The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1910-09-22

nounder helplessig anu
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 its people, has
been drowned in the course Of duty
and where is the man who will be sble
TO all 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 a
piece OF work that has been carried
forward IN the wilds Of the great East
that is as fun 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
$4,000 people: wild, barbaric, unchris-
tion. He has single-handed brought
peace to those people in the place Of
continuous warfare. He has repealed
the Moro pirates in many pitched bat
ties, armed and drilled his natives and
made his coasts a place 10 be summed
Of all else by these gypsies OF the sea.
Yet Miller died i%ngloriously a month
ago from falling overheard from a
boat in the srill waters OF an inland
stream. The Moros have learned Of
the nature Of his death In such a sim
pie emergency that any mere native
would have been able TO save himself.
The fear of him and his kind has con
s~eauently vanished and the Moros are
again AZ war.
Dean c. Worcester. American sec
rotary Of the Interior for the Philip
Pines. came a little later into Palawan
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 10000, 900 over for a man
who can fill the place Of the dead
goyernor-king. but with little hope OF
success
All Of which leads TO the story Of
Lieutenant Miller. He vas az the
time Of his death a member Of the
T~wenty-ninth Infantry, but had never
seen that regiment and was unknown
20 its officers. This because OF the
fact that he had been. since the time
Of his appointment, on detached duty
as governor OF Pais~an. AT th'
breaking out OF the Spanish-Americat
war he had been an officer in the Chi
cago militia and had enlisted. Hi
service was with the Fifth Illinois
Volunteer Infantry and had first takeI
him 10 Porto Rico and later to th'
Philippines. He served IN the outly
ing southern provinces and his supe
r.ors soon recognized his genius TO
getting along with the natives. BE
cause Of II ne received his appoint
ment in the regular army and his dc
tached detail.
Lieutenant Miller was but "a year
old when be FIRST enlisted. Yet he lef
a soldiers sweetheart behind him 4
Illinois and when he received IN
permanent detail the sweetheart cam
into the wilds 10 him and they wer
married All the years between the
and nov Mrs. Miller has spent az N
side OF her husband, aud hand IA han
they have sought to lead tho way Il
their charges from The darkness {
harbarism to the light Of ciyilizatio
aud 10 better living They have le.
behind a monument Of accomplish
meut that is perhaps ~uncqualed IN N
history Of 30 small a force workiu
for the uplit.
Palawan 10 the very outpost Of n
Philippines. II lies In that great reac
: Of the Island that runs out 20 n
, southeast. two days journey nearly
Borneo. and separates the China g,
from sulu Sea. Il e. a strip OF land
: miles wide and 275 miles long Tlr
. beFed mountains store the molstul
which makes its valleys perennial
fertile. It's long GAS line offers
self 60 the spoliation OF the $40.
pirates, who have swarmed throul
! these waters for centuries and hal
D preyed continuously upon their n
tiyes. The mountain people ana tho
a OF the valleys are wild but sweet n
a tured and simple. They are the TIA
= phlohi B|ooQfhhluIel M~anuHtefhi !
whom much hope is expressed Y
an was chaos, n war never ceasN
In the old days.
u Il was into these conditions IA
Lieutenant Miller brought his you
J wife. The men OF the arwy protest
against such exposure. but the you
officer believed that he knew the .
tiven better than they and that
Z was safe With them. lie establish
himself at Puerto P%rineesa, which h
i once been a Spanish town OF some !
a. p~ortance. but had become a desert
= city Of the south eas Here he ma
his capital and here he began
work with the natives,
T. Soon he was able 20 muster a M
10 Der OF chosen young natives into