Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1901 — CABALLOS HAS 1,000 MEN [ARTICLE]

CABALLOS HAS 1,000 MEN

Filipino Insurgent Contemplating an Attack on Mauban. AN OFFICER IS CAPTURED. No Wholesale Surrenders on the Island of Samar— Captured Filipinos Show Evidences of Suffering and Hunger— Coasts Patrolled by Gunboats. Manila dispatch: It has been officially reported to General Chaffee that/ the Insurgent leader Caballos ha 3 1,000 fully armed men, including a number of American negroes, under his command In Laguna province, Luzon. An insurgent officer nas Just been captured, carrying papers dated Mauban, Laguna province, Nov. 18, and signed by Caballos. The prisoner admits that Caballos has 1,000 men with him and contemplated attacking Mauban. This probably (accounts for the fact that yesterday the telegraph lines were cut near Mauban and In several places the supporting poles were found to have been removed. News received here from the island of Samar is encouraging, although up to the present time there have been no wholesale surrenders of natives. The Filipinos captured there by our troops show evidences of suffering and hunger. The coasts of the islands are closely patrolled by gunboats and the use of the searchlight makes it almost impossible for the natives to land food on the island for the insurgents. The patrolling gunboats have captured over $20,000 in cash, and SIOO,OOO worth of hemp upon which a tax had been paid to the insurgents has been confiscated. The system of taxation and the collection of taxes maintained by the insurgent leader Lubkan were perfect and exhaustive in every particular and produced revenue from births, marriages, deaths, cock fights, and from the fish ponds of Samar. Hemp was the most important feature of commerce. Two per cent of its price was given to the local presidentes, who collected the majority of the island's revenue from those natives who had sworn allegiance to the United States, and turned it over the the rebel authorities. Smallpox is raging in the southern islands of, the archipelago. The United States Philippine commission is preparing an act to compel everybody to he vaccinated.