The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14
BY WILLIAM ATHERToN DU PuY.

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The Tagbanos are disconsolate for
their man-god. soldier-king, is dead.
Snlip Akib and Salip Toni. the pirate
Moro chiefs, are again despoiling the
peaceful and fertile island of Palawan.
fear as the devil incnrnate seen to
tumble ingloriously from boat, found
er helplessly and sink TO the bottom |?
Lieutenant Edward Y, Miller, the gov
ernor of the most outlying of all Uncle
Sam S territory and the inspired up
in the course of duty and where is the
Snan who will be able to fill his place
This is the question that is facing
the Philippine government and the
bureau OF insulor affairs. This is the
question that is bringing to light 4
piece Of work that has been carried
forward in the wilds of the great east
that is as full Of romance and accomp-
lishment as the most fanciful yarn ever
spun by the Imagination. For Lieu.
tenant Miller. U. S. A, has for eight
years been absolutely ruler over 1000
people, wild. barbaric, uuchristian lie
has single handed brought peace to
those people, in the place of continuous
warfare. He has repelled the Moro
pirates in many pitched battles, armed
and drilled his natives and made his
coasts n place to be Stunned of all else
by these eypsies of the sea.
Yet Miller died ingloriousv month
ago from falling overheard from q boat
IN the still waters of an inland stream.
of his death in such a simple emergency
that any mere native would have been
ablo to save himself. The fear of him
and hls kind has consequently vanished
and the Moros are again at war
Dean Z, Worcester, American secre
taSy Of the interior for the Philippines.
came little later into Paawan to
1naugurate Emergency Governor Evans,
was attacked by the Morcs and much
blood has been shed. All is chaos in
Salawan, where peace has rcigncd for
SIX yenrs. The inSular bureau and thc
provisional government is lonkiug the
0n,O0O.OO0 over for mau who can iiil
The place of the dead governor king
but with little hone of success.
Story Of Lieut.. Miller.
al of which leads 10 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 oIi-
GERS. This because Of the fact that lie
had been, since the time of his appoint
ment, on detached duty rs governor of
Palawan. AT the breaking out of Tie
Spanish American war he had been an
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 outlying southern provinces and his
superiors soon recognized his genius for
getting along with the natives, Because
of lit he received his appointment in
the regular army and his detached de-
tail.
Lieutenant Miller was but twenty.
four years old when he first enlisted |
Yet he left a soldi"~ sweetheart be |
hind him in Illinois and when he re-
ceiyed the permanent detail the sweet |
heart came into the wilds to him and
they were married. All the wears be
tween 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 barbarlsm to the light Of |
civilization and to better living. They |
have left behind a monument of ac-
comp]ishment that is perhaps uneuualed |
in the history of so small a force work |
ing for the uplift.
Palawan Is the very outpost of the |
Philippines. 1t lies in that great reach |
of the island that runs out 10 the south
east, nearly two days Journey to Bor. |
neo. and separates the China sea from
Sulu sea-, 1t is strip of land twenty |
miles wide and 275 miles long. Timb-
cred mountains store the moisture which |
make its valleys perennially fertile. It's
l9ng coast line offers itself TO the spolia- |
Hon of the Moor pirates who have |
swarnned through those waters for cen
uuries and have preyed continuously |
upon their natives. The mountain peo. |
pie and those Of the valleys are wild, |
but sweet natured and simple. They
are the Tagbanus-good natured wan.
derers for whom much hope is expressed |
Yet all was chaos and war never ceased |
in the old days
1T was into these conditions that
Lieutenant Miller brought his young
wife. The men of the army protested !