The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1900, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL hd With Six Troopers This SerQeaI;t Brought Eight Hupdred Armed Filipipos to a Surrepder ere until he was twenty, th es safe there. But did not know, but we could well imagine 3 ink »f the weak- We had to control our ir heartbeats yreak our ribs could make ours those flying refus L carrying the that it g rews to Venandro Canon and before long ne his scouts would be back reconnoitering f At sixteen he en- sh army, remained n com- ‘o attack the th be ahead of us w enant Monr« atagem. C: ted under our to America enl 1 twenty years ago and has “I wish ed & ! d steadily ? 7 0 %0 It but_you may v 2 \ . the main wish. = How many men do bo \g irawn s o k > and a good one. you want?” r ) el I told him ‘that I would pr > %0 anis e d alone, as T though t s > 7. was weakene v - I could dep ) groun 5, & g face. The gen- * = sT he ¢ nks that in a few s "whet er e b ) ) e ready Monroe was s a z n ¢ o 1y that 'L should go alone, for s . s e f p in. Then wished to know: what pened to s = and “hr-v“ i ; i e mell, tryi . 7 101¢ - . y hey wers all e wishers wh v : r the Spanish ; A en ¥ - s. Then with ¢ o tin ] 10 fear v wh was i [& ClHs ~—fiong 1. / r full into th My inability to log diale 1 ild deliv avis Tells KHis Stort. place with a rush, as there was no other way of concealing our pitifully small from the inhabitants, some of of course, escape and carry the main body under Gen- of it and put an end to c cess. At what appeared to be the ==-arters I held the letter out to & o will go out and - weapons is a pretty he will not estly supe- s long and ies they had been y f being free- shoot and no taxes t@ S, which had nees eral Venandro Canon, the engineer officer| who was in command at Bayombong. Our rush was a grand success. The United States forces had licked the Span- ish, and the anish had mastered the Filipinos, Stories of the awful Americans, mounted on flylng monsters that came charging through the in the face of death, clearing all obstructions—stories told them by the Spaniards of the fright- ful ferocity of the white-faced devils—all these things had put them in a frame of mind such as only a child in the dark knows. So when we charged on the garrison of Dupax there was nothing resisted us but the houses and the deserted barricades, over which we leaped our horses without inquiring what was ahead of us. That is the who was evidently an orderly. He In ed all too quickly In the pleasuradble rusi turn delivered it to the general himself. of war, they had tasted the delights of We were placed under a painful scr llod 2 by the tithe tiny. We were but a pinch of men. miles away there was a handful to bac us. But there w it mand for surren what that was I were our faces. I have stayed y to get the good effect of cavalr; It was the same story as all of the successful cavairy charges that ever were made. Just sit down and ride for all you know, the faster the better. The expectation of a hot fire was agree- ably disappointed, and when the dust cleared away we saw happy faces, for the tim I have been about horses, and particu- larly cavalry horses, all my life, and it always makes me wonder what people can be thinking about when they say, as each ement in transportation is a poke game on a very small hand once in a while, but that was the smallest yet. Stjll the hand could not be played to w A bluff was all that we co our lives were at rtake. Questions every way affairs, for Venandro Canon was a man d upon_ us in ing to discover yea- . ch were new imp i e adopted, “Well. now, the horse has had who had been educated in France and his day and will soon be @ thing of the had Western. skill grafted upon Oriental hinder one faking bast. cunning. T oatine ¥ Pilhe stone church at Dupax was solid| For each question there was th K 3 A e enough to stand all the artillery that) answer, “The letter.” Upon that ou a : L Moproe Ce=led to take the could be brought to bear on it, so we lives were hanging. What was in it we pinch of very thankful troopers.