for man
who can fill the place of the dead
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 a 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 governor of Palawan. At the
breaking out of the Spanish-American
war he had been an officer in the Chi
cago militia and had enlisted. His
service was with the Fifth Illinois
Volunteer Infantry and had first taken
him to Porto Rico and later to the
Philippines. He served in the outly-
ing southern provinces and his supe
riors soon recognized his genius for
| getting along with the natives. Be-
cause of 1t he received his appoint
ment in the regular army and his de-
tached detail.
Lieutenant Miller was but "a years
old when he first enlisted Yet he left
a soldiers sweetheart behind him in
| Illinois and when he received the
| permanent detail the sweetheart came
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
| they 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 monument of accomplish
ment that is perhaps unequaled in the
history of so small force working
| for the uplift.
| Palawan is the very outpost of the
/
| Philippines. IL lies In that great reach
! OF the island that runs out to the
southeast, two days journey nearly TO
| Borneo, and separates the China Sea
| from Sulu Sea II is strip OF land 30
miles wide and 275 miles long. Tim.
| bered mountains store the moisture
| which makes it's valleys perennially
| fertile. It's long coast line offers It.
self to the spoliation Of the Moro
pirates, who have swarmed through
| these waters Tor centuries and have
| preycd continuously upon their ma
| tiyes. The mountain people and those
| OF the valleys are wild but sweet ma.
| tured aud simple. They are the Tag.
| bauos. good-natured wanderers. for
| whom much hope is expressed. Yet
all was chaos. and war never ceased
| IN the old days.
II was into these conditions that
Lieutenant Miller brought his young
wife. The men of the army protested
| against such exposure. but the young
| olhcer believed that he knew the ma.
tiyos better than they aud that he
waa safe with them lie established
| himself al Puerto princesa. which had
once been Spanish town OF some i'm.
| portance. but had become a deserted
city OF the south seas. Here ho made
bis capital and here he bsgnn his
| work With the natives.
Soon he was able 90 muster a mum.
ber of chosen young natives into q
militia organization. These bo sup.