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Show STORIES Or WATER CURE. j &tt liM Frlvate Soldier Declares Natives ;!HU Were Cruelly Treated. i i"JH Spokine. Wash , April 23 -Stories of tho J 'nJllaESI water cure,' practiced by American sol- SlllfHffl ellrrs lu Ihe Philippines, are confirmed by -ilj)'' HjfiB soldiers uf Iho Seventeenth Infantry, who )u'iHH hive Jut leturncd from Manila, Two 'I lirlfnllfll coinpanlri' 11 mid M, nro stationed nt ' CLU V 133 I on right There nre two soldiers now I , t'bUV JT5H st Port Wright who woio with Lieut. Sj ' -ilXK I MH Holion on his scouting trips One of them ' jirii1 iB SMM U Prlvntn nines oC t ompany K Tho I ,M 1C-I, ! other Is Itufus Wilson of Company M I, fflilfl 9l Lieut iiolton leriulul) Inated those ft ,HHj ISM iiutlvcs most cruell) " said Private lllnes JM' J 9JI )csterdi) "1 was with him cm a scouting ?t let IU MmM trip seventeen d)s lu thn northern part AtxgPgl or'l.uron When Lieut llolluu got hold livllWl of n Plllplno from whom he warned In- ,)KfllnRII formation ho shuwed him no mercy. I ff S J'SwiH mvself saw the waler euro given three fi tetffe vW'&aH times on tint trip, '.K'K (IfllllBI 'One tlmo lloltonwvus not satlstled with it, 'Ctl.t lU'ffM giving the fellow ordinary waler He ffiMfl illflsffilH forced Shasta watei down his throat I Jf Iff Jj fJfliflBI would not stand for such cruelty as that t i , 'TiUMfM and I walked away That Shasta miter is h MlJi 'Ut M vile stuff It has u terrible taste und it C iiUiliiiSM sickens a man drcadfull) A J f llSlJIkB ' llernre 1 joined Lleui. Uolton'a scout- i, 'ii-ffi'Swi Ing party he got Informatl m trnm natives ;u '"ST WL'XUM bv hniiKlng them to trcs. I did not see tfU nttf'jM that m)self, however. w ;SK |