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| Miguel Malvar. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, April 17, 1902.
MALVAR SURRENDERED.
With Entire Insurgent Forces In Laguna and Batangas.
VOLUNTEER BOLOMEN EMPLOYED.
All Resistance in General Wheaton's Department Ended—About 3.300 Rifles Surrendered the Past Four Months—Resumption of Trade With Pacified Provinces.
Manila, April 17.—General Malvar has unconditionally surrendered to Brigadier General J. Franklin Bell at Lipa, Batangas province, with the entire insurgent force of the provinces of Laguna and Batangas. General Bell says that his (Bell's) influence is sufficient to quell the insurrectionary movements in Tayabas and Cavite provinces and capture all those in the field who have not yet surrendered; but Malvar has ordered the complete surrender of every insurgent to the nearest American force.
General Wheaton, reporting to the division headquarters, says that all resistance in his department has ended and that the surrenders just announced mean that the ports will be opened and that the Filipinos in the interior camps can be allowed to return to their homes in time to plant the crops.
General Wheaton is especially pleased with General Bell's care of the natives confined in camps. The officers in charge are held personally responsible for the quality and quantity of the food given out and for the general welfare of the occupants of the camps.
After scouring the mountain passes General Bell employed volunteer bolomen for protection against ladronism. Numbers of Filipinos volunteered and expressed the liveliest satisfaction at the treatment accorded them and their families, who were in the concentration camps.
General Wheaton gives General Bell great credit for his indefatigability in conducting the campaign. He was in the field, on horseback day and night, personally superintending the most arduous operations.
The people of Manila are delighted at the prospect of a resumption of trade with the pacified provinces and are anxious to show Generals Chaffee, Wheaton and Bell their appreciation of the fact that the insurrection is really over.
About 3,300 rifles have been received by the American officers in Batangas and Laguna provinces during the past four months.
General Malvar personally requested an interview with General Bell in order to make his complete submission.
The lack of news from the island of Samar is due to a defective cable. It is believed, though, that the American commander received the surrender of all the insurgents in Samar Tuesday unless the planned proceedings were altered.
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| Vincente Lukban. |
FROM THE PHILIPPINES.
Parts of Letters of Former Cortland County Man.
WRITER IS MORGAN MCALLISTER.
Plots to Massacre the Soldiers—Treachery of the Natives—Those Who Pretended to be Friendly Were Worst of All—Hardships of Soldiers Lost in the Mountains—Christmas at the Front.
Mrs. B. H. Lyon of South Cortland has received a number of letters of late from her brother, Morgan McAllister, of the United States Marine Corps in the Philippines and we are permitted to make extracts from a few of them for the information of his many friends in this vicinity. Mr. McAllister was formerly on the Battleship Oregon, but for the last two years has been with Co. E, First Regt., of the Marine Corps stationed at Olongapo, Island of Luzon. Last October he was transferred to Company C, First Battalion, and was first located at Cavite, but about Oct. 20 was sent to Basey, Island of Samar, where he is now stationed.
Mr. McAllister tells of the massacre that befell the Ninth infantry where so many were suppressed and killed, as related in the news dispatches at the time. In a letter written from Basey, Nov. 11, he says:
I tell you it keeps a fellow on the move about all the time. There are plenty of insurgents here in the hills and this is a terrible country to go through. It is nearly all swamp around here. When the United States gunboat Vicksburg was here the other day, it took fifty men from each company and went up the river and they fired six bamboo cannons at us and then opened on us with their rifles. The second man behind me got hit the very first thing, right through the head. He died in a short time. Then the fifth man in the boat behind me got shot through the head, and died instantly. I had the foresight on my rifle shot away; and again they hit it on the first band on the end and put a dent in the barrel. I can see it from the inside. When we were coming back, the scow that had the 3-inch field piece on, filled with water and upset, and every one on her, along with the two dead men, went over into the water, and they lost one of the bodies altogether, and came very close to losing more lives by drowning. At any rate they lost eighteen or twenty rifles, a lot of ammunition, besides belts and canteens; and what is still more the 3-inch piece went down and they pulled it up by ropes, but lost one wheel off of it and about forty sharpened shells.
We get fired at from both sides of the river every time we go up it. We cannot see the rebels and do not know whether we kill any of them or not.
A person learns a great many good lessons in five years in the service in these times, and lessons one won't forget in a week or a year. This is the place for the young fellows to come who have read about fighting Indians in the Wild West and are so anxious to see some of the great fun. They can get the real thing right here in these islands, and it won't cost them a cent. All they have to do is, go to Brooklyn or any place where there is a navy yard and enlist as a marine, and they will very soon get where they won't need any dime novel to read. They can have the fun in reality, and they will be fighting real Indians. They are nothing more than Indians. They are the same in every way only they live in houses instead of wigwams and they are just as treacherous in every way. Well, I would like to see the old place once more, I have almost forgotten what home looked like when I last saw it.
Basey, Dec. 25, 1901.
I am still at Basey, Samar, and they are driving us for dear life, all over the hills and swamps. This is a bad country to hike it in and we are footsore and tired. We were out on the warpath the 20th and 21st, and went about 20 miles inland. Our first sergeant was stabbed in the back, twice with a spearhead, by a native guide. They shot him on the spot. The stabs were not fatal, as the spearhead was very dull. We had eight blue jackets, off the gunboat Panay, with us and they shot two insurgents whom we had captured. We destroyed a great many houses and some rice fields.
I have been in the tropics nearly four years and I thank God for the good constitution he has given me to withstand this terrible and constant strain upon my mind and system alike. I wish you all a Merry Christmas, sister. Ours is an exceedingly dry one.
Basey, Jan. 10, 1902.
I am about to tell you that the Presidente [local mayor] and Padery of this town had a deep laid plot to massacre all of us in this town, on the 16th day of January, and it would have been carried out but for the capture of a certain insurgent officer at Catbalogan. On him or with him were found papers which revealed the whole plot, and the ones whom we had trusted were the instigators of the whole thing. We found out that the sergeant of police was the sergeant of guerillas, the worst band of cutthroats in any country; and the Padery was constantly sending out cigars, cigarettes, rice, money and clothing to Lukban, the insurgent leader, and letters of thanks were found in his house when we took him prisoner. (The Padery is a priest.) Major Glen, judge advocate, took the Presidente to Catbalogan. He was tried there, given the water cure and brought back here and shot by the Maccabee scouts. They also shot another fellow insurgent who came in here as a spy, and a lieutenant of guerillas. The three of them were stood up and shot in this town the 4th day of January. The priest was made prisoner and taken away on the same date. He will die with five others who are to be shot, on a certain date this month. We have about 140 prisoners in the burg here.
Forty of our men are lost in the mountains, and we have not heard from them for eighteen days. They only had three days' rations with them. We have three different parties in search of them. I would be in one of them only for having sore feet. I just came in off of one trip into the mountains that lasted ten days and my feet were all raw. I have been on the sick list for four or five days. I am almost thankful for this pair of sore feet. Our first relief party has been [on patrol] for four days and we have not heard from them since they left.
We have discovered a large natural bridge, the largest in the world, I believe. It is over the Son Tong river about a mile above the white cliffs I told you about, where there were so many insurgents in a great stronghold. We had one man shot through the leg, one through the shoulder and a native shot through the muscle of' the shoulder. We burned the Pueblo of Hinnuck on the island of Hinnuck and they all moved to this town. They were to have taken an active part in the massacre on the 16th, and they were smuggling rice from Leyte to the insurgents here and the Chinamen in Leyte around Tacloban were the ones who were furnishing them with the rice.
Basey, Jan. 22, 1902.
The natives of this island are a treacherous bad lot. They are also among the most loyal to the insurgent cause. They cannot he trusted. They are a people that can smile to your face and make believe they are friendly and at the very next minute the same ones would cut your heart out without the least feeling. They are a bad people to deal with except as we deal very roughly with them and that is what we are doing now. You see they would keep telling us the insurgents were here and there. When we would go to the place and find no one they would tell us they were at another place and when we got there some old women would tell us, "They have just gone about three days ago." The facts of the case are, they were the insurgents themselves in this town and that was only a scheme to get us away and so weaken the garrison that they might attack it. We never did find the insurgents outside the towns, only on two occasions, and they were from the town and not a lot of strangers as they would have us believe and then they would pretend to be afraid of the insurgents. The second time we found them, they thought they were in a secure position where we could not drive them out, but we did.
Well, at Catbalogan the army captured the insurgent officer I told you of before; he was given the water cure and made to tell all he knew; and he told them all about the plot to massacre us here at Basey on the morning of Jan. 16, 1902. We were to be attacked at breakfast time by twenty-six riflemen and 500 bolomen. The president of the town was to come over here and sit and talk with the sergeant of the guard, while a couple of bolomen were to walk up to each of the sentries on post and commence to talk with them while the church was to be full of people attending mass, and the people of Hinnuck island were to come over in boats to attend mass, and as the people came out of church after attending mass the women were to come down between where we were eating and our quarters and commence to crowd and pack around the only stairs leading up to our quarters. Then at the given signal, the ringing the church bells, the priest was to run to the 3-inch fieldpiece and the presidente was to seize the Colt automatic, and the pleasant looking natives, who were talking and laughing with the sentries, were to draw their bolos from behind their backs and chop off the heads of the sentries, and so have all the men at their mercy. While our men would be trying to rush to their quarters to get their arms, the women would be in the way, and so numerous that they could not get through, and then all the natives, having their bolos concealed in their clothes, would proceed to kill us all.
So you see just what kind of people they are, and I guess you won't have any pity on them when I tell you that they gave him a trial and also the water cure, and forced him to talk, to tell what he knew, and he owned up that he was an insurgent leader, and that he and the priest had planned to massacre the garrison.
We found out a great many leaders through them; and in their houses we found letters from Lukban, the insurgent in command of all the insurgents in Samar. There were letters of thanks from him to the priest for rice, money, cigarettes and other things he had sent to him. Well, they shot him and the priest and a native who had taken the oath of allegiance three times and had gone back to the hills each time, and also an insurgent lieutenant.
We have killed five here, ten there, and again yesterday they shot ten; the day before that one, and then another day they shot five up in the woods, and three at another time, and are going to kill two today so I hear. I am glad I do not have to go and shoot them, unless I volunteer to do it.
Porter and his men are back, that is, what there are left of them. (They are the ones who were lost in the mountains). There were ten left in the woods who could not come along. They were too far gone to move much when they were left. They could not be carried as all the men were lost for twenty-four days and had nothing to eat a greater part of the time. They killed two dogs and ate them, and they got a few nuts and sweet potatoes and that was all they had to eat. The natives they had with them, turned on them and tried to kill them, and did succeed in stabbing Lieutenant Williams eleven times and getting his revolver from him, but they did not kill him, as they ran off as soon as they got his gun.
The leeches in this country are found very thick in the mountains, on the leaves and on the ground and they go for the eyes when a man lies down. They get all over him and make straight for his eyes. The men who are lost in the mountains are most all blind from these animals and starved to death besides.
There have been a great many relief parties sent out and are still going out. They say there may be one or two of them picked up alive yet, but their chances are very slim. This is a severe piece of duty we are doing and very dangerous too. I am indebted to a native for my life. One time while the relief party I was in was camped on an island, the water rose very suddenly one night and would have swept the whole party to death, down the [canyon] of the San Tong river, had it not been for the gallant skill and bravery of this old native, who risked his life with five other picked natives, and after three trials, succeeded in getting a rope across to the mainland and by that means ferried us all across in a canoe while we all had to hang on to the rope across the river for dear life. The water was running at a rate of 22 miles an hour. I have got to give something to that poor native who has been good, for there are few good ones to be found in this island, or any other for that matter. Co. K of the First infantry on the other side of this island was the detachment to come to our rescue and they took us to their quarters and gave us their own beds to lie on while they slept on the floor.
The men all want to put in money to buy them tobacco and cigars and papers, as the poor fellows are in a place where they cannot get any of these things.
NEW GRANGE HALL.
A Wide Awake Set of Grangers if They are Youthful.
Homer grange, No 834, dedicated its new hall on the Scott road last night with an appropriate and very excellent program of music and speaking. District Deputy B. R. Knapp was in charge of the exercises. Remarks were made after the formal program by the local grange by N. F. Webb, master, and by George H. Hyde, lecturer of the Pomona grange of [Cortland] county. Eight granges of the county were represented among the company assembled. A splendid banquet was served after the program was through and the remainder of the evening till a late hour was spent in a social way.
Though this grange is one of the youngest organizations of the kind in the county it is both wide awake and lively. It contains a larger proportion of young people than many of the granges and they are full of energy and bustle and this manifests itself along every line. The visiting granges of older years from granges longer established own that they gained many points from the youngsters last night at their meeting.
PATRONS OF INDUSTRY.
Gracie Association in a Flourishing Condition and Growing.
The Patrons of Industry of Gracie association is a society composed of hustlers. It is receiving new members by initiation and cards from other associations at almost every meeting and the past week has been one long to be remembered because of the entertainments that have been enjoyed.
On Tuesday evening they met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Kane and the gentlemen studied and completed the fifth lesson of the Cornell reading course. The ladies spent the evening by having a physical culture class as described in the ladies' reading course. The Kane brothers sang and gave several selections upon the banjo. It is often said that the way to a man's heart is through the stomach, therefore Mrs. Kane and her assistants gave a very fine treat in the way of refreshments and all enjoyed it so much that the association continued or repeated that part of the entertainment the next evening at their regular meeting when they were served ice cream, cake and coffee, Mr. Fred Sweetlove gave a fine exhibition on his graphaphone that all appreciated and asked him to repeat some of the selections and wish to thank him for his kindness.
A member.
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| Lehigh Valley R. R. Engine. |
LEHIGH VALLEY CHANGE.
New Train Between Elmira and Auburn—Connection for Cortland.
A new passenger train is to be placed on the Auburn division of the Lehigh Valley railroad, to run between Elmira and Auburn. The train will leave Elmira at 10:40 a. m. and arrive at Freeville at 12:45 p. m., reaching Auburn at about 1:50 p. m. Leaving Auburn at 3 p. m., the train will reach Freeville at 4:05 and Elmira at 6:10.
The train will be put on about May 10. It is not known at the Cortland station whether there will be a train put on to connect with this from Cortland to Freeville. District Passenger Agent Paul S. Millspaugh has stated in Ithaca, however, that there will be a connection at Freeville with this new train for Cortland.
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| The Kremlin Hotel (yellow building) stood between the Hatch Library and the County Courthouse on Court Street, Cortland, N. Y. |
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| Mr. Albert Allen. |
THE KREMLIN HOTEL SOLD.
Albert Allen Retires May 1, Succeeded by Marion Mathewson.
A deed has been filed at the county clerk's office by which a transfer was made of the Kremlin hotel property with all the equipments and fixtures by Albert Allen and wife to Marion Mathewson. The consideration is $15,000, and possession is to be given May 1. Mr. Mathewson is the present proprietor of the Farmers' hotel at Port Watson-st., with which he has been connected for the past [several] years. He is well acquainted with the hotel business, and enters upon his field with experience and practical knowledge of the work. Mr. F. Church of Whitney's Point will be associated with Mr. Mathewson at The Kremlin.
Mr. Allen has been the proprietor of The Kremlin for a number of years and has been personally popular with the traveling public, as well as having conducted a house that has been to them a favorite resort in their trips, which has been, as one man put it, "next thing to home." He has been ably assisted by Mrs. Allen and [J.] Allen, who have superintended all domestic arrangements, and by son Mr. A. E. Allen, part of the [staff] at the desk. Cortland people will be very sorry if it comes about that family is to leave the city. Mr. Allen could not be seen today to learn anything as to his plans for the future.
BREVITIES.
—Ithaca's five new rural free delivery routes are all to begin operations on July 1.
—Local fishermen report large catches of good sized trout yesterday, the opening day of the season. A large number angled and some fine strings were displayed last night.
—A Syracuse boy has a rooster worth the raising. It has been sitting for three weeks on a dozen eggs and hatched out nine of them as well as any old hen ever did. And now it has set out in the most approved manner to bring up the chickens.
—New display advertisements today are—Syracuse Musical Festival, page 4; Mutual Life Insurance Co., Life Insurance, page 6; McGraw & Elliott, Paints, page 6; S. Katzen, Tailoring, page 6; S. P. Smith, Meats, page 6; Cortland Fish and Oyster Co., Fish and oysters, page 5; Bingham & Miller, Clothing, page 8; Opera House, Frankie Stock Co., page 5.
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