The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-07-09

| IneilOWneSS OI temper winch make
him beloved by his troops.
Born in Missouri in 1860, Pershinj
got his intermediate education In tn
quite tame atmosphere Of a norma
school at Kirksville. He jumped int
the warlike surroundings of Yves
Point and completed the course II
1885, becoming a second lieutenan
in the Sixth cavalry, and almost i'm
mediately plunging into the campaign
against the Apaches. Four year.
later, in 1890, he served against the
Sioux. He was In command of tht
Sioux Indian scouts for awhile, ther
came the experience at the University
| of Nebraska, where he was such 8
success as an instructor that he was
sent to teach tactics at the West
Point academy. There he remained
until the outbreak Of the war with
Spain. He was remembered at the
academy for the strict seriousness
with which he taught. X
Following his organization of the
bureau of insular affairs, after the
war, he was sent to the Philippines
and assigned to the difficult task Of sit
ting on the bloodthirsty Moros, whom
the Spaniards had always handled
most gingerly.
Goes After the Moros.
These head-hunting Mohammedan
savages respected nothing but force.
They rather welcomed the Americans
as new kind of enemy on whom to
try their cruel barangs. When the
United States army officers tried to
tell them Uncle Sam was their sincere
friend they laughed and spat insults.
They thought the Americans were
afraid of them!-
So there was nothing to do but
break down the Moro strongholds,
subdue their chiefs, destroy their viii
lagos, hunt them day and night until
they should suffer so fearfully they
would admit the American was their
master.
This must be done to free the peace
full tribes round about from the Moros'
piratical raids and to institute a re-
gime of peace and progress.
Pershing first took on famous
body of naked fighters who had for
titled the crater of an extinct vol
cano called Bud Dajo, on the Island
of Jolo. They had held this point for
some time and defied attack. Per-
shing announced he was going to take
the volcano If it meant ten years.
steady work.
With a thousand men, half of them
his own trusted troopers and the
others picked native scouts, the cam
paign began. The attackers had to
march through miles and miles Of
tense jungle, opposed at almost every
yard by their fierce foemen. But Per
'hing fought his way to the foot Of
he mountain.
Pershing's fighters cut a trail
lround. the mountain, and fortifying
from attack from above,
began the siege. The soldiers formed
complete Gordon and calmly insti-
uted a campaign of watching for the
irst sign of the Moros leaving the
'rater and waiting chance to get
hem when they tried to cut through.
Wins Their Friendship.
In their retreat the MOros had been |
70 holly pursued that they had been
Unable to stock up for long siege.
The "iron ring" began to be unbear-
BILE. Small detachments threw them
elves on the Americans. They fought
esperately. Instances are told of
warriors, pierced with bayonet, seiz-
ng the weapon and drawing it farther
nto their bodies SO they could get
lose enough to swing the heavy
urved barang. ....
But none Of them got through.
fnally, on Christmas day, 1911, the
everal hundred Moros still in the
rater did something q Moro seldom
oes-they marched down the noun
ainside and surrendered. A few
cached the jungle and were pursued
nd slain.
The campaign went on IS months
niger, until Pershing stamped out
he last vestige Of INSTRUMENTATION.
lot only that, but Pershing succeed
d in winning the Moros' esteem
robably because he was good hard
ghter. They made him a datto and
sultan. One Of the chiefs presented
Is eighteen-year-old son to Pershing,
taking the latter, according to Moro
lstem, the lads legal father.
After his signal success in the ISL
nds Pershing returned to Washing
m, and President Roosevelt specially
him in an annual message
congress. Just about this time
aptain Pershing as he then was, met
lie sprightly daughter Of United
tates Senator Warren Of Wyoming,
no began by poking fun at the
stiff and serious young SOL
er, and ended by falling in love with
m. They were married two years
ter.
Tragedy Of Pershing's Life. -
The awful tragedy of Pershing's
fe came in 1915, when his wife and